Category: 3. World

  • Elon Musk’s AI company says Grok chatbot focus on South Africa’s racial politics was ‘unauthorized’

    Elon Musk’s AI company says Grok chatbot focus on South Africa’s racial politics was ‘unauthorized’

    Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said an “unauthorized modification” to its chatbot Grok was the reason why it kept talking about South African racial politics and the subject of “white genocide” on social media this week.
    An employee at xAI made a change that “directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic,” which “violated xAI’s internal policies and core values,” the company said in an explanation posted late Thursday that promised reforms.

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  • Moody’s strips US government of top credit rating, citing Washington’s failure to rein in debt

    Moody’s strips US government of top credit rating, citing Washington’s failure to rein in debt

    WASHINGTON: Moody’s Ratings stripped the US government of its top credit rating Friday, citing successive governments’ failure to stop a rising tide of debt.
    Moody’s lowered the rating from a gold-standard Aaa to Aa1 but said the United States “retains exceptional credit strengths such as the size, resilience and dynamism of its economy and the role of the US dollar as global reserve currency.”

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  • UK faith leaders urge PM to tone down migration rhetoric

    UK faith leaders urge PM to tone down migration rhetoric

    Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished


    DIKWA, Nigeria: Under the dappled light of a thatched shelter, Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is gone, a casualty of malnutrition and the international funding cuts that are snapping the lifeline for displaced communities in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged Borno state.

    “Feeding is severely difficult,” said…

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  • NYU denies diploma to student who criticized Israel in commencement speech

    NYU denies diploma to student who criticized Israel in commencement speech

    NEW YORK: New York University said it would deny a diploma to a student who used a graduation speech to condemn Israel’s attacks on Palestinians and what he described as US “complicity in this genocide.”
    Logan Rozos’s speech Wednesday for graduating students of NYU’s Gallatin School sparked waves of condemnation from pro-Israel groups, who demanded the university take aggressive disciplinary action against him.

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  • Salman Rushdie stage attacker sentenced to 25 years in prison

    Salman Rushdie stage attacker sentenced to 25 years in prison

    Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished


    DIKWA, Nigeria: Under the dappled light of a thatched shelter, Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is gone, a casualty of malnutrition and the international funding cuts that are snapping the lifeline for displaced communities in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged Borno state.

    “Feeding is severely difficult,” said…

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  • Russia jails Australian man for 13 years for fighting on Ukraine’s side

    Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished

    For years USAID had been the backbone of the humanitarian response in northeastern Nigeria
    Globally, 50 percent of the therapeutic foods for treating malnutrition in children were funded by USAID, and 40 percent of the supplies were produced in the US

    DIKWA, Nigeria: Under the dappled light of a thatched shelter, Yagana Bulama cradles her…

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  • Conflict and climate drive record global hunger in 2024, UN says

    Conflict and climate drive record global hunger in 2024, UN says

    Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished


    DIKWA, Nigeria: Under the dappled light of a thatched shelter, Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is gone, a casualty of malnutrition and the international funding cuts that are snapping the lifeline for displaced communities in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged Borno state.

    “Feeding is severely difficult,” said…

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  • Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished

    Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished

    DIKWA, Nigeria: Under the dappled light of a thatched shelter, Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is gone, a casualty of malnutrition and the international funding cuts that are snapping the lifeline for displaced communities in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged Borno state.

    “Feeding is severely difficult,” said Bulama, 40, who was a farmer before Boko Haram militants swept through her village, forcing her to flee. She and about 400,000 other people at the…

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  • Pakistan conducts second missile test since renewed India standoff

    Pakistan conducts second missile test since renewed India standoff


    WEST PALM BEACH, Florida: President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution, saying in a new interview that he does not know whether US citizens and noncitizens alike deserve that guarantee.

    He also said he does not think military force will be needed to make Canada the “51st state” and played down the possibility he would look to run for a third term in the White House.

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  • Indigenous Catholics hope the next pope shares Francis’ approach to Native people

    Indigenous Catholics hope the next pope shares Francis’ approach to Native people


    WEST PALM BEACH, Florida: President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution, saying in a new interview that he does not know whether US citizens and noncitizens alike deserve that guarantee.

    He also said he does not think military force will be needed to make Canada the “51st state” and played down the possibility he would look to run for a third term in the White House.

    The comments in a…

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