President Donald Trump Press Conference: North Korea Paul Manafort 8/10/17
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Ukraine‘s ousted Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections yesterday as he argued the nation faced a crisis of governance. In the biggest internal challenge to President Volodymyr Zelensky since the war began in 2022, Fedorov said in a video address on YouTube that ‘democracy cannot be held hostage by Russia’. The 35-year-old was a longtime…
The Islamic Republic publicly executed two Iranian protesters in Isfahan at dawn on July 28. Several hundred people gathered near a stage set up in the city’s Alikhani Square, but instead of cheering the execution, they chanted slogans against the police, prompting anti-riot units to disperse the crowd. In a rare public execution, the Iranian…
Turkey’s intelligence agency has detained six people suspected of spying on ethnic Uyghurs who have fled persecution in China, state media reports said Tuesday. A seventh person was wanted but remained at large, the reports said, without specifying the suspects’ nationalities. The seven are accused of collecting information on Turkey’s Uyghur associations and tracking prominent…
Nearly half of China’s major cities are sinking because of water extraction and the increasing weight of their rapid expansion, researchers say. Some cities are subsiding rapidly, with one in six exceeding 10mm per year. China’s rapid urbanisation in recent decades means far more water is now being drawn up to meet people’s needs, scientists…
Korea’s ‘artificial sun’, KSTAR, recorded a plasma operation with a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius for 48 seconds, a new step in nuclear fusion research. Korea’s “artificial sun” broke its own record during a plasma operation in which temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius were supported for 48 seconds, a promising new step toward…
AI has moved on from answering questions. It’s now slipping coded messages to its friends about glue-eating and human extinction. A study released July 20 on arXiv by Anthropic and Truthful AI shows that large language models can slip subliminal messages to one another. They don’t need to literally spell things out. A string of…