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Being Mozambican is a matter of belonging — regardless of one’s origin, appearance, or surname Originally published on Global Voices Indians in Mozambique celebrating the Hindu festival of Navratri.
But over Fourth of July weekend, a heat dome stretching from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico descended, leaving 165 million people facing major or extreme heat.
Every shallow-water coral reef ecosystem in Australia faces an extremely high risk of collapse by 2075, driven largely by projected ocean warming, according to a global assessment.
The most comprehensive record yet of carbon dioxide stored underground through geological carbon dioxide storage has been published today, revealing that 43.6 million metric tons were sequestered in 2024 alone—a new annual record—and that 421.7 million metric tons have now been stored in the past
Gender diversity, resistance and ritual cross-dressing in Venezuela's sacred cult Originally published on Global Voices Portrait of Wander Rodríguez, part of the María Dolores Rodríguez Caravan and its powers, and the LGBTIQ+ community.
The International Weightlifting Federation becomes the first Olympic federation to choose Russia to host a world championships since its invasion of Ukraine.
I enjoyed Friday’s New York Times piece by Dan Wang about all the impacts, from the geopolitical to the personal, of Apple’s chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor building fabs in Arizona as an attempt to boost American manufacturing capability and reduce risk of a future Chinese attack
claims to aspire to become a global cryptocurrency hub, an ambition that would appear to be at odds with the attitude to crypto purchases of its major banks.
Charity workers supporting the family of Andrew Frederick are demanding immediate government intervention to clear the path for a full investigation to begin almost 10 months after his death, which has been ruled a homicide by a pathologist.
The flow of funding which has helped the AI industry to grow rapidly could be running dry, at least for some firms in the cloud computing world, Elon Musk has warned.
In today’s newsletter: As Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva secured victory in the presidential race, we look the implications for democracy, the environment and international relations Good morning.
The reform of the Court of Auditors (TdC), approved in a final vote overall last Wednesday, concentrates on the Public Prosecutor (MP) the power to request the judgment of the public managers responsible for financial infringements in the exercise of the office.
A reforma do Tribunal de Contas (TdC), aprovada em votação final global na quarta-feira passada, concentra no Ministério Público (MP) o poder de requerer o julgamento dos gestores públicos responsáveis por infrações financeiras no exercício do cargo.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.Calculations from the Center for Global Development say spending next year is likely to be £410m less than anticipated The UK is on course to miss its target of spending 0.3% of national income on international aid by an estimated £400m by the end of
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Bulgarians are voting in presidential elections amid security concerns over attacks on ships in the Black Sea.
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One of the most common things I see mentioned on this and other subreddits when people are asked what they are most looking forward to AI achieving, is, as you'd expect, medical advancements - but one condition pops up so frequently that I couldn't help
Hello, I'm developing CrowdGPT, a project aiming to create an LLM without datacenters and without the usual millions of dollars spent by AI companies.
Vote comes as Israel is embroiled in multiple wars, faces international criticism and grapples with domestic divisions.
International leaders and politicians congratulate the Brazilian president on his re-election.
Around one-fifth of development aid is spent on climate-related projects.
Israeli media report Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and military chief Eyal Zamir are at odds over Iran.
Travellers entering Uganda after visiting DR Congo will face a 21-day quarantine, the country's health minister announced on Sunday.
The deputy secretary-general of UN's ICT agency says unequal access to AI means poorer nations may be left behind.
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