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On December 8, the US blocked international calls for the UN Security Council to take action in response on the catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip and demand a ceasefire. Washington vetoed the resolution, with 13 of the other 14 council members voting in favor and Britain abstaining. The draft Resolution was tabled by the UAE, and was co-sponsored by nearly 100 other states. On the same day, UN Secretary General Guterres urged Council members to “spare no effort to achieve an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, the protection of civilians…

The U.N. Security Council has passed its initial resolution since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas conflict, urging immediate and prolonged humanitarian breaks in Gaza to address the worsening crisis for Palestinian civilians amid Israel’s air and ground assaults. Israel promptly rejected the resolution. The vote in the 15-member council resulted in a 12-0 outcome, with the United States, United Kingdom, and Russia opting to abstain. The U.S. and U.K. refrained due to the resolution’s omission of condemnation of Hamas’ unexpected cross-border attacks into Israel on Oct. 7…

On November 1-2, the Bletchley Park mansion, located 80 km from the British capital, hosted a forum dedicated to the problems arising in connection with the widespread use of “artificial intelligence” systems in almost all spheres of human activity. We will omit here the question regarding the correctness of the name of these “intelligence” category systems, which in itself is highly debatable. Although the organizers of this Forum called it “AI (Artificial Intelligence – ed.) Safety Summit”, only UK Prime Minister R. Sunak, U.S. Vice President K. Harris, UN Secretary-General…