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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits China | BBC News
The US secretary of State is in China aiming to put relations between the countries on a steadier footing. Antony Blinken has been in Shanghai holding meetings with business leaders. He’s now heading to Beijing for talks with the country’s foreign minister, Wang Yi. Although tensions have eased since last year, disagreements on issues such as trade and security remain. Blinken is visiting China less…
AI 'godfather' Yoshua Bengio: Disinformation bot threat is ‘shocking’ | BBC News
People can easily make fake election-related images with artificial intelligence tools, despite rules designed to prevent such content. Politicians including US President Joe Biden and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan have found themselves victims of deepfakes. These are fake images or audio recordings generated by AI and have spread rapidly across social media. AI threatens to “supercharge” disinformation and incite violence at elections, the US…
What declining birth rates mean for the world | BBC News
This week, South Korea broke its own world record for the lowest birth rate in the world. 230,000 babies were born there last year, in a country with a population over 50 million. But declining birth rates isn’t exclusive to South Korea, with the trend affecting numerous countries across the world – including the UK. The BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins has been looking into…
UK passes controversial immigration Rwanda bill | BBC News
UK Parliament has passed PM Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda bill, after a late-night sitting and months of wrangling. Plans to send some asylum seekers to Africa have met with fierce criticism, but the bill passed on Monday when the Lords dropped their opposition. Sunak said in a statement “nothing will stand in our way” now of getting flights off the ground. But the scheme could…
Elon Musk's Tesla cuts prices in major markets as sales fall | BBC News
Tesla has cut its prices in a number of markets – including the US, China, and Germany – as the electric car giant faces falling sales. A price war has been intensifying between electric vehicle (EV) makers, with particularly fierce competition coming from Chinese firms. And Tesla – run by multi-billionaire Elon Musk – reported a sharp fall in global vehicle deliveries in early 2024,…
Largest ever sea creature discovered by scientists | BBC News
Scientists have identified what they have suspected was probably the largest marine reptile ever to swim in the seas – a creature longer than two, nose-to-nose buses. The creature lived around 202 million years ago alongside the dinosaurs. Its fossilised jawbone was found in 2016 by a fossil hunter on a beach in Somerset, UK. In 2020 a father and daughter found another similar jawbone….
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From top to bottom, rescuers scoured buildings in Porto Alegre for inhabitants stuck in flats or on rooftops as unprecedented flooding turned the streets of the Brazilian metropolis into rivers. [...]
A Ukrainian drone attack hit vehicles carrying workers in Russia's frontier Belgorod region, killing six people and injuring 35, the governor said Monday. [...]
Several Washington, D.C. residents and students at George Washington University (GWU) told Fox News Digital that they felt unsafe on campus and expressed concern about the escalation of pro-Palestinian student [...]
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