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06-05-2023 KYIV: Ukraine’s air force has shot down one of its own drones which it says had lost control above central Kyiv. There were explosions for around 15 to 20 minutes on Thursday evening as air defence attempted to shoot it down in an area near the president’s office. Ukraine …

06-05-2023 WASHINGTON: CEOs of top artificial intelligence companies, including Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft, met with President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday to discuss risks and safeguards associated with the technology, which is catching the attention of governments and lawmakers worldwide. Generative artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, has …

06-05-2023 OTTAWA: China has accused Canada of “slander and defamation” after it said Beijing targeted a member of its parliament and his family. On Friday, China said the allegation that it attempted to intimidate Conservative MP Michael Chong over his anti-China stance was “nonsense”. Chong, 51, previously accused China of …

06-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: On the eve of King Charles’s coronation, Indigenous leaders from around the globe have called on the British monarch to apologize and make amends for what they call ‘genocide’. A joint letter published on Friday by 12 Indigenous advocacy groups in former British colonies …

06-05-2023 ANKARA: A fight broke out between the Russian representative and the Ukrainian representative at the 30th parliamentary summit of the Parliamentary Assembly for Economic Cooperation in the Black Sea Region. As confirmed by sources to the “TASS” agency, a member of the Ukrainian delegation taking part in the meeting …

06-05-2023 BELGRADE: At least eight people have been killed, and 14 are wounded after a gunman in a moving car opened fire on passersby in a town south of Belgrade, the second mass shooting in a week in Serbia, where such tragedies are rare. The drive-by attack late on Thursday …

06-05-2023 DAVIS: A 21-year-old ‘White Terrorist’ who is the former University of California (UC), Davis student has been arrested in connection with a series of stabbings that occurred near the campus, leaving two people dead and one critically injured. The community has been left in shock and fear following the …

05-05-2023 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KURRAM AGENCY/ PARACHINAR: Gunmen have stormed a school in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, martyring several Shia teachers and gunning down another teacher from the school in a separate attack, according to officials. In Kurram, a district in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders …

05-05-2023 NEW YORK: The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an illness that kills thousands of Americans each year. The vaccine still needs approval from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before it can be rolled out to the public. …

05-05-2023 NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s generals say they have pardoned more than 2,000 political prisoners to mark Wesak, a major Buddhist holiday. The military said 2,153 people jailed for “incitement” would be released on “humanitarian grounds”, Myanmar Now reported on Wednesday, citing a statement signed by Military Council Secretary Lieutenant General Aung …