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Benjamin Davis appealing against dismissal from FAO, after being accused by director general of playing ‘political games’A former senior UN food agency official has alleged he was fired last week for his work highlighting hunger in Gaza, and has launched an appeal against his dismissal.Benjamin Davis said the leadership of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) had refused to renew his contra...
Iran and Saudi Arabia are edging dangerously closer to direct conflict, analysts warn, after Riyadh resumed major air strikes on Yemen’s Tehran-allied Houthi rebels this week, ending a four-year lull. More than 100 Saudi warplanes bombed rebel positions on Monday, enabling Yemeni government forces to retake much of the Red Sea coastal territory the Houthis seized last month. The Houthis had been a...
Unprecedented protests that began in low-income banlieue are turning ugly, with investigations under way into police brutalityBefore dawn on Tuesday outside the Lycée Sophie-Germain in central Paris, hundreds of teenagers dragged wheelie bins, metal barriers and shopping trolleys to build a barricade outside the front door of their secondary school.Climbing to the top of the piles of bins, pupils ...
Unprecedented protests that began in low-income banlieue are turning ugly, with investigations under way into police brutalityBefore dawn on Tuesday outside the Lycée Sophie-Germain in central Paris, hundreds of teenagers dragged wheelie bins, metal barriers and shopping trolleys to build a barricade outside the front door of their secondary school.Climbing to the top of the piles of bins, pupils ...
Prime minister tells delegates in Tuvalu and Fiji that ‘super El Niño’ brewing in the Pacific shows climate change is ‘here right now’Anthony Albanese has warned Australia faces a hazardous summer, likely including floods, cyclones and extreme heat, due to the immediate threat of the climate change and a rising “super El Niño”.Speaker alongside national leaders at a climate summit in Fiji, the pri...
Police in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City have arrested 12 men suspected of running a ring that stole and resold about 2,700 cats for meat
Officials say there were no survivors among 25 people on board a Nigerian Air Force plane that crashed in southern Nigeria’s Ondo state
Spain's government has approved urgent measures on the country's housing crisis
Protesters are demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Russia's Defense Ministry says air defenses intercepted nearly 900 Ukrainian drones over multiple regions overnight
François Picard is pleased to welcome Philip Ingram, journalist and former British military intelligence officer. The events surrounding RAF Fairford are not an isolated incident, explains Ingram. It's part of a much wider security issue in which conventional military operations, intelligence activity and gray-zone tactics increasingly overlap.
Kwon’s answers were provided in a helpful, quiet and calm manner, but his mea culpa left the audience not much the wiserOpen AI’s Jason Kwon flew 15 hours from San Francisco to Sydney to give the company’s first in-person mea culpa after it admitted – in an unsigned email, to a public departmental inbox – that one of its AI agents had accessed a Services Australia website without authorisation and...
Jason Kwon’s answers were provided in a helpful, quiet and calm manner. For a company under intense scrutiny, there were no missteps Open AI’s Jason Kwon flew 15 hours from San Francisco to Sydney to give the company’s first in-person mea culpa after it admitted – in an unsigned email, to a public departmental inbox – that one of its AI agents had accessed a Services Australia website without auth...
Rye Lynn Rost, a seventh grader from Montana, created bioplastics using starch from plantains and bananas. She discovered that plantains have more starch and higher tensile strength than bananas. Rye performed tests by comparing both bioplastics against plastic parafilm to evaluate their strength. Her project focuses on making sustainable bioplastics that are durable in environmental conditions ov...
Green Party leader Zack Polanski hopes to shake Labour, which has held Holborn since the seat was created in 1983.
Iran's Houthi allies deny losing ground to Yemen's Saudi-backed military, but oil prices ease despite the Middle East crisis erupting in a battle over control of another key waterway.
Polls show GOP candidates trailing Democrats in Senate races, and Republicans also struggling in House contestsThirty days remain until the midterm elections, and Donald Trump and his Republican allies are pulling out all the stops to maintain control of Congress.Super Pacs aligned with the GOP have already spent hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising and voter outreach in races expected t...
The findings come after warnings from tech leaders that AI placed in the wrong hands could trigger larger threats such as nuclear war or bioweaponry destructionMisusing artificial intelligence (AI) is the top threat to companies’ reputations – more so than being accused of putting children in the way of mental, emotional or physical harm and issues exposed by the US-Israel war on Iran, among other...
Indonesia is expected to receive its first Chengdu J-10CE fighter jets in six months, according to an Indonesian media report, which would make it the third international operator of the Chinese-made aircraft. Jakarta confirmed an order of 42 of the 4.5-generation fighter jets – known as Vigorous Dragons – last October, with an approved budget of US$9 billion. The first delivery is expected in Apr...
Minister announces referrals after think tank paper finds link between purchases and unannounced MRT stations.
Opposition parties in India are protesting in New Delhi, demanding the resignation of the country's election chief Gyanesh Kumar
Police in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City have arrested 12 men suspected of running a ring that stole and resold about 2,700 cats for meat
France braced on Tuesday for a day of nationwide high-school blockades and trade union-led street protests in support of students demanding that President Emmanuel Macron's cash-strapped government tackle understaffed and dilapidated schools.
A Singaporean woman has been added to a US list of “the worst of the worst criminal aliens,” becoming the third citizen from the city state to appear on the register, after convicted sex offender Amos Yee and money launderer Lim Seok Pheng. Jing Emtage, 54, was sentenced in July last year to two years and two months in prison on seven counts of second-degree promoting prostitution across multiple ...
Europe is about to place a digital identity wallet in the hands of every citizen. Writes Jacques Van Zijp in an OpEd for Euronews. It could become the trust layer of the European economy and a growth driver in a single market that works at digital speed. A model that has value well beyond Europe.
Saudi aviation authority reports severe injuries and damage following Houthi strikes on Jazan and Najran airports.
Michael Rowland and Leigh Sales lead tributes to newsreader who read the ABC’s 7pm bulletin for 20 yearsGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastFormer ABC news presenter Richard Morecroft has been remembered as “one of the great broadcasters of his generation” and “trusted presence” for Australians after his death at the age of 70.Morecroft presented ABC’s 7pm news bulletin for ...
Michael Rowland and Leigh Sales lead tributes to newsreader who read the ABC’s 7pm bulletin for 20 yearsGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastFormer ABC news presenter Richard Morecroft has died at the age of 70.Morecroft presented ABC’s 7pm news bulletin for almost 20 years until 2002. Continue reading...
Serbia's election commission has tied overseas voting hours to local time, affecting the Serbian diaspora's ability to vote in the upcoming election later this month
