Japan sets conditions for aid to North Korea, Israel closes border with Gaza
(Baonghean.vn) - In the past 24 hours, there has been a lot of interesting news in the world such as: Israel closed the border with Gaza, bloody violence in Burundi, Japan asked North Korea to release kidnapped citizens...
Israel closes border with Gaza
Israel closes Kerem Shalom border crossing, which is the main port of entry for Israeli goods into the Gaza Strip. Photo: Reuters |
The Israeli military said on May 12 that it was closing Israel's main cargo crossing into the Gaza Strip because of damage caused to the crossing by Palestinian protesters.
Israel stressed that the Kerem Shalom crossing would remain closed until the "large-scale damage" was repaired.
On May 11, the Israeli military said a group of Palestinians set fire to a fuel storage complex and conveyor belt on the Palestinian side of the crossing, causing more than $9 million in damage and disrupting imports of diesel and construction materials. The attack left a major pipeline carrying gas and oil unusable.
Former Malaysian Prime Minister and his wife banned from leaving the country
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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. Photo:Reuters. |
Former Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife are banned from leaving Malaysia, after losing the election.
"The Immigration Department has just blacklisted Mr. Najib and Ms. Rosmah, preventing them from leaving the country,"AFPquoted Mustafar Ali, Director-General of Immigration Malaysia, as saying today.
"I have just been informed by the Malaysian immigration department that my family and I are not allowed to leave the country. I respect the decision and will stay in the country with my family," Mr. Najib announced on Twitter.
Bloody violence ahead of referendum in Burundi
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| Bloody violence ahead of referendum in Burundi. Source: Saga webradio |
On May 12, Burundi officials announced that 26 people were killed and 7 others were injured in an attack in the northwest of the country.
The incident occurred just before the referendum scheduled to take place on May 17 on extending President Pierre Nkurunziza's term in power for another 16 years.
Burundi Security Minister Alain Guillaume Bunyoni said the attack by an armed group took place in a village in Cibitoke province, which borders the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, and lasted for about an hour.
Japan asks North Korea to release abducted citizens
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that Tokyo would withhold economic aid if Pyongyang did not resolve the issue of Japanese citizens abducted by the country decades ago.
Japan believes North Korea kidnapped at least 17 of its citizens in the 1970s and 1980s to train agents as spies.
After decades of denial, North Korea admitted in 2002 that it had abducted 13 of them and allowed five to return to Japan. Pyongyang said the remaining eight were dead, but Japanese officials and their families did not believe that.
America allows freedom to develop artificial intelligence
Michael Krazius, deputy director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said President Donald Trump will allow artificial intelligence technology to “grow freely.”
Speaking at the first-ever US government meeting on artificial intelligence, Krazius said: “The federal government will do its best to give scientists and technologists the freedom to research and develop the next generation of great inventions.”
Companies and experts say that in the fields of privacy and cybersecurity, artificial intelligence is raising ethical concerns. In addition, future artificial intelligence will force humans to be "fired" in some fields.
Krazius said it was difficult to avoid the impact on jobs from artificial intelligence, but hoped “the market will eventually resolve this contradiction”.
