• Evening Standard

    'Generation of investment needed to stop knife crime scourge', Met chief warns

    A generation of investment is needed to stop scared young people in London and elsewhere from carrying blades, a Scotland Yard knife crime chief has said, as he warned that some teenagers are going out armed because they feel unprotected on the streets. Met Commander Stephen Clayman, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead on knife crime, said some knife carriers were carrying large “status” weapons to intimidate others as they tried to protect drug lines and gang territory. Mr Clayman’s comments follow the publication of official statistics showing a 20 per cent jump in knife crime in London during 2023 and a seven per cent rise nationally, largely driven by the capital’s increase.

  • RFI

    Rio 2016: A successful Olympic dream amidst crises

    The crowd cheered loudly on Copacabana beach when Rio de Janeiro was announced as the host city for the 2016 Olympic Games. For the first time, a city in South America would host the biggest sporting competition on the planet. The "Marvellous City", located between the sea and the forest, had seven years to become an Olympic metropolis. "[Organizing] an Olympics is like a war operation," Leonardo Espíndola, a Rio de Janeiro prosecutor who, in 2016, was the state's representative on the Organisin

  • Reuters

    Global AI summit in Seoul aims to forge new regulatory agreements

    Global leaders and officials taking part in an AI summit being hosted by South Korea and Britain are expected to strike new agreements focused on how to practically regulate the rapidly evolving technology, government and industry sources said. The artificial intelligence (AI) summit in Seoul this week aims to build on a broad agreement at the first conference held in the United Kingdom six months ago and to better address a wider array of risks. At the November summit, Tesla's Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mingled with some of their fiercest critics, while China co-signed the "Bletchley Declaration" on collectively managing AI risks alongside the United States and others.