Just before 3am one night this month, Scott Slumpff was awakened by the ding of a text message. "An ALERTCalifornia anomaly has been confirmed in your area of interest," the message said. Slumpff, a battalion chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, sprang into action. The message meant the agency's new artificial intelligence system...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada shared evidence that Indian government agents were potentially involved in the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia with New Delhi weeks ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday. "Canada has shared the credible allegations that I talked about on Monday with India. We did that many weeks ago,"...
GORONTALO, Indonesia (AFP): Protesters have set fire to a mayor's office on an Indonesian island to demand compensation over a mining company's activity in their area, police said, adding that several arrests had been made. The growing presence of mining companies on Indonesia's main islands has caused riots and clashes in recent years over poor working...
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said he does not care about allegations of "sportswashing" against the kingdom and that he will continue funding sport if it adds to the country's gross domestic product (GDP). The allegation of "sportswashing" is levelled at countries perceived to be using sport to improve their tarnished image...
PETALING JAYA: Malaysian entrepreneur and engineer Datuk Dr Dennis Ganendra (pic) has been awarded the prestigious British Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) International Fellowship. This fellowship is the highest honour bestowed by the RAE and recognises Ganendra’s contributions to engineering, including his commitment to and continuing high deliverables in innovation, infrastructure projects, policy and academic advancement. Ganendra...
Elon Musk’s satellite Internet service is heading deeper into one of the world’s oldest and vast economic frontiers: the high seas. Hapag-Lloyd AG, the biggest container shipping line based in Germany, said Thursday it will install SpaceX’s Starlink service aboard the ships it owns and manages after a pilot program involving four vessels proved successful. Charters...
(Reuters) - A close aide to Jair Bolsonaro told police the former Brazilian president and senior military officers met last year to discuss a military intervention to overturn the result of the election after he lost, newspaper O Globo and news website UOL reported on Thursday. Bolsonaro's former aide, Mauro Cid, agreed this month to cooperate...
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has asked his government to fast track the withdrawal of a United Nations peacekeeping mission to ensure it begins at the end of the year, he said at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday. The mission, called MONUSCO, took over from an earlier U.N. operation in...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. will grant temporary deportation relief and access to work permits to nearly half a million Venezuelans already in the country, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, a move that follows calls by Democrats to help newly arrived migrants work legally. About 472,000 Venezuelans in the U.S. on or before July 31 now will...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -It was to be Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy's first in- person appearance at a U.N. Security Council meeting on Moscow's invasion of his country when Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia objected to him taking the floor at the start of the meeting. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, serving as president of the tense session,...
