South Korea is set to host a mini-summit this week on risks and regulation of artificial intelligence, following up on an inaugural AI safety meeting in Britain last year that drew a diverse crowd of tech luminaries, researchers and officials. The gathering
High-level mediation talks on South Sudan were launched Thursday in Kenya with African presidents calling for an end to a conflict that has crippled the country’s economy for years. South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir thanked his Kenyan counterpart, William Ruto, for hosting
A disciplinary court in Poland has lifted the immunity of Judge Tomasz Szmydt, allowing for an international arrest warrant. Poland’s prosecutors launched an investigation into Szmydt’s case following reports of his arrival in Belarus seeking protection. Szmydt previously engaged in a smear
Parliamentary elections in North Macedonia resulted in the “Your Macedonia” coalition winning 58 of the country’s 120 parliamentary seats, three fewer than an outright majority. The coalition will need to partner with another party to form a government. The winners made gains
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video message on Thursday vowing that Israel “will stand alone” to defeat Hamas, if necessary, after President Biden threatened to withhold weapon shipments to the Jewish State should Netanyahu proceed with an invasion of Rafah.
Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin, two men who led the effort to create the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, will receive the 2024 World Food Prize. The vault opened in 2008 and now holds 1.25 million seed samples from almost every country in
Scores of musicians, hundreds of journalists and thousands of music fans have gathered in the Swedish city of Malmo, where the Eurovision Song Contest is building towards Saturday’s exuberant, glitter-drenched final. But even Eurovision can’t escape the world’s divisions. Thousands of anti-Israel
Anzhelika Sharonova and her 86-year-old mother held out in their battered eastern Ukrainian town for as long as they could before finally fleeing this week with just a few bags between them. Russian forces are steadily advancing north and south of Toretsk
A leading rights group said on Thursday that attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces and their allied militias, which killed thousands in the western region of Darfur last year, constituted a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the area’s non-Arab population. The paramilitary Rapid
Jung Pak, the senior U.S. official for North Korea, has voiced concerns about China’s repatriation of North Koreans in Tokyo. The talks followed a recent visit to Beijing by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Pak urged China to uphold its obligations,
A watchdog group is sounding the alarm, saying Gazans are reporting that employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) are allegedly stealing and selling off humanitarian aid materials. UN Watch, a non-governmental organization based in Geneva,