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(Reuters) -A fire at a fuel storage facility in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, caused by an apparent drone strike, has been extinguished, the Moscow-installed governor there said on Saturday. “Open fire was extinguished in an area of 1,000 square meters,” Mikhail Razvozhaev said on the Telegram messaging app. Earlier he said no one was injured and according to preliminary information the depot was hit by two drones. Sergei […]

By Lucinda Elliott ASUNCION (Reuters) – In Paraguay’s election on Sunday, Soledad Nunez, a 40-year-old engineer and former minister, is looking to break into the South American country’s male-dominated political arena as its first elected female vice president. Paraguay – which has a reputation for misogynist ‘machista’ culture even within the often conservative region – has been tough for women seeking to enter politics. Only 15% of lawmakers are women, […]

By Mahamat Ramadane KOUFROUNE CAMP, Chad (Reuters) – As armed militias attacked and pillaged her village near the town of El Geneina in the western Darfur region of Sudan, pregnant 23-year-old Zamzam Adam was stranded, in labour, and alone, as neighbours fled across the border into Chad. The conflict between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has not spared her village Ayatine, in western Darfur region where […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Armenia and Azerbaijan will hold a new round of talks in Washington on Sunday to try to normalise relations, the spokesperson of Armenia’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. Tensions have been rising again between the two countries over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, where Russian peacekeepers were deployed in 2020 to end a war, the second that Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought over the enclave since the 1991 […]

(Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo scored his first goal in four games on Friday to help Al-Nassr to a 4-0 win over Al-Raed, keeping alive the team’s slim Saudi Pro League title hopes. With five matches remaining this season, Al-Nassr remain second in the league, three points behind leaders Al-Ittihad having played a game more than their rivals. Ronaldo, who joined Al-Nassr in January on a contract estimated by the media […]

(This April 28 story has been refiled to remove repeated word in paragraph 1) By Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – As recently as February, generative AI did not feature prominently in EU lawmakers’ plans for regulating artificial intelligence technologies such as ChatGPT. The bloc’s 108-page proposal for the AI Act, published two years earlier, included only one mention of the word “chatbot.” References to AI-generated content largely […]

By Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – As recently as February, generative AI did not feature prominently in EU lawmakers’ plans for regulating artificial intelligence technologies such as ChatGPT. The bloc’s 108-page proposal for the AI Act, published two years earlier, included only one mention of the word “chatbot.” References to AI-generated content largely referred to deepfakes: images or audio designed to impersonate human beings. By mid-April, however, […]

(Removes repeated word in first par) By Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -As recently as February, generative AI did not feature prominently in EU lawmakers’ plans for regulating artificial intelligence technologies such as ChatGPT. The bloc’s 108-page proposal for the AI Act, published two years earlier, included only one mention of the word “chatbot.” References to AI-generated content largely referred to deepfakes: images or audio designed to impersonate […]

(Reuters) – Chelsea’s players are struggling to find answers for their poor run of form this season, Raheem Sterling said, but the attacker maintained that the Premier League club can turn around their fortunes under the right manager. Chelsea’s 2-0 defeat to Brentford on Wednesday left them 11th in the standings, stumbling towards possibly their worst campaign since the 1993/94 season – when they finished 14th under Glenn Hoddle – […]