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Giant Pandas are returning to D.C.'s National Zoo

10:10pm May 29, 2024

by Jacob Fenston

National Zoo officials say D.C. will get two new adolescent pandas by the end of the year. The last bears departed in November, bound for China on a FedEx cargo plane, with no agreement in place to secure a new pair.

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Battle of Chinese and Taiwanese Chatbots and a Balloon Battle Between the Koreas

6:01pm May 29, 2024

Taiwan has developed a large language model artificial intelligence chat bot to compete with a product from China because of fears regarding national security. And North Korea sends garbage-filled balloons over the border into South Korea, escalating a long-standing balloon battle between the Koreas.

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Why China, and now Taiwan, are making their own chatbots using their own data

8:20am May 29, 2024

by Emily Feng

Taiwan aims to build its own ChatGPT-like model. Researchers say it is essential for national security -- highlighting how geopolitical competition over data and computing power is heating up.

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South Korea says the North has flown balloons carrying trash over the border

5:43am May 29, 2024

by Associated Press

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea has been flying balloons carrying trash toward the South in an apparent retaliation to anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets flown across the border.

Hong Kong faces an important democracy test with the trial of the 'Hong Kong 47'

5:15am May 29, 2024

by John Ruwitch

A court in Hong Kong is due to issue verdicts this week in the case of the “Hong Kong 47” -- the territory’s largest national security case yet.

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Fears rise of a second landslide and the spread of disease in Papua New Guinea

2:54am May 28, 2024

by The Associated Press

The blanket of debris covering a village has become more unstable with rain and streams trapped under it, officials say, and villagers digging with bare hands through muddy rubble is also concerning.

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U.S. lawmakers vow support for Taiwan and its president after China's military drills

12:27pm May 27, 2024

by The Associated Press

A U.S. congressional delegation met the self-governing island's new leader on Monday, and expressed full commitment to supporting Taiwan militarily, diplomatically and economically.

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Papua New Guinea tells the U.N. that a landslide buried more than 2,000 people

5:28am May 27, 2024

by The Associated Press

The government figure is roughly triple the U.N. estimate of victims killed in the South Pacific island nation's interior. Estimates of the casualties have varied widely since the disaster occurred.

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UN estimates more than 670 killed in Papua New Guinea landslide

4:54am May 26, 2024

by Associated Press

The International Organization for Migration on Sunday increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670.

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Emergency convoy reaches survivors of a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea

4:26am May 25, 2024

by The Associated Press

The landslide buried a village under 20 to 25 feet of debris. More than 100 people are believed to have been killed, but officials say the number could go higher.