ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia has appointed the head of the country's air force, Lt. Gen. Yilma Merdassa, chairperson of the Ethiopian Airlines Management Board, the company announced on Monday.
UNITED NATIONS HQ NEW YORK — Alarm over AI advancements must not obscure the "grave" harm already being done by digital platforms rife with misinformation, U.N. chief Antonio Guterres said Monday, as he proposed an international code of conduct.
BRUSSELS — The 27 E.U. member states on Monday backed plans that could force companies like Uber and Deliveroo to treat workers as employees in a potential radical overhaul of the gig economy's business model.
JOHANNESBURG — Zarza, a much-loved Staffordshire terrier, ended up at a South African animal hospital with a bite from a Mozambique spitting cobra on her snout. The snake's powerful venom can stop breathing, but normally the bites are treatable with an antidote that's now scarce.
GENEVA — The world's nine nuclear-armed states jointly spent $82.9 billion on their arsenals last year, with the United States accounting for more than half of that, according to a new report from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
GENEVA — Switzerland's federal administration was under cyberattack on Monday, blocking access to the websites of several authorities and state-linked companies, the finance ministry said.
PARIS — The United States plans to rejoin UNESCO from July this year, ending a lengthy dispute that saw Washington end its membership in 2018, the U.N. cultural agency announced on Monday.
BUNIA, DRC — At least 46 people, half of them children, were killed in a militia attack on a camp for displaced people in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where civilians are suffering increasing violence.
LAGOS — Nigeria's new president Bola Tinubu on Monday urged Nigerians to accept more sacrifice in return for later investments after his government ended a long-standing fuel subsidy in a measure that has spiked petrol, transport and food prices.
PARIS - Music streaming app Deezer says it was launching a tool to detect and tag songs with AI-generated vocal clones in a bid to protect the revenues of the real artists.
NAIROBI - Along a polluted riverside, smoking charred oil drums in Mathare are cooking up chang'aa, a potent liquor that's both a scourge and a lifeline.
BERLIN - Inge Auerbacher fears for a future when Holocaust survivors like her can no longer bear witness. But advances in virtual reality (VR) and AI give her hope their stories will live on.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of alcoholic beverage "Jack Daniel's" against the maker of a chew toy for dogs that resembles the whiskey manufacturer's iconic bottle.
WASHINGTON — Google announced on June 8 that the United States this summer will join about 20 other countries where top publishers will provide content to be curated and featured on the News Showcase platform. The search engine does not reveal how much it pays the news companies for their content.
MAROPENG, SOUTH AFRICA — The South Africa-based, U.S.-born explorer Lee Berger has turned the study of ancient life upside down, discovering two new species of hominid in less than two decades — hit findings that earned him fame and envy.
PARIS — Faith Kipyegon of Kenya set a second world record in seven days when she raced to victory in the women's 5,000m at the Diamond League meeting in Paris on Friday.
BANGUI — The United Nations will repatriate a Tanzanian unit of its peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic after allegations of exploitation and sexual assault, the force said on Friday.
LONDON — Former professional footballers are almost three-and-a-half times more likely to be diagnosed with dementia than the general population, according to a study commissioned by the English Football Association (FA) and Professional Footballers' Association (PFA).
WASHINGTON — Northeastern United States residents were breathing more easily Friday as smoke from Canadian fires gradually cleared after blanketing several cities in a noxious haze this week.
DAKAR — Mali's sole passenger train service, linking the capital Bamako with the west of the country, resumed commercial operations on Friday after a five-year break, the transport ministry said.
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