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By Farhad Gasymov and Mariam Harutyunyan in Yerevan Azerbaijan said Wednesday it had regained control over breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh for the first time in decades, after Armenian separatists agreed to lay down their arms in the face of a military operation that they said killed 200 people. The stunning collapse of separatist resistance represents a major victory for Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev in his quest to bring the Armenian-majority region back under Baku’s control. Since the […]
By W.G. DUNLOP US senators voted Wednesday to confirm General Charles Brown as the country’s next top military officer, one of hundreds of nominations that have been stalled by a lawmaker’s protest against Pentagon abortion access policies. Brown was approved 83-11 and will become the second Black officer to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — after Colin Powell from 1989-1993 — at a time when the Pentagon is headed by Lloyd […]
(Eagle News)–Five senior officers have been nominated to be the next commandant of the Philippine Coast Guard. PCG spokesperson Armando Balilo identified the nominated as Vice Admiral Rolando Lizor Punzalan, Vice Admiral Ronnie Gil Gavan, Vice Admiral Joseph Coyme, Vice Admiral Allan Victor Dela Vega, and Vice Admiral Roy Echeverria. According to Balilo, the five candidates will undergo a series of interviews and “will face the senior leadership of the Department of Transportation” before their […]
AI is both a threat and an opportunity for journalism, with more than half of those surveyed for a new report saying they had concerns about its ethical implications on their work. While 85 percent of respondents had experimented with generative AI such as ChatGPT or Google Bard for tasks including writing summaries and generating headlines, 60 percent said they also had reservations. The study, carried out by the London School of Economic’s JournalismAI initiative, […]
A tornado in eastern China killed 10 people and seriously injured several others, state media said Wednesday, the latest in a string of extreme weather events to strike the country. “Yesterday afternoon, a strong tornado occurred in Suqian, Jiangsu Province… causing casualties and property loss in certain areas,” state broadcaster CCTV said. The tornado affected more than 5,500 people, with 137 houses collapsing, according to “preliminary statistics” cited in the report. More than 400 people […]
(Eagle News) — Passengers of the Light Rail Transit-1 can expect longer waiting times from September 20 to 24. According to its operator, the Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC), this is because rail replacement activities in the reversing or turnback area of the Baclaran Station, which are part of the company’s continuous railway upgrade program, are scheduled on those days. It said the temporary closure of this railway section is expected to impact, not just […]
Flash floods have injured 20 people in northern Iran, after what officials described as the region’s heaviest rains in a century, Iranian media reported. The rains have battered the cities of Astara and Talesh, on the Caspian Sea coast near the border with Azerbaijan since Sunday, the reports said. “Heavy rains … have fallen over Astara which have not been seen in 100 years,” Gilan province’s head of crisis management Amir Moradi told the ISNA […]
By Magda GIBELLI At 10 years old, Martin cannot read, but he is an old hand at detecting traces of the gold he and his young cousins dig for at an open-pit mine in southeastern Venezuela. In the town of El Callao, extracting gold from soil starts as a kid’s game, but soon becomes a full-time job that human rights activists slam as dangerous exploitation. Small and agile, the children’s size helps them shimmy into […]
By Daniel MATTHEWS and Sylvain PEUCHMAURD A London restaurant is exploring whether eating invasive species such as grey squirrel, American Signal crayfish and Japanese knotweed could help fight their spread, but scientists remain sceptical. The idea behind several “invasive species supper clubs”, the last of which was served on Tuesday at “zero waste” Silo restaurant in east London, is to “creatively popularise species that are detrimental to the environment”, chef Douglas McMaster, who runs the […]
Most species of the famously large Rafflesia flower, which has long captured the imagination with its enormous speckled red petals, are now at risk of extinction, new research warned Wednesday. Rafflesia is actually a parasite, and lives on tropical vines across parts of Southeast Asia, producing blooms that are among the largest in the world. It is something of an enigma, with its flowers emerging unpredictably, and botanists have had limited success propagating it outside […]
By Thomas URBAIN She already rules music, so now it’s on to Tinseltown: Taylor Swift’s concert documentary is poised to dominate the fall movie season, challenging the hegemony of film studios and consecrating her business empire. Swift is taking a break from her wildly popular tour that began in March — performances will resume in November and run late into next year. But in the meantime, the 33-year-old is hitting the silver screen: “Taylor Swift: […]
