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Hundreds of US schools use Evolv scanners
AI weapons scanner backtracks on UK testing claims
LONDON — An AI weapons-scanning company has backtracked on claims its technology has been tested by the UK government.Evolv Technology makes "intelligent" scanners designed to replace metal detectors by identifying people with concealed guns, knives and bombs.But the company has come under mounting criticism for overstating what the technology can deliver.Evolv told BBC News it had altered its claims about UK testing to "better reflect the process taken".The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) launched an investigation into the company last month. And in October the company revealed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was looking into its marketing practices.As well as in many large stadiums and hundreds of schools in the US, Evolv scanners are used in the Manchester...
March 14, 2024

AI weapons scanner backtracks on UK testing claims

Denmark's armed forces currently number about 20,000 active personnel, including some 9,000 professional troops
Denmark to start conscripting women for military service
COPENHAGEN — Denmark has announced plans to extend military conscription to women for the first time and increase the standard service time.It also wants to boost its defense budget by nearly $6bn (£4.6bn) in the next five years to meet NATO targets."We do not rearm because we want war. We are rearming because we want to avoid it," said PM Metter Frederiksen.Tensions in Europe have spiked since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.Unveiling the reforms on Wednesday, Ms Frederiksen said the government was seeking to achieve "full equality between the sexes".Meanwhile, Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said: "More robust conscription, including full gender equality, must contribute to solving defense challenges, national mobilization and...
March 14, 2024

Denmark to start conscripting women for military service

Finland's Petteri Orpo addressed the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France
Finnish PM grilled by progressive MEPs over far-right alliance
STRASBOURG — Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo was harshly criticized by progressive Members of the European Parliament.Orpo addressed on Wednesday the European Parliament and outlined his political priorities for the next legislature."My government is committed to a strong European Union. An EU that acts not only reacts. We want to build a Union that takes care of our common security and works for our economy," he told lawmakers.But the premier's speech quickly descended into finger-pointing and recriminations over his alliance with the Finns Party, a populist, Euroskeptic party that has been plagued by racism, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism scandals.The Finns Party sits with the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists group (ECR) in the Strasbourg hemicycle,...
March 14, 2024

Finnish PM grilled by progressive MEPs over far-right alliance

EU countries reached a deal on a €5-billion package of military aid for Ukraine
EU countries seal €5-billion deal on military aid to Ukraine after weeks of disagreements
BRUSSELS — European Union countries reached on Wednesday evening a hard-fought deal to boost and revamp military assistance to Ukraine. The agreement struck by ambassadors in Brussels will inject an additional €5 billion into the European Peace Facility (EPF) until the end of the year, which will come on top of the €6.1 billion committed since early 2022. The EPF gained prominence in the immediate aftermath of Russia's war as member states rushed to provide Kyiv with the military equipment kept in their national stocks. The facility partially reimburses the costs of these donations, allowing all countries, from the largest to the smallest, to chip in and help out. It is an "off-budget" scheme because the EU's coffers cannot finance expenditure with military...
March 14, 2024

EU countries seal €5-billion deal on military aid to Ukraine after weeks of disagreements

Geert Wilders' victory last year shook Dutch politics, sending a shock across Europe
Dutch anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders abandons PM bid
AMSTERDAM — Dutch anti-Islam populist leader Geert Wilders has abandoned his bid to become prime minister, despite his party's dramatic victory in the 2023 elections."I can only become prime minister if all parties in the coalition support it. That was not the case," he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.His Freedom Party (PVV) won the most votes last year but needed the support of other parties to form a coalition.Talks with three other parties over the shape of a new government are ongoing.The negotiator leading the latest round of talks, which concluded on Tuesday, is due to share his report with parliament on Thursday."I would like a right-wing cabinet. Less asylum and immigration. Dutch on 1. The love for my country and voter is great and more important than my...
March 14, 2024

Dutch anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders abandons PM bid

The gas-fired Kings Lynn Power Station. — courtesy Getty Images
New gas power plants needed to bolster energy supply, Sunak says
LONDON — The UK needs to build new, gas-fired power stations to ensure the country's energy security, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday.The new stations would replace existing plants, many of which are aging and will soon be retired.But the government says the plans do not include measures for climate change-limiting carbon capture.That could threaten a legally binding commitment to cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, critics say.Sunak, writing in the Daily Telegraph, said new gas power stations were needed to have a reliable and affordable back-up for days when renewables like wind and solar did not deliver."It is the insurance policy Britain needs to protect our energy security, while we deliver our net zero transition," the prime minister wrote.The...
March 13, 2024

New gas power plants needed to bolster energy supply, Sunak says

AI on a screen with yellow stars on a blue background. — courtesy Getty Images
EU MEPs approve world's first comprehensive AI law
BRUSSELS — The European Parliament has approved the world's first comprehensive framework for constraining the risks of artificial intelligence (AI).The sector has seen explosive growth — driving huge profits but also stoking fears about bias, privacy and even the future of humanity.The AI Act works by classifying products according to risk and adjusting scrutiny accordingly.The law's creators said it would make the tech more "human-centric.""The AI act is not the end of the journey but the starting point for new governance built around technology," MEP Dragos Tudorache added.It also places the EU at the forefront of global attempts to address the dangers associated with AI.China already has introduced a patchwork of AI laws. In October 2023, US President...
March 13, 2024

EU MEPs approve world's first comprehensive AI law

An apartment building damaged by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine. — courtesy UNICEF/Oleksii Filippov
More casualties in Russia’s war on Ukraine from strike on central city
KYIV — A Russian missile strike on a multi-story apartment block in central Ukraine that left three dead and around 40 injured on Tuesday has been strongly condemned by the UN’s top aid official in Kyiv, Denise Brown.“I am appalled to know that families were just getting together to have dinner and spend a quiet evening at home, only to see their homes damaged and their loved ones injured," said Brown, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine, in a tweet.According to the UN Office in Ukraine, the strike caused extensive damage to the residential building in Kryvyi Rih city, Dnipro Region, trapping people under the rubble, with children among the victims.The incident is part of a pattern of attacks not limited to frontline regions targeting civilian infrastructure and homes, Brown...
March 13, 2024

More casualties in Russia’s war on Ukraine from strike on central city

Russian President Vladimir Putin
Putin says he’s ready to use nuclear weapons if Russian state at stake
MOSCOW — Moscow is ready to use nuclear weapons if there is a threat to the existence of the Russian state but “there has never been such a need,” President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with state media published Wednesday.The Russian leader made the comments to Rossiya 1 and RIA Novosti ahead of presidential elections on March 15, in which he is widely expected to sail through to a fifth term in office, and as his full-scale war in Ukraine grinds into a third year.Putin said that from a military and technical standpoint, Russia is ready for a nuclear war, though he didn’t say one was imminent.He warned that if US troops were deployed to Ukraine, Russia would treat them as interventionists.“Apart from (US President Joe) Biden, there are enough other experts in the sphere...
March 13, 2024

Putin says he’s ready to use nuclear weapons if Russian state at stake

Protests in Moldova
Moldova protests Russian voting stations in Transnistria
CHISINAU — Moldova has slammed Moscow's decision to open polling stations in the breakaway Transnistria region ahead of presidential elections in Russia on 15 -17 March, summoning the Russian ambassador on Tuesday.Transnistria is not recognized internationally as a sovereign state, with the EU defining the territory as militarily occupation by Russia.Although officially unrecognized, Transnistria is a de facto presidential republic within Moldova — with its own government, parliament and military."The State of the Republic of Moldova acts where it can control the environment and accordingly we will not admit violations on the territory controlled by the constitutional authorities," Dorin Recean, Prime Minister of Moldova, told journalists after the meeting.The Russian...
March 13, 2024

Moldova protests Russian voting stations in Transnistria

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