France's Yellow Vest movement filed plans for a major march through Paris on Saturday, presenting the government with its next major test after riots and looting last weekend shook confidence in its ability to maintain order. Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu was due to meet union leaders on Wednesday, seeking ways to defuse one of the worst crises France has faced in recent years and avoid a repeat of the violence that swept French cities on October 17. A representative of the "Gilets Jaunes" (Yellow Vests) movement, which is a grassroots group not tied to the unions, presented plans for a march across the heart of Paris, including areas that were ransacked just days ago. Student groups have also called for protests the same day to push their demands for more investment in education. Yellow Vest activists are seeking to revive their campaign, which emerged in 2018, against rising living costs and declining public services. Investors fret, French borrowin...
From detecting changes to Palestinian homes through satellite imagery to scanning faces at military checkpoints and identifying people for deadly strikes, Israel's expanding use of artificial intelligence is raising concerns about how automated technology is being used to control Palestinian lives. In the occupied West Bank, AI-powered systems are helping Israeli authorities monitor land, buildings and movement, raising fears that the technology could facilitate demolitions and accelerate displacement. In Gaza, investigations have documented accounts of AI-generated lists of suspected targets being used to inform military strikes, with Israeli intelligence officers describing approval processes that sometimes took just seconds. Read: US Senate blocks measure demanding report on rights violations in West Bank "It's all apartheid automation," Mustafa Jarrar, professor of AI at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and director of SinaLab, told Anadolu. "W...