UN chief urges action on ‘killer robots’ as Geneva talks open
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Monday for new rules covering the use of autonomous weapons as a key meeting on the issue opened in Geneva. Negotiators at the UN talks have for eight years been discussing limits on lethal autonomous weapons, or LAWS, which are fully machine-controlled and rely on new […]
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I’m walking down the street and press the pedestrian crossing button, yet cross without waiting as there are no cars. PICTURE: Kai Pilger/Unsplash Twenty metres up the street the lights turn red. Cars stop, and I feel bad for making these people wait for no reason. The next day I’m walking the same street and […]
COVID-19 vaccines and the church: Some pastors fear talking about vaccines. Bishop Horace Smith sees them as a blessing.
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on how some US churches have been actively involved in encouraging COVID-19 vaccines…
Faith-based disaster relief teams fan out across six US states to help tornado recovery
RNS Faith-based disaster relief teams are already working in several of the areas hardest hit by devastating tornadoes that tore through six states on Friday. On Monday, 74 people were confirmed dead across eight counties in Kentucky, and another 13 died in Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri and Illinois. Dozens more are unaccounted for. President Biden […]
Essay: In Afghanistan, heroin and human trafficking are the only two sectors of the economy still thriving
UK researchers JONATHAN GOODHAND and JAN KOEHLER look – in an article first published on The Conversation – look at why the trade in people and drugs is growing in importance in Afghanistan…