Seoul, South Korea Workers at tech giant Samsung Electronics in South Korea staged the first strike at the company on Friday, the head of a major union representing tens of thousands of people told AFP. Samsung Electronics is one of the world’s largest smartphone makers and also one of the only companies globally to produce high-end...
United Nations, United States More than one in four children under the age of five globally live in “severe” food poverty, UNICEF has warned — meaning more than 180 million are at risk of experiencing adverse impacts on their growth and development.“Severe child food poverty describes children who are surviving on severely deprived diets so they’re...
Cartí Sugtupu, Panama Alberto Lopez prepares breakfast with water lapping at his ankles. The day began with rain, and his ramshackle home on the Panamanian island of Carti Sugtupu was flooded, not for the first time. Lopez is one of 1,200 Indigenous residents of the island being relocated to the mainland, as sea level rise due...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories Israel on Tuesday mourned four captives reported dead in Gaza by the army amid growing doubts and international pressure over a plan for a ceasefire and hostage release deal outlined by US President Joe Biden. In the besieged Palestinian territory, Israeli strikes continued early Tuesday, particularly in Bureij in central Gaza where local...
Tokyo, Japan | Thursday 1/18/2024 Japan, whose unmanned “sniper” probe will attempt a lunar landing on Saturday, is one of many countries and private companies launching new missions to the Moon. It is a feat so far only achieved by four nations — the United States, the Soviet Union, China and most recently India — with spacecraft often...
Paris, France | Tuesday 6/26/2023 The warnings are coming from all angles: artificial intelligence poses an existential risk to humanity and must be shackled before it is too late. But what are these disaster scenarios and how are machines supposed to wipe out humanity? Paperclips of doom Most disaster scenarios start in the same place: machines will...
Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Friday 3/1/2024 US anti-drug policies have caused a “genocide” of Latin Americans, Colombia’s Gustavo Petro alleged Friday at a meeting of regional leaders on the Caribbean island of St Vincent and the GrenadinesWe have lived through a genocide of a million Latin Americans in the last half-century,” the Colombian president told...