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BEIJING (AP) — Beijing responded Wednesday to complaints from the United States a couple of Chinese fighter jet’s harmful interception of an American Air Force reconnaissance plane in worldwide airspace over the South China Sea by demanding an finish to such flights. ...

China's Communist Party has warned concerning the potential dangers of AI, a day after specialists mentioned it posed an identical danger as nuclear warfare and pandemics.A gathering headed by President Xi Jinping referred to as for "dedicated efforts to safeguard political security and improve the security governance of internet data and artificial intelligence", the Xinhua News Agency reported. With synthetic intelligence advancing quickly, the president urged officers to be "keenly aware of the complicated and challenging circumstances facing national security".President Xi mentioned China wanted a "new pattern of development with a new security architecture", in response to Xinhua - apparently reflecting issues that AI may very well be harnessed for sabotage and spying.Th...

QAMISHLI, Syria — For a minimum of 4 years, 1000's of youngsters have been rising up in a camp in northeast Syria housing households of Islamic State group militants, raised in an environment the place the group’s radical ideology nonetheless circulates and the place they've virtually no probability for an training. ...

NATO-led peacekeeping troops have put up steel fences and barbed wire boundaries in a northern city in Kosovo after clashes with ethnic Serbs left 30 worldwide troopers injured.The boundaries have been erected after a whole bunch of ethnic Serbs began gathering in entrance of town corridor in Zvecan, a northern Kosovo city 28 miles north of the capital Pristina. NATO has determined to ship 700 extra troops to northern Kosovo to assist quell violent protests after the clashes on Monday.Violence initially broke out within the north of the nation over the weekend after ethnic Albanian mayors have been put in in Serbian-dominated areas.They have been elected in a vote overwhelmingly boycotted by Serbs. Some within the nation have since made repeated efforts to take over the workp...

JOHANNESBURG — The Russian and Chinese overseas ministers are anticipated to satisfy with their counterparts from the BRICS financial bloc in Cape Town on Thursday, a precursor to a bigger summit of creating nations’ leaders in South Africa in August that Russian President Vladimir Putin might attend whereas below indictment by the International Criminal Court. ...

Russia's Vladimir Putin has mentioned Ukraine is making an attempt to scare and provoke Moscow after it blamed it for a drone assault within the capital.Officials mentioned minor harm was prompted to a number of buildings and two folks have been injured in Tuesday's incident. Ukraine has denied it was accountable.Russia's defence ministry mentioned eight drones have been concerned within the "terrorist" motion and that every one have been shot down - with three diverted because of "electronic warfare".President Putin, talking on TV, claimed the assault was aimed as "civilian targets" and promised to enhance air defences, which he mentioned had labored effectively. Ukraine struggle newest: Moscow hit by drone assault - concern for West if Kyiv accountableTwo folks sustained mi...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A pair of U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers flew low over Sarajevo and a number of other different Bosnian cities on Tuesday as an indication of help amid continued secessionist threats by the staunchly pro-Russia Bosnian Serb chief Milorad Dodik. ...

NATO will deploy an additional 700 troops to Kosovo amid rising tensions with ethnic Serbs.An further battalion of reserve forces have additionally been placed on excessive alert to be deployed if wanted, NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg has stated. He stated assaults in Kosovo "must stop".Mr Stoltenberg warned that NATO troops "will take all necessary actions to maintain a safe and secure environment for all citizens in Kosovo".He urged each side to take steps to de-escalate, chorus from "further irresponsible behaviour", and to return to EU-backed talks on bettering relations. On Monday, 30 NATO troopers have been harm in clashes with ethnic Serbs, in addition to some 50 protesters.Explainer: Why have tensions flared up between Serbia and Kosovo? Kosovo is a form...

OSLO, Norway — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned Tuesday the “time is now” for Turkey to drop its objections to Sweden becoming a member of NATO however mentioned the Biden administration additionally believed that Turkey must be supplied with upgraded F-16 fighters “as soon as possible.” ...

We are standing on the large deck of the Geo Barents rescue ship, the place tons of of persons are ready to start out a brand new life. The boat docked in Bari at breakfast time, pulling into the port accompanied by a police boat on one facet and a coastguard vessel on the opposite. And about an hour later, individuals began disembarking. The first have been the very younger, the sick and the injured. Then the remainder of the kids have been led down.All of them got a temperature check on the backside of the gangway; some have been then put within the massive water paper fits that all of us keep in mind from COVID. Everyone was introduced with flip-flops and footwear by the Italian Red Cross.But this disembarkation course of is, unsurprisingly, sluggish and laborious. The Ita...