The World Health Organization (WHO) has drafted a pandemic treaty after years of negotiations. The international agreement means that countries and international organizations will work together better to prevent and combat crises such as the corona pandemic. “This treaty is a victory for public health, science and broad cooperation,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus […]
The search for the missing Jeffrey (10) and Emma (8) continues unabated on Tuesday. The search is being conducted in multiple locations in Groningen. Police fear for the children’s lives. A search in the Carel Coenraadpolder in Groningen yielded nothing on Monday evening. “There are renewed searches at various locations in, among others, (East) Groningen,”
The Brit William Goodge has covered the 3,800 kilometers between Perth and Sydney in 35 days. Along the way, he lost his toenails and suffered from hallucinations. He raised money to help cancer patients. His mother died of the disease. Goodge ran about a hundred kilometers every day, the equivalent of two and a half
The former US President Joe Biden is grateful for all the support he has received after it was announced on Sunday that he has metastatic prostate cancer. “Cancer affects us all,” he writes on X. “We are at our strongest in moments when things are not going well,” reads the short statement from the 82-year-old
A chatbot, with some information about its opponent, can debate better than most people. This is according to a new study in Nature Human Behavior. According to scientists, it raises questions about how AI can manipulate opinions online. For the study, three hundred participants were paired with human opponents in an online debate. Another group
Als een chatbot wat informatie krijgt over zijn tegenpartij, kan die in een debat met betere argumenten komen. Dat blijkt uit een nieuwe studie in Nature Human Behavior. Volgens wetenschappers roept het vragen op over hoe AI online meningen kan manipuleren. Voor het onderzoek werden driehonderd deelnemers gekoppeld aan menselijke tegenstanders in een online debat.
Near Düsseldorf, a man was arrested on Monday evening on suspicion of stabbing five people in a bar in the West German city of Bielefeld. The suspect is reportedly a Syrian man with a residence permit. According to the police, the arrested man is “almost certainly” the main suspect in the stabbing on Sunday, according
Wolves living in the Netherlands mainly eat deer and wild boars. Sheep are not often on the menu. Remarkably, there is a relatively large proportion of cattle that are eaten. Although these are mainly cattle that live in nature reserves in Drenthe. Wolves in the Netherlands prefer to hunt deer. This is evident from new
The House of Representatives will vote on Tuesday afternoon on the NSC’s plan to allow people to choose whether they want to transfer their pension money to the new system. The proposal caused a lot of controversy and divides the House to the core. About 2.5 years ago, the House of Representatives approved the new
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled in favor of Equatorial Guinea in a decades-long dispute with Gabon over three tiny islands. The West African countries claim the islands because of potentially present oil and gas reserves. The two countries have been arguing over the mini-archipelago since the 1970s. Equatorial Guinea claims the islands