Starmer heads to Beijing to mend ties
LONDON/BEIJING, Jan 27 (Reuters): Prime Minister Keir Starmer will fly to China on Tuesday evening on the first visit by a British leader in eight years, seeking to mend ties with the world's second-largest economy and reduce his country's dependence on an increasingly unpredictable United States.Starmer is the latest in...
Read more
US aircraft carrier arrives in M East
WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (AFP): The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group has arrived in the Middle East, the US military said on Monday, dramatically boosting American firepower in the region.The carrier and its accompanying ships were ordered to the region as Iran cracked down on mass protests. While President Donald...
Read more
N Korea fires ballistic missiles into sea
SEOUL, Jan 27 (Reuters): North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles towards the sea on Tuesday that were likely short-range projectiles, South Korea and Japan said, as Washington and Seoul hold talks on transforming their defence posture against Pyongyang.South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were launched from an...
Read more
'AI mirrors' changing the way blind people see themselves
NEW YORK, Jan 27 (BBC): Artificial intelligence is helping blind people access visual feedback about their bodies, sometimes for the first time - but the emotional and psychological consequences are only just starting to emerge.I am completely blind and always have been.For the past year, my mornings begin with a...
Read more
They want to defuse crisis over deportation drive
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 27 (Reuters): President Donald Trump and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz struck a conciliatory note after a private phone call on Monday, in a sign the two sides want to defuse a crisis over the Trump-ordered deportation drive that has left two U.S. citizens dead in Minneapolis.Trump and Minneapolis...
Read more
School stuffs enter Gaza after being blocked for 2 years, UN agency says
GENEVA, Jan 27 (Reuters): The U.N. children's agency said on Tuesday it had for the first time in two-and-a-half years been able to deliver school kits with learning materials into Gaza after they were previously blocked by Israeli authorities.Thousands of kits, including pencils, exercise books and wooden cubes to play...
Read more
French MPs pass bill banning social media for under-15s
PARIS, Jan 27 (AFP): French lawmakers have passed a bill that would ban social media use by under-15s, a move championed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to protect children from excessive screen time.The lower National Assembly adopted the text by a vote of 130 to 21 in a...
Read more
Health threat of global plastics projected to soar
PARIS, Jan 27 (AFP): The threat posed by plastic production, usage and disposal to human health will skyrocket in the coming years unless the world does something to address this global crisis, researchers warned Tuesday.A British-French team of researchers attempted to cover all the different ways that plastic affects health,...
Read more
