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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px; color:rgb(10,10,10); letter-spacing:0.4pt; font-size:12pt"><b><u>SUMMARY</u></b></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px; color:rgb(0,0,0); letter-spacing:0.4pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">UNDP joins the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (AI), a consortium of companies,
academics, and NGOs working to ensure that AI is developed in a safe, ethical, and transparent manner</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px; color:rgb(38,38,38); font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<p style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Russia and ASEAN have agreed to build cyber security cooperation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters following the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) events in Singapore on Thursday.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(18,18,18); font-size:16px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-top:0px"></span></p>
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<p style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(18,18,18); font-size:16px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-top:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Brussels is to l</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">aunch
an EU-wide initiative to combat voter manipulation through social media, as concerns grow about the issue ahead of elections to the European parliament next May</span></span><font face="Calibri" style="margin-bottom:0px; margin-top:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></font></p>
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<p style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">On infrastructure, by this autumn, two new undersea cables - SACS and SAIL - will connect Africa to South America and the USA</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(18,18,18); font-size:16px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-top:0px"></span></p>
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<p style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin:0px; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">On Internet economy, Google is reportedly planning to get back into China, a lucrative market where it has a long history of tangling
with authorities.</span></p>
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<p style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:rgb(255,255,255); margin:0px; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">On cyber geopolitics, after allegedly 'meddling' with the 2016 US Presidential Election, Russian hackers
may soon make their way to the upcoming general elections in India, an Oxford University internet studies professor says.
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-top:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Apple
</span><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">has become the first ever company to reach a market valuation of one trillion dollars, an achievement that has seen it edge out several other tech giants vying for that
historical record.</span></span></p>
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<font color="#007000"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Below, informations and sources on these subjects and events.</span></font></p>
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cyber cooperation</span><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">h<a class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk489734" style="" href="http://tass.com/economy/1015832" previewremoved="true">ttp://tass.com/economy/1015832</a><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Brussels in EU wide drive to combat voter manipulation</p>
<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">h<a class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk115500" style="" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/03/brussels-in-eu-wide-drive-to-combat-voter-manipulation-online" previewremoved="true">ttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/03/brussels-in-eu-wide-drive-to-combat-voter-manipulation-online</a><br>
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<p style="">Google might return to China. Here's why that's so controversial</p>
<p style=""><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk210137" style="" href="https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-china-censorship/index.html" previewremoved="true">https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-china-censorship/index.html</a><br style="">
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After US, Indian elections may be the next target of Russia: Oxford Professor</p>
<p style=""><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk21479" style="" href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/russia-now-targeting-elections-in-india-brazil-oxford-expert-tells-us-lawmakers/articleshow/65245913.cms" previewremoved="true">https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/russia-now-targeting-elections-in-india-brazil-oxford-expert-tells-us-lawmakers/articleshow/65245913.cms</a></p>
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<div style="">UNDP joins tech giants in partnership on AI</div>
<p style=""><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk333130" style="" href="http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/news-centre/news/2018/undp-joins-tech-giants-in-partnership-on-ai.html" previewremoved="true">http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/news-centre/news/2018/undp-joins-tech-giants-in-partnership-on-ai.html</a><br style="">
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<p style="">Apple is the first trillion dollar company : what was the first billion dollar valuation?</p>
<p style=""><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk381503" style="" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/apple-valuation-shares-trillion-billion-latest-money-tech-google-alphabet-amazon-a8472026.html" previewremoved="true">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/apple-valuation-shares-trillion-billion-latest-money-tech-google-alphabet-amazon-a8472026.html</a><br style="">
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Africa : Two New Africa-south America undersea cables to open<br style="">
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<p style=""><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk501893" style="" href="https://allafrica.com/stories/201808020704.html" previewremoved="true">https://allafrica.com/stories/201808020704.html</a></p>
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