PARIS: Tens of thousands demonstrated in major French cities Saturday against violence targeting women, as campaigners push for the country to learn from a mass rape trial that has shocked the public. The prosecution in the southern city Avignon is in its final stages for 51 men, including one who
PARIS: Publishing giants and generative artificial intelligence companies are striking deals that aim to both protect copyright and provide for the rapidly increasing needs of the AI industry. US publishing giant HarperCollins has reached a contract with an unnamed tech company allowing it to use some of its books to
SIEM REAP (Cambodia): Survivors and sniffing dogs joined hundreds of people at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat on Sunday for a march against landmines after the US decision to send anti-personnel mines to Ukraine. Participants, including landmine victims and deminers, repeatedly chanted for “a mine-free world” during the four-kilometre (2.5-mile) walk around
LAS VEGAS (United States): Max Verstappen secured his fourth consecutive Formula One World Championship at the Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday, finishing fifth in a race won by Mercedes’ George Russell. At 27, Verstappen became just the sixth driver in F1 history to win four championships, joining an elite
ODESA (Ukraine): The Kremlin accused US President Joe Biden on Monday of escalating the 1,000-day-old war in Ukraine, promising a “palpable” response to any use of US long-range missiles by Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia. Biden, who in January hands over the White House to Donald Trump, a sceptic
RIO de Janeiro: G20 leaders failed on Monday to break a deadlock in UN climate talks at a summit in Rio that was dominated by divergences over the war in Ukraine and Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House. Ahead of the meeting, the UN had implored the leaders
WELLINGTON: Booming Indigenous Maori “haka” chants rang out across New Zealand’s capital on Tuesday, as tens of thousands rallied against a conservative push to redefine the nation’s founding treaty. More than 35,000 demonstrators poured into the harbourside city of Wellington, police said, shutting down busy streets as their spirited procession
HONG KONG: A Hong Kong court on Tuesday jailed all 45 defendants convicted in the city’s largest trial under its sweeping national security law, with “mastermind” Benny Tai receiving the longest term of 10 years. International condemnation was swift, with the United States, Australia and rights groups slamming the sentencing
RIO DE JANEIRO: G20 leaders gather in Brazil on Monday to discuss fighting poverty, boosting climate financing and other multilateral initiatives that could yet be upended by Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House. US President Joe Biden will attend his last summit of the world’s leading economies, but
ROVANIEMI (Finland): Finland is hosting its first large-scale NATO artillery exercise since the Nordic nation joined the military alliance last year, with live fire drills starting on Sunday. The exercise conducted in the northern Lapland region in November is part of Dynamic Front 25, the largest NATO artillery exercise ever
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