ISIS suspected of carrying out twin car bomb blasts in Syria which kill at least 46 and wound more than 100 in one of the civil war's deadliest attacks yet

ISIS suspected of carrying out twin car bomb blasts in Syria which kill at least 46 and wound more than 100 in one of the civil war's deadliest attacks yet
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Double attacks target Zahara district in government-controlled Homs
Residents are mostly Alawites, the minority sect of ruling Assad clan
Regime forces advance on ISIS in northern province of Aleppo
US secretary of State John Kerry announces deal with Russia
Provisional agreement is on the terms of a ceasefire in Syria


Two blasts in the central Syrian city of Homs killed at least 46 people in one of the deadliest attacks to hit the city in five years of civil war.

More than 100 people were wounded in the twin car bomb attacks in the city centre's Zahra district, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Syrian state television quoted Homs provincial governor Talal Barazi as saying at least 25 people had been killed.

Zahraa neighbourhood is populated mainly by members of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect

Graphic footage from pro-Assad television channels showed charred corpses buried among rubble, damage to shop fronts and debris littering a wide area. Many cars were on fire, sending out plumes of black smoke. Wounded people walked around dazed.

The Observatory said the attack was the second most deadly of its kind in Homs since 2011, and the deadliest for almost a year and a half.

Once dubbed the capital of the Syrian revolution, Homs city is now almost completely controlled by the Syrian government.

The only exception is Waer district, which is being gradually turned over to the government under a deal with opposition fighters.

Most of the bombing attacks in the city over the past months have been claimed by ISIS, which controls parts of the Homs province including the historic town of Palmyra.

Zahra neighbourhood in particular has been the main target of the extremist groups as civilian residents there are mostly Alawites, the minority sect of Syria's ruling clan - including president Bashar al-Assad.

The double blast comes a day after government forces reportedly captured 31 villages in the northern province of Aleppo from ISIS
Last month, another twin bombing in Zahra killed 22 people, mostly civilians.
The double blast comes a day after government forces reportedly captured 31 villages in the northern province of Aleppo from ISIS.
Syrian troops have been on the offensive in different parts of the country under the cover of Russian airstrikes.
The latest attacks come as US secretary of State John Kerry said that a provisional agreement had been reached with Russia on the terms of a ceasefire in the war-torn country.
Kerry told reporters in the Jordanian capital Amman that he had spoken with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov again on Sunday on the terms of a ceasefire agreed by world powers earlier this month.

yrian onlookers and security forces inspect a crater at the site of the double blast in Homs

'We have reached a provisional agreement, in principle, on the terms of the cessation of hostilities that could begin in the coming days,' Kerry said.

'It is not yet done and I anticipate that our presidents, President (Barack) Obama and President (Vladimir) Putin, may well speak somewhere in the next days or so in order to try to complete this task,' Kerry told a press conference with Jordanian counterpart Nasser Judeh.

Hopes for ceasefire, which had been due to take hold on Friday, had floundered as fresh violence shook Syria last week.

But Kerry was optimistic that it could still be implemented.

'We are in fact making progress even as a I stand here today,' he said. 'We are closer to a ceasefire today than we have been.'

A general view shows the site of the bomb blasts

Rogue 'Terminators' which can kill without human orders 'will be in use within years unless there is a global ban'

Rogue 'Terminators' which can kill without human orders 'will be in use within years unless there is a global ban'
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Scientist Wendel Wallach calls for ethical committees to monitor research
Yale University ethicist believes the machines should not go uncontrolled
Need to keep technology 'a good servant, not a dangerous master'
Sentiments echo warnings last year from Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk
Hawking warned computers 'must have goals aligned with ours'
Other leading scientists claim robots will soon do everything humans can
Robots may pose a threat to global employment over next 30 years



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Killer robots that can execute without human intervention will become a reality within years unless there is a global agreement to ban them, warns a leading scientist.
Wendell Wallach, an ethicist at Yale University, will today call on the US government to outlaw such machines on the basis they violate international humanitarian law.
Wallach also warns that technology has become so advanced that a robot capable of killing humans on its own volition will soon become a possibility - much like the rogue machines seen in Arnold Schwarzenegger's hit film, The Terminator.

'The basic idea is there is a need for concerted action to keep technology a good servant and not let it become a dangerous master.'
Last year, similar sentiments were voiced by Stephen Hawking, in an open letter arguing AI development should not go on uncontrolled, otherwise mankind could be heading for a dark future.
At the time, Hawking told Techworld: 'Computers will overtake humans with AI at some within the next 100 years.
'When that happens, we need to make sure the computers have goals aligned with ours.'
'Our future is a race between the growing power of technology and the wisdom with which we use it.'


Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX, also signed the open letter and donated $10million to resolve such concerns, deeming artificial intelligence potentially more dangerous than nuclear weapons.
Wallach believes there should be ethical committees created to closely monitor and oversee research into artificial intelligence.
As reported in the Sunday Times, Wallach said: 'One of the concerns voiced by critics of military robots is the prospect that robotic weaponry will lower the psychological barriers to starting wars.
'Another major concern is that robotic fighting machines in the relatively near future could autonomously initiate lethal activity.'

The Pentagon openly supports the development of autonomous weapons and recently requested $19billion to boost funding for this.
Meanwhile, other leading scientists claim that robots will soon be able to do everything humans are capable of - resulting in a threat to tens of millions of jobs over the next 30 years.
Moshe Vardi, director of the Institute for Information Technology at Rice University in Texas, said: 'We are approaching a time when machines will be able to outperform humans at almost any task.
'I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?' he asked at a panel discussion on artificial intelligence at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Vardi said there will always be some need for human work in the future, but robot replacements could drastically change the landscape, with no profession safe, and men and women equally affected.

'Can the global economy adapt to greater than 50 percent unemployment?' he asked.
Today there are more than 200,000 industrial robots in the USA and their number continues to rise.
By Vardi's calculation, 10 percent of jobs related to driving in the United States could disappear due to the rise of driverless cars in the coming 25 years.
According to Bart Selman, professor of computer science at Cornell University, 'in the next two or three years, semi-autonomous or autonomous systems will march into our society.'
He listed self-driving cars and trucks, autonomous drones for surveillance and fully automatic trading systems, along with house robots and other kinds of 'intelligence assistance' which make decisions on behalf of humans.
'We will be in sort of symbiosis with those machines and we will start to trust them and work with them,' he predicted.
'This is the concern because we don't know the rate of growth of machine intelligence, how clever those machines will become.'

Jeremy Scahill on can the CIA kill whoever they want

Jeremy Scahill on can the CIA kill whoever they want




A drone strike over Yemen today killed two al-Qaeda operatives that were born in America. President Obama authorized the executions, but neither man was ever charged with a crime or given a trial. Can the CIA bypass the constitution to do as they wish? Jeremy Scahill of The National weighs in.

Second State Experiences Mass Bird Kill

Second State Experiences Mass Bird Kill

Blackbirds are having a hard time staying alive in the Southeastern U.S. Just a few days after 3,000 blackbirds fell from the sky in Arkansas, about 500 birds dropped to their death in Louisiana, littering a stretch of highway near Baton Rouge. (Jan. 4)

New Year's Eve Tornadoes Kill 6 in Ark., Mo.

New Year's Eve Tornadoes Kill 6 in Ark., Mo.


Tornadoes fueled by unusually warm weather pummeled the South and Midwest on Friday, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more across Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois. (Dec. 31)

New Year's Eve Tornadoes Kill 6 in Ark., Mo.

New Year's Eve Tornadoes Kill 6 in Ark., Mo.

Tornadoes fueled by unusually warm weather pummeled the South and Midwest on Friday, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more across Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois. (Dec. 31)

3 Boys Missing After Father Tried to Kill Self

3 Boys Missing After Father Tried to Kill Self


Police in Morenci, Michigan were searching Sunday for 3 young brothers who haven't been seen since their father tried to hang himself Friday. Investigators say John Skelton told them he left his sons with a woman he met online. (Nov. 28)