According to the Wall Street Journal, China’s Huawei Technologies plans to test its most recent and potent artificial intelligence (AI) processor in order to take the place of some of the company’s higher-end products, including those from US chip company Nvidia.
According to people with knowledge of the situation, Huawei has spoken with some Chinese tech companies to try to determine the Ascend 910D’s technical viability, according to a report from the US newspaper on Sunday.
The Chinese company anticipates receiving the first batch of samples from the processor’s first batch as early as late May because the most recent iteration of its Ascend AI processors will be more powerful than the H100, according to the report. 910B and 910C were the previous names for the system.
The chip is still in its early stages of development, according to the interviewees, and it will be subject to a number of tests to assess its performance before being used by the public.
Huawei’s advanced 910C artificial intelligence chip will be shipped to Chinese customers in large numbers as early as next month, according to a report from Reuters news agency.
Huawei and its Chinese competitors have struggled for years to create top-notch chips that could compete with Nvidia’s products for training models, a process that involves feeding data to algorithms to aid in learning to make informed decisions.
In an effort to slow down China’s technological advancement, especially advancements for its military, Nvidia has banned China from its most cutting-edge AI products, including its flagship B200 chip.
Before the H100 chip even went on sale in the US, US authorities halted its sale in 2022.
Huawei has managed to survive despite the US’s dominance in the technology sector and its attempts to stop Chinese development. As a crucial component of Beijing’s effort to establish a self-sufficient semiconductor industry, the Shenzhen-based company has created some of the country’s most promising alternatives to Nvidia’s AI chips.
Huawei released the premium Mate 60 smartphone in 2023, demonstrating its resilience against US restrictions despite being on a US trade blacklist for nearly six years. The US government was shocked when Gina Raimondo, then-Commerce Secretary, saw the phone and installed it during her visit to Beijing, which was powered by a domestic processor.
The Israeli attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs comes after it issues an evacuation order, marking the third Israeli offensive against the Lebanese capital since a late November ceasefire was in effect.
After the Sunday strike, a huge cloud of smoke erupted over the area. No immediate notification of the casualties.
Joseph Aoun, the president of Lebanon, criticized the airstrike and demanded that Israel be forced to halt its attacks in the name of France and the United States, who are the guarantors of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire on November 27. In recent weeks and months, Israel has attacked the capital and southern Lebanon in addition to breaking the truce.
Aoun claimed that Israel is “real dangers to the security” of the region by escalating tensions and undermining stability in Lebanon.
According to the Israeli military, the attack in Beirut “adopted an infrastructure where Hezbollah kept precision missiles” in storage. It failed to provide supporting evidence. Following the Israeli attack, no additional explosions were reported.
Local media outlets have published video that was immediately captured during the bombardment. Al Jazeera has checked this video:
بالفيديو: دخان كثيف يتصاعد من “الهنغار” المُستهدف في منطقة الحدث بالضاحية الجنوبية pic. twitter.com/nLle4DuG8I
“Damage is widespread”
Zeina Khodr, a journalist for Al Jazeera in Beirut, reported that the site had been targeted a short while ago, but there was much chaos and that we were told to leave.
“The damage was extensive, affecting both nearby structures as well. She continued, “Cars were damaged, windows were blown out, and glass was on the floor.”
According to Khodr, “This strike did come with a warning but without any provocation.” Since Israel and Hezbollah made a ceasefire in Beirut back in November, the southern suburb of the city has been hit before, but this time there was no rocket fire. So people in this country worry that Israel is changing the engagement rules, saying that there are no longer any red lines and that this could start an escalation.
Pinging the intelligence system
The Israeli attack on Beirut and the subsequent warning, according to Elias Hanna, a retired Lebanese army general, may have been intended to gather information about Hezbollah.
According to Hanna, this process is known as “pinging the system.”
He said, “You send the warning if you have information about specific individuals or organizations,” and you’ll see how these leaders or officials will respond. Do they intend to relocate?
According to Hanna, the operation could confirm or refute certain information, creating a “win-win” situation for intelligence gathering.
Israeli drones and fighter jets regularly bombarded Beirut’s southern suburbs, where Hezbollah has a lot of influence and support, throughout the year-long conflict. Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah was one of the top Hezbollah figures killed by Israel.
The administration of United States President Donald Trump’s administration has attacked the Arctic island, a self-governing Danish territory, with the help of the country’s prime minister and his Danish counterpart.
At a joint press conference in Copenhagen on Sunday with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Jens-Frederik Nielsen said, “We will never, ever be a piece of property that can be purchased by anyone.”
Nielsen’s first visit to Denmark since taking office this month weighed heavily on Trump’s repeated threats to overtake Greenland.
Nielsen’s visit comes after Frederiksen’s one to Greenland in early April, when she stated to the US, “This is not only about Greenland or Denmark. This is about the intergenerational global order that we have forged. Even with a security-related debate, you can’t annex another country.
After his centre-right Democrats party won the March legislative elections, both Frederiksen and Nielsen, who are in charge of Greenland’s new coalition government, said they would be interested in meeting with the US leader for a discussion.
After Trump repeatedly stated he wanted to control resource-rich Greenland for security reasons and refused to forbid the use of force to secure it, tensions between the US and Denmark have soared.
“I believe that is necessary for international peace, and it poses a significant threat to our world if we don’t.” Greenland is therefore very important for international peace, Trump said to reporters on Thursday during a press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.
The US has “not been polite”
Due to the US’s “disrespectful” rhetoric, Nielsen added on Sunday that Greenland was working on strengthening its ties with Denmark. “We need to stand together at this moment.” Nielsen criticized the disrespect shown by American conversation.
Frederiksen continued, “I completely concur with that.”
Nielsen reiterated that Greenland was ready to strengthen its relationship with the US.
He declared, “We are ready for a strong partnership, we are ready for more development, but we also want respect.” Without reciprocal respect, you can’t have a partner.
In March, US Vice President JD Vance visited Greenland, which Greenland and Denmark officials perceived as a provocation.
Vance criticized Denmark for “doning a good job by the people of Greenland” during his visit to the Pituffik US military base.
He claimed that you have invested too little in Greenland’s citizens and too little in the security structure of this incredible, breathtaking landmass.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen responded on social media by saying, “We are open to criticism, but let me be completely honest, we do not appreciate the tone in which it is delivered.”
Nielsen has stated in his own words, “The United States will not receive Greenland.”
We are not the property of anyone else. We make up our own destiny,” he continued in a Facebook post.
Nielsen will also meet Danish parliamentarians and King Frederik of Denmark during his two-day visit to Copenhagen.
The Danish Royal House stated in a separate statement that Nielsen would travel with the king to Greenland.
The air in Zamzam Camp suddenly appeared to sag in the middle of April.
In North Darfur, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stormed the displacement camp, launching a brutal three-day assault that left countless others dispersed, hurt, or missing.
Through impromptu shelters, gunfire echoed. Families scurried in every direction. Many didn’t even make it.
The RSF claimed to have taken control of the “Zamzam military base” on April 13. However, those who lived there claimed that Zamzam was merely a place where displaced families clung to life and that such things didn’t exist.
Five months of suffocating siege led to the takeover. Survival was at risk because roads and resources were blocked.
A shelter turned into a battleground
Since the 2000s, Zamzam, which is 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) south of El-Fasher, has been a refuge for people who have been displaced by the Darfur conflict.
Rights organizations at the time claimed that the violence was ethnic cleansing and that the state-backed “Arab” nomadic militias had committed genocide against primarily “non-Arab” sedentary communities.
About 300, 000 people have ended up in Zamzam since 2003. Since Sudan’s civil war broke out between the RSF and the Sudanese military in April 2023, violence has spread throughout the western region of Darfur.
Zamzam has changed from a refuge into a killing field in the last year.
Food, medicine, and basic security have been lost to the camp due to aid blockades, repeated RSF attacks, and famine.
Numerous RSF assaults were successfully repelled by the military and its allies, but the troops soon returned to El-Fasher, their final stronghold, leaving the camp exposed once more.
The death toll for North Darfur is likely to exceed 500, according to Dr. Ibrahim Abdallah, the director general of health in the region.
It’s difficult to follow because of Sudanese custom of burying the dead right away to pay their respect, he said. “Transporting the bodies for documentation is a near-impossible situation because Zamzam is located a few kilometers away from el-Fasher.”
On February 11, 2025, a Sudanese woman who has fled Sudan forganese forage near Tawila. More displaced people have arrived in the town since the RSF attacked Zamzam. [Marwan Mohamed/AFP]
Finding another nightmare after fleeing one
A young woman who spoke to Al Jazeera from El-Fasher, where she, her husband, and their two younger brothers escaped, asked to remain anonymous for safety.
She claims that fear has followed them and shared her story with Al Jazeera about her escape from Zamzam.
She and her 15-year-old and 9-year-old brothers moved into Wadi Shadra in North Darfur after her parents passed away, living with them there in January 2024.
The blended family fled to Zamzam, where they believed they had escaped the worst, after the RSF attacked Wadi Shadra.
Then, more than a year later, another attack.
She said, “It started at dawn on Friday, April 11.” “From the south, a large force stormed the camp and headed for one of the markets. As gunfire rang out, there was fire that erupted in every direction.
As a shell exploded in their home and another struck a neighbor’s, killing three children, they spent the entire day hiding in trenches without getting food or water.
Then they fled, heading for Saluma, a village that is close by.
“But there, the RSF followed us there.” She remarked, “They tore down the homes and yelled, “We must go to Tawila right away.”
They had no other choice but to walk for hours to El-Fasher in the blazing sun because their donkey had been killed and their cart had been destroyed.
That day, I lost my aunt and two of her children. What happened to her other three children, at this time, remains unknown.
Nasr’s tale of being taken away from his family
After RSF fighters seized Zalingei, the capital of Central Darfur, in October 2023, Nasr, who requested anonymity, and his family fled the city. The late RSF commander Ali Yakoub had twice threatened his father, who was a community leader.
Before arriving in Zamzam on November 22, 2023, the family traversed Sarf Omra, a province in Kabkabiya, North Darfur.
He arrived with his wife, two children, both of whom are young, three-year-old daughters and three-year-old sons, as well as his parents and a number of siblings.
On April 13, 2025, Zamzam’s fugitives rest in a makeshift camp in a field close to Tawila. The RSF announced that day that, in accordance with the UN, it had taken control of the famine-hit camp, which had been home to more than 500, 000 people.
They attempted to start over by constructing a fragile shelter together. Nasr traveled 30 kilometers (18. 6 miles) round to El-Fasher each morning to visit the livestock market and bring home food.
RSF fighters stormed the camp then in February. The roads were closed. The siege increased.
Nasr never returned to his immediate family.
His wife, children, elderly parents, and younger siblings remained hidden, entangled in the chaos.
In this world, a tree is worth more than a human is. In this world, Nasr claimed, “we lost all of our human worth.”
He criticized Zamzam’s claim of a “military base” as a cruel distortion. He recalled how people used trenches to shield themselves from constant bombardment.
Later, he discovered a video of his uncle being detained. One of the RSF leaders said to them, “Join the RSF or suffer.”
Nasr has been hysterically waiting by the side of the road hoping someone from Zamzam will communicate his family for the past few days in El-Fasher.
He fumbles about them in whispers, his voice tingling with fear.
He finally discovered that they had reportedly fled Tawila, but he continues, “I don’t know if they actually reached Tawila.”
More than 28 attacks occurred in five months.
Mohamed Khamis, the displaced people’s representative in Zamzam, is now a patient in an el-Fasher hospital.
During the assault by the RSF, he was shot in the thigh.
He claimed that the camp had experienced more than 28 attacks in five months, but none of them were as violent as the most recent.
He claimed that they stormed in at dawn using heavy weapons.
Khamis reportedly rushed to check on friends at a Relief International Clinic in the early stages of the attack, but he never made it.
He claimed that an armored RSF vehicle had taken me.
He was saved by residents and brought to safety after being shot and left on the ground by RSF fighters.
People who wanted to leave Zamzam have piled onto carts or traveled miles to avoid RSF attacks [File: Reuters].
He claimed that during the rampage, “many young men were put to death.”
He continued to explain what transpired.
More than 12 women and girls who were escaping from RSF fighters were confirmed to have been abducted. Their whereabouts are unknown, as are their potential suffering.
No fewer than 200 cases of women and girls being raped are reported, according to Khamis, but he is certain that many more cases have not been reported.
Khamis said: “Because of the social stigma, witnesses frequently use phrases like “she was humiliated” or “touched” rather than “she was raped.”
No safe haven left.
The notion of safety has vanished in the minds of those who have been moved for a second or third time.
The RSF claims that Zamzam contains “military elements,” but testimony like Nasr’s and Khamis’ refutes that claim.
As if repetition would finally put an end to the world’s indifference, Nasr said, “There was nothing there but people trying to survive.”
At least 40 people were killed and about 1, 000 others were hurt in the massive explosion that rocked one of Iran’s main ports, according to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who was visiting the hospital where the country’s president had been recovering from.
The visit came on Sunday after a massive explosion occurred at Bandar Abbas’ Hormozgan province’s Shahid Rajaee port the previous day.
Pezeshkian thanked first responders when he said, “We have come to see first hand if there is anything or any issue that the government can follow up on.”
He declared, “We will make an effort to take care of the families who lost their loved ones and we will undoubtedly take care of the dear ones who were hurt.”
Prior to the investigation, Pezeshkian had ordered an investigation into the blast’s cause.
Russia’s embassy reported that Moscow was sending a number of “aircraft carrying specialists” to help with the blaze in the interim. One of the aircraft has a dedicated firefighting plane, according to Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations.
The facility is alleged to be linked to a previous shipment of chemical propellant used to manufacture missiles.
However, Reza Talaei-Nik, a spokesman for the Iranian Defense Ministry, claimed that “nothing has been imported or exported to the area for military fuel or military use.”
The hazardous and chemical materials storage depot’s explosion was likely the result of a fire, according to the port’s customs office in a statement released by state television.
The fire was also described as being under control by Iranian state television, with reporters claiming that emergency personnel hoped it would be completely extinguished later on Sunday. Overnight, helicopters and cargo planes flew over the burning port in series, dumping seawater on the site.
Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni was also present at the scene on Sunday, claiming that “the main areas” of the port have stabilized and that workers have resumed loading containers and clearing the customs.
Only one port area was impacted, according to another official on site, Minister of Roads and Urban Development, and cargo “operations are still going as usual in the various other zones.”
As rescuers arrive near the explosion site at the Shahid Rajaee port dock in Hormozgan, Iran [File: Mohammad Rasole Moradi/AFP]
Firefighters were seen carrying a victim’s body among toppled and gloomy cargo containers in images taken from the scene.
The authorities have restricted Iranian media access to footage from the area, which has resulted in the closure of the roads that lead to the site.
Authorities also have declared three days of mourning in Hormozgan province starting on Sunday and a day of national mourning on Monday.
Around the world have been receiving messages of condolence for Iran and the explosion victims.
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, India, Turkiye, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates all expressed condolences over the explosion, as did Russia.
Hezbollah in Lebanon also condoleed the tragic accident, saying that Iran can overcome it with its “faith and solid will.”
The German embassy in Tehran tweeted, “Bandar Abbas, we grieve with you,” as the first response from a significant European nation.
Authorities claim that a man who is alleged to have killed a Muslim worshipper in a southern French mosque is still at large in a ”Islamophobic’ incident.
When the victim was fatally stabbed, both men were alone in the mosque in the Gard region’s La Grand-Combe on Friday when she was fatally stabbed. The attacker allegedly filmed the 20-year-old Malian man who was reportedly recording the attack on his phone.
According to a source close to the case, the suspected killer has been identified as a non-Muslim, French national of Bosnian descent, despite not being apprehended, according to the AFP news agency.
The attacker stabbed the victim about 50 times before fleeing the scene after initially praying alongside him. When other worshipers arrived at the mosque for Friday prayers later that morning, the body was discovered.
According to regional prosecutor Abdelkrim Grini, the suspect, who has only been identified as Olivier, was “potentially extremely dangerous” and had no criminal history before claiming additional victims.
The victim had just finished cleaning the mosque when he was killed, according to a statement from the Grand Mosque of Paris.
It demanded that the circumstances surrounding the attack be quickly explained, asked judges to confirm whether it was a “terrorist” act, and noted its “scale and seriousness… for the safety of all,” and asked for clarification.
Racism and hatred based on religion are inviolable in France. In his first comments on the killing, President Emmanuel Macron said, “Our fellow Muslim citizens cannot be denied the right to worship,” saying that “freedom of worship cannot be violated.”
Un jeune a été assassiné dans une garderie du Gard.
I adresse the support of the Nation to our fellow confessionalists in Musulmane through my family.
There will never be racism or religious hatred in France. The cult’s freedom is unreal.
Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin criticized the “despicable murder” that “wounds the hearts of all Muslims in France” on Saturday.
He said, “We stand shoulder to shoulder with the victim’s family and the shocked worshipers.” The state is mobilizing its resources to catch and punish the murderer, the statement reads.
Bruno Retailleau, Interior Minister, made the announcement to visit La Grand-Combe on Sunday.
A march “against Islamophobia” will be held later on Sunday at La Grand-Combe, according to the SOS Racisme campaign group.
On Sunday evening in France, including at Paris’ Place de la Republique, marches are planned throughout Paris. In honor of the victim, the marchers will observe a minute of silence.
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