Thousands of people demonstrated across Italy, Portugal, Belgium and Albania over the weekend, protesting against rising living costs, education expenses and government policies, as confrontations with police turned violent in several cities.
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Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across France on Saturday in demonstrations that brought together previously separate protest movements, as anger over wages, education, living costs, pensions and climate
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What began as a dispute over a monk’s court appearance has escalated into a demand for a presidential pardon, placing Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s government in a political dilemma. As protests intensify near
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Introduction I have just finished reading John Rawls’s book A Theory of Justice, and my curiosity got the better of me in wondering how Rawls’s “Veil of Ignorance” would serve the upcoming
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Google has announced a new collection of artificial intelligence research developments spanning healthcare, disaster forecasting, scientific discovery and business analytics, including tools designed to help researchers predict flash floods, support clinical consultations
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Google is expanding access to an experimental artificial intelligence system designed to analyse planetary data, identify public health risks and support disaster preparedness, after early trials with international organisations demonstrated how complex
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Mathematicians around the world are struggling to come to terms with a breakthrough that has challenged their understanding of their profession and its future. On 6 October, OpenAI released 722 manuscripts generated
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Elon Musk has committed $360m to a last-ditch effort to help Republicans retain control of Congress in next month’s US midterm elections, adding a record-setting contribution to a campaign that has raised
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In 2018, a young Syrian named Youssef Juma was repairing a laptop belonging to a local security commander when he discovered footage of a mass execution. The videos showed blindfolded civilians being
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Elon Musk has accused Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, of obstructing the expansion of Starlink into the country, turning a prolonged regulatory delay into a public dispute between two of the world’s
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Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro has pledged to launch a “war on drug trafficking” if elected, promising to designate the country’s two largest criminal organisations as terrorist groups and deepen security cooperation
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A growing series of attacks on oil tankers and commercial vessels in the Black Sea is worsening an environmental crisis already aggravated by Russia’s war against Ukraine, with oil pollution reaching coastal
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Meta employees have acknowledged in internal messages that restrictions affected the social media accounts of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the days leading up to the country’s presidential election,
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China has warned the European Union against expecting concessions through economic pressure, as Brussels moves towards developing a new instrument that could allow it to restrict Chinese companies’ access to the bloc’s
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