Israel has missed US deadline to boost Gaza aid, UN agency says
Jon Donnison
The main UN aid agency in Gaza says Israel has failed to meet a US deadline to boost aid to the territory or risk a reduction in American military aid.
Last month, in a strongly worded letter, the US secretary of state gave Israel an ultimatum of 30 days to ensure more aid trucks reached Gaza daily. The deadline expires on Tuesday.
The amount of aid getting into Gaza is at its lowest level in a year, the UN says. A UN-backed report recently warned that there was an imminent likelihood of famine in northern Gaza, where hardly any aid has entered in the past month.
Moscow doctor accused by patient of criticising war is jailed for five years
Ukraine-born Nadezhda Buyanova was accused of referring to young patient’s late soldier father as ‘legitimate target’
A Russian court has sentenced an elderly Moscow paediatrician to five and a half years in prison after the mother of one of her patients publicly denounced her for comments she allegedly made about Russian soldiers in Ukraine during a private consultation.
Nadezhda Buyanova, 68, was accused in January by the ex-wife of a soldier killed in Ukraine of referring to her child’s father as a “legitimate target of Ukraine” and saying Russia was “guilty” in the ongoing war.
Buyanova was imprisoned on charges of “disseminating false information” about Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine. Since the start of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow has used a hastily adopted law against spreading “fake” information widely to silence dissent.
India: Shutdown in Manipur after security forces kill 10
Authorities said 10 "armed militants" were killed after attempting to attack a police post. State ethnic organizations contested the police version saying that those killed were local village volunteers on patrol.
Life came to a standstill in parts of Manipur state in India's northeast on Tuesday, and schools and businesses remained closed after ten armed men were killed in a gunfight with security forces a day before.
The district administration imposed prohibitory orders on Tuesday to maintain law and order, while local ethnic organizations called for an 11-hour "total shutdown" in protest against Monday's killings.
Roads in the region remained empty as people stayed indoors.
Controversy erupts over plans to roll out the red carpet for Israel's far right at Paris gala
Controversy has erupted in France over plans for a lavish VIP gala in Paris sponsored by Israel is Forever, an association of staunchly pro-Zionist groups.
At €260 a head, the evening celebrating “the power and history of Israel” – the location of which has not yet been disclosed – has already drawn vocal opposition from French human rights groups, unions and leftist politicians.
“Holding this gala in the French capital would constitute an insult to international law and contempt for the UN and for the orders issued by the highest international court,” seven civil rights group wrote in an open letter last week, referencing International Court of Justice rulings that included calling on Israel to prevent acts of “genocide” in Gaza.
From conception to implementation, AI isn’t neutral
Looking inside AI’s black box
AI doesn’t just pose the technological challenge of creating ever more sophisticated models to do our bidding. There are profound political choices, too, that shouldn’t be left to Silicon Valley.
by Victor Chaix, Auguste Lehuger & Zako Sapey-Triomphe
In November 2023 OpenAI, the company best known for ChatGPT, its flagship large-language model, was the site of a bizarre boardroom battle. The board, led by Ilya Sutskever, a computer scientist and OpenAI co-founder, ousted CEO Sam Altman. Altman, who is also a computer scientist and co-founder of the company, eventually regained his position, but the episode revealed an internal divide between two ideologies that may appear opposed on the surface but turn out to be not that dissimilar: effective altruism and effective accelerationism. Advocates of the former at OpenAI tried – and failed – to remove the latter’s leaders, fearing they might bring about the end of humanity.
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