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At least 65 migrants’ bodies have been discovered in a mass grave in southwest Libya, the International Organization for Migration said on social media platform X on Friday.  Issued on: 22/03/2024 – 17:46Modified: 22/03/2024 – 18:05 1 min IOM said in a statement the circumstances of the migrants’ death and nationalities was unknown “but it is believed that they died in the process of being smuggled through the desert.”Libya has turned into a transit route for migrants fleeing conflict and poverty to Europe across the Mediterranean following the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in a NATO-backed  uprising in 2011. ❗️At least…

Senegal’s presidential candidates were set to make their final pitches to voters Friday, marking the end of a rushed campaign for what is considered an unprecedented election after weeks of political crisis. Issued on: 22/03/2024 – 15:43 3 min Seven million people are eligible to vote Sunday in the traditionally stable West African nation set to become an oil producer, but where more than a third live in poverty and half the population are aged under 20.After the last-minute withdrawal of two candidates, 17 contenders remain in the race for president, with campaigning officially due to end at midnight Friday.Whoever…

Issued on: 22/03/2024 – 16:22 The United Nations has unanimously approved its first resolution on artificial intelligence, with all member states agreeing to make sure the technology respects human rights. The UN also hopes that AI will help it achieve its development goals for 2030, which are well behind schedule. One of these goals is for gender equality worldwide.However, a study released just two weeks ago by the UN’s own cultural agency UNESCO cited “alarming evidence of regressive gender stereotypes” in generative artificial intelligence, the version of the technology used to generate text, images, video and on-demand audio, which has…

Issued on: 22/03/2024 – 14:58 From this year’s new Michelin-starred restaurants and a chat with cast of new glam TV series “Palm Royale”, to Banksy’s defaced mural and US photographer Annie Leibovitz wielding a sword in Paris in the name of art, join Eve Jackson for a roundup of this week’s culture news. Source link

Russia’s financial watchdog said Friday it had added what it calls the “international LGBT movement” to its list of terrorists and extremists. Issued on: 22/03/2024 – 14:56 1 min The implication of its listing was not immediately clear. The Rosfinmonitoring watchdog has the power to freeze bank accounts of specific entities named on the list, but did not name any person or organisation on its website.Russia’s Supreme Court declared the movement as “extremist” last November, without saying to whom it referred but effectively banning LGBTQ activism across the country.The Kremlin has taken a conservative turn since launching its offensive in Ukraine…

Back to homepage / Shows / The 51% Issued on: 22/03/2024 – 14:37Modified: 22/03/2024 – 14:41 10:50 THE 51 PERCENT © FRANCE 24 In a special edition about the dangers artificial intelligence poses to women, we’re focusing on how AI has been automatically set up to reinforce gender discrimination along with the rise of deepfakes. These days, AI is used for a growing range of tasks yet while being based on data that comes from a world full of bias and inequity. Plus a special FRANCE 24 investigation on the rise of deepfake pornographic images which specifically targets women. Annette…

Issued on: 22/03/2024 – 13:00 The Jordanian city of Zarqa has a strong Palestinian identity, with good reason. In 1948, with the creation of the State of Israel – what the Palestinians call the “Nakba” (“catastrophe”) – some 750,000 people, or more than 80 percent of the Palestinian population, were forced to take exile in neighbouring countries as they fled the violence. Jordan took in around 100,000 of them, with many of these refugees settling in Zarqa, a desert area on the outskirts of the capital Amman. Seventy-five years after their exile, what relationship do they have with their homeland…

The Kremlin said Friday it is in a “state of war” in Ukraine, escalating the official language it uses to describe the conflict, now in its third year. Issued on: 22/03/2024 – 11:09 1 min Russia has presented its offensive on Ukraine as a “special military operation,” banned media outlets from using the word “war” and prosecuted anti-offensive campaigners for using the word to describe Russia’s military actions.“We are in a state of war. Yes, it started as a special military operation, but as soon as this bunch was formed there, when the collective West became a participant on Ukraine’s…

Twenty-three soldiers were killed in a “terrorist” ambush in western Niger during an offensive near the border with Burkina Faso and Mali, the defence ministry said. Issued on: 22/03/2024 – 09:58Modified: 22/03/2024 – 10:05 The soldiers were engaged in a security sweep in Tillaberi, in the three borders area, on Tuesday and Wednesday and were killed during a “complex ambush”, it said late Thursday, adding that “about 30 terrorists had been neutralised”.The army raids were “designed to reassure local people” who were being targeted by armed groups engaged in “murders, extortion and cattle rustling”, the ministry said.It said more than…

Taipei’s defence ministry announced Friday the highest single-day number of Chinese military aircraft around the self-ruled island this year, which analysts attributed as a reaction to Taiwan’s political outreach to Europe in recent days. Issued on: 22/03/2024 – 07:54 3 min Beijing claims democratic Taiwan as part of its territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring it under China’s control.Friday’s incursion, an uptick from the previous day’s tally, follows a pattern of what experts dub “grey zone” actions—tactics that fall short of outright acts of war—which have ramped up since the 2016 election of President Tsai…