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Quake of 7.4 magnitude collapses and severely damages buildings in several major cities, including Cali and Pereira
More than 80 people have died after a powerful earthquake struck western Colombia, collapsing and severely damaging scores of buildings in major cities including Cali and Pereira.
The US and Colombian geological surveys reported that a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck at 7.34am local time (13.34 BST) on Monday, with its epicentre in the western department of Chocó. It was also felt in neighbouring Venezuela, which is still reeling from a deadly double earthquake on 24 June.
Continue reading...Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has no interest in agreeing to a deal. For relief to come to Gaza, real US pressure must be exerted
At the end of July, Donald Trump announced that a “monumental” US-backed deal had been struck on Gaza, securing the phased disarmament of Hamas in parallel with Israeli military withdrawal. Three days later it was reported that another 18 people had died in Israeli airstrikes. Not for the first time, it appeared that Mr Trump’s rhetoric had only a distant relationship with the reality it purported to describe.
Such suspicions were duly confirmed yesterday. Under pressure from far-right members of his coalition, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, explicitly rejected the sequencing of a 15-point plan from the increasingly hapless Board of Peace – an international body set up by the US president – and poured scorn on “a wave of rumours of … Israeli withdrawals on all fronts”. In a direct message to the White House, Mr Netanyahu stated that “we know how to stand our ground, even against our best friends when necessary.”
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Continue reading...Privacy needs defending against invasive wearable gadgets. So far, businesses are ahead of the government
It is not yet clear to what extent Meta’s new smart glasses will live up to the nickname of “pervert glasses” – bestowed in recognition of the obvious appeal of wearable cameras to voyeurs. The past week has seen rising criticism of the devices, which in the UK have been banned by the pub chain Wetherspoons and the theatre group ATG, as well as restaurants, schools and members’ clubs. These organisations deserve praise for standing up for privacy. By contrast, regulators appear once again to be on the back foot.
There have, inevitably, already been reports of women being mistreated. Earlier this year the BBC spoke to several who had been filmed without their consent, with footage subsequently uploaded to social media. In one case, the content creator demanded a fee to remove it. In the year to March 2025, image-based sexual abuse and cyberflashing were responsible for more than half of an 11% increase in reported sexual offences in England and Wales. Normalisation of smart glasses would, clearly, make such offences easier to commit.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News & Headlines: Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym's coveted morning classes. It was a task he thought was well suited to this particular assistant because the booking form was online and because his assistant was not a person -- it was artificial intelligence (AI). But Andrew was shocked by what happened next. His AI assistant found a way to book the gym class months further in advance than the gym allowed, thanks to a vulnerability it discovered in the booking software. Then it went further, kicking someone out of the waiting list who was ahead of Andrew -- something it was not asked to do. The accidental hack is the first known Australian case of an emerging risk from a new generation of AI capable of behaving in unexpected ways.
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Nadine Visser (31) is al tien jaar een van de beste hordeloopsters ter wereld, maar won, vooral door blessures, nog nooit een internationale medaille in de buitenlucht. Dit jaar heeft ze nog niet verloren van een Europeaanse concurrente – en dus bieden de EK atletiek dé kans om af te rekenen met het verleden. „Het is tijd dat ze goud wint.”
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BOGOTÁ (ANP/RTR) - De Colombiaanse regering heeft de noodtoestand uitgeroepen na de zware aardbeving die het westen van het land heeft getroffen. Door de beving, met een kracht van 7.4, zijn veel gebouwen ingestort en zijn zeker tientallen mensen om het leven gekomen.
Door het uitroepen van de noodtoestand kan de regering makkelijker maatregelen nemen die nodig zijn voor snelle hulpverlening, schrijft nieuwszender Blu Radio. Er kan bijvoorbeeld eenvoudiger geld worden vrijgemaakt.
Hulpdiensten zijn bezig met het reddingswerk. In sommige steden zouden al mensen bevrijd zijn vanonder het puin van ingestorte gebouwen, maar volgens lokale autoriteiten zijn er nog mensen die vastzitten.
De kersverse president Abelardo de la Espriella zei dat hij naar het aardbevingsgebied zal afreizen om toe te zien op de hulpverlening.
MOSKOU (ANP/RTR) - De Russische liberale partij Jabloko mag volgende maand niet meedoen aan de parlementsverkiezingen. De enige officieel geregistreerde partij die openlijk tegen de oorlog in Oekraïne is, is door het hooggerechtshof uitgesloten van deelname.
De zaak was aangespannen door een kleine nationalistische partij die zeer pro-Kremlin is: Rodina. Volgens die partij had Jabloko donaties niet aangegeven, inclusief steun vanuit het Westen. Jabloko-oprichter Nikolaj Rybakov ontkende dat en noemde de zaak een politieke aanval op andersdenkenden.
Jabloko heeft laten weten in beroep te gaan. "Vrienden, laten we niet wanhopen", staat in een verklaring. Enkele honderden aanhangers van de partij hadden zich bij de rechtbank verzameld, een zeldzame vorm van verzet tegen de politieke onderdrukking in Rusland.
Kandidaten en partijen worden vaker uitgesloten van deelname aan de Russische verkiezingen. Partijen die nog wel mogen meedoen, steunen het Kremlin in meer of mindere mate.