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According to the report, the two were executed in the western city of Taif. (Representational) Riyadh: Saudi Arabia executed two soldiers, including a pilot, on Thursday after they were convicted of “military treason”, the defence ministry said, without providing further detail on the charges. The defence ministry, quoted by the state news agency SPA, named…
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Ukraine urged its people to leave Kherson follwoing Russian offensive in the city. Kyiv: Ukrainian officials Thursday ordered the evacuation of civilians from the southern Kherson region, partly controlled by Russian forces and regularly hit by shelling. “The Regional Defence Counsel of Kherson decided to compulsorily evacuate families with children from areas subject to constant…
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Another 14 charges of a similar nature were considered for his sentencing. (Representational) Singapore: A 35-year-old Indian origin officer with Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower was jailed for five weeks on Thursday for having asked an ex-colleague from DBS Bank to access the salary information of his colleagues, according to a media report. Dinath Silvamany Muthaliyar,…
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The researchers highlighted that all the models made mistakes. (Representational) Paris, France: The AI models that power chatbots and other applications still have difficulty distinguishing between nonsense and natural language, according to a study released on Thursday. The researchers at Columbia University in the United States said their work revealed the limitations of current AI…
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September 14, 2023 11:59 pm | Updated September 15, 2023 12:25 am IST – WASHINGTON U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was indicted on Thursday for illegally buying a gun five years ago at a time when he admits he was using drugs…
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Google illegally took steps to protect communications about the payments, said US. (Representational) Washington, United States: The Justice Department pressed its argument on Thursday that Google sought to strike agreements with mobile carriers to win powerful default positions on smartphones to dominate search in an antitrust trial that could change the future of the internet….
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Mohamed Muizzu, Maldives presidential candidate of the opposition party, People’s National Congress, casts his vote at a polling station during the Maldives presidential election day in Male, Maldives, on September 09, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Maldives stands at a geopolitical crossroads ahead of its presidential runoff vote with the frontrunner, a former construction…
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A protester holds a poster with an image of detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a candlelight vigil to honour those who have died during demonstrations against the military coup in Yangon on March 13, 2021. | Photo Credit: AFP Myanmar’s junta is endangering the life of jailed democracy figurehead Aung San Suu…
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Adilur Rahman Khan, a leader of the Odhikar organisation, looks on from a police vehicle, outside a court in Dhaka on September 14, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP A Bangladesh court on Thursday sentenced two leading human rights activists to two years each in jail, after a trial critics say is part of a government…
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A view shows people inspecting the damaged areas, in the aftermath of the floods in Derna, Libya September 14, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters The United Nations said Thursday that most of the thousands of deaths in Libya’s flood disaster could have been averted if early warning and emergency management systems had functioned properly. With…
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