Musk, Wozniak and Hawking urge ban on AI and autonomous weapons: Over 1,000 high-profile artificial intelligence experts and leading researchers have signed an open letter warning of a “military artificial intelligence arms race” and calling for a ban on “offensive autonomous weapons”. (theguardian.com)
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over the last 10 monthsSearch for 43 missing students in Mexico turns up corpses of at least 129 other people (japantimes.co.jp)
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Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam Passes Away: Collapses During Speech in Shillong (theindiantalks.com)
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Marijuana legalization petition hits enough signatures for UK parliament debate - A petition for the full legalization of marijuana in the UK has gathered more than 130,000 signatures in just four days (rt.com)
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Turkish technology firm boss distributes $27 million to employees after sale - "Some employees cried, some screamed, some wrote letters of thanks" (hurriyetdailynews.com)
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Medical marijuana to be sold in pharmacies, says Israeli deputy minister of health (israelhayom.com)
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A girl aged about 10 has carried out a suicide bombing in north-eastern Nigeria, killing at least 16 people (bbc.com)
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Only 100 tigers left in Bangladesh's famed Sundarbans forest - The population in the mangrove forest is far less than believed, officials say, after a census uses cameras hidden in trees to record numbers (bangkokpost.com)
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Victoria shuts down Yellow Giant underground gold mine in northwestern B.C. for spilling pollution on land and into creeks, lakes, and a wetland. (vancouversun.com)
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More than 1.2 million trees were planted across Australia on Sunday during National Tree Day. This year's tally brings the total number to over 22 million trees planted by more than 3.5 million participants since the annual event began in 1996. (digitaljournal.com)
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Over a thousand French farmers have blocked roads from Spain and Germany to stop foreign produce entering the country. The protest follows a week of action against a fall in food prices, pushing them towards bankruptcy. (dw.com)
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Deputy Speaker of House of Lords resigns after ‘being filmed snorting cocaine with two prostitutes’ (news.com.au)
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Europe just invested over $380 million in an alien-hunting space mission to Jupiter (businessinsider.com)
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The remains of 97 human bodies have been found stuffed into a small 5,000-year-old house in a prehistoric village in northeast China, researchers report in two separate studies.(livescience.com)
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Iran offered Iraq an 'open cheque' to help them battle Isis.The Iraq ambassador to the US says of Iran. "They offered us literally anything we wanted, troops and everything else"(independent.co.uk)
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Dawn of deep-sea mining alarms conservationists as UN body issues exploration contracts.Conservationists are warning that the deep ocean’s fragile biodiversity must be protected and not nearly enough is known about the risks of extracting minerals from seabeds. (canadianbusiness.com)
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