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  • Global warming to hit Norway?

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    Icy Arctic islands north of Norway are warming faster than almost anywhere on Earth and more avalanches, rain and mud may cause “devastating” changes by 2100, a Norwegian report said. Norway is a Nordic country in North-western Europe whose territory comprises the western and northernmost portion of…

  • UK to fight Eurotunnel case

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    The government plans to pay a law firm £800,000 ($ 1,040,000) for advice in case Eurotunnel decides to sue over the effects of Brexit on its business. The Channel Tunnel is a 50.45-kilometre (31.35 mi) rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom, with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France, beneath…

  • China’s AI use spooks expert

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    Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian computer scientist who helped pioneer the techniques underpinning much of the current excitement around artificial intelligence, is worried about China’s use of AI for surveillance and political control. Artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence displayed by humans and…

  • China writes off Cameroon debt

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    China has written off $78 million from Cameroon’s debt after it failed to repay part of the debt in 2018. The relief comes as a measure to ease economic hardship in central African nation. From 2000 to 2017, the Chinese government, banks and contractors extended US $143 billion in loans to African governments…

  • Not withdrawing US troops from South Korea: Trump

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    US President Donald Trump has no plans to pull out US troops from South Korea, amid speculation that he could offer a drawdown to North Korea in exchange for the progress on denuclearisation. The United States has maintained Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine personnel in South Korea..

  • May’s new Brexit strategy?

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    British Prime Minister Theresa May said she would be “armed with a fresh mandate and new ideas” when she next meets European Union negotiators over her Brexit deal. May has suffered a string of consequential failures over the past few months and will be looking to fight back after a recent impasse with the British…

  • Budget sops before Elections

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    The Narendra Modi-led government unveiled a budget tailored for an election year with tax breaks, relief for small business and unorganised sectors and a promise to build the infrastructure for a $10 Trillion economy. The Union Budget of India, also referred to as the Annual Financial Statement in the Article 112 of the Constitution of…

  • Central African Republic agrees to a peace deal

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    A peace deal between the government of the Central African Republic (CAR) and 14 rebel groups has been struck after talks in Sudan, officials say. The Central African Republic, which got independence from France in 1960, has always been plagued by violence. The francophone…

  • Pope Francis visits UAE

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    His Holiness Pope Francis, the head of Catholic Church visited United Arab Emirates on his 27th Apostolic Journey. He is the first pontiff to visit the Arabian Peninsula – the birth place of Islam. There are 4 million Christians in the Middle East. The proportion of Christians in the Middle East has fallen to about…

  • Japan to hack its citizens

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    Ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020, Japanese government approved an amendment that will permit the government to hack devices owned by its citizens as a measure to secure the Internet of Things (IoT). Japan is taking measure to secure Internet of Things, taking into account the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics cyber…