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Factbox-The main takeaways from the BRICS summit
Date: October 24, 2024
KAZAN, Russia (Reuters) – Here’s a brief summary of the outcome of the BRICS summit: * XI AND MODI: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met just two days after New Delhi announced that it had reached a deal with Beijing to resolve a four-year military stand-off on their Himalayan frontier....
Climate set to warm by 3.1 C without greater action, UN report warns
Date: October 24, 2024
By Gloria Dickie TORONTO (Reuters) – Current climate policies will result in global warming of more than 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, according to a United Nations report on Thursday, more than twice the rise agreed to nearly a decade ago. The annual Emissions Gap report, which takes...
OpenAI hires ex-White House official as chief economist
Date: October 24, 2024
(Reuters) – ChatGPT parent OpenAI has tapped former White House official Aaron Chatterji as its first chief economist to lead research on AI’s impact on the economy, the startup at the center of the generative artificial intelligence frenzy said on Tuesday. Chatterji, a professor of business and public policy at Duke University, was formerly...
Germany identifies its first case of new mpox variant
Date: October 23, 2024
BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany has detected its first case of the new mpox variant, the Robert Koch Institute for public health said on Tuesday, adding that it viewed the risk to the wider population as low. The patient is a 33-year-old man who was isolated after being admitted to hospital for treatment on Oct. 12,...
King Charles visits melanoma clinic in Sydney and meets cancer survivors
Date: October 23, 2024
SYDNEY (Reuters) – King Charles visited a skin cancer clinic in Sydney on Tuesday where he met cancer survivors and researchers working on cures for the disease. The visit to the Melanoma Institute Australia was one of the final public appearances Charles made on his 16th official visit to the country, his first major...
Climate scientists warn Nordic ministers of changing Atlantic Ocean current
Date: October 22, 2024
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – More than 40 climate scientists are urging Nordic ministers to prevent global warming from causing a major change in an Atlantic Ocean current, which could trigger abrupt shifts in weather patterns and damage ecosystems. A collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a system of ocean currents that transports warm water...