RICK GLADSTONE | The Seattle Times

February 5, 2022 at 11:05 am

‘Guernica’ anti-war tapestry is rehung at U.N.

The tapestry was rehung Saturday at its longtime home outside the Security Council chambers, under a new arrangement announced by Nelson Rockefeller Jr. and the...

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A photo provided by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency/Carnegie Mellon of a combat robotic vehicle at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, in 2008. A UN conference made little headway this week on limiting development and use of killer robots, prompting stepped-up calls to outlaw such weapons with a new treaty. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency/Carnegie Mellon via The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY UN KILLER ROBOTS BY ADAM SATARIANO and NICK CUMMING-BRUCE and RICK GLADSTONE FOR DEC. 17, 2021. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED.

December 17, 2021 at 7:43 pm

Killer robots aren’t science fiction; a push to ban them is growing

It may have seemed like an obscure United Nations conclave, but a meeting this week in Geneva was followed intently by experts in artificial intelligence,...

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September 21, 2021 at 6:18 pm

China pledges to stop building coal-burning power plants abroad

In a move designed to bolster Beijing’s climate credentials, President Xi Jinping of China said Tuesday that his country would stop building coal-burning power plants...

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June 11, 2021 at 3:00 pm

Famine hits 350,000 Ethiopians, worst for any country in a decade

Famine has afflicted at least 350,000 people in northern Ethiopia’s conflict-ravaged Tigray region, a starvation calamity bigger at the moment than anywhere else in the...

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May 16, 2021 at 10:15 am

As Fighting Intensifies, U.N. Security Council Holds First Open Meeting on Crisis

International pressure to bring an end to the raging conflict between Israel and Hamas militants mounted Sunday, even as local health officials said an Israeli...

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April 30, 2021 at 6:03 pm

Another deadly fire at a hospital in India tears through a COVID-19 ward

A deadly fire late Friday raced through a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in Bharuch, a city in western India’s Gujarat state. Some early news reports...

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April 11, 2021 at 9:15 am

Blackout Strikes Natanz Nuclear Facility and Iran Calls It Sabotage

The Natanz nuclear facility in Iran mysteriously lost power Sunday in what Iranian officials called an act of sabotage, a development that comes amid new...

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April 7, 2021 at 4:59 pm

Reversing Trump, Biden restores aid to Palestinians

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it would restore hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid to Palestinians, its strongest move...

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April 6, 2021 at 3:10 pm

Biden Keeps Trump’s Policy Retaining Land Mines in U.S. Arsenal, for Now

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department announced Tuesday that it would retain the Trump administration’s policy and keep antipersonnel land mines in its arsenal, reserving the...

February 26, 2021 at 6:36 pm

‘Guernica’ tapestry is taken back from U.N. by a Rockefeller

NEW YORK — For more than three decades, a 25-foot long canvas tapestry replica of “Guernica” hung outside the United Nations Security Council chamber, the...

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