TruthBomb World News (2024)

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On November 12, 2011, the Arab League suspended the membership of Syria to punish the government of President Bashar al-Assad for cracking down on anti-government protestors with a brutality so savage it shocked even the members of a group with a poor record of concern for human rights.

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Sam Altman, who is the chief executive officer (CEO) of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, urged lawmakers in the United States on Tuesday to regulate artificial intelligence (AI). Politicians chimed in after experts expressed concerns about the advancements of AI. Altman weighed in on AI's ability...

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In a public speech, writer Salman Rushdie warned that freedom of expression in the West is under its most severe threat in his lifetime. The appearance came nine months after being stabbed onstage. The 75-year-old Rushdie appeared to be leaner than before the attack and was wearing spectacles with o...

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North Korea's state media KCNA reported that Kim Jong Un inspected a military satellite facility on Tuesday. According to the report, Kim has also authorised the non-permanent satellite-launching preparatory committee's next stages in the action plan. The state media reported earlier this year that....

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned US lawmakers that artificial intelligence could cause ‘significant harm to the world’ if something goes wrong with the technology.

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Police managed to pull 13 people out of the Shire River after their canoe capsized, and a desperate search is under way for the remaining passengers.

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US President Joe Biden will take part in a G7 summit in Japan, but further stops in Papua New Guinea and Australia have been scrapped due to the debt crisis back home.

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Americans are living in ‘different realities’ amid divided media messaging, ex-President Barack Obama claims

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Durham report on Trump-Russia investigation shows media outlets should give back their Pulitzer prizes, US Senator Lindsey Graham says

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The White House said on Tuesday (May 16) that President Joe Biden may skip a visit to Australia on an upcoming Asia trip because of the US debt ceiling crisis. The White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said that Biden would depart for Japan on Wednesday as scheduled but a subsequent....

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More than 100 journalists and editors have called on Hong Kong authorities for immediate release of Jimmy Lai, a media tycoon who ran Apple Daily, a pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong. The journalists and editors have signed an open letter. Jimmy Lai is currently in detainment and faces charges of...

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Northwestern and central Nigeria have long seen clashes between farmers and herders over water and land.

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India and the EU are deepening ties with a new trade and tech plan. Is skepticism toward China bringing them closer?

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The Council of Europe is creating a ‘register of damages’ to record tangible costs to hold Moscow accountable for its invasion.

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Coucouron has been receiving its drinking water by road. The surrounding region was previously not thought to be at risk of drought. The French government has announced a national plan to use water more efficiently.

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Noelle Dunphy claims Giuliani constantly demanded oral s*x and that he failed to pay her for work

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US President Joe Biden reportedly punishes New York Mayor Eric Adams for his comments on illegal immigration crisis

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The two will host separate meetings in Moscow and Kyiv with a delegation from six African countries, says South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

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A captain in the United States Air Force has revealed that around half a century ago, a UFO attack allegedly took down weapons on a nuclear missiles base he was working on. Speaking to National Geographic, the Air Force Captain has alleged that the incident was concealed from the public. Sharing his...

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that AI will "address some of humanity's biggest challenges, like climate change and curing cancer," but admitted he was "anxious" about how it could change the way we live.

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Hilda Baci's cooking marathon started on Thursday and ended on Monday night, with only one five-minute break every hour. The chef said that she wanted to show how hardworking and determined young Nigerians are.

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Wells Fargo will pay $1 billion to settle a lawsuit which accused it of defrauding shareholders. The exercise involved the San Francisco-headquartered bank reportedly defrauding shareholders about its progress in recovering from a series of scandals over its treatment of customers. The settlement wo...

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Jean-Baptiste Trogneux, who is the great-nephew of French first lady Brigitte Macron, was attacked outside the family's famed Trogneux chocolate shop in northern of the country. Local reports have mentioned that according to Trogneux's father, he was attacked by anti-government protesters on Monday....

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US President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy will meet on Tuesday to make progress on a deal to raise the US government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling. The meeting will be aimed at averting what the experts have cautioned as an economically catastrophic default that may beco...

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The Ukrainian forces claimed to have shot down at least six Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles in an overnight missile barrage of nearly 20 missiles and drones, a weapon which Moscow has previously touted as all but unstoppable. Meanwhile, Russia said it hit “all assigned targets” in Ukraine.

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World's foremost public health agency, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, cautioned against using artificial intelligence (AI) for public healthcare. It said that the data used by AI to reach decisions could be biased or misused and advised caution while using the technology. As per the...

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The European Union on Tuesday approved the world's first comprehensive set of rules to regulate crypto assets. The development is likely to pile pressure on countries such as Britain and the United States to act in a similar way towards regulation of crypto assets. The development came in a European...

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Life felt weird at the height of the Covid pandemic. Everyone wore masks. Anyone who coughed or sneezed was given looks of reprimand. Human communication had become virtual. It is no wonder if people had trouble adapting to post-pandemic interaction. It would appear natural that people wouldn't forg...

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Officials in Ukraine said on Tuesday (May 16) that they have detained the head of the country’s Supreme Court in a $2.7 million bribery inquiry. This comes as the war-torn country is pursuing anti-graft measures which are vital to meet the conditions for joining the European Union. “The head of ...

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Rupert Stadler (60), former CEO of auto giant Audi pleaded guilty at the "dieselgate" fraud trial in Germany on Tuesday. This made him the highest-ranking former executive to confess in emissions cheating scandal that rocked the car industry. At a district court in Munich, he admitted that he allowe...

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When Pakistan Army led by General Ayub Khan staged country's first successful coup d'état in 1958, Punjabi poet Ustad Daman mocked it saying, "Mere mulk diyan maujan hi maujan, jidhar dekho faujan hi faujan [My country is having so much fun; there is army till as far as the eye can see]."

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Exxon Mobil Corp on Monday settled a long-running human rights lawsuit with Indonesian villagers who accused Indonesian soldiers hired as guards by the Houston-based oil and gas company of committing murder and torture. The Exxon case was set for a jury trial in Washington starting May 24 but that n...

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A pension scheme involving many MEPs sought beneficial tax loopholes abroad in spite of a crackdown on tax havens, a report claims

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Beijing has reportedly asked Western diplomats to refrain from “political propaganda,” believed to refer to pro-Ukraine and LGBT symbolism

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A Russian missile barrage has reportedly struck a US-supplied Patriot air-defense system in Kiev

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Elon Musk’s comparison of the influential billionaire to the Marvel villain is more complex than it seems

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The chief executive of OpenAI, the startup which created ChatGPT, Sam Altman, addressed a panel of United States lawmakers, on Tuesday (May 16), and said that regulation of the “increasingly powerful models” of artificial intelligence is “critical” to mitigate the risks the technology poses....

16/05/2023

More than 100 journalists and editors have called on Hong Kong authorities for immediate release of Jimmy Lai, a media tycoon who ran Apple Daily, a pro democracy newspaper in Hong Kong. The journalists and editors have signed an open letter. Jimmy Lai is currently in detainment and faces charges of...

16/05/2023

US President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy will meet on Tuesday to make progress on a deal to raise the US government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling. The meeting will be aimed at averting what the experts have cautioned as an economically catastrophic default that may beco...

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