“Halfway to the 2030 deadline the Sustainable Development Goals are dangerously off track,” he warned. “Gender equality is almost 300 years away. Progress on maternal health and access to family planning has been glacial.” World Population Day is commemorated annually on 11 July and this year’s focus is on unleashing the power of gender equality and giving greater voice to …
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The department previously said Trump enjoyed immunity for comments that writer E Jean Carroll called defamatory. The US Justice Department has said that Donald Trump can be held personally liable for his comments about a woman who accused him of rape, in a reversal of its position that Trump was protected because he was president when he made the remarks. …
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I speak to you today with feelings of profound sorrow. Throughout her life, Her Majesty The Queen – my beloved Mother – was an inspiration and example to me and to all my family, and we owe her the most heartfelt debt any family can owe to their mother; for her love, affection, guidance, understanding, and example. Queen Elizabeth’s was …
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Like the writers already on strike, actors say that streaming services haven’t shared the wealth, even as they have led to an explosion of entertainment content. The never-ending quest for new subscribers is an unsustainable business model, they say, and studio executives are reaping huge salaries while many actors and writers can’t make a decent living.
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While Europe and the United States were trying to isolate Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey referred to Russia’s president as “my friend.” While NATO leaders worked to enlarge the alliance, Mr. Erdogan held up the process by seeking concessions for his nation. Then on Monday, Mr. Erdogan suddenly flipped after more than a …
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The Association for Computing Machinery today urged the providers of generative AI systems and developers using them to adopt safeguards for the technology, releasing a statement outlining a list of principles for its use and development. Generative AI, according to the ACM, poses serious risks to society, and the group said that current guidelines for the safe use of technology …
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Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten walked out of a California prison on Tuesday after serving more than 50 years of a life sentence for her participation in two infamous murders. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said that Van Houten “was released to parole supervision”. Her lawyer, Nancy Tetreault, said that she left the California Institution for Women …
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High-profile scientists caught up in the controversy over Covid’s origins have admitted the decision to play down the lab leak theory was political. Internal Slack communications obtained by a House subcommittee investigating the early days of the pandemic showed how scientists who wrote a paper dismissing the idea of a lab accident feared retribution from the Chinese government. Dr Andrew Rambaut, …
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Supporters demonstrated inside the courtyard of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad after they breached the building briefly over the burning of the Quran by an Iraqi living in Sweden. Pakistan’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that the desecration of the Quran amounted to the incitement of religious hatred in the wake of a Quran burning in Sweden last month. …
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