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The worrisome proliferation of child sexual abuse images on the internet could escalate dramatically unless action is taken to regulate artificial intelligence tools capable of generating deepfake photos, warns a vigilant watchdog agency. The agency’s concerns were raised on Tuesday. In a meticulously prepared report, the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation …

A Canadian innovator has secured a place on Time Magazine’s prestigious list of the 200 most remarkable inventions of 2023. Naqi Logix, the brainchild behind this groundbreaking technology, boasts patented earbud technology equipped with gyroscopic sensors and muscle and brainwave sensors. These cutting-edge features empower users to effortlessly and hands-free …

Canada and Taiwan have successfully concluded negotiations on a bilateral agreement aimed at bolstering foreign investment, with both nations committed to ensuring its swift implementation, as affirmed by Canadian Trade Minister Mary Ng and Taiwan’s government on Tuesday. Taiwan, in the face of mounting military and political pressures from China …

A poison specialist and former medical resident at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota is charged with fatally poisoning his wife, a 32-year-old pharmacist who died days after she went to a hospital in August with stomach distress. Authorities say Connor Bowman, 30, tried to stop the autopsy on his wife, Betty …

Washington — Republicans will try again Wednesday to find a path to the next House speaker with GOP Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, their fourth nominee in three weeks — and the second nominee in a single day. Johnson won his party’s nomination late Tuesday night, hours after Majority Whip …

Canadian police found five people dead from gunshots, including three children and the alleged shooter, at two border city residences in a case described on Tuesday as “an unspeakable tragedy.” The victims were discovered late Monday in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, near the juncture of three Great Lakes bordering Michigan, …

New Delhi: In September this year, 8,076 Indians were arrested by United States’s law enforcement agencies when they tried to enter the country illegally through various routes. Of the total, 3,059 Indians were arrested from the US-Canada border alone, data from the US Customs and Border Protection has revealed. The …

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez returned to Manhattan federal court Monday to challenge a new criminal charge alleging that he conspired to act as an agent of the Egyptian government when he chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “Not guilty,” Menendez, 69, said when Judge Sidney H. Stein asked him for …

At least 17 people were killed and scores injured on Monday after two trains collided in eastern Bangladesh, police said. A passenger train crashed into a freight train in Bhairab, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) northeast of the capital Dhaka. “Seventeen bodies have been recovered and many injured taken to …

China’s top diplomat will come to Washington Thursday for a three-day visit, the latest move by Washington and Beijing to keep high-level talks open amid tense bilateral relations. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is scheduled to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan over …