December 5, 2023
“The scale of civilian suffering and the images and videos coming from Gaza are devastating,” US Vice President Kamala Harris said on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT Israel pounded targets in the crowded southern half of the Gaza Strip on Saturday and ordered more neighbourhoods designated for attack to evacuate, driving up the death toll even as the
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Britain said on Wednesday it would boost funding for two supercomputers which will support research into making advanced artificial intelligence models safe. Funding for the “AI Research Resource” will be increased to 300 million pounds ($363.57 million) from a previously announced 100 million pounds, the government said at an AI safety summit aimed at charting
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Key Points Israel says it has begun a long threatened ground invasion on Gaza. Hamas said hostage negotiations with Israel were progressing but stalled. The Red Cross has warned of an “intolerable level of human suffering”. Israel intensified its attacks on Gaza on Sunday, calling for civilians to flee south where it vowed aid would
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Bitcoin mining consumes massive amounts of energy, giving the asset a nasty reputation as a threat to the environment and an accelerator of climate change. A new United Nations report found cryptocurrency mining has extremely high costs in the form of astronomical amounts of water and land. The global water footprint from January 2020 to December
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Key Points Israel has hammered the Gaza Strip with its fiercest air strikes in decades. This is despite a threat from Hamas to kill hostages every time Israel strikes. US President Joe Biden has denounced Hamas and stressed US support for Israel. Israel has bombed Gaza ahead of a potential ground assault against Hamas while
READ MOREIsraeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory now suffering severe retaliation for the deadly weekend attack by Hamas militants. Humanitarian groups pleaded for the creation of corridors to get aid into Gaza and warned that hospitals
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Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighbourhood by neighbourhood on Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory as Israel vowed retaliation for Hamas’ surprise weekend attack that would “reverberate … for generations.” More than 187,000 people have fled their homes in the enclave, the UN
READ MOREAn attack Thursday on a Syrian military academy killed more than 110 people, a war monitor said, with state media blaming “terrorist organisations” for the deadly drone strike in government-held Homs. Separately, Turkish air raids in the country’s Kurdish-held northeast killed at least 11 people, according to Kurdish forces, after Ankara had threatened retaliation for
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An attack Thursday on a Syrian military academy killed more than 110 people, a war monitor said, with state media blaming “terrorist organisations” for the deadly drone strike in government-held Homs. Separately, Turkish air raids in the country’s Kurdish-held northeast killed at least 11 people, according to Kurdish forces, after Ankara had threatened retaliation for
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