Pope Leo calls for ‘disarming’ of artificial intelligence
Pope Leo has warned that some AI-powered weapons systems are becoming ‘practically beyond human control'.
Trump links Iran negotiations to expansion of Abraham Accords
US President Donald Trump links Iran negotiations to expansion of Abraham Accords.
Australian Gaza aid flotilla activists allege abuse after Israeli abduction
Activists allege assaults and torture during Israeli detention after flotilla intercepted in international waters.
WHO chief says suspected Ebola deaths at 220 as epidemic ‘outpacing us’
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says a delay in detecting cases means responders were now 'playing catch-up'.
Thai rescuers join effort to free seven people trapped in Laos cave
Group have been stuck in flooded cave in central Laos for five days after heavy rain caused landslides
Divers who helped in the dramatic rescue of a young Thai football team in 2018 have joined efforts to free seven people who have been trapped for five days inside a remote, flooded cave in central Laos.
The group entered the cave in Xaysomboun province on Wednesday to hunt for wildlife and search for gold, reports suggest. Heavy rain led to landslides, which blocked the cave entrance.
Continue reading...Trump’s Pressure Had Little Effect on Iran’s Terms for a Peace Deal – The New York Times
- Trump’s Pressure Had Little Effect on Iran’s Terms for a Peace Deal The New York Times
- Why Trump’s possible Iran deal may be almost as divisive as his decision to wage war CNN
- Why Trump Lost to Iran The Atlantic
- Opinion | Trump’s Iran exit ramp is a long shot. He doesn’t have a better option. The Washington Post
- Opinion | Will Trump Bail Out Iran’s Regime? WSJ
Muslims begin the annual Hajj in sweltering heat against a backdrop of war concerns – PBS
- Muslims begin the annual Hajj in sweltering heat against a backdrop of war concerns PBS
- Thousands of Iranians Travel to Saudi Arabia in a Tense Wartime Pilgrimage WSJ
- More than 1.5m foreign pilgrims begin Hajj despite Iran war fears BBC
- Photos of the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca AP News
- Hajj pilgrims gather at Mount Arafat under scorching desert sun Al Jazeera
Baloch separatists ‘take advantage’ of Pakistan’s entanglements
Baloch separatists 'take advantage' of Pakistan's entanglements
Police fire shots in air to disperse angry crowds at DR Congo Ebola treatment centre – BBC
- Police fire shots in air to disperse angry crowds at DR Congo Ebola treatment centre BBC
- Protesters attack DRC treatment center as the WHO warns violence is threatening Ebola efforts CNN
- Eighteen suspected Ebola patients escape after treatment tent is set on fire for a second time in Congo PBS
- Ebola patients flee in attacks on DR Congo health facilities, hobbling response NBC News
- Healthcare workers facing 2 dangers: Ebola outbreak and the physical attacks they spark OregonLive.com
Could Israel sabotage US-Iran deal?
As the US and Iran move closer to a peace deal, Israel vows to keep striking what it calls regional and nuclear threats.
Iran says deal with US ‘not imminent’ despite progress
Iran’s FM spokesman Baghaei says a ‘large portion’ of issues with the US have been resolved, but a deal is not imminent.
‘I’m going to get his ass’: YouTuber beats all-time cheese-rolling champion
Tom Kopke, from Germany, out-tumbled local hero Chris Anderson to win his third roll on hot day in Gloucestershire
It was billed as the great cheese-off; a helter-skelter, bone-jarring downhill race between the all-time champ and a young upstart.
After the hype and hyperbole, youth won out, as the 24-year-old German YouTuber Tom Kopke beat 38-year-old local hero Chris Anderson at the annual cheese-rolling event in the English West Country.
Continue reading...Cambodia’s former opposition leader receives royal pardon for 27-year sentence
Kem Sokha was serving a 27-year sentence on treason charges, which were widely derided as politically motivated.
Cambodia’s former opposition leader receives royal pardon for 27-year sentence
Kem Sokha was serving a 27-year sentence on treason charges, which were widely derided as politically motivated.
U.S. and Iran work toward deal to extend ceasefire and reopen Strait of Hormuz – The Washington Post
- U.S. and Iran work toward deal to extend ceasefire and reopen Strait of Hormuz The Washington Post
- What’s in the proposed deal that could end the US-Iran conflict? CNN
- The world urgently needs a US-Iran deal now Al Jazeera
- Exclusive: What's inside the Iran deal Trump is close to signing Axios
- Iran war: No deal close despite some progress — Tehran DW.com
Iran denies deal with US is imminent despite some progress
Tehran says ‘contradictory statements’ from US and Israeli interference hindering negotiations
Iran has poured cold water on suggestions that a deal with the US is imminent, pointing to the confusion in US positions and Israeli interference as key factors in why a complete agreement is proving difficult to secure.
Speaking at the weekly foreign ministry press briefing, Esmail Baghaei, the spokesperson for Iran’s negotiating team, also said future management of the strait of Hormuz was a matter for Oman and Iran to reach agreement on, and that it was not tolls that were being proposed but “fees for navigational services”.
Continue reading...Oil prices fall below $100 a barrel on hopes of Iran peace deal
Brent crude futures down 6% to lowest level in two weeks and stock markets rise
Oil prices fell below $100 a barrel on Monday and stock markets rose on hopes that the US and Iran are inching closer to a peace deal.
Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, were down 6% to $97.43 a barrel, the lowest level in two weeks, with hopes that an agreement to end the near three-month US-Israeli war on Iran can be struck.
Continue reading...UK records its hottest ever day in May as temperature hits 34.8C
Scientists say record-breaking heat is a reminder of how climate crisis is affecting lives
The fierce heat sweeping across Europe over the bank holiday weekend has beaten the UK’s all-time temperature record for May, with scorching highs of close to 35C.
A temperature of 33.5C was recorded at Heathrow airport on Monday lunchtime, according to provisional data from the Met Office, beating the previous May record that was set in 1922 and reached again in 1944. Later in the afternoon a temperature of 34.8C was recorded at London’s Kew Gardens.
Continue reading...Trump Tower in Georgia to be built on land part-owned by son of US sanctions-hit leader
Links between Trump Organization and Ivanishvili family for Tbilisi skyscraper raise new conflict of interest concerns
A Trump Tower planned for the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, is to be built on land currently part-owned by the son of the US-sanctioned leader of the country, according to official records.
The proposed skyscraper, a joint venture between a local consortium and the Trump Organization, which is managed by the US president’s sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, will be on a plot whose current registered owner is the International Charity Fund Cartu.
Continue reading...Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks prompt raft of conspiracy theories in divided US
Ever-growing influence of social media and AI means such ideas spreading at faster rates than before, experts say
Hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks carry with them familiar attendants in the US: extreme conspiracy theories about a planned pandemic, or “plandemic”, designed to upend midterm elections or push new vaccines or any one of a myriad of wild ideas.
Ebola, which the World Health Organization warned on Friday is spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, poses a “very high” risk at the national level. In the upside-down world of conspiracy theories it could be a bioweapon, a financial plot, or a scheme to extract national resources.
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