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By Glenn CHAPMAN with Joseph BOYLE in Paris SAN FRANCISCO, March 1, 2024 (AFP) – Elon Musk has launched a legal case against OpenAI, the AI firm he helped to set up in 2015, accusing its leaders of a “betrayal” of its founding mission. The tycoon, who left OpenAI in 2018, argued in documents filed in a San Francisco court late Thursday that the firm was always intended as a nonprofit entity. But he said […]
GENEVA, March 1, 2024 (AFP) – Three years of military rule in Myanmar have inflicted unbearable cruelty, leaving people trapped in an unending nightmare as the conflict spreads, the UN human rights chief said Friday. The junta is crushing all forms of dissent with total impunity, Volker Turk told the UN Human Rights Council, urging the United Nations’ top rights body and countries to focus on preventing further atrocities. “The human rights situation in Myanmar […]
(Eagle News)–Three agreements aimed at enhancing cooperation and interoperability in the maritime domain, cyber and critical technology, and competition law were signed during the state visit of President Bongbong Marcos in Australia, the government said. President Marcos was quoted as saying in a Presidential Communications Office statement that the agreements “add to the more than 120 agreements” that the two countries have signed “through the decades” in various fields, including defense cooperation, air services, education, […]
WASHINGTON, March 2, 2024 (AFP) – Gangs aiming to oust Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry wreaked havoc in the capital Port-au-Prince Friday, as gun attacks near the city’s international airport and a prison marked a second day of extreme violence. At least four police officers were killed Thursday and dozens have been wounded since the latest spate of brutality began, with Henry meanwhile in Kenya mustering support for a UN-backed international police deployment. Armed gangs […]
Rest of PHL affected by easterlies (Eagle News)–The northeast monsoon is affecting Northern Luzon. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, the easterlies are also affecting the rest of the country. As a result, Cagayan Valley will have cloudy skies with light rains. Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region and Aurora, meanwhile, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, meanwhile, will […]
The Los Angeles Lakers, fueled by 40 points from Anthony Davis and 31 from LeBron James, pulled off another NBA thriller on Thursday, beating the Washington Wizards 134-131 in overtime. One day after James reeled off 34 points — 19 of them in the fourth quarter — to key a come-from-behind victory over the Los Angeles Clippers, the Lakers had to dig deep again against a Wizards team tied for the worst record in the […]
TOKYO, March 1, 2024 (AFP) – The resignation of a Japanese mayor facing 99 allegations of sexual harassment sparked anger on social media on Friday, after he denied some cases and wept at a press conference. An official investigation accused Hideo Kojima, the mayor of a town in central Gifu region, of several incidents of harassment, including touching a colleague’s breasts and buttocks. The 74-year-old said Thursday he would quit, a day after wiping away […]
SEOUL, March 1, 2024 (AFP) – South Korean police raided the offices of the Korean Medical Association on Friday, an officer told AFP, as the government contends with a doctors’ strike that has led to chaos in hospitals. Nearly 10,000 junior doctors — about 80 percent of the trainee workforce — walked off the job last week. They are protesting government plans to sharply increase medical school admissions to cope with shortages and an ageing […]
DHAKA, Feb 29, 2024 (AFP) – At least 44 people were killed and dozens injured after a fire blazed through a seven-storey building in an upscale neighbourhood in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka late Thursday, authorities said. “So far 43 people have died from the fire,” Bangladesh’s health minister Samanta Lal Sen told AFP after visiting the Dhaka Medical College Hospital and an adjoining burn hospital. Police inspector Bacchu Mia said one more person died […]
LONDON, March 1, 2024 (AFP) – A huge fire at a residential building in London’s upscale South Kensington neighbourhood in the early hours of Friday has put 11 people in hospital and led to around 130 being evacuated, fire officials said. Fifteen fire engines and around 100 firefighters were called to the fire at a terraced house converted into apartments on Emperor’s Gate, in the southwest of the British capital, close to the Natural History […]
MANILA, March 1, 2024 (AFP) – Faulty warning systems, poverty and deforestation of mountains in the southern Philippines turned recent unseasonably heavy rains into deadly disasters, scientists said in a report Friday. More than 100 people were killed in landslides and floods in January and February on the country’s second-largest island of Mindanao as the northeast monsoon and a low pressure trough brought downpours. A study by the World Weather Attribution group found the unsually […]
LOS ANGELES, March 1, 2024 (AFP) – A manhunt was launched by police in the California city of El Cajon on Thursday after a shooting at a dentist’s office left one dead and two injured, local media reported. Police in the town, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) outside of San Diego, said on social media they were searching for an “armed and dangerous” 29-year-old suspect who fled the scene after the attack, which they described […]
