The climate threat|Global challenges
Countries agreed on targets to reduce aviation emissions
After several days of UN-led negotiations, the countries have agreed on a temporary target to reduce global aviation emissions, reports Reuters.
Details of the agreement have not been disclosed, but according to sources to the news agency, the countries have agreed to use sustainable aviation fuels to a greater extent to reduce emissions by five percent.
Some countries, including China and Russia, have expressed reservations about the target's effects on their economies.
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The development of AI
Putin enters the AI race: "Dangerous if the West dominates"
Russia also wants to become an AI power to be reckoned with. "A very ambitious" Russian strategy for the development of the technology is now about to be approved, President Vladimir Putin said, according to Reuters.
At an AI conference in Moscow, the Russian president claimed that Western AI systems ignore the Russian language and culture, saying that AI dominance in the West is both "unacceptable and dangerous".
Nor does Putin see any reason to try to slow or control the development out of concern that the technology will do harm.
- If we introduce a ban, it will develop elsewhere and we will fall behind.
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The tunnel collapse in India
Trapped in tunnel for 13 days - can be evacuated today
The evacuation of the 41 construction workers who are trapped in a tunnel in India after a collapse earlier in November may begin on Friday evening, AP writes.
The plan is to rescue the victims using wheeled stretchers that will be rolled out via a narrow borehole over 50 meters long.
- The rescue operation is in its final stages, says the chief minister of the Uttarakhand region, Pushkar Singh Dhami, according to the India Times.
The drilling machine used to drill down to the trapped workers suffered a technical fault on Thursday, but is now due to be repaired. Rescue workers calculate that they need to drill another 12 meters to reach the 41 trapped in the tunnel.
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Men's violence against women
EU Commissioner: "The EU should adopt the consent directive"
Establishing a uniform definition of rape at EU level is required to give all women in the Union the same legal protection. That's what Helena Dalli, the EU's commissioner for equality, writes on DN Debatt.
Therefore, she calls on the EU to agree on how a rape is defined by accepting the proposal for a directive put forward by the Commission in 2022.
In the directive - which aims to combat men's violence against women - rape is defined as sexual penetration without consent with a body part or an object, she continues.
"It is not about the absence of verbal or physical resistance, nor should it be influenced by previous intimate relationships. Consent must therefore be clearly expressed and be able to be withdrawn at any time.”
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