Tag: Crises

Why shiny, high-tech solutions won’t solve one of Africa’s worst crises

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Hainikoye hits Accept and a young woman greets him in Hausa, a gravelly language spoken across West Africa’s Sahel region. She has three new cows, and wants to know: Does he have advice on getting them through the lean season?

Hainikoye—a twentysomething agronomist who has “followed animals,” as Sahelians refer to herding, since he first learned to walk—opens an interface on his laptop and clicks on her village in southern Niger, where humped zebu roam the dipping hills and dried-up … Read more

New influencer trend could prompt mental health crises, suicide as users tune into ‘fake life’: Tech Founder

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Artificial intelligence-powered social media influencers are created to look like perfect people living the perfect life, which could damage younger users’ mental health, a technology strategist told Fox News. 

Just like their human counterparts, AI influencers are online personalities that use their platforms to endorse brands and sell products. The catch is they’re completely computer-generated. 

“A young boy who’s seeing perfection like a blond, beautiful, artificial influencer is not going to be able to function properly in the world meeting

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EU plans to buy new firefighting planes as climate crises worsen – EURACTIV.com

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The European Union wants to sign contracts this year for up to 12 firefighting planes, the first it would fully own, to improve its ability to fight blazes fuelled by climate change, the bloc’s head of crisis management said.

The EU doubled its existing reserve fleet of firefighting aircraft in the past year, after devastating fires last summer in southern Europe exhausted its previous 13-craft capacity.

That fleet comprises 28 aircraft, which the EU pays to lease from EU countries’

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NHS shake-up to tackle cancer, obesity, mental health and addiction crises

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Rishi Sunak has declared war on cancer, obesity, mental health and addiction with a blueprint inspired by the Covid vaccine rollout.

The Prime Minister today announced more than £113million in funding for research into cutting-edge treatments and technologies with the aim of encouraging breakthroughs and saving billions of pounds.

Each ‘healthcare mission’ will be led by an independent expert, chosen by a panel including Dame Kate Bingham who headed the vaccine taskforce.

Ministers believe tackling the key challenges in each

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The Netherlands, Facing Energy And Climate Crises, Bets On A Nuclear Revival

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VLISSINGEN-OOST, The Netherlands ― On this windswept peninsula near the Belgian border, the trees grow shrubby and the dune grasses bow horizontally before the North Sea’s gusts. But along the coast, industrial spires rise vertically, defying nature and creating a skyline of steeples to the rival faiths in this country’s energy future.

Ivory-colored wind turbines bristle from flat meadows. Gray smokestacks reach skyward from an oil refinery’s bramble of metal pipes. Steel pylons tower over the salt-sprayed landscape, fringing the

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Why Police Are Still Handling Mental-Health Crises

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DURHAM, N.C. — When the murder of George Floyd in 2020 sparked widespread demand for police reforms, some cities moved to announce major overhauls of law enforcement. One of the most promising—and popular—proposals was to develop mental-health response units, staffed by social workers or crisis counselors, who could respond to mental-health incidents in lieu of armed police.

The idea grew out of frustration with police over a slew of horrifying and high-profile incidents when law-enforcement officers, dispatched to deal with

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The “Credibility” Factor and Biden’s Foreign Crises

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