United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has said the key question is not whether artificial intelligence (AI) will transform the world, but whether that transformation will reduce inequalities or deepen them. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, on Friday, Guterres said AI represented a major opportunity for More
Eight people have been killed and 34 others remained missing after a landslide struck Pengshui County in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality, local authorities said. The landslide occurred at about 9:08am local time, after community workers had detected falling rocks about an hour earlier and issued an emergency warning, officials told a press conference, Reuters More
The United States and Iran have exchanged strikes as hostilities between the two sides entered their seventh day, with both countries claiming attacks on military and strategic targets. The US said it had targeted Iranian surveillance centres, military logistics facilities, underground weapons storage sites and maritime capabilities in its latest wave of strikes. More
On the sixth day of escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran, the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has reported new strikes on several targets in Iran, while Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and military said they carried out retaliatory attacks on US bases in the region using drones and missiles. Over the past More
least 13 people were killed and several others injured in reciprocal Russian and Ukrainian attacks over the past 24 hours, according to reports. Reuters said Russian strikes on several Ukrainian regions, including Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia, killed at least 10 people. Ukrainian officials said the attacks involved missiles, guided bombs and drones, damaging More
The Trump administration has approved new regulations limiting the length of stay in the United States for foreign students, cultural exchange programme participants and foreign journalists. According to Reuters, under the final regulations issued by the US Department of Homeland Security, holders of F visas for foreign students and J visas for exchange programme More
The United Kingdom government has proposed an overnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds as part of efforts to protect teenagers from potential online harms, while allowing users to opt out of the restrictions. Under the proposal announced on Wednesday, major platforms including Instagram, TikTok and YouTube would apply a default six-hour restriction More
The Trump administration plans to impose a 25 percent tariff on certain imports from Brazil under Section 301 of the US Trade Act, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has announced. According to Reuters, the move follows a year-long investigation that concluded Brazil’s policies on digital trade, tariffs, intellectual property, ethanol market access and deforestation More
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has reported fresh strikes on several targets in Iran on the fifth day of escalating hostilities, while Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it carried out retaliatory attacks on US bases in the region using drones and missiles. Over the past four days, the United States has conducted strikes More
At least 11 people were killed and 19 others injured after a fire broke out at an orphanage on the outskirts of the Algerian capital, Algiers, early on Thursday, state media reported. According to Reuters, the fire erupted at an orphanage in the Mohammadia district, located in the eastern suburbs of Algiers. The More
