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G7 should adopt 'risk-based' AI regulation, ministers say

Group of Seven advanced nations should adopt “risk-based” regulation on artificial intelligence, their digital ministers agreed on Sunday, as European lawmakers hurry to introduce an AI Act to enforce rules on emerging tools such as ChatGPT.

April 30, 2023 4:35 pm
 

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Twitter accounts for Indian news outlets ANI, NDTV restored after suspension

Twitter accounts of Indian broadcaster NDTV and the country’s ANI news agency were restored on Saturday after both said earlier in the day that their main Twitter accounts had been locked, without specifying a reason for the suspensions.

April 30, 2023 1:47 pm
 

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Fighting rages in Khartoum, but envoy sees sides more open to talks

Air strikes and artillery rocked Khartoum on Saturday as Sudan entered a third week of fighting between rival military forces despite a ceasefire, prompting more civilians to flee and renewed warnings of wider instability if the war is not stopped.

April 30, 2023 11:00 am
 

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Russia's Wagner group could soon cease to exist, founder tells blogger

Russia’s private Wagner militia, which is leading the assault on Bakhmut in Ukraine and has been active in Africa, could soon cease to exist, founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said in video remarks to a blogger that were released on Friday.

April 30, 2023 10:12 am
 

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Russia blames Ukraine drone attack for major Crimea fuel depot fire

A Ukrainian drone strike set ablaze a Russian fuel storage facility in the Crimean port of Sevastopol early on Saturday, sending a vast column of black smoke into the sky in the latest attack on the Russia-occupied peninsula.

April 30, 2023 10:05 am
 

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Zelenskiy says he would have fought to the death had Russians attacked his headquarters

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy carries a pistol and would have fought to the death with his inner circle had the Russians stormed his Kyiv headquarters at the start of the war, he said in an interview shown on Saturday.

April 30, 2023 8:00 am
 

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Montana governor signs bill banning transgender medical care for youths

Montana’s governor on Friday enacted a Republican-backed ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender children, days after a transgender lawmaker protesting the bill was barred from the floor of the state legislature, sparking a national furor.

April 29, 2023 4:47 pm
 

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China lodges serious representations with South Korea over joint statement with U.S.

China expressed “strong dissatisfaction” to South Korea over its joint statement with the United States about the need for peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, a foreign ministry statement said on Friday.

April 28, 2023 4:54 pm
 

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Security Council condemns Taliban ban on Afghan women working for UN

The U.N. Security Council unanimously condemned on Thursday a Taliban administration ban on Afghan women working for the United Nations in Afghanistan and called on Taliban leaders to “swiftly reverse” a crackdown on the rights of women and girls.

April 28, 2023 3:07 pm
 

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Iran seizes oil tanker in Gulf, U.S. Navy says

Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman in international waters, the U.S. Navy said, the latest in a series of seizures or attacks on commercial vessels in sensitive Gulf waters since 2019.

April 28, 2023 2:49 pm
 

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Sudan's factions say they agree to extend truce but fighting goes on

Sudan’s two warring factions said they would prolong a ceasefire agreement by 72 hours, but violence again rocked the capital Khartoum and the western region of Darfur as the U.S. said ceasefire violations were worrying.

April 28, 2023 2:04 pm
 

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Former US Vice President Pence appears before grand jury probing Trump

Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence appeared before a grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.

April 28, 2023 1:01 pm

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