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SEOUL, March 14, 2024 (AFP) – North Korea leader Kim Jong Un drove a “new-type main battle tank” while overseeing military training exercises, state media said Thursday, as Seoul and Washington wrap joint drills to improve deterrence. Wearing a black leather jacket, Kim saluted ranks of camouflage-uniformed troops, and watched live-fire “training march” exercises from a field command post, flanked by top generals, images published by state media showed. After he reviewed the tank crews, […]
By Thanaporn Promyamyai and Sarah Lai BANGKOK, March 14, 2024 (AFP) – Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra visited a Bangkok temple Thursday in his first public appearance since being freed early from a jail sentence for graft and abuse of power. The controversial billionaire, twice elected premier and ousted in a 2006 military coup, went to the Bangkok City Pillar Shrine ahead of a three-day trip to Chiang Mai in the kingdom’s north later […]
Humanity must preserve Earth before dreaming of colonising Mars because even nuclear war and unbridled climate change cannot make the red planet more liveable, Barack Obama said Wednesday. Speaking at a renewable energy conference in the French capital Paris, the former US president mentioned Silicon Valley “tycoons, many of whom are building spaceships” that could take humans to Mars. “But when I hear some of the people talk about the plan to colonise Mars because […]
By Raziye Akkoc The European Parliament on Wednesday gave the final nod to far-reaching rules on artificial intelligence that the EU hopes will both harness innovation and defend against harms. The law, known as the “AI Act”, was first proposed in April 2021 by the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm. But it was only after Microsoft-funded ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022 that the real AI contest began — and also the […]
By Kelly MACNAMARA Audio recordings of healthy reefs — an underwater chorus of fish songs and crackles from snapping shrimp — may help efforts to restore coral ecosystems harmed by climate and human impacts, scientists said Wednesday. With the future of the world’s biodiversity-rich coral reefs threatened by climate change, some experts are looking for rehabilitation strategies to go alongside broader efforts to slash planet-heating pollution. Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution say one such […]
By Daniel Lawler Why do humans experience menopause? It’s a question that some women going through the symptoms might have asked themselves more than once. Scientists are also baffled. From an evolutionary perspective, animals generally take every chance they can get to have as many offspring as possible to boost their odds of survival. So why have some species evolved to have menopause, in which females live many years after they stop being able to […]
Dozens of mourners gathered to clear graves at Liberia’s largest Ebola burial site on Wednesday, as the country approached 10 years since the virus first swept through the population. The West African nation was badly hit by the region’s Ebola pandemic, which raged from 2014 to 2016 and killed 4,810 people in Liberia alone. The country’s first cases were confirmed on March 30, 2014, according to the World Health Organization. “It is very hard for […]
By Alex Pigman Agence France-Presse (AFP) — The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill on Wednesday that would force TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner or get banned from the United States. The lawmakers voted 352 in favor of the proposed law and 65 against, in a rare moment of bipartisan unity in politically divided Washington. The legislation threatens to be a major setback for the video-sharing app, which has surged in […]
By Elijah Nouvelage Agence France-Presse (AFP) — Joe Biden and rival Donald Trump each won enough delegates Tuesday to clinch their party nominations in the 2024 presidential race, all but assuring a rematch and setting up one of the longest election campaigns in US history. The results in four statewide elections Tuesday, the latest in the months-long march to determine the Democratic and Republican party flagbearers, were essentially a foregone conclusion as incumbent Biden and […]
(Eagle News)–A fire hit four wards of the Philippine General Hospital in Manila on Wednesday, March 13. According to the Bureau of Fire Protection, the fire started around 3 p.m. and reached the second alarm before it was declared under control later in the day. The cause of the fire has yet to be determined. In a statement, the Department of Health said, based on a report from the hospital, doctors and patients were in […]
By Watsamon Tri-Yasakda and Rose Troup Buchanan BANGKOK, March 13, 2024 (AFP) – Hundreds of Thai children strain to sing the national anthem, reedy voices and fragile lungs competing against eight lanes of belching traffic next to their school’s open atrium in central Bangkok. Pupils at Suan Lumphini School assemble each morning under a coloured flag indicating the day’s air quality — red for worst, yellow for second worst, blue for best. Thailand registers dire […]
