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Why a German Turk opened a hotline for the some distance merely

It was early 2016 and 20 refugees had arrived in the east German town of Clausnitz. An angry mob greeted the bus that carried them, blocking the road with their cars and shouting at the visibly distressed refugees. The scene was captured on video, which was first uploaded by users of an anti-refugee Facebook page.…

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Synced | 2017 in Evaluation: 10 AI Failures

This year artificial intelligence programs AlphaGo and Libratus triumphed over the world’s best human players in Go and Poker respectively. While these milestones showed how far AI has come in recent years, many remain sceptical about the emerging technology’s overall maturity — especially with regard to a number of AI gaffes over the last 12…

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Weekend’s handiest long reads of 2017

How Deutsche Bank’s high-stakes gamble went wrong Over two decades, the institution went from sleepy German lender to the world’s largest bank — only to plummet into a downward spiral that some claim has left it ‘beyond repair’ Thursday, 9 November, 2017

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NHS doctors to pilot food prescriptions as poverty soars

NHS doctors are to begin prescribing food to patients as part of a drive to tackle the hunger and malnutrition suffered by people living in poverty. Vouchers for fruit and vegetables will be offered by GPs in a number of practices as part of a drive to increase “social prescribing”. Dr Michael Dixon, NHS England’s clinical…

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Kabul: 5 killed as ISIL bomber targets perceive company

At least five people have been killed in a suicide blast near the intelligence agency in Kabul, the Afghan capital, officials said. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) claimed responsibility for the blast on Monday morning. The attack near Abdul Haq Square comes one week after gunmen stormed a…

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Following Trump, Guatemala to transfer embassy to Jerusalem

Guatemala has announced plans to relocate its embassy to Jerusalem, following in Washington’s footsteps. President Jimmy Morales confirmed the move from Tel Aviv on Sunday, days after Guatemala voted with the US against a non-binding United Nations General Assembly resolution on the matter. « Today I spoke with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. We are talking…

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Four questions the to find answered in 2017

Though 2017 will leave us with plenty of unanswered questions, let’s take a moment to reflect on a few the internet answered this year. Namely: 1. Can Twitter win you a year’s supply of chicken nuggets? Teenager Carter Wilkerson of Nevada sought to find out when he fired off a tweet in late 2016 asking…

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Dems draw for 2018 midterm enhance from Trump tax arrangement fallout

ATLANTA (AP) — A Democratic congressional candidate outside Philadelphia calls the Republican tax overhaul a « cynical bill » that will redistribute wealth upward. One of her counterparts in California dismisses estimates of tax savings for most U.S. households and says the legislation is « just putting money in the pocket of the wealthy. » And in Kansas, a…