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Albanese signs declaration with 20 world leaders to urge human control over AI ahead of UN assembly
Before United Nations meeting, prime minister says Australians knows the impact of global heating as well as anyone Australia understands the dangers of global warming and the urgency of climate action as much as any other country, Anthony Albanese has said in a keynote speech shortly before the United Nations general assembly. Speaking at the opening of the Climate Week event at the UN in New York on Monday, the prime minister said Australians had experienced the impact of climate breakdown up close with a series of disastrous bushfires and floods in the past decades. Continue reading...
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CNN, MS NOW and Politico file lawsuit against Trump's White House ban
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Soaring living costs have many Nigerian couples rethinking the lavish wedding tradition
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Healthcare in Africa ‘under growing strain’ after US withdrawal from aid programs, report warns
Accra Reset’s report states countries in the region and global south should take greater control of their health development after USAID debacle The United States’ withdrawal from key aid programs has put has put healthcare in Africa and the Global South “under growing strain” a new report warns. The report says the Trump administration’s cuts to programs such as US Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as the Covid-19 pandemic and rising costs of living globally have brought “new urgency” for the need to reform healthcare in the region. Continue reading...
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World leaders address climate crisis before UN meet amid record-breaking El Niño
Prime ministers of Australia and Iceland discuss effects on their countries even as some shy away in face of war and inflation World political leaders are descending on New York for the UN general assembly and some of them are putting the climate crisis on the agenda as they spoke on Monday at the start of the city’s annual Climate Week. This year’s Climate Week – which runs alongside UNGA – comes after months of extreme heat in large parts of the world including Europe and the US, wildfires in Africa, flash flooding in Asia and a record-breaking El Niño . Continue reading...
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AI and autonomous weapons are high on the agenda at the UN General Assembly
As world leaders gather for the U.N. General Assembly's annual general debate, Colombia's former president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate discusses the growing risks of autonomous weapons and AI