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The IMF urged the Maldives to urgently raise revenue, cut spending and reduce external borrowing to avoid a major economic crisis. File | Photo Credit: AP The International Monetary Fund warned the Maldives against looming “debt distress” on Monday, as the small but strategically placed luxury tourist destination looks set to borrow more from main…
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According to the UN, at least 190 Palestinian UN employees have been killed since Gaza war. United Nations: A UN security services member was killed in an attack on a vehicle in Gaza on Monday, a spokesperson said, adding the death was the first international UN employee killed in the Palestinian territory since the war…
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US said that Israel must do more to protect Palestinian civilians. Washington: The United States does not believe that genocide is occurring in Gaza but Israel must do more to protect Palestinian civilians, President Joe Biden’s top national security official said Monday. As ceasefire talks stall and Israel continued striking the southern city of Rafah,…
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TII is a research centre within Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council. (Representational) A government research institute in the United Arab Emirates on Monday released a new open source GenAI model, which could rival the ones from big technology companies. Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII) said it was releasing the Falcon 2 series: Falcon…
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Kuandyk Bishimbayev, 44, was found guilty of torture and murder by the court. A former economy minister of Kazakhstan was sentenced to 24 years in prison on Monday for murdering his wife following a widely watched trial that some saw as a litmus test of the president’s promise to strengthen women’s rights. Kuandyk Bishimbayev, 44,…
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Maryland estimates it will cost $1.7 billion to $1.9 billion to rebuild the bridge (File) US crews in Baltimore plan to set off controlled explosions on Monday to allow them to remove a portion of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the bow of the massive container ship that toppled the span in March….
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OpenAI is under pressure to expand the user base of ChatGPT (Representational) ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Monday it would release a new AI model called GPT-4o, which reasons across voice, text and vision. OpenAI’s chief technology officer, Mira Murati, said during a livestream event that the new GPT-4o model would be offered for free…
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The EU has already named six market “gatekeepers” that have to comply with the DMA The European Union on Monday added Dutch online travel giant Booking.com to its list of digital companies that are big enough to fall under tougher competition rules. Brussels also said it would investigate whether social media platform X, owned by…
The exodus of Palestinians from Gaza’s last refuge accelerated on May 12 as Israeli forces pushed deeper into the southern city of Rafah. Israel also pounded the territory’s devastated north, where some Hamas militants have regrouped in areas the military said it had cleared months ago. Rafah is considered Hamas’ last stronghold. Some 3,00,000 of…
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A resident from Vovchansk who fled due to Russian shelling, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, arrive in evacuation centre in Kharkiv, Ukraine on May 13, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia pounded over 30 villages and towns in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region after launching a ground offensive in the border region, forcing almost 6,000 to…
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