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Continue ReadingA wild elephant attacked a tourist in a well-known national park in Thailand and fatally injured him. 02/03/2026, 06:3402/03/2026, 06:34 The attack occurred on Monday at a campsite in Khao Yai National Park, about 200 kilometers northeast of Bangkok, the Bangkok Post newspaper quoted a local ranger as saying. A wild elephant in Thailand killed […]
Continue ReadingPeter Mandelson was British ambassador to the USA.Image: keystone The recent publication of new documents about Jeffrey Epstein is reaching ever wider circles – even as far as Europe. An overview. 02/03/2026, 06:1402/03/2026, 06:26 Anna-Lena Janzen / t-online An article by Last Friday, the Justice Department in Washington released more than three million additional documents […]
Continue ReadingThe worries are fueled by the sycophantic nature of chatbots, which aim to be helpful for their users and please them as much as possible. “The AI is trying to make us, in the immediate moment, feel good, but that isn’t always in our interest,” Bengio said. In that sense, the technology has similar pitfalls […]
Continue ReadingZittern um die Versorgungssicherheit:Deutschlands Gasspeicher sind nur noch zu einem Drittel gefüllt. Während Wirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche beschwichtigt, warnt die Branche vor Engpässen an extrem kalten Tagen. Joana Lehner von “Energie und Klima am Morgen” berichtet im Gespräch mit Gordon Repinski über die Sorgen der Energiebranche und wie Unternehmen mit kurzfristigem Bedarf in finanzielle Nöte geraten […]
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Continue ReadingIn the name of sustainability, organisers of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics are using a host of existing venues stretching between the Alpine ski resort of Cortina to the fashion capital of Milan in northern Lombardy. The Games open this Friday with a ceremony in Milan’s San Siro stadium.
Continue ReadingThe Trump administration has pushed for the dismantling of most TPS programmes, raising the possibility of deportation for hundreds of thousands of migrants in the US from Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Honduras, Myanmar, Nepal, South Sudan, Syria and Venezuela, among others.
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Continue ReadingUS federal officers are to wear body cameras during their controversial raids in Minneapolis. 02/03/2026, 04:5802/03/2026, 04:58 With immediate effect, every federal officer on duty in the city in the north of the USA will be equipped with so-called body cameras, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on the X platform. The ICE units should […]
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