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• Clare Nowland: Tasering a 95-year-old is 'grossly disproportion

  by barik 12934 July 20, 2023
  An Australian police officer charged with tasering a 95-year-old care home resident acted in a "grossly disproportionate" way, prosecutors in the case say. Clare Nowland died in May, a week after the incident which was prompted when she was found holding two knives. New court documents allege Kris...

• Slave and indentured Indian laborers at Osmanabad

  by barik 12934 July 4, 2023
  Bhagwan Ghukse was startled awake on a hot June night and made the decision to flee for his life. Mr. Ghukse and five other daily wage employees have been held captive in a filthy shack in the western state of Maharashtra for the last month. Workers in the Osmanabad district of the state were emplo...

• Before the cyclone, India and Pakistan evacuated thousands of p

  by barik 12934 June 14, 2023
  As some areas of India and Pakistan prepare for an unusually violent cyclone to strike on Thursday evening, tens of thousands have been evacuated. A cyclone over the Arabian Sea named Biparjoy is expected to make landfall in the Gujarati city of Kutch in western India. The storm is anticipated to ...

• AI: Chinese tech giant Alibaba will release a ChatGPT competito

  by barik 12934 April 11, 2023
  Chinese technology giant Alibaba has announced plans to roll out its own artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT-style product called Tongyi Qianwen. Its cloud computing unit says it will integrate the chatbot across Alibaba's businesses in the "near future" but did not give details on its timeline. ...

• A bank shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, leaves five people dea

  by barik 12934 April 11, 2023
  The US and the Philippines are holding their largest-ever joint military drills a day after China concluded large-scale exercises around Taiwan. Over three days, China's military rehearsed blockades of Taiwan in response to the island's leader meeting the US House Speaker last week. Washington cri...