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Denise Ann Williams, 62 ans, a été entendue pour la dernière fois le 15 avril. Les recherches se poursuivent pour retrouver une femme australienne de 62 ans signalée disparue mardi alors qu'elle faisait de la randonnée dans un parc national canadien. Denise Ann Williams a donné signe de vie pour la dernière fois le 15 avril, lorsqu'elle a annoncé à sa famille qu'elle se rendait à Chéticamp, un village de pêcheurs sur la côte ouest de l'île de Cape Breton en Nova Scotia. Continuer la lecture...

Le sénateur américain organise un panel avec d'éminents scientifiques chinois et met en garde contre les risques pour la société à moins que la nouvelle technologie ne soit régulée. Le sénateur américain Bernie Sanders a prôné l'importance de la coopération internationale pour réguler l'IA lors d'un panel mercredi au Capitole aux côtés de deux éminents scientifiques chinois. Alors que les start-up et les géants de la technologie, principalement dans la Silicon Valley et à Pékin, font la course pour faire progresser et mettre à l'échelle leur intelligence artificielle, Sanders figure parmi les sceptiques de l'IA prônant des garde-fous. Lire la suite...

Positions ‘terminated, effective immediately’, says email to scientists sent on president’s behalf, in move labelled ‘dangerous attack’ on US innovationThe Trump administration has fired members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF).Members of the National Science Board received an email on Friday sent from the Presidential Personnel Office “on behalf of President Donald J Trump” stating that their position was “terminated, effective immediately”. Continue reading...

• The Taliban government announced restrictions on international health NGOs operating in Afghanistan on Monday, citing concerns over 'political interference' and threatening revocation of licenses for non-compliant organizations. • Medical organizations warned that the restrictions would devastate maternal and pediatric health services, particularly in rural areas where international agencies provide 70 percent of healthcare capacity. • The U.S. State Department condemned the move as undermining humanitarian efforts and expressed concern for vulnerable populations, with officials exploring alternative delivery mechanisms for critical medical assistance.

Widely dispersed wind farms and solar panels are harder to target than fossil fuel power stations, Michael Shanks saysRenewable energy will boost the UK’s national security and make the country more resilient against potential aggression or sabotage, the government’s energy minister has said.Michael Shanks said widely dispersed wind farms and solar panels were much harder to target than large-scale fossil fuel power stations. They are also not vulnerable to supply shocks, such as the current oil crisis caused by the US-Israel war on Iran and the soaring gas prices that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Continue reading...

• The International Criminal Court announced Friday the issuance of an arrest warrant for General Ahmed Hassan al-Madibbo, a prominent Sudan Armed Forces commander, citing evidence of war crimes including extrajudicial killings and enforced displacement in Darfur since April 2023. • ICC prosecutors presented evidence of at least 127 documented extrajudicial executions of civilians and systematic attacks on refugee camps housing over 2 million displaced persons, with al-Madibbo alleged to have direct command responsibility. • Sudan's military government rejected the warrant and accused the ICC of bias toward the Rapid Support Forces militia; the announcement intensified international pressure on Khartoum to cooperate with the court's investigations.

• A multiyear international campaign is underway to repair damage to childhood immunization efforts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. • The initiative focuses on restoring vaccination rates that declined during the pandemic period across multiple countries. • Public health experts view this effort as critical to preventing resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases in vulnerable pediatric populations.