World Bank gives Mozambique $150m for Cyclone Freddy recovery
Part grant, part loan, the money is drawn from the bank’s existing projects for Mozambique.
Day: May 19, 2023
German surgeon fired after getting hospital cleaner to assist amputation
Officials at a hospital in western Germany have expressed regret after it emerged that one of their surgeons got a cleaner to assist in a toe amputation.
Sean Penn, backing WGA strike, says AI dispute is ‘a human obscenity’ at Cannes Film Festival
Sean Penn has strongly backed the current Hollywood screenwriters strike while speaking at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, saying the dispute over artificial intelligence is “a human obscenity.”.
Don’t get scammed by fake ChatGPT apps: Here’s what to look out for
ChatGPT is a wildly popular AI chatbot and scammers are happy to try to take advantage of that — and you.
Ukraine, Syria leaders Zelensky and Assad attending Arab League meeting in Saudi Arabia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are attending the Arab League meeting in Saudi Arabia on Friday.
Morgan Stanley CEO plans to step down within the year, sparking Wall Street succession race
Morgan Stanley’s board has narrowed its CEO search to three “very strong” internal candidates to succeed Gorman, the chief said.
President Biden ‘endorses F-16 training for Ukrainians’
Under export licensing rules, the US needed to sign off on any allied effort to train Ukrainian pilots.
Russia’s economy is ‘in the s***’ claims Moscow’s former finance minister
Andrey Nechayev, former economic minister of Moscow, criticises President Putin’s policies, highlighting the dire state of the Russian economy.
China’s Gamble in Afghanistan
China is not the first to try to buy stability in Afghanistan. Will Beijing succeed where the U.S. and USSR failed?