Directly reading documents and being able to answer questions from them is an unsolved challenge. To avoid its inherent difficulty, question answering (QA) has been directed towards using Knowledge Bases (KBs) instead, which has proven effective. Unfortunately KBs often suffer from being too...
USCIRF Denounces China’s Crackdown on Uighurs; State Department Focuses On Yemen’s Persecution of Bahais
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a press release yesterday denouncing China's increasing crackdown on Uighur Muslims. It said in part:In addition to longstanding restrictions on Uighur Muslims’ religious practice during Ramadan—such as preventing Uighurs from fasting...
British Musician On Trial For Holocaust Revsionist YouTube Postings
Press Association reported yesterday on the trial in Britain of musician Alison Chabloz who is charged with sending grossly offensive Holocaust Revisionist material on a public communications network. Chabloz, who is being tried in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court, is charged with 5 counts...
Consent Decree Settles Louisiana Religion In Schools Lawsuit
Last week, a Louisiana federal district court approved a consent decree (full text) in Cole v. Webster Parish School Board, (WD LA, May 11, 2018). The suit charged that the school district extensively promoted Christianity in its schools. (See prior posting.) The consent decree bars prayers at...
North Korea must disarm before any economic relief, says Mike Pompeo
Secretary of state speaks a day after the president appeared to drop the insistence of ‘all-in-one’ unilateral disarmamentMike Pompeo has said the US will use a summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un to demand North Korea completely and rapidly surrenders its nuclear weapons programme before...
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