Author: News Desk

Iceland: The national broadcast service of Iceland announces that Halla Tomasdottir, an investor and businesswoman, has emerged victorious in the presidential election of Iceland, defeating a field of contenders that included three women in the top three positions. Tomasdottir, 55, defeated former prime minister Katrin Jakobsdottir (25.2 percent) and Halla Hrund Logadottir (15.5 percent) to win the mostly ceremonial position with 34.3 percent of the vote, RUV reported on Sunday. Tomasdottir is now on leave from her position as CEO of The B Team, a global nonprofit organization with offices in New York and London that was formed by British…

Singapore: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned on Sunday that China’s backing of Russia will prolong the conflict in Ukraine. He was also urging nations in the Asia-Pacific region to attend a peace conference that he said Russia was attempting to obstruct. During a surprise visit to a gathering of defence chiefs from the Asia-Pacific region, which included China and the US, Zelenskyy made the remarks in Singapore. It takes place ahead of the international peace conference on Ukraine that is scheduled to take place in Switzerland on June 15–16. “I held a meeting with leading investment companies in Singapore. Even…

North Korea: North Korea has increased the number of trash balloon operations it has carried out. According to Seoul officials, 600 of these airborne waste delivery have floated into South Korea, leaving bits of paper, cloth, and cigarette butts scattered over the nation. In contrast to a few days prior, when used toilet paper was discovered in some of the roughly 150 balloons that crossed the border, the Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korea declared on Saturday night that “no substances harmful to safety have been found” among the balloons that entered the nation. In the most recent images…

United States: The first crewed test flight of Boeing’s new Starliner space capsule has been delayed for at least twenty-four hours due to the cancellation of the launch countdown. On Saturday, the postponement was revealed live on a NASA livestream. Launch projections earlier in the day had indicated a 90 percent possibility of favorable weather. However, according to mission authorities, a ground system computer initiated an automatic abort command fewer than four minutes before liftoff, pausing the countdown clock. The CST-200 Starliner’s first trip to the International Space Station (ISS) with astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams has been eagerly…

Russia: Russian forces have launched a missile and drone attack across Ukraine, damaging energy infrastructure in five regions, according to Ukrainian officials. The attacks affected facilities in the eastern Donetsk, southeast Zaporizhia, and Dnipropetrovsk areas, as well as the central and western regions of Kirovohrad and Ivano-Frankivsk, according to a statement released on Saturday by Ukrenergo, the national grid operator of Ukraine. Russia, which began a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. According to the air force commander, the Ukrainian air defense downed 46 out of 47 Russian drones and…

United States: Images of upside-down American flags have steadily appeared on social media following Donald Trump’s historic guilty verdict. Trump’s supporters and right-wing commentators are using these images to protest his felony conviction. As the former president of the United States, a Republican, discussed the trial on Friday, at least one of these flags was seen outside Trump Tower in New York City. Along with his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and longstanding ally, Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former president’s daughter-in-law and co-chair of the Republican National Committee, have been posting pictures of inverted flags on the internet. Following…

Nowadays, younger generations of kids are more likely to trust the advice of machines than that of their own family members due to the comprehensive availability of technology. In a research with 111 children ages 3 to 6, the kids indicated a bias for giving robots more credence and showing greater tolerance for errors made by the robots. The study is published in Computers in Human Behavior. After being divided into many groups, the youngsters watched movies of humans and robots naming both new and familiar objects. The reliability of humans and robots was tested by misnaming common objects—calling a…

United States: The artificial intelligence company OpenAI has declared that it has stopped secret influence operations coming from Iran, China, Russia, and Israel. “Deceptive attempts to manipulate public opinion or influence political outcomes without revealing the true identity or intentions of the actors behind them” are what the creators of ChatGPT said they had discovered in five campaigns. The ads created text and photos using OpenAI’s models, which were then shared on social media sites including Instagram, X, and Telegram. According to OpenAI, in certain instances, the campaigns took advantage of the tools to create content that had “fewer language…

United States: US President Joe Biden has eased ban on the country employing US weaponry inside Russian territory to assist Ukraine in fending off an invasion of its northeastern Kharkiv region. Speaking under oath, a number of US officials informed various media outlets on Thursday that Kyiv will be permitted to employ the weaponry on the border of the Kharkiv region, which was subject to a fresh round of Russian attacks earlier this month. Biden’s decision, which comes as France and other European nations have signaled that Ukraine will be permitted to deploy its weapons on military targets within Russia,…

United States: Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial in New York concluded with his conviction on all 34 counts of falsifying corporate records. Trump criticizes Judge Merchan, who oversaw the case, and refers to the decision as a “disgrace.” Not only is Trump the first former president to be convicted of a felony, but he is also the first presidential candidate from a major party to be found guilty of a crime while running for office. Furthermore, if he wins over President Joe Biden in November, he will become the first-ever sitting president who has a criminal record. After nearly two…