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How much of robots have we become?

Never has the combination of computer and Internet technologies been so much needed as now. Over the past eight months the trend towards more “everything online and remotely” has increased significantly, probably exponentially.

And yet, until this very point in time, the human factor seems impossible to erase or to avoid completely. One way or another, in countless situations, only a direct interaction between human beings, in person or over the phone... Читать дальше...

PARIS — Even if humanity stopped emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow, Earth will warm for centuries to come and oceans will rise by metres, according to a controversial modelling study published Thursday.

AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah is scheduled to participate, on November 16, in the 2020 Bloomberg New Economy Forum, which will be held virtually between 16 and 19 November.

ANKARA — A Russian delegation will visit Turkey on Friday to discuss the creation of a joint centre for monitoring a truce deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Turkish foreign minister said.

BEIRUT — An adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron met top Lebanese officials on Thursday in a desperate bid to save a plan Paris put forward to rescue the country's agonising economy.

AMMAN — Police managed to arrest a man, shown firing a small mortar-like weapon, by reviewing recent videos went viral on social media, Public Security Directorate’s (PSD) spokesperson said on Thursday.

AMMAN — Women’s rights activists on Thursday said that the disappointing results for women candidates in the parliamentary elections was expected due to “male dominance” on the proportional lists.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel has approved building of about 100 settlement homes at the same site where settlement expansion plans unveiled during a 2010 visit by then-US vice president Joe Biden angered Washington, an NGO said on Thursday.

ARBAT, Iraq — Speaking into a microphone in her modest studio, Sherin Mohammad goes live with the news. But this is no typical radio station: Gardenya FM is run by, and for, Syrian refugees.