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The American giant Google announced on Tuesday that Brazil would be the first country to test a system using artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically block smartphones using the Android system in the event of theft. The largest country in Latin America was not chosen by chance: there are nearly two …

U.S. President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was convicted Tuesday in federal criminal court of illegal gun possession in 2018, against a backdrop of drug addiction, U.S. media reported. The 12-person jury at the Wilmington court in Delaware (East), answered “yes” to all three counts: two on lying in the …

The K-pop group Seventeen, among the most popular in the world, will become a UNESCO “goodwill ambassador” on June 26, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization announced on Tuesday. “Seventeen and UNESCO share the same desire to give young people the means to lead change and meet the challenges …

Three people were injured, including one seriously, on Friday June 7, in two shark attacks in Walton County, Florida, in the United States, USA Today reported. The first, a 45-year-old woman, lost her left arm after being attacked off the beach in the town of Watersound. She had to be …

Canadian authorities announced on Thursday that they had dismantled a vast migrant smuggling network accused of having transported hundreds of people from Canada to the United States for a year. The network charged thousands of dollars to migrants, who had already arrived in Canada but came from elsewhere, and helped …

More than one in four children under the age of 5 in the world live in “severe food poverty”, or more than 180 million children who risk serious after-effects due to lack of a nutritious and diversified diet, Unicef warns. A “shocking” number of children “survive on a very poor …

An American citizen was found guilty of the femicide in 2023 of a locally renowned Colombian DJ, whose body was found in a trash can in the capital, Bogota. He was sentenced this Tuesday, June 4, to more than 42 years in prison. “A prosecutor (…) demonstrated during the proceedings …

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday it was “very concerned” by the tightening of American immigration policy, announced earlier by President Joe Biden, urging Washington to reconsider its decisions. President Biden, campaigning for his re-election, signed an executive order that will prevent migrants who entered …

The mayor of a town in western Mexico was assassinated this Monday, June 3, barely 24 hours after the triumphant election of the country’s first woman, Claudia Sheinbaum, the regional government said. The government of the state of Michoacan condemned “the homicide of the municipal president (editor’s note: mayor) of …

Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles said that from July looser eligibility criteria would allow “permanent residents who have lived in Australia for 12 months” to serve in its military. Recruitment of British, Canadian, New Zealand and American citizens will be favored, he added. Australia has a very large coastline but …