05.07.2024, 10:35 45146
2024 World AI Conference on global governance opens in Shanghai
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A staff member demonstrates a two-foot robot that stays upright despite interference during the 2024 World AI Conference in Shanghai, east China, July 4, 2024, Xinhua reports.
The 2024 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance opened here on Thursday.
The World AI Conference focuses on the theme "Governing AI for Good and for All" this year, with aims to establish international cooperation and exchange platforms featuring openness, inclusiveness, and equal participation, advance global AI governance, and develop an open, fair and effective governance mechanism.
The conference brings together government officials, and representatives of international organizations, industries, universities and research institutes, among others.
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Five skiers died in avalanches in western Austria
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Five skiers were killed in avalanches in the Salzburg-Eben-im-Pongau area in the west of the Republic of Austria, iz.ru cites the CNN.
Four skiers died in a snowslide in the Gastein Valley, south of the city of Salzburg. (...) About 90 minutes earlier, a female skier died after being covered by an avalanche in the nearby Bad Hofgastein area," the article says.
It is specified that in the area where the bodies of four people were found, people who managed to survive were also identified: two of them were injured, and another remained unharmed. Four rescue helicopters participated in the search operations, as well as three teams of specialists: mountain rescue, dog training from the Red Cross and emergency response.
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17.01.2026, 19:58 9966
An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 occurred in Kamchatka
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An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 occurred in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Kamchatka. The readings were recorded on January 17 by the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, iz.ru reports.
Coordinates: 52.3950, 161.1986. Magnitude (Ml): 5.8," data on the seismic event is provided in the Telegram channel of scientists.
According to the RAS service, the tremor occurred at 18:46, its epicenter was located 190 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The earthquake was centered at a depth of 39.4 km. Later, data appeared on the seismologists' website that the magnitude of the earthquake in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was 4.7.
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16.01.2026, 14:48 13371
Ex-South Korean President sentenced to 5 years in prison over obstruction of justice, other charges
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Ex-South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday on charges including the obstruction of investigators' attempt to detain him last year, Yonhap reports.
The Seoul Central District Court handed down the sentence in the first ruling on charges stemming from Yoon's short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024.
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12.01.2026, 15:48 46201
China, Russia, Iran start 'BRICS Plus' naval exercises in South African waters
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China, Russia and Iran began a week of joint naval exercises in South Africa's waters on Saturday in what the host country described as a BRICS Plus operation to "ensure the safety of shipping and maritime economic activities", Reuters reports.
BRICS Plus is an expansion of a geopolitical bloc originally comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - and seen by members as a counterweight to U.S. and Western economic dominance - to include six other countries.
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11.01.2026, 18:10 55231
Chinese researchers develop "smart eyes" for grazing robots
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Chinese scientists have successfully developed a lightweight model for beef cattle behavior recognition from quadruped robot video in grassland pastures, improving the efficiency of herd feeding and management, Xinhua reports.
The lightweight model MASM-YOLO was proposed by the Agricultural Information Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the relevant research was published in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.
Accurate and rapid identification of typical cattle behaviors is fundamental to disease diagnosis, estrus monitoring, calving prediction, and health assessment.
MASM-YOLO enables precise multi-behavior detection under complex conditions, suitable for real-time execution on board a mobile robot.
By integrating the Multi-Scale Focus and Extraction Network, the Adaptive Decomposition and Alignment Head, and other technologies, MASM-YOLO addresses key challenges, including lighting variations, motion blur, and occlusions within cattle groups.
MASM-YOLO achieves rapid recognition of six typical behaviors of beef cattle, including feeding, resting, locomotion and licking. It strikes an optimal balance between recognition accuracy and computational efficiency.
This model provides key technical support for the full-scale development of grazing robots.
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10.01.2026, 19:36 61816
Wildfires have destroyed over 130 buildings in southeastern Australia
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As a result of forest fires in Victoria, which is located in the south-east of Australia, more than 130 buildings and residential buildings were destroyed, and 38 thousand people were left without electricity, iz.ru cites the Reuters.
Those involved in extinguishing the flames, which have already destroyed 300,000 hectares, said that these fires were the largest in the state since the "Black Summer" of 2019-2020, when an area the size of Turkey was burned out on the continent, killing 33 people in the state.
My thoughts are with the Australians in these regional communities at this very difficult time," the words of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese are quoted in the material.
Jacinta Allan, the prime minister of the state where wildfires are currently being recorded, said thousands of firefighters were trying to contain the fires and "bring them under control if possible."
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10.01.2026, 16:10 61506
An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 was recorded in Kamchatka
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An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 occurred in Kamchatka, iz.ru cites the Kamchatka branch of the Federal Research Center (FIT) of the Unified Geophysical Service (USGS) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
Coordinates: 161.2486, 52.8566 (...) Magnitude (Ml): 5.8," the earthquake data is provided in the Telegram channel of the service.
According to operational data, the seismic event was registered on January 10 at 19:57 local time (10:57 Moscow time). The earthquake was centered at a depth of 25.8 km, and the distance from the epicenter to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was 178 km.
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08.01.2026, 13:10 76681
U.S. intercepts tanker in the Caribbean as Russia raises legal objection
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U.S. authorities said they intercepted a tanker in the Caribbean during a pre-dawn operation, while Russia later said the vessel was legally registered under its flag and seized on the high seas, Qazinform News Agency reports.
U.S. Southern Command said the interdiction took place as part of Operation Southern Spear, describing the ship as a stateless, sanctioned tanker involved in illicit activity in international waters. According to the statement, the operation was carried out with the participation of the Department of War, the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Coast Guard. The tanker, identified as M/T Sophia, is being escorted to the United States for what officials called final disposition.
ussian authorities offered a different account. The Russian Ministry of Transport said the vessel, which it referred to as Marinera, had received temporary permission on December 24, 2025 to sail under the Russian flag in line with national legislation and international law. The ministry said that at about 3 p.m. Moscow time, U.S. naval forces boarded the ship in open waters beyond any state’s territorial sea, after which contact with the vessel was lost.
In its statement, the ministry cited the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, noting that freedom of navigation applies on the high seas and that states are not entitled to use force against vessels properly registered under another jurisdiction.
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