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The Russian government has written off over $20 billion of debt historically owed by African nations, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. President Putin who announced the debts forgiveness at a plenary session of the Russia-Africa forum in St. Petersburg, also said that Moscow would allocate more funds to help…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the trade turnover between Russia and African countries had increased by almost 35% in the first half of 2023 despite international sanctions and the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at a trilateral meeting with the Chairperson of the African Union, President of the Union…

Yael Tauman Kalai’s breakthroughs secure the digital world, from cloud computing to our quantum future. Yael Tauman Kalai, a cryptographer at Microsoft’s New England Research and Development Center, focuses on ways to safeguard computations. Katherine Taylor for Quanta Magazine IntroductionYael Tauman Kalai is a pioneering theoretical computer scientist who’s won…

Alibaba’s cloud and computing division has added Meta’s recently released large language model Llama2 into ModelScope, an open-source “model-as-a-service” platform owned by the e-commerce giant. This enables Chinese corporations to train their own AI models or develop applications based on Llama2. The move coincides with the cloud unit’s preparations for…

T aoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he does not think the Irish Government would offer condolences to Russia in the event of Vladimir Putin’s death. Mr Varadkar was responding to a question relating to Ireland’s historical foreign policy. He said he did not believe an Irish delegation would be present…

Published By: Saurabh Verma Last Updated: July 26, 2023, 22:13 IST Brussels, Belgium The EU has already imposed repeated rounds of sanctions on Minsk over Lukashenko's brutal repression of the opposition since 2020 and the war in Ukraine. (Image: Reuters File) Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is the closest ally of…

Gaming content and services revenues up 5%, thanks to third-party titles and Game Pass Xbox revenues remained relatively flat for the final quarter of Microsoft's financial year, showing a 1% increase for the three months ended June 30. Microsoft's Q4 results show the company's total revenue was up 8% year-on-year…

The bill, which was approved unanimously by both houses of parliament, bans any ‘medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person’ The bill also annuls marriages in which one person has ‘changed gender’ and bars transgender people from becoming foster or adoptive parents Published: 2:35am, 25 Jul, 2023…

Russia's president Vladimir Putin signed the digital ruble bill into law today, allowing the country's central bank to issue its own digital currency. The digital ruble, which the Bank of Russia has long been mulling over, will be used for payments along with other methods, according to the new amendments…