Israeli strike: UN condemns the deaths of six of its collaborators

In an Israeli strike against a school housing displaced persons in the Gaza Strip, which killed a total of 18 people, including women and children, the UN condemned the deaths of six of its collaborators on Thursday. UN boss Antonio Guterres “condemned the deaths of at least 18 people, including children, women and six employees of UNRWA (the agency for Palestinian refugees), in Israeli airstrikes that hit a school used as a shelter in Nousseirat” in the center of the Gaza Strip. Israel, for its part, said it had targeted Palestinian Hamas “terrorists” during this latest attack by its army on Wednesday against a school transformed into a camp for displaced persons in the Palestinian territory devastated by more than 11 months of war

Ukraine: Putin warns Westerners

Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the threat of a “war with NATO countries” on Thursday if Westerners allowed Ukraine to deeply strike Russian territory with the long-range missiles delivered to it.

These statements by Mr. Putin come while the American Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Poland on Thursday the day after a visit to Kiev, and on the eve of a meeting on the issue between American President Joe Biden and Prime Minister British Keir Starmer.

Corruption and crimes against humanity: Peru begins a three-day national mourning

Peru began a three-day national mourning on Thursday, the day after the death of Alberto Fujimori, who ruled the country with an iron fist between 1990 and 2000 and spent the last years of his life in prison for corruption and crimes against humanity. The former strongman of Peru died Wednesday at his home in Lima after being treated for oral cancer.

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A round of negotiations on global climate finance concluded on Thursday in Baku with no real progress.

The body of American-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, killed during a demonstration in the occupied West Bank, is expected Friday in Turkey.

The verdict in the “coup attempt” trial that the Democratic Republic of Congo's army says it foiled in May is due to be pronounced on Friday by a military court.

A new kind of generative artificial intelligence (AI) model was launched on Thursday by OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. He is able to reason and answer more complex questions, especially mathematical ones. In this way, OpenAI hopes to reduce the risk of hallucinations