The country causIng severe floodIng and landslIdes. Lebanon has banned WalkIe TalkIes and pagers from all flIghts out of the countrys only commercIal aIrport In operatIon. The move comes after explosIons were trIggered In pagers and WalkIe TalkIes used by hezbollah. The attacks kIlled at least 37 people and Injured thousands. Israel hasnt confIrmed It was behInd the attacks but Is wIdely assumed to be, and Its Defence MInIster, yoav gallant, has saId Its openIng a new phase In the war. And these are pIctures from the IsraelI mIlItary, whIch says It hIt hezbollah Infrastructure In an overnIght attack across The Border. It says It carrIed out AIr StrIkes on seven targets In southern lebanon. The us says Its Involved In IntensIve dIplomatIc efforts to prevent the conflIct escalatIng further. The leader of hezbollah, whIch some western states have desIgnated a terrorIst organIsatIon, Is expected to address the events In a speech later today. ThIs Is the moment a blast rocks beIrut. Hezboll
President. The trip is part of an effort to help caribbean leaders navigate rampant gang violence that threatens to overtake haiti. In a meeting with the new haitian prime minister, secretary blinken also announced m5 million in humanitarian aids. Haitian authorities have expanded as state of emergency or across the country and the humanitarian situation has rapidly deteriorated since the former prime minister resigned in march. Aid agencies report nearly 580,000 people have been internally displaced by conflict with close to 5 million facing severe hunger. About 400 kenyan troops arrived in the country injune as part of the un backed security mission. Before he left for the dominican republic, is to blink and reaffirm the us commitment to support the haitian people and foster a secure and peaceful haiti. The government and prime minister and the arrival of canny colleagues to support the police in the security mission and starting to see results from that. All with the objective of pu
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we are still a long way from curing. we have been getting some reaction to all that from sir nigel shadbolt, researcher in al, professor at oxford university. he is the executive chair of the open data institute. health s a good example. drug discovery, prediction of disease, it s already performing at levels to analyse images from ct scans to x rays. there s a whole range of ways in which ai, which is great at finding patterns, great at producing outcomes, great at finding and applying the rules that might help us build better solutions, can operate to our benefit. health s a good example, but so is climate change, another existential threat. it will be the ai driven models that help us understand how the climate is changing and what we can do to ameliorate those effects. they will be hugely consequential. and one could really reel off a whole range of area where the benefits really are there to see. they ve been there for decades. we re seeing them more dramatically reveale
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