Democrats scramble to limit damage after Biden’s wobbly debate showing against Trump
Atlanta, US Reuters President Joe Biden’s allies scrambled on Friday to contain the fallout from his faltering performance at the first 2024 US presidential debate after he struggled to stem a barrage of attacks and false claims from his Republican rival Donald Trump. The Biden campaign had hoped that a strong debate would quell concerns […]
Haiti residents cautiously hopeful as first Kenyan police deploy
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Residents in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince expressed cautious hope after a first contingent of Kenyan police officers arrived in the Caribbean country, as part of a long-delayed mission to help police fight armed gangs. A few hundred Kenyan police officers landed in Haiti this week to lead a United Nations-ratified mission set […]
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Iran holds presidential vote with limited choices
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Iranians will vote for a new president on Friday following Ebrahim Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash, choosing from a tightly controlled group of four candidates loyal to the supreme leader, at a time of growing public frustration. While the election is unlikely to bring a major shift in the […]
Sudan faces famine risk in 14 areas, global hunger monitor says
Cairo, Egypt Reuters There is a realistic chance of famine in 14 areas across Sudan if the war that began in April last year escalates, a global monitor said on Thursday, in a sharply worsening hunger crisis that the World Food Programme called the world’s largest. The areas listed by the Integrated Food Security Phase […]
A Vatican Radio territory in north Rome once blamed for electro-smog will become a solar farm
Rome, Italy AP Pope Francis decreed Wednesday that an area of northern Rome, long the source of controversy because of electromagnetic waves emitted by Vatican Radio towers there, will now house a field of solar panels to fuel Vatican City. A view of the antennas of the Vatican Radio, which beams the Pope’s words around […]
Ukraine military says Russian troops pushed out of part of key eastern town
Reuters Ukraine’s military said on Thursday its forces had forced Russian troops out of a district in the town of Chasiv Yar on the war’s eastern front seen as Moscow’s next target in its slow advance through the area. But a Russian report said Moscow’s forces had destroyed a communications tower near the town and […]
A “disaster”: Biden’s shaky start in debate with Trump rattles Democrats
Reuters US President Joe Biden’s supporters had hoped Thursday night’s debate would erase worries that the 81-year-old was too old to serve another term, but his hoarse voice and at times tentative performance against Republican rival Donald Trump did the opposite. Biden and Trump, 78, both have faced concerns about their age and fitness in […]
Biden delivers uneven performance under Trump’s barrage of falsehoods at first debate
Updated: 5:30pm (AEST) Atlanta, US Reuters President Joe Biden delivered a shaky, halting performance while his Republican rival Donald Trump battered him with a series of often false attacks at their debate on Thursday, as the two oldest presidential candidates ever exchanged personal insults ahead of the November election. The two men traded barbs on […]
Vatican conference ponders who really holds the power of AI
Vatican City RNS Experts on artificial intelligence met at the Vatican on Thursday to discuss the implications of this ascendant technology – which Pope Francis hopes to inject with Christian morals and ethics – while calling for international regulation. “What has happened in the past 70 years is that society is guided by software,” said […]