Fri 16 May 2025: In November 2024, three legislators from the Te Pati Maori party performed a protest haka in parliament against a contentious treaty bill. A New Zealand government committee has recommended that three Indigenous legislators be temporarily suspended from parliament for performing a protest haka last year. The Privileges Committee recommended on Wednesday […]
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Fri 16 May 2025: Microsoft is laying off 6,000 workers across the company, it announced on Tuesday. The planned layoffs make up under 3% of the total staff, a spokesperson told Bloomberg. “We continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company for success in a dynamic marketplace,” the spokesperson said. It’s the […]
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Fri 16 May 2025: The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) opened a “Safe Home” in Port Sudan on Thursday to support women and girls affected by the ongoing conflict in Sudan since April 15, 2023, Anadolu reports. Launched under Turkiye’s “Year of the Family” initiative, the center was opened in coordination with Sudan’s Red Sea […]
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Thu 15 May 2025: US federal prosecutors say defendant and co-conspirators got the company to pay for deliveries that never occurred. A former food delivery driver pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal more than $2.5m from the food delivery service DoorDash. Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a federal court in San […]
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Thu 15 May 2025: New Zealand has recorded the highest child suicide rate among 43 wealthy countries, and it ranks near the bottom in terms of youth mental health and well-being, said a UNICEF report released on Wednesday. The latest UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 19: Fragile Gains—Child Wellbeing at Risk in an Unpredictable World ranked New Zealand 32nd […]
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Thu 15 May 2025: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he spoke with Apple CEO Tim Cook and told him not to expand his production facilities in India, but to do so in America. “I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday,” Trump said during his visit to Qatar. “I said to […]
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Thu 15 May 2025: Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is under scrutiny for repeatedly referencing the “white genocide” in South Africa – a right-wing conspiracy theory – even in responses to unrelated queries. The chatbot, a product of Musk’s AI company xAI, told users it was “instructed by my creators” to accept the genocide “as […]
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Wed 14 May 2025: The US presidency and the papacy came together on May 3 when Donald Trump posted an AI-generated photograph of himself dressed as the pope to Truth Social. The image was then shared by the White House’s accounts. Seated in an ornate (Mar-a-Lago-style) golden chair, he was wearing a white cassock and […]
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Wed 14 May 2025: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is trained on enormous bodies of text, video and images to identify patterns. It then creates new texts, videos and images on the basis of this pattern identification. Thanks to machine learning, it improves its ability to do so every time it is used. As AI becomes […]
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Wed 14 May 2025: Global sales of electric vehicles (EV) are expected to exceed 20 million this year, accounting for more than 25% of all vehicles sold, according to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Wednesday. Global EV sales continue to grow despite uncertainties in the global economy and pressures on the […]
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