Two things should make you reflect on what artificial intelligence (AI) could mean for humanity. The first is that those working with this technology warn that it could lead to a catastrophe, even human extinction. The second is how technological innovation is worsening the destruction of Ukraine. These facts offer contradictory lessons on whether the rapid advancement of AI can or should be slowed down.
When Mark Carney entered the European Parliament today, he was received like a rock star. MEPs crowded the front rows of the chamber to shake his hand and take a selfie with him. The enthusiasm was justified: the Prime Minister of Canada is the man of the moment. He has become the beacon for those seeking an alternative to the cruel and ruleless world promoted by Donald Trump.
The Israeli ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, announced yesterday in New York the pact reached between his country and Morocco to strengthen their diplomatic relations and establish embassies within the framework of the Abraham Accords promoted by the President of the United States, Donald Trump. The two countries held a summit with Washington’s endorsement for the normalization of their relations, which concluded with this agreement considered historic by the representative of Tel Aviv.
The documentary Naza that analyzes the “systematic way” in which the Israeli Army has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, has unleashed a wave of violence and persecution against its directors, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, as well as forcing a national debate about Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip.
The wait in Sweden has been long from election Sunday until the end of the counting with official results this Thursday. Finally, the center-left opposition bloc of former Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has managed to prevail over the right-wing alliance of the current Prime Minister, the conservative Ulf Kristersson. The Social Democratic Party and the center-left bloc of which it is a part will have 176 seats out of the 349 seats in the Riksdag (Parliament), one more than the absolute majority, compared to 173 for the parties supporting Kristersson.
The Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, spoke before the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg this Thursday and took up the proposal offered to him on Wednesday by the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen. “We can create the next world order, one that is fair, stable, and prosperous,” Carney stated, to the applause of the MEPs. The Prime Minister outlined the socioeconomic opportunities that greater collaboration between the European Union and Canada would offer and made it clear that “the majority of Canadians support strengthening ties.”
Follow live the speech of the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, before the MEPs and his subsequent appearance with Metsola, at a time marked by relations between Canada and the European Union and the main challenges of the international agenda.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has reacted to the recent rapprochement between the European Union and Canada by resorting to his style manual: with the ambiguous threat of imposing “very significant tariffs or stopping trade” with the economic bloc of the Old Continent. Responding to questions from the press shortly before his rally in North Carolina, the president described the proposal to make his neighboring country the first “associate member” of the EU as “ridiculous” and a “hostile act” towards the U.S.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was conceived, as its name indicates, as a memorial to the media-savvy Democratic president, assassinated eight years before the building’s opening in 1971. The whim of another president, Donald Trump, intent on putting his name on the cultural center, could soon lead to its definitive closure.
The conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Houthi rebels in Yemen threatens to escalate after Riyadh accused the rebels today of launching a drone against Mecca, the spiritual capital of Islam.
