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Geneva Conventions Turn 75. Do The Laws Of War Have A Chance In Today's Era?
This week marked 75 years since the adoption of the Geneva Conventions on August 12 1949. In theory, these rules of war are universally agreed by every nation. In practice, they are routinely violated everywhere.
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UN to Hold ‘AI for Good Global Summit’, Will Bring Experts From Microsoft, Amazon to Discuss AI Framework
The "AI for Good Global Summit", being held in Geneva on Thursday and Friday, will bring together around 3,000 experts from companies like Microsoft and Amazon as well as from universities and international organisations to try to sculpt frameworks for handling AI.
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Expansion Of Universe Could Be A Mirage, Says Study
In a paper published on June 2 in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, Lucas Lombriser, a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Geneva, describes the revolutionary new approach.
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An Unusual Exchange At UN Rights Council Over India's T20 World Cup Exit
India's disheartening loss to England in the T20 Cricket World Cup semifinal in Australia was felt in far-away Geneva where the UN Human Rights Council was meeting to examine India's human rights record under the Universal Periodic Review process.
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Fast and Furious Female Spin-Off Gearing Up With 3 Female Writers, Vin Diesel Says
A female-centred Fast and Furious spin-off is moving forward with Nicole Perlman, Lindsey Beer, and Geneva Robertson-Dworet attached as screenwriters, Vin Diesel has announced.
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India Committed To Achieving Universal Health Coverage: Health Minister JP Nadda
Union Health Minister JP Nadda, who is leading the Indian delegation at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, said India is committed to achieving universal health coverage for its citizens as mentioned in the National Health Policy 2017.
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2016 Geneva Motor Show: Five Best and Worst Cars
The Geneva auto show is probably the most glamorous of all auto shows. This year's show, however, was overshadowed by the diesel scandal triggered by an ongoing feud between the North American EPA and Volkswagen. Electrification became a more universal topic than in past years. Here is our strictly subjective list of the Five Best and the Five Wors...
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'Try Stopping Kerry' Says White House After Envoy Breaks Leg
US Secretary of State John Kerry will fly home for treatment Monday after breaking his leg in a cycling accident in the French Alps, putting America's chief diplomat temporarily out of commission.
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Physicists Achieve Longer Distance Quantum Teleportation
The experiment, conducted over optical fibre at the University of Geneva, beat the team's previous record in 2003 of six kilometres.
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World's Largest Solar Boat on Greek Prehistoric Mission
The world's largest solar boat, the catamaran PlanetSolar, will embark on a Greek mission to find one of the oldest sites inhabited by man in Europe, an organiser said earlier today.
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Geneva Motorshow: Hyundai reveals IED PassoCorto Concept
Hyundai introduced the world to a new design study created in conjunction with students at one of Italy's top industrial design universities, at the Geneva Motorshow.
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Is Iran borrowing North Korea's nuclear playbook?
Critics of the deal to cap Iran's nuclear programme say it repeats mistakes made with North Korea, but analysts say there is little to suggest Tehran will follow Pyongyang's path of broken promises to a nuclear bomb.
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Peter Higgs and Francois Englert: men behind the 'God particle'
For someone who helped unleash the first great scientific discovery of the 21st century, Britain's Peter Higgs is a remarkably low-tech man.
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Physicists unveil results that help explain how universe began and keeps running
After a quarter-century of searching, scientists have nailed down how one particularly rare subatomic particle decays into something else - a discovery that adds certainty to our thinking about how the universe began and keeps running.
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Why does anything exist? Scientists find a bit of the answer
Scientists probing the nature of antimatter have found a bit more evidence to explain why the universe is not an empty husk, although not enough to account for the billions of galaxies strewn across the cosmos.
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Geneva Conventions Turn 75. Do The Laws Of War Have A Chance In Today's Era?
This week marked 75 years since the adoption of the Geneva Conventions on August 12 1949. In theory, these rules of war are universally agreed by every nation. In practice, they are routinely violated everywhere.
-
UN to Hold ‘AI for Good Global Summit’, Will Bring Experts From Microsoft, Amazon to Discuss AI Framework
The "AI for Good Global Summit", being held in Geneva on Thursday and Friday, will bring together around 3,000 experts from companies like Microsoft and Amazon as well as from universities and international organisations to try to sculpt frameworks for handling AI.
-
Expansion Of Universe Could Be A Mirage, Says Study
In a paper published on June 2 in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, Lucas Lombriser, a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Geneva, describes the revolutionary new approach.
-
An Unusual Exchange At UN Rights Council Over India's T20 World Cup Exit
India's disheartening loss to England in the T20 Cricket World Cup semifinal in Australia was felt in far-away Geneva where the UN Human Rights Council was meeting to examine India's human rights record under the Universal Periodic Review process.
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Fast and Furious Female Spin-Off Gearing Up With 3 Female Writers, Vin Diesel Says
A female-centred Fast and Furious spin-off is moving forward with Nicole Perlman, Lindsey Beer, and Geneva Robertson-Dworet attached as screenwriters, Vin Diesel has announced.
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India Committed To Achieving Universal Health Coverage: Health Minister JP Nadda
Union Health Minister JP Nadda, who is leading the Indian delegation at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, said India is committed to achieving universal health coverage for its citizens as mentioned in the National Health Policy 2017.
-
2016 Geneva Motor Show: Five Best and Worst Cars
The Geneva auto show is probably the most glamorous of all auto shows. This year's show, however, was overshadowed by the diesel scandal triggered by an ongoing feud between the North American EPA and Volkswagen. Electrification became a more universal topic than in past years. Here is our strictly subjective list of the Five Best and the Five Wors...
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'Try Stopping Kerry' Says White House After Envoy Breaks Leg
US Secretary of State John Kerry will fly home for treatment Monday after breaking his leg in a cycling accident in the French Alps, putting America's chief diplomat temporarily out of commission.
-
Physicists Achieve Longer Distance Quantum Teleportation
The experiment, conducted over optical fibre at the University of Geneva, beat the team's previous record in 2003 of six kilometres.
-
World's Largest Solar Boat on Greek Prehistoric Mission
The world's largest solar boat, the catamaran PlanetSolar, will embark on a Greek mission to find one of the oldest sites inhabited by man in Europe, an organiser said earlier today.
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Geneva Motorshow: Hyundai reveals IED PassoCorto Concept
Hyundai introduced the world to a new design study created in conjunction with students at one of Italy's top industrial design universities, at the Geneva Motorshow.
-
Is Iran borrowing North Korea's nuclear playbook?
Critics of the deal to cap Iran's nuclear programme say it repeats mistakes made with North Korea, but analysts say there is little to suggest Tehran will follow Pyongyang's path of broken promises to a nuclear bomb.
-
Peter Higgs and Francois Englert: men behind the 'God particle'
For someone who helped unleash the first great scientific discovery of the 21st century, Britain's Peter Higgs is a remarkably low-tech man.
-
Physicists unveil results that help explain how universe began and keeps running
After a quarter-century of searching, scientists have nailed down how one particularly rare subatomic particle decays into something else - a discovery that adds certainty to our thinking about how the universe began and keeps running.
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Why does anything exist? Scientists find a bit of the answer
Scientists probing the nature of antimatter have found a bit more evidence to explain why the universe is not an empty husk, although not enough to account for the billions of galaxies strewn across the cosmos.
