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Math teacher Margie Howells teaches a fifth grade class at Wheeling Country Day School in Wheeling, W.Va., on Sept. 5, 2023
AI company aiming to solve teacher shortage crisis
BRUSSELS — An artificial intelligence (AI) company called 21st Century Digital Teaching (21C) is taking some big steps to solve the chronic teacher shortage in the UK and across Europe by revolutionizing the way students learn maths and other key subjects.To do this, 21C created a digital teaching app and learning platform for schools that, it says, greatly reduces the number of teachers needed by digitizing them and converting them into avatars on the app, enabling lessons to go ahead when there's a shortage.The founders said it also offers a new way of doing homework as it's more interactive and enables teachers to track student progress more easily through the platform's smart analytics tools.It comes as schools across the continent have struggled to fill positions....
April 23, 2024

AI company aiming to solve teacher shortage crisis

Péter Magyar, former husband of one-time justice minister and Orbán ally Judit Varga holds a smoke-candle after his speech on Hungary's National Day in Budapest on Friday
Hungarian government targets former Fidesz ally in election campaign
BUDAPEST — The Hungarian government started a fresh round of anti-EU billboard campaigns ahead of the EU elections. Leading EU opposition figures are being portrayed as servants of the Commission, particularly President Ursula von der Leyen. In the firing line is the former ally of the Fidesz elite, Péter Magyar, who is rising as an opposition figure against Prime Minister Viktor Orban.Magyar portrays his recently-launched party TISZA as the new movement against Fidesz. Earlier this month, he told tens of thousands of supporters that the government had "betrayed" its voters. Magyar's party is expected to participate in the European elections, scheduled for this June."I laugh at these posters, that I am a leftist or a puppet of Ursula von der Leyen. I will never be,...
April 23, 2024

Hungarian government targets former Fidesz ally in election campaign

Party of European Socialists (PES) lead candidate for the upcoming European Union elections Nicolas Schmit attends a German Social Democratic Party (SPD) leadership meeting
EU elections: Socialists' lead candidate holds talks with SPD
BERLIN — Ahead of EU elections, the frontrunner of the Party of European Socialists met his SPD counterpart in Berlin on Monday.Nicolas Schmit - currently the EU Commissioner for Employment and Social Rights - held talks with the Social Democratic Party's lead candidate Katharina Barley."Every election is important," he said. "But if we look around us and see the general context, then this election is a very important election."Europeans voting in June's European Parliament elections face a "choice of direction," he continued. "Not only internationally, but also internally - where Europe should actually be heading." — Euronews
April 23, 2024

EU elections: Socialists' lead candidate holds talks with SPD

AfD politician Maximilian Krah, Magdeburg, Germany, Saturday, July 29, 2023
Aide to far-right German MEP arrested on suspicion of spying for China
BERLIN — German police on Monday arrested an aide to a far-right MEP on suspicion of spying for China.The man, named as Jian G., is publicly listed as an accredited assistant to Maximilian Krah, MEP and leading candidate for the far-right party Alternative for Deutschland (AfD).The Federal Prosecutor's Office said he is accused of being "an employee of the Chinese secret service" as well as "repeatedly passing on information about negotiations and decisions in the European Parliament to his intelligence client".Jian G. is also been accused of spying on Chinese opposition figures in Germany.According to Die Zeit, the man is a 43-year-old Chinese national with German citizenship who met Krah whilst working as a businessman in Germany. He was originally brought into...
April 23, 2024

Aide to far-right German MEP arrested on suspicion of spying for China

File photo of New Scotland Yard in London, Britain. — courtesy EPA
Two men charged with spying for China under Official Secrets Act
LONDON — A UK parliamentary researcher and another man have been charged with spying for China after allegedly providing information which could be “useful to an enemy”.Christopher Cash, 29, the researcher, and Christopher Berry, 32, were charged under the Official Secrets Act.They are accused of giving “articles, notes, documents or information” to a foreign state, the Met Police said.China has called the allegations “malicious slander”. Counter-terrorism police have described the allegations as “very serious”.Berry, from Witney in Oxfordshire, and Cash, of Whitechapel, London, were arrested last March in connection with the investigation.It was previously reported that one of the men — Cash — was a parliamentary researcher involved with the China Research Group, and...
April 22, 2024

Two men charged with spying for China under Official Secrets Act

A police officer speaks to Gideon Falter. — courtesy Campaign Against Antisemitism/PA Wire
Sunak says he has confidence in Met Police chief after protest row
LONDON — UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he has confidence in Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley after criticism over how a Jewish man was treated at a pro-Palestinian march.But the prime minister said Sir Mark still needs to work to rebuild the trust of the Jewish community.Sir Mark had faced a call to resign after antisemitism campaigner Gideon Falter was called “openly Jewish” by police and threatened with arrest.The Met has apologized and offered to meet Falter to do so personally.New footage of the exchange published by Sky News on Sunday shows Falter telling officers he wanted to get to an area on the other side of where pro-Palestinian protesters were marching in London on April 13.Police officers do not let him pass and instead offer to escort him via another route, avoiding...
April 22, 2024

Sunak says he has confidence in Met Police chief after protest row

UK PM Rishi Sunak says opponents to the bill have used “every trick in the book”.
Deportation flights to Rwanda will take off in summer, Sunak says
LONDON — The first flights deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda will take off in 10 to 12 weeks Rishi Sunak has announced — missing his original spring target.The government has already prepared an airfield and secured charter plane slots to ensure flights take off, the PM said.Sunak promised to keep MPs and Lords late into the night on Monday to pass his flagship Rwanda bill. “No ifs, no buts, these flights are going to Rwanda,” he said.He told a Downing Street press conference: “The first flight will leave in 10 to 12 weeks.“Of course, that is later than we wanted but we have always been clear that processing will take time and if Labour peers had not spent weeks holding up the bill in the House of Lords to try to block these flights altogether we would have begin this process...
April 22, 2024

Deportation flights to Rwanda will take off in summer, Sunak says

Strong winds and high temperatures caused wildfires to spread across Athens in Greece in 2023. (file). — courtesy Unsplash/Anasmeister
Heatwave deaths increased across almost all Europe in 2023, says UN weather agency
GENEVA — Climate change shocks caused record levels of disruption and misery for millions in Europe in 2023 with widespread flooding and severe heatwaves — a new normal which countries must adapt to as a priority, the UN weather agency said on Monday.New data published jointly by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Copernicus Climate Change Service confirmed fears that 2023 was the joint warmest or second warmest year on record in Europe.In practical terms, this led to a record number of days with “extreme heat stress” across Europe, “an increasing trend” in the number of “strong heat stress” days on the Continent and an “extended summer” from June to September, marked by heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and flooding.“2023 was the joint warmest or second...
April 22, 2024

Heatwave deaths increased across almost all Europe in 2023, says UN weather agency

The arrests took place in the states of Hesse and North-Rhine-Westphalia
Germany arrests three suspected Chinese agents
BEIJING — German authorities say they have arrested three people on suspicion of spying for China.The main suspect, named as Thomas R, is accused of spying for the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS).Prosecutors allege his network operated a front company that co-operated with German research organizations.The accused are said to have collected sensitive information, including designs for an engine suitable for use on combat ships, to pass on to China.German prosecutors allege Thomas R obtained "innovative technologies for military use" on behalf of an MSS employee. They allege he used a front company - run by the two other suspects, named as Herwig F and Ina F - which contacted people working in science and research.A first project regarding the operation of...
April 22, 2024

Germany arrests three suspected Chinese agents

Polish and other NATO troops take part in military maneuvers Steadfast Defender 24 in Korzeniewo, in Poland Monday, March 4, 2024
Military spending in Western and Central Europe higher than end of Cold War, data shows
STOCKHOLM — Military spending in Central and Western Europe is now higher than the last year of the Cold War, a new report has found.According to new data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Europe has seen a widespread surge in military spending since the start of 2022, reaching a total of €552 billion in 2023.The increase is 16% more than the countries concerned spent in 2022, and 62% more compared to 2014, where spending was €330 billion.All but three European NATO member countries – Greece, Italy and Romania – increased their military expenditure in 2023.Lorenzo Scarazzato, a research assistant from SIPRI, explained to Euronews that military spending in Europe has been rising every consecutive year since 2014, when Russia annexed...
April 22, 2024

Military spending in Western and Central Europe higher than end of Cold War, data shows

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