Nations far apart in COP29 climate finance talks
According to the latest draft of the long-sought climate finance pact, most developing countries favor an annual commitment from wealthy...
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Avia to buy 40 Boeing aircraft
The transaction for the purchase of 737 MAX 8 jets valued at $4.9bn.
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Yunus says Bangladesh is experiencing a ‘student-led revolution’
Hasina fled by helicopter as protesters flooded Dhaka's streets in a dramatic end to her long rule. Her government was...
- "This is a revolution, a student-led revolution," new interim leader Muhammad Yunus said
- Yunus, 84, arrived back in Bangladesh from Europe on Thursday
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US orders carrier group to hasten Middle East arrival
He said Austin, who spoke with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant on Sunday, had also ordered the USS Georgia guided missile...
- US Defence Secretary Austin ordered the aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS Abraham Lincoln, and equipped with F-35 fighters, to "accelerate its transit" to the region
- The United States announced last week that it was deploying the strike group, as well as additional ballistic missile defense-capable cruisers and destroyers
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Israel faces anger over Gaza school strike rescuers say killed 93
Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the civil defence agency, said 11 children and six women were among the 93 who died...
- The bombardment of Al-Tabieen religious school and mosque drew criticism from across the Middle East and beyond alongside calls for a ceasefire
- Civil defence rescuers in the Hamas-ruled territory said three Israeli missiles hit the complex in Gaza City while people were performing dawn prayers
Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki dies of cancer aged 56
San Francisco, United States - Tech pioneer and former YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki, who played an instrumental role in the rise...
- Wojcicki, one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, spent nearly two decades helping transform Google from the search engine startup to a global behemoth
- At YouTube, which Google acquired in 2006, Wojcicki helmed operations for nearly a decade, before stepping down last year to focus on her family, health and personal projects
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‘Children torn apart’: Israel strike rains hell on Gaza dawn prayers
Dawn prayers were shattered by the early morning triple air strike from Israeli warplanes, which gutted Al-Tabieen religious school and...
- "Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time," said UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
- In a report issued in March, Albanese said there were "reasonable grounds" to determine that Israel had committed several acts of "genocide" in its war in Gaza.
Imane Khelif – boxer in gender row and now Olympic champion
A strong athlete, she played football with the boys in her village of Biban Mesbah, but beating them in matches...
- Sporting braided hair and standing strong at 1.79 metres (5ft 9in), the 25-year-old has unwittingly become one of the central figures of the Games
- Along with Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting, she was disqualified from last year's world championships after failing gender eligibility testing, only to be cleared later
Flood of ‘junk’: How Artificial Intelligence is changing scientific publishing
Paris, France - An infographic of a rat with a preposterously large penis. Another showing human legs with way too many...
- Several experts who track down problems in studies told AFP that the rise of AI has turbocharged the existing problems in the multi-billion-dollar sector
- More than 13,000 papers were retracted last year, by far the most in history, according to the US-based group Retraction Watch
Israel agrees to resume Gaza truce talks next week
A prospective cessation of hostilities also involving the release of hostages held in Gaza and scaled-up aid deliveries has centred...
- After a week-long pause in November, US, Qatari and Egyptian mediators have endeavored to secure a second truce in the 10-month-old war
- Netanyahu's office said later Thursday Israel would send a negotiating team on August 15 "to the agreed place to conclude the details of implementing a deal."
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Apple makes changes to App Store after EU warning
From the autumn, Apple said developers in the EU "can communicate and promote offers for purchases" wherever they want, for...
- The EU said the App Store terms prevented app developers from freely steering consumers to alternative ways to pay
- This makes Apple the first ever tech firm to face accusations of breaching a new law known as the Digital Markets Act
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Flying’s never been safer, risk of death halving every decade: MIT study
Washington, United States -- Flying can be a nerve-wracking experience for many people -- but a new study out Thursday finds...
- The fatality rate fell to 1 per every 13.7 million passenger boardings globally in the 2018-2022 period, a major improvement from 1 per 7.9 million boardings in 2008-2017.
- The last major commercial airline disaster in the United States was in 2009, when Colgan Air flight 3407 crashed, killing 50 people.
Nations far apart in COP29 climate finance talks
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Gold breaks above $2,700 to record high as geopolitical uncertainty heightens
Hong Kong, China - Gold prices hit a record high above $2,700 on Friday as traders piled into the safe-haven commodity...
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Netflix adds millions of subscribers but growth slows
San Francisco, United States - Netflix on Thursday said it added more than five million subscribers in the recently ended quarter...
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‘Starvation tactics’ being used against 25 million people in Sudan
UN experts on Thursday accused the two sides in Sudan's civil war of using "starvation tactics" against 25 million civilians,...
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Major tech companies turn to nuclear energy to power data centers and AI initiatives
Firms such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are now looking to outgun each other to tap atomic energy, while Goldman...
- Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are now looking to outgun each other with announcements on atomic energy
- According to Goldman Sachs research, data centers will consume 8 percent of US power by 2030, up from 3 percent in 2022
“Sextortion” of teens puts Instagram in trouble; Meta announces new combat measures
Instagram and Facebook's parent company Meta accepts the rise of child/teen predators on Instagram and subsequently announces measures to battle...
- New measures to fight sextortion, a form of online blackmail where criminals coerce victims, often teens, into sending sexually explicit images of themselves
- In some countries, Instagram will show teens a video in their feeds about how to spot sextortion scams
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UN report says 1.1 billion people in acute poverty
More than one billion people are living in acute poverty across the globe, a UN Development Program report said Thursday,...
- 455 million live in the shadow of conflict, while 584 million people under 18 were experiencing extreme poverty
- India was the country with the largest number of people in extreme poverty which impacts 234 million of its 1.4 billion population