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‘We’ve finished our tears’: Tigray’s main hospital exhausts food More than 90 percent of Tigray’s people need food aid, despite a truce called to the 18-month-long civil war in Ethiopia. The main hospital in Ethiopia’s war-ravaged region of Tigray has sent home 240 patients after food supplies ran out last ...
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S Africa’s Cele visits community after migrants, residents clash South Africa’s police minister Bheki Cele has visited the family of an activist killed earlier this week at the Chicken Farm informal settlement in Soweto following a dispute with Lesotho nationals. While visiting Kgomotso Diale’s family on Wednesday, Cele promised the ...
Read More »Russia sanctions Kamala Harris, Mark Zuckerberg, Toronto mayor
Russia sanctions Kamala Harris, Mark Zuckerberg, Toronto mayor The latest raft of sanctions includes more US officials, media personalities and Canada’s John Tory and Doug Ford. Russia has issued fresh retaliatory sanctions, including travel bans on United States Vice President Kamala Harris, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, the Premier of Ontario, ...
Read More »Is artificial intelligence the future of warfare?
Is artificial intelligence the future of warfare? From: UpFront We discuss the risks behind autonomous weapons and their role in our everyday lives. “If we’re looking for that one terminator to show up at our door, we’re maybe looking in the wrong place,” says Matt Mahmoudi, Amnesty International artificial intelligence ...
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Is nuclear disarmament possible? From: UpFront ‘Having these weapons forever, we will see them being used eventually,’ says Beatrice Fihn of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. “We are pushing closer and closer to that point where [nuclear weapons are] eventually going to be used, and we have to ...
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UN refugee agency ‘shocked’ at Rohingya deaths in Malaysia escape Six people, including two children, were killed trying to cross a highway after hundreds fled a detention centre amid a riot. The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has said it is “shocked and deeply saddened” by the deaths of six ...
Read More »Phoenix Ghost: What we know about the US’s new drones for Ukraine
Phoenix Ghost: What we know about the US’s new drones for Ukraine The Pentagon says the Phoenix Ghost tactical unmanned aerial system was designed mainly for striking targets. The United States has disclosed details of its latest military aid package to be used by Ukraine’s forces in the country’s east ...
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