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Russian laws must be amended to facilitate the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI), Vladimir Putin said. The Russian President had earlier asserted that AI will become the key to world dominance in the future. The solutions based on AI may be more expensive than traditional ones at the start, but “afterwards, they’ll provide…

President Donald Trump has said that “nothing changes,” following Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s public statement on the ‘Russiagate’ investigation. The president declared that “the case is closed.” “Nothing changes from the Mueller Report,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday. “There was insufficient evidence and therefore, in our Country, a person is innocent. The case is closed! Thank…

Jordan’s King Abdullah told US President Donald Trump’s adviser, Jared Kushner, that a lasting Middle East peace can only come with the creation of a Palestinian state on land captured by Israel in a 1967 war, and with east Jerusalem as its capital, Reuters said. Kushner is leading a US delegation to the Middle East…

Venezuela’s inflation has been soaring dramatically and reached 130,060 percent in 2018, the country’s central bank said in its first report on key economic indicators since 2015. The latest data from the watchdog released on Tuesday means that an item that cost 1 bolivar in 2017, cost 1,300 bolivares a year later. Even compared to…

The Israeli military wants the International Criminal Court to butt out of its affairs, its top military prosecutor has declared in response to efforts to hold it to account for its use of live fire against Palestinian protesters. “Israel is a law-abiding country, with an independent and strong judicial system, and there is no reason…

Prominent Turkish journalist Kadri Gursel has been sent back to prison in connection with convictions on terror charges handed down last year to an opposition newspaper. Gursel, who previously wrote for the Cumhuriyet newspaper, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for “knowingly and willingly aiding a terror group without being a member.” He tweeted…

Politicians behind recent police raids in the Serb-dominated part of Kosovo ultimately want to wall the Balkans off from Russia and rope the region’s states into NATO, Sergey Lavrov has said. Dubbing Tuesday’s Kosovan special forces incursion into the Serb-majority northern areas of the breakaway region a “provocation” the Russian foreign minister also elaborated on…

A ‘sexist’ ad in a British car magazine has been banned for “objectifying women.” The ad featured no nudity and was banned after a single complaint from a disgruntled reader. PC gone mad? The ad for Strasse, a Porsche garage in Leeds, ran in the February edition of 911 and Porsche World Magazine. Captioned “Attractive…

A Berlin area branch of the right-wing anti-migrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has faced backlash after posting and then deleting a photoshopped map calling the west and the south of the country a “German Caliphate.” The graphic, posted by AfD’s Berlin-Lichtenberg Facebook page a day after the European Parliament vote ended, featured the flag…

The EU’s enlargement report on Turkey does not accurately assess the current situation in the country and it is not possible to accept the unfair criticism it offers, Deputy Foreign Minister Faruk Kaymakci said on Wednesday. In the report, released earlier in the day, the EU cited “further serious backsliding” in Turkey’s judicial system and…