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Your slice of the headlines in Ukraine. Daily. Friday, February 23, 2024.

The European Union's Committee of Permanent Representatives has approved a mandate to negotiate the extension of the "trade visa-free" arrangement with Ukraine and Moldova, European Council announced on Feb. 21.

The permanent representatives of the EU have approved the extension of current sanctions against Russia and Belarus for another six months, rejecting Hungary's attempt to exclude the names of three Russian oligarchs, namely Alisher Usmanov, Viatcheslav Kantor, and Dmitry Mazepin, from the lists.

Negotiations on the final legal text began in June, but a fierce debate over how to regulate general-purpose AI threatened talks at the last minute.

Ambassadors, High Commissioners, and Permanent Representatives of more than 40 African countries, members of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for offering 10 marine cadetship scholarships from Bangladesh for African LDCs and SIDS at the IMO.  At a reception hosted by Bangladesh High Commission London in honour of African

Addis Ababa, Feb 14 (Prensa Latina) The debates of the 44th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union (AU) will be focused on strategic decisions on trade, peace and security, education, climate change, agricultural development, women and youth, including other topics.

News and analytical articles about Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Metals and minerals will be critical to scaling up renewable energy, electric vehicles and more, which are needed for the energy transition.

The sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) will take place from 26 February to 1 March, 2024 at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.  As the world’s highest decision-making body on the environment, UNEA aims to help restore harmony between humanity and nature, improving the lives of the world’s most vulnerable people.  UNEA-6 will focus on how multilateralism can help tackle the triple planetary crisis of climate change,...

It's not a simple solution. There isn't a one-size-fits-all way of regulating AI. Economist David S. Evans breaks down the multi-faceted issue for PYMNTS.