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How Brexit broke British politics

LONDON (AP) — Brexit fractured the European Union, and broke British politics. The U.K. is about to get its seventh prime minister since June 23, 2016, a decade ago Tuesday, when the country voted 52%-48% to leave the EU after more than four decades of membership. Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, who called the referendum but campaigned for the U.K. to stay in the bloc, quit the next day. His successors have all grappled, largely unsuccessfully, with the consequences of that rupture. The latest is Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who announced Monday that he was ...

Afghan Taliban hold first, closed-door talks with EU on deportations

BRUSSELS (AP) — A delegation from the Afghan Taliban met Tuesday with European Union staff in Brussels for closed-door talks that focused on diplomatic services and the “dignified returns” of Afghans to the isolated and war-ravaged nation, a Taliban official said. Afghans make up one of the largest groups of migrants seeking asylum in the EU, but a growing number of governments in the 27-nation bloc want to speed up and increase deportations for those whose claims are rejected or who commit crimes in their host countries. Abdul Qahar Balkhi, a spokesperson for the Taliban ...

US Paratroopers, Vietnam, 1965

AP Photo/Horst Faas Paratroopers brought in by hovering helicopter advance from jungle clearing into sporadic sniper fire near Thuong Lang, Vietnam, June 24, 1965. These members of the 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne, found they had landed smack in the center of a Viet Cong staging area. The ...

AI companies should release environmental impact, commit to clean energy, says UN chief

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on artificial intelligence companies to release information about the carbon pollution they create, along with the water and land used to power their operations. While urging action in an address at London Climate Action Week, Guterres proposed the AI Environmental Transparency Initiative, arguing AI companies should measure and disclose the impact of their increasingly in-demand technology — impact which has been cited by opponents as reasons to curb the rapid growth of data centers. These companies have faced ...

40 mayors worldwide endorse a pact to shape data center development

Forty mayors from around the world have signed onto a pact announced Tuesday to try to shape how urban data centers are built and operated. It’s their vision for how urban data center development can be done sustainably — and not at the expense of their cities’ natural resources, ...