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Members of the minority Hindu community hold a protest against violence on minority community in the country, outside Jamuna State Guest House, where Bangladesh interim govt chief Muhammad Yunus is residing, in Dhaka. | Photo Credit: ANI Bangladesh’s newly-appointed Home Affairs Ministry adviser has vowed to take swift legal action against those who attack or…
On the campaign trail in rural Thailand last year, Paetongtarn Shinawatra reminded voters of her influential billionaire family’s legacy of populism in what was her electoral debut. The 37-year-old, who spent weeks at the hustings while visibly pregnant, delivered mixed results. Her Pheu Thai party came only in second in 2023’s election but cobbled together…
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Earlier this week, the owner of CrowdTangle, Meta, shut the tool down. Sydney: For more than a decade, researchers and journalists have relied on a digital tool called CrowdTangle to track and fight the spread of viral falsehoods online. But earlier this week, the owner of CrowdTangle, Meta, shut the tool down. The tech giant…
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People bury the body of a Palestinian killed in an Israeli raid, on a cemetery where displaced Palestinians shelter as Gaza health ministry announced that death toll has surpassed 40,000, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Tiers of graves are stacked deep…
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The Hindu was able to generate political deepfakes while using the enhanced Grok model [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS The AI chatbot Grok on Elon Musk-owned social media platform X is being used to generate graphic, explicit, fake, or illegal media soon after its image-generation capabilities were announced, claimed general users and journalists. Just by…
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech to the displaced residents from the flood-hit areas, on their arrival in Pyongyang, North Korea on Aug. 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed a pledge to deepen cooperation with Russia in a message to President Vladimir Putin as Pyongyang…
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Parents said they hurried the marriage of their daughters to save them from poverty. Dadu, Pakistan: As monsoon rains were about to break over Pakistan, 14-year-old Shamila and her 13-year-old sister Amina were married off in exchange for money, a decision their parents made to help the family survive the threat of floods. “I was…
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TikTok, which has sued to overturn the law, said the Justice Department has made factual errors in the case [File] | Photo Credit: AP TikTok told a federal appeals court on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice has mis-stated the social media app’s ties to China, urging the court to overturn a law requiring…
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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump National Golf Club, on August 15, 2024, in Bedminster, New Jersey | Photo Credit: AP Republican Presidential candidate former president Donald Trump said he is “very angry” at Vice President Kamala Harris and is entitled to personal attack on his Democratic…
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The study says that an asteroid led to a global winter, wiping out the dinosaurs (representational). Washington: An intense debate surrounding the cosmic rock that killed the dinosaurs has stirred scientists for decades, but a new study has revealed some important — and far-out — data about the impactor’s origin story. Researchers, whose findings were…
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