Author: Aidan
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Italian Premier Meloni says curbing migrant arrivals from Africa is about investment, not charity
Italy outlined its proposed strategy in Africa in the so-called Mattei Plan – named after Enrico Mattei, founder of state-controlled oil and gas giant Eni — which aims at expanding cooperation beyond energy. Meloni said the plan includes specific projects, but stopped short of providing details, adding they will be unveiled in the coming weeks.…
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Family of key case in New York Times October 7 sexual violence report renounces story, says reporters manipulated them
On December 28, the New York Times published an “investigative” report on gender-based violence allegedly committed by Palestinians during the October 7 attack. The newspaper says the story was based on over 150 interviews conducted by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jeffrey Gettleman, along with Anat Schwartz and Adam Sella. The story concludes that Hamas fighters engaged in systematic rape and…
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Somalia calls Ethiopia-Somaliland agreement act of aggression
Somalia has described an agreement that landlocked Ethiopia made with the self-declared republic of Somaliland over sea access as an act of “aggression”. Somaliland seceded from Somalia more than 30 years ago, but is not recognised internationally. It said that Ethiopia agreed to recognise its independence at some point in the future in exchange for…
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Sierra Leone charges ex-President Koroma with treason over failed coup
Sierra Leone’s ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma has been charged with four offences including treason for his alleged role in a failed military attempt to topple the West African country’s government in November, a court in the capital Freetown has said. The court’s decision on Wednesday could escalate tensions in the country coming after the attempted coup and…
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ChatGPT incorrectly diagnosed more than 8 in 10 pediatric case studies, research finds
The popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT had a diagnostic error rate of more than 80 percent in a new study looking at the use of artificial intelligence in pediatric case diagnosis. For the study published in JAMA Pediatrics this week, texts from 100 case challenges found in JAMA and the New England Journal of…
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Unsealed documents name associates of Jeffrey Epstein but offer few revelations
Epstein, a registered sex offender who killed himself in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges, was accused by prosecutors and dozens of women of having operated a yearslong sex-trafficking ring in which he sexually abused underage girls. All of the men associated with Epstein have denied participating in his…
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Argentina court suspends Milei labor reforms
The CGT trade union body had challenged the changes, which technically took effect last Friday, on grounds that they erode basic worker protections such as the right to strike and parental leave. Judges of Argentina’s labor appeals chamber froze elements of Milei’s decree which, among other things, increased the legal job probation period from three…
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Iran Says At Least 103 People Killed, 211 Wounded In Blasts At Ceremony Honoring Slain General
Two bombs exploded and killed at least 103 people Wednesday at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Iranian officials said, as the Middle East remains on edge over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. No one immediately claimed responsibility for what appeared to be the…