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One million children in Afghanistan face deadly malnutrition
Some 3.7 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from wasting, one of the most dangerous forms of malnutrition, with around one million currently battling the most severe, life-threatening form of the condition.
As wars spread, the global food system unravels
A family with four children abandoned its farm in Somalia after armed groups arrived and demanded payments for the right to continue cultivating the land. They walked roughly 100 kilometers to a displacement camp. One of...
Rohingyas in Myanmar suffering ‘heartbreaking’ misery and cruelty
Members of the minority ethnic Rohingya Muslim group in Myanmar are “suffering, misery, and cruelty on multiple levels and across the country that is heartbreaking,” according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...
Land degradation is costing far more than restoring: UN deputy chief
Countries are spending too little to restore degraded land even as the economic cost of doing nothing climbs towards $1 trillion a year, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed warned at a major UN land conference in...
Mary E. Lovely on the costs of Trump’s trade war with Canada
Mary E. Lovely joins CNN International to discuss President Donald Trump’s trade war on Canada, what it means for not only small businesses on either side of the border but also the North American auto sector’s competiti...
Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original
A Blog post by Multiverse Computing on Hugging Face
Japan’s ‘2050 Weather Forecast’ highlights extreme heat in the future
As extreme heat becomes an increasingly visible reality across Japan, meteorologists, scientists, businesses and professional footballers are joining forces to encourage stronger climate action and raise awareness of the...
World Trade Flows Continue Recovery in June
World trade flows rose sharply in June, aided by the boom in artificial intelligence-related investment.
UN chief, Red Cross renew call for rules on lethal autonomous weapons
Amid unconfirmed reports that fully autonomous and AI-guided drones are now being used on the battlefield, UN chief António Guterres and the President of the Red Cross on Tuesday renewed their urgent call for stricter gl...
Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Can restoring land create jobs? These young entrepreneurs are proving it
From Ecuador to Bangladesh, a new generation of entrepreneurs is turning land restoration into economic opportunity. Whether repurposing agricultural waste, building greenhouses or deploying AI-powered sensors, they are...