UK benefits: AI use has brought bias and hunger
Iris Lim, SOAS, University of London
A freedom of information request has revealed that an AI system used by the UK government for assessing benefits cases is apparently getting it ...
Suspect in UnitedHealth executive murder was not a customer of the insurer
The suspect in the murder of UnitedHealth Group UNH.N executive Brian Thompson was not a customer of the health insurer, a company spokesperson said on Friday.
Ivy League-educated Luigi ...
Russia packing up military equipment at base in Syria, satellite images show
Russia appears to be packing up military equipment at a military air base in Syria, according to satellite images released by Maxar following rebels’ overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad last ...
Greece to buy artillery systems from Israel and drones from US
Greece is in advanced talks to buy 36 PULS rocket artillery systems from Israel as it pushes to modernise its armed forces, two officials said on Friday.
The discussions on the 600...
Syrian Shi’ites and other minorities flee to Lebanon, fearing Islamist rule
Tens of thousands of Syrians, mostly Shi’ite Muslims, have fled to Lebanon since Sunni Muslim Islamists toppled Bashar al-Assad, fearing persecution despite assurances from the new rulers in Damascus ...
France’s Macron names veteran centrist ally Bayrou as prime minister
French President Emmanuel Macron named key ally Francois Bayrou as his fourth prime minister of 2024 on Friday, but the scale of the challenge facing the veteran centrist was immediately clear ...
SYRIA: Islamic State
USA, Turkey to continue working together to counter any resurgence of the Islamic State
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan discussed on Friday the need for continued efforts to counter any resurgence of Islamic State in Syria ...
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Russia launches large-scale missile attack on Ukraine energy facilities
Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s energy facilities on Friday morning, Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said.
“The enemy continues its terror. Once again, the energy sector across ...
Syria: Russian bases
Russia wants to keep military bases in Syria in order to continue its war against terrorism
Russia has established direct contact with the political committee of Syria’s Islamist rebel group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Interfax news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov as ...
UK housing market strengthens, but rate hikes loom
Britain’s housing market strengthened further in November although uncertainty over the economic outlook could curtail activity in the months ahead, according to a survey on Thursday from the Royal ...
FCA proposes free, targeted pension support
Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority is promising millions of people help with their pensions under new proposals that include offering access to free, targeted support to allow consumers to make ...
Blinken meets Erdogan as forces backed by US, Turkey clash in Syria
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Turkey on Thursday for talks focused on a critical aspect of establishing stability in Syria: clashes in the north of the ...
Genomes reveal timing of Homo sapiens interbreeding with Neanderthals
Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on ...
US security adviser Sullivan says Israel is acting in Syria for its own defence
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan defended Israel’s operations in Syria since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, saying on Thursday it had a right to defend itself ...
Chinese associate of Prince Andrew banned from UK as national security risk
A Chinese businessman, who had forged close links with Prince Andrew and was authorised to act on his behalf to seek investors in China, has been banned from Britain on ...
Israel kills 36 Palestinians in Gaza, targets volatile aid route
Israel killed 13 Palestinians in two airstrikes in Gaza on Thursday that Gaza medics and Hamas said were part of a force protecting humanitarian aid trucks. Israel’s military said they ...
Trump to discuss ending childhood vaccination programmes with RFK Jr.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in an interview published on Thursday said he will be talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee to run the Department of Health and ...
UK targets 1.5 million new homes in five years
Britain on Thursday outlined details of an overhaul to its planning system to help boost growth and hit a target of 1.5 million new homes in the next five years, including ...
Elon Musk’s net worth tops $400bn, Forbes list shows
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s net worth crossed $400 billion on Thursday, the Forbes real-time billionaires list showed, boosted by a nearly 71% surge in the automaker’s shares this year and ...
Steak or a sandwich for lunch? Britain’s PM, opposition leader at odds
Britain’s prime minister and leader of the main opposition party spar almost daily on everything from immigration, taxation to spending, but on Thursday, the two battled over a new ...
US sees Assad’s fall as chance to destroy Syria’s chemical arsenal ‘once and for all’
The United States sees the fall of Bashar al-Assad as an extraordinary chance to rid Syria “once and for all” of chemical weapons used by his regime to kill or ...
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Time magazine names Trump ‘Person of the Year’
Time magazine on Thursday named U.S. President-elect Donald Trump its “Person of the Year,” citing his deep impact on American politics and the country’s role in the world.
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ECB cuts interest rates for fourth time this year
The ECB has cut interest rates by a quarter point.
It also kept the door open to further easing ahead as inflation closes in on its goal and the economy ...
Britain considers new courts to deal with record-high backlog, prison crisis
Britain will consider adding a new intermediate tier to its court system, the justice ministry said on Thursday, as the government scrambles to deal with a record-high backlog of cases ...