By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Thursday urged political, economic and business leaders at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos to keep close oversight of the development of artificial intelligence, warning the technology can exacerbate a growing “crisis of truth”. In a written message read to the annual meeting at …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang said at a meeting with Dutch King Willem-Alexander in The Hague that China stands ready to increase mutual trust and that it would work together to maintain stability and smoothness of the global supply chain. The meeting was reported by China’s foreign ministry on Thursday. It …
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By Edward McAllister, Fatos Bytyci and Aleksandar Vasovic OBILIC, Kosovo/BELGRADE (Reuters) – For 30 years, Shemsi Gara operated a giant digger in a Kosovo coal mine, churning up toxic dust that covered his face and got into his airways. Home life wasn’t much better: the power plants that the mine supplies constantly spew fumes over …
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By Serhiy Chalyi ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russia unleashed a drone and missile strike on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia overnight, killing one, wounding 31 others and leaving tens of thousands without power or heat, officials said on Thursday. The attack destroyed an energy facility and cut power to more than 20,000 residents and …
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By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) -A vote due on Wednesday in the Irish parliament to elect a new prime minister was delayed by a day after opposition protests over speaking rights for independent lawmakers supporting the incoming coalition government derailed a chaotic sitting. Micheál Martin was due to be elected prime minister at around 1230 …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – A 28-year-old man from Afghanistan was arrested following a knife attack on Wednesday in a park in the German city of Aschaffenburg in which two people were killed, including a toddler, police and the state health minister said. The suspect deliberately attacked a kindergarten group in the park with a kitchen knife, …
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By Andrew Gray and Lili Bayer BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas pushed back on Wednesday against Donald Trump for saying that Europe lagged behind the U.S. in aid for Ukraine, and insisted the bloc must have a seat at the table when the time comes for peace talks. Trump has …
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By Andreas Rinke, Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sought to project unity at a meeting in Paris on Wednesday, as Europe struggles to respond with one voice to threats of tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump, who has also threatened Canada, Mexico and China with heavy …
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ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey has detained 11 people as part of an investigation into a fire that killed 79 people and injured dozens at a ski resort in the Bolu mountains, Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said on Wednesday. A deputy mayor of the northwestern Bolu province, the head of the municipality’s fire department, the owner and …
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By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – He hails a fantastic woman sweeping all before her in Europe. She praises a strong and shrewd defender of the West. Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni are fast forging a new transatlantic “special relationship”. Italian Prime Minister Meloni was the sole European leader at Trump’s presidential inauguration on Monday, …
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