Government gestures to calm deadly protests in Indonesia have done little to address the economic inequality and hardship fuelling the unrest, leaving deep resentment to linger and flare up again, experts say. The country’s worst violence in decades left at least six people dead and 20 missing, with rallies over lavish perks for lawmakers descending […]
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An olive-green North Korean train, emblazoned with a gold stripe, carried leader Kim Jong Un into China on Tuesday for a grand military parade that President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin will also attend. Since taking power in 2011, Kim has now made nine international trips and crossed the border into South Korea twice, […]
Read MoreCrispy banh mi baguettes, grand colonial facades, and chattering Francophone schoolchildren are lingering reminders of the French presence that once dominated Vietnam. But there are darker legacies too — in the notorious prisons that enforced foreign rule, and memorials to those slain fighting for independence. As Vietnam marked the 80th anniversary of the declaration of […]
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Around 2,000 North Korean soldiers deployed to help Russia fight Ukraine are estimated to have been killed, Seoul’s spy agency said Tuesday, according to a lawmaker. Seoul’s National Intelligence Service said in April “the number of war dead was at least 600. But based on updated assessments, it now estimates the figure at around 2,000,” lawmaker […]
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At least 20 people are missing after violent Indonesia protests sparked by lavish perks for lawmakers that have widened to include anger against police, a rights group said Tuesday. At least six people have been killed since protests rocked Southeast Asia’s biggest economy last week, intensified by footage spreading of the killing of a young […]
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Die Anzahl der im Homeoffice arbeitenden Beschäftigten bleibt in Deutschland weitestgehend konstant. Im August arbeiteten 24,4 Prozent der Beschäftigten zumindest teilweise von zu Hause, wie das Münchner Ifo-Institut am Dienstag unter Berufung auf seine jüngste Konjunkturprognose mitteilte. “Ein Trend zur Rückkehr ins Büro ist nicht erkennbar”, erklärte Ifo-Forscher Jean-Victor Alipour. “Prominente Beispiele einzelner Unternehmen, die […]
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Australia said Tuesday it will oblige tech giants to prevent online tools being used to create AI-generated nude images or stalk people without detection. The government will work with industry on developing new legislation against the “abhorrent technologies”, it said in a statement, without providing a timeline.”There is no place for apps and technologies that […]
Read MoreThe potential abuse of consumer AI tools is raising concerns, with budding cybercriminals apparently able to trick coding chatbots into giving them a leg-up in producing malicious programmes. So-called “vibe hacking” — a twist on the more positive “vibe coding” that generative AI tools supposedly enable those without extensive expertise to achieve — marks “a […]
Read MoreRescuers desperately searched Tuesday for survivors in the rubble of homes flattened by an earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan, killing more than 800 people. The 6.0-magnitude earthquake, followed by at least five aftershocks, hit remote areas in mountainous provinces near the border with Pakistan around midnight Sunday. The head of the Kunar Provincial Disaster Management […]
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