by Oritro Karim (united nations) Friday, September 06, 2024 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Sep 06 (IPS) – Since late August, severe flash floods and monsoons plaguing Bangladesh have affected nearly 6 million people. Bangladeshi officials have declared the floods to be the country’s worst climate disaster in recent memory. These recent floods follow the wake of Cyclone Remal, which devastated …
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Israeli forces have fatally shot an American-Turkish activist at a demonstration in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian news agency Wafa and a hospital official say. Twenty-six-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was taking part in the protest against illegal Israeli settlements on Mount Sbeih in Beita, south of Nablus, on Friday when she was shot. Fouad Nafaa, the head of the …
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Parents have been waiting anxiously to find out if their missing children are still alive after a boarding school in central Kenya caught fire. Seventeen pupils were confirmed dead by the Ministry of Education on Friday morning, while the deputy president said 70 children were still missing. It is thought some of these children may have run into the local …
Read More »Aysenur Eygi, an Turkish American woman from Seattle, was demonstrating against Jewish settlements in the town of Beita on Friday when she was shot in the head.
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“For example, you might have a game developer using an LLM to generate game character descriptions or parameters on the fly. For that to work, the LLM simply ‘must’ generate that information reliably in valid JSON format. Right now, developers have to rely on third party tools like Pydantic, Zod, LangChain, etc. to do things like iteratively run the same …
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Hungary’s anti-immigrant government has signalled it is serious about implementing a plan to send asylum seekers to Brussels, a measure meant to pressure the European Union into relenting on heavy fines against the country for its restrictive asylum policies. At a news conference in the capital Budapest, state secretary Bence Retvari claimed the EU wanted to force Hungary to allow …
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk. (Jim WATSON and Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) Donald Trump says Elon Musk will save the USA trillions of dollars under a Trump administration. Musk suggested a government efficiency commission. Trump has now confirmed Musk would head it. It would audit the entire government and – implausibly – eliminate all fraud and undue within months. …
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China handed a nine-year prison term to a Taiwanese political activist convicted of “separatism,” a rare sentence that prompted Taiwan to warn its people about the dangers of traveling across the strait. Yang Chih-yuan received the term in a court in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council said in a briefing on Thursday, according to the …
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The move comes a few weeks after Vladimir Zelensky criticized the UK over waning supplies of lethal weapons London will supply Kiev with £162 million ($213 million) worth of Martlet multirole missiles, with the first shipment set to arrive by the end of the year, the UK Defense Ministry said in a press release on Friday. This comes after two …
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Kmoin Walhang proudly sits next to her collection of certificates and citations that she has received after participating in several marathons. Credit: Courtesy Kmoin Walhang by Diwash Gahatraj (shngimalwlein, india) Friday, September 06, 2024 Inter Press Service SHNGIMALWLEIN, India, Sep 06 (IPS) – Kmoin Wahlang, a 76-year-old woman, starts her running training every morning at 4 a.m. Dressed in track pants, …
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