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World 8 Mar 2025 | 11:14 AM

Why Canada is jailing more Indigenous people despite Trudeau's promises

SASKATOON (Reuters) - Like a growing number of formerly incarcerated Indigenous people, Marvin Starblanket's life is still governed by Correctional Service Canada rules.

World 11 Dec 2024 | 06:50 PM

Canada's Indigenous peoples continue to be overrepresented as homicide victims

OTTAWA, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Canada's Indigenous peoples continued to be overrepresented as homicide victims, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.

Books 10 Oct 2024 | 11:32 AM

South Korean author Han Kang wins literature Nobel

Han Kang is best known for her book 'The Vegetarian', her first novel translated into English, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2016

AI 23 Aug 2023 | 03:00 AM

UN study: AI likely to augment rather than destroy jobs

Artificial Intelligence is more likely to augment jobs than to destroy them, a UN study indicated on Monday, at a time of growing anxiety over the potential impact of the technology.

Focus 19 July 2023 | 11:00 PM

AI bias as clear as black and white

ARTIST Stephanie Dinkins has long been a pioneer in combining art and technology in her Brooklyn-based practice. In May she was awarded US$100,000 by the Guggenheim Museum for her groundbreaking innovations, including an ongoing series of interviews with Bina48, a humanoid robot.

World 31 July 2023 | 11:20 AM

Promising new Alzheimer's drugs may benefit whites more than Blacks

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Groundbreaking treatments for Alzheimer's disease that work by removing a toxic protein called beta amyloid from the brain may benefit whites more than Black Americans, whose disease may be driven by other factors, leading Alzheimer's experts told Reuters.

Indonesia 28 Aug 2021 | 01:44 PM

Indonesia's endemic Covid-19 plan gets lacklustre response from its people

Over the past few weeks, the government has teased out a plan to change its approach to handling the Covid-19 pandemic and the authorities are now exploring the idea of living with the virus in the long term.

World 6 July 2021 | 10:40 PM

Canadian indigenous group takes charge of child welfare services

COWESSESS FIRST NATION, Saskatchewan (Reuters) -The Canadian indigenous group that announced last month the discovery of an estimated 751 unmarked graves near a former residential school said on Tuesday it would take charge of its own child welfare services under an agreement with the federal government.

Family 29 Mar 2021 | 07:15 AM

'Gender Editors': A new post to overcome sexism in the press

On average worldwide, 10% of print, radio and television stories are about women. To help combat this over-representation of men, editorial teams have created the position of "gender editor".

Cambodia 12 Mar 2021 | 07:51 AM

Cambodian women earn 19% less than men for same work, says UNDP report

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in a special announcement has released a report, showing that the gender wage gap between women and men in Cambodia is 19 per cent.

World 1 Oct 2020 | 08:09 PM

Black people almost twice as likely to die from COVID-19 in UK: study

LONDON, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- An independent study commissioned by London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has revealed that across the United Kingdom (UK), black people are 1.9 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than white people, the city government said Thursday in a press statement.

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