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Month: January 2024

AI is the buzz, the big opportunity and the risk to watch among the Davos glitterati

By KELVIN CHAN and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Artificial intelligence is easily the biggest buzzword for world leaders and corporate bosses diving into big ideas at the World Economic Forum’s glitzy annual meeting in Davos. Breathtaking advances in generative AI stunned the world last year, and the elite crowd is angling

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La estrategia de Trump en Nueva Hampshire: insultos e histrionismo judicial

Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Donald Trump está revelando una estrategia doble para lograr una segunda gran victoria electoral en las primarias de Nueva Hampshire, la próxima semana, que espera ponga fin rápidamente a la carrera por la nominación del Partido Republicano. El expresidente está intensificando sus esfuerzos por utilizar sus problemas legales para dominar la

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Hungary won’t back down and change LGBTQ+ and asylum policies criticized by EU, minister says

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s government will not change policies the European Union believes infringe on LGBTQ+ rights and those of asylum seekers, even if doing so would unfreeze billions in funding the bloc has withheld from Budapest. The EU has frozen funds to Hungary over concerns that its right-wing

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France ramps up weapons production for Ukraine and says Russia is scrutinizing the West’s mettle

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France has announced more deliveries of its Caesar artillery system to Ukraine and is accelerating weapons production to avoid depleting its own military stocks while continuing to support the war effort against Russia’s invasion. France announced a drive on Thursday to fund the delivery of 78 Caesar

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Netanyahu says he told the US that he opposes a Palestinian state in any postwar scenario

By JOSEF FEDERMAN, NAJIB JOBAIN and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected calls from the United States to scale back Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip or take steps toward the establishment of a Palestinian state after the war, drawing an immediate scolding from the White

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Biden visits North Carolina, a state he hopes to win in November, to promote internet access

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden has unveiled $82 million for North Carolina to help connect an additional 16,000 households and businesses to high-speed internet. Biden spoke Thursday in the capital of Raleigh and said his policies are “just getting started” at improving the U.S. economy. Biden’s reelection campaign

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Supreme Court action already upending January 6 rioter sentencings, being looked at by Trump defense

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s recent decision to take a case challenging how the Justice Department prosecutes January 6 rioters has already put on hold several rioters’ sentencings and could affect hundreds more cases — including Donald Trump’s. If the challenge is successful, the Supreme Court could potentially wipe away two

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¿Por qué Irán y Pakistán se atacan mutuamente y qué tiene que ver con la guerra en Medio Oriente?

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza Islamabad, Pakistán (CNN) — Pakistán e Irán han atacado mutuamente sus territorios en una escalada sin precedentes de las hostilidades entre los vecinos, en un momento en que las tensiones han aumentado bruscamente en todo Medio Oriente y más allá. Los dos países comparten una inestable frontera de unos 900 kilómetros, con

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Bid by meatpacker JBS to join New York Stock Exchange faces opposition over Amazon deforestation

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Lawmakers in the United States and the United Kingdom are urging the Securities and Exchange Commission not to allow JBS, the world’s largest meatpacking company, to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Getting listed would give the company access to more capital and enhance

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Texas authorities have begun arresting migrants at a public park near the US-Mexico border, official says

By Rosa Flores, Sara Weisfeldt, Aya Elamroussi and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Eagle Pass, Texas (CNN) — As the migrant crisis continues at the US-Mexico border and beyond, tensions between Texas and federal officials remain high. Here are the latest developments: Texas authorities arrested migrants at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, late Wednesday evening and

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