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Headlines of the week: 16-22 January 2023
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What is new in ChatGPT pro? Features and pricing explained — sportskeeda — 22 January 2023 (LINK)
First woman pastor in Holy Land ordained — BBC — 22 January 2023 (LINK)
David Beasley: WFP's unorthodox money magnet leaving as crises mount — devex — 21 January 2023 (LINK)
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Afghanistan: Top UN female officials meet the Taliban — dw — 21 January 2023 (LINK)
Search of Biden's home by DOJ finds 6 more classified documents — cnbc — 21 January 2023 (LINK)
CNET pauses its controversial AI-generated stories 'for now' — mashable — 21 January 2023 (LINK)
Russia has amassed a shadow fleet to ship its oil around sanctions — npr — 21 January 2023 (LINK)
Peru protests: Iconic Machu Picchu closed indefinitely — BBC — 21 January 2023 (LINK)
Brazil declares public health emergency for Yanomami people — APs — 21 January 2023 (LINK)
The U.S. debt ceiling and avoiding default with "extraordinary measures" — primarily suspending government pension investments, which will have to be made whole again when the ceiling has been increased or suspended — heathercoxrichardson — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
Ukraine Intelligence Busts Spies Helping Russia Hit Energy Supplies — thedailybeast — 20 January 2023 (LINK)
Nonprofit Registry Launches New Dot-Giving Domain to Help U.S. Charities Raise Money — philanthropy.com ● — 20 January 2023 (LINK)
US debt ceiling forces Treasury into 'extraordinary measures' — foxbusiness ● — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern to step down as Prime Minister on 7 February: "I no longer have enough in the tank to do [the job] justice": elections set for 14 October — AP — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
At WEF Davos 2023 Samantha Power, head of USAID, announces new $50m development fund designed to facilitate private sector involvement in global development — weforum — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
Climate misinformation 'rocket boosters' flourish on Musk's Twitter — AP — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
— Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, allowed nearly 4,000 advertisements on its site — most bought by fossil fuel companies — that dismissed the scientific consensus behind climate change and criticized efforts to respond to it, researchers found.
Tweets containing "climate scam" or other terms linked to climate change denial rose 300% in 2022, according to a report released last week by the nonprofit Advance Democracy. While Twitter had labeled some of the content as misinformation, many of the popular posts were not labeled.
The World Economy No Longer Needs Russia — foreignpolicy.com — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
Iran refuses to recognise Russia's annexation of Crimea and four other regions of Ukraine — novayagazeta.eu * — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
Argentina's bonds jump as government stuns market with US$1-billion buyback — batimes.com.ar — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
North Korea's nuke mine caves in: Tunnels collapse at Kim Jong Un's main source of uranium — * dailymail.co.uk — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
'The Coldest In Recent Years': At Least 70 killed by Afghan Cold Snap — ground.news: 36 sources — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
At least 145 people feared dead after Congo boat sinking — ground.news: 15 sources — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
Usain Bolt is missing $12+m from his investment portfolio, down to $2k, his manager says — ground.news: 90 sources — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
Amazon to lay off staff in US, Canada and Costa Rica by end of day — moneycontrol.com — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
Harvard Reverses Course toward Ken Roth, former head of Human Rights Watch, After a Nation Exposé that revealed his felowship was initially vetoed because of his criticisms of Israel. — thenation — 20 January 2023 (LINK)
Nature loss is an economic crisis — we need innovative solutions now — weforum — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
— The first "Sustainable Forest Economy Challenge" launched on 19 January at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting at Davos. The World Economic Forum estimates that over half of the world's GDP, $44 trillion of economic value, is at moderate or severe risk due to nature loss. It has called for project submissions by 1 March 2023.
CEOs at Davos are using ChatGPT to write work emails — CNN — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
Nikki Haley plotted with Kushner and Ivanka to be Trump vice-president, Pompeo book says — Guardian — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
Davos 2023: Uber not planning any company-wide layoffs, says CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — moneycontrol.com — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
Irish Taoiseach plans meetings with big tech at Davos — rte.ie — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
— Leo Varadkar said the scale of job losses in Microsoft globally could be in the range of 5-10% and that it was "almost always possible" to achieve those cuts through voluntary redundancies.
More than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis shows — Guardian — 18 January 2023 (LINK)
Witness: Bribes helped Fox execs get soccer TV rights — AP — 18 January 2023 (LINK)
Ten Chinese players face match-fixing charges — ground.news: 34 sources — 18 January 2023 (LINK)
Macau Ex-Junket Boss Alvin Chau Sentenced to 18 Years Prison — bloomberg ● — 18 January 2023 (LINK)
'Big Oil peddled the big lie': UN chief calls out fossil fuel giants for ignoring climate science — euronews — 18 January 2023 (LINK)
ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove — nature — 18 January 2023 (LINK)
Twitter is reportedly struggling to break even as advertisers continue to flee — engadget — 18 January 2023 (LINK)
U.S. slaughterhouse gas chambers are not humane, say activists who installed spy cameras for first time — wired ● — 18 January 2023 (LINK)
<Ghanaian pastor jailed 519 years by an Accra Circuit Court: found guilty on 173 counts of conspiracy to commit a crime and defrauding by false pretences — ghpage.com — 19 January 2023 (LINK)
— The accused persons and the two complainants all live at Dansoman Community in Accra: The complainants put US$7K and US$6K into the convict's company. Over 100 more also complained. He promised police to make repayment but did not.
The 4 Best AI Generator Tools For Writing Essays, Blogs & More: HiveMind, JasperAI, Ryter AI, ChatGZP — hive.com — 18 January 2023 (LINK)
— ChatGPT Pros: Open source platform. It can be used to build complex conversational applications. Easy-to-use APIs. ChatGPT Cons: Lacks the advanced features of other popular AI tools on the market.Limited support for languages other than English.
Four Techniques AI can be used for Crypto trading: Crypto and AI — cryptopolitans — 18 January 2023 (LINK)
10 New Words Added to the Oxford English Dictionary for 2023: agrivoltaics, coda, crash diet, dap, final girl, mononym, parasocial, porch pirate, superyacht, textspeak — rd.com — 18 January 2023 (LINK)
CNN reports on Biden family's shady business dealings over two years after NY Post, gets panned by critics> — foxnews ● — 18 January 2023 (LINK)
World's oldest person, French nun Sister Andre, dies at 118 -retirement home — ground.news: 341 sources — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
Netherlands Commits $10 Million for Unctad's Work on the Digital Economy and Business and Investment Facilitation — unctad — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
EU outlines plan for clean tech future boosted by subsidies — AP — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
New Initiative to Help Unlock $3 Trillion Needed a Year for Climate and Nature — cnbcafrica.com — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
— New initiative, Giving to Amplify Earth Action (GAEA), will leverage philanthropic capital to help generate the $3 trillion needed each year from public and private sources to tackle climate change and nature loss. GAEA is a ground-breaking initiative supported by more than 45 major philanthropic, public and private sector partners
Over 80 companies have committed to investing in trees by conserving, restoring, and growing over 7 billion trees in over 65 countries. The global goal to conserve, restore and grow 1 trillion trees — weforum — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
Vietnamese president resigns, criticized for major scandals — ground.news: 78 sources — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
'Brutal' Layoffs at Goldman Sachs Reflect Global Economic Pain — tech.co — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
Want to work from home? These European countries are the most open to hybrid or remote work — euronews — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
— The Netherlands is way out in front: 65% of the working population worked at least partially remotely in 2022, with Luxembourg coming in second place with 54.4 per cent, and Sweden third with 51.8 per cent. The proportion of remote workers in the Netherlands is four times higher than in the UK or the United States, according to the data.
The Forum of City Mayors is officially established at UNECE — unece.org — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
— The third edition of the Forum of Mayors will be held in Geneva on 2-3 October 2023, before the 84th Session of the Committee on Urban Development, Housing, and Land Management (3-6 October 2023).
WEF Davos 2023 organizers: Elon Musk wasn't invited despite what he says — ground.news: 31 sources — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
'Succession' has nothing on Davos: Elite conclave mulls next leader — politico — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
— Schwab has grown WEF's $6,000 startup capital in 1971 into a $390 million a year business, turning a once sleepy organization into the think tank world's FIFA.
Brixton Academy security guards regularly 'took bribes' to let people in without tickets — ground.news: 15 sources — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
Corruption scandal at top of Thai parks agency has far-reaching impacts, activists say — mongabay — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
French football federation president Le Graet under investigation for moral and sexual harassment — ground.news: 29 sources — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
ChatGTP: three steps to master this AI tool — uk.finance.yahoo.com — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
ChatGPT 101 for HR Pros — shrm.org — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
— Test it out and see if you can write a better job description faster than ChatGPT can. I bet you can't, because ChatGPT will give it to you in under two seconds.
Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content — theverge — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
Physicists Say This Is the Best Place to Hide Indoors From a Nuclear Shockwave — gizmodo — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
Bulgaria to the rescue: How the EU's poorest country secretly saved Ukraine — politico.eu — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
Scientists have tried to reverse ageing for decades. Have they finally cracked it? — smh.com.au — 17 January 2023 (LINK)
Sweden, Finland Must Send up to 130 'Terrorists' to Turkey for NATO Bid — usnews — 16 January 2023 (LINK)
'All fighting for their motherland': Russia denies tensions between army and Wagner force — afp /firstpost.com — 16 January 2023 (LINK)
Russia — Ukraine war: 'Unstoppable' nuclear torpedo to devastate cities with radioactive tsunamis built by Russia — nzherald — 16 January 2023 (LINK)
Chief Executives, Economists Brace for Recession as Davos Begins: Two fifths fear company failure within decade, PWC poll finds — bloomberg ● — 16 January 2023 (LINK)
Economic woes, war, climate change on tap for Davos meeting — AP — 16 January 2023 (LINK)
The story of day one at Davos 2023 — wweforum — 16 January 2023 (LINK)
Why so many humanitarian crises are 'forgotten', and 5 ideas to change that — thenewhumanitarian — 16 January 2023 (LINK)
Italy's most-wanted Mafia boss nabbed in Palermo, Sicily, private clinic after 30 years on run: last of three longtime fugitive top-level Mafia bosses who had for decades eluded capture — ground.news: 132 sources — 16 January 2023 (LINK)
London police officer admits to dozens of offenses against women, including 24 cases of rape — CNN — 16 January 2023 (LINK)
— Guardian: The Met could have stopped police rapist David Carrick — how can it have failed yet again? During Carrick's 20 years of service, chances to investigate him were repeatedly missed. Instead, he was promoted (a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/16/the-met-police-rapist-david-carrick-failed-yet-again" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">LINK )
Jailed Iranian American Launches 7-day Hunger Strike in Appeal to Biden — ground.news: 64 sources — 16 January 2023 (LINK)
At least 68 dead after plane carrying 72 crashes near Nepal airport, the country's deadliest airplane accident in three decades — ground.news: 419 sources — 15 January 2023 (LINK)
Peru Declares State of Emergency in Lima and 3 more regions Over Protests — ground.news: 54 sources — 15 January 2023 (LINK)
Suspected Islamists kill at least 5 people in east Congo church bomb attack — ground.news: 75 sources — 15 January 2023 (LINK)
Former Afghan female lawmaker and bodyguard shot dead by assailants at home in Kabul: Mursal Nabizada was among the few female parliamentarians who stayed in Kabul after the Taliban seized power in August 2021 — ground.news: 38 sources — 15 January 2023 (LINK)
More Heavy Weapons For Ukraine 'In The Near Future': NATO Chief — ground.news: 5 sources — 15 January 2023 (LINK)
Tens of thousands of Spanish health workers protest for better future against conservative regional government — ground.news: 17 sources — 15 January 2023 (LINK)
Thousands of Tunisians rally against president on revolution anniversary — ground.news: 61 sources — 15 January 2023 (LINK)
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says UAE oil boss is a 'terrific choice' to oversee UN climate talks — fortune.com ● — 16 January 2023 (LINK)
— "I think that Dr. Sultan al-Jaber is a terrific choice because he is the head of the company. That company knows it needs to transition," Kerry said after attending an energy conference in the Emirati capital. "He knows — and the leadership of the UAE is committed to transitioning."
Davos 2023: Climate activists protest over 'big oil hijacking debate' — ground.news: 10 sources — 15 January 2023 (LINK)
— The annual meeting of global business and political leaders in Switzerland starts on Monday. It will be attended by some 1,500 business leaders, including major energy firms like BP, Chevron and Saudi Aramco. Scores of climate activists have gathered in Davos to protest against the role of big oil companies at the World Economic Forum (WEF). Global threats including climate change are on the agenda.
Gina Lollobrigida, often described as "the most beautiful woman in the world", dies at 95 — ground.news: 162 sources — 16 January 2023 (LINK)
— Last year, she ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Italian Senate, telling newspaper Corriere della Sera before the country's elections: "I was just tired of hearing politicians arguing with each other without ever getting to the point."
