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Eyal Adom, head of security for an Israeli community on the border with Lebanon, has a clear vision for the land just a few hundred meters away.
“I want to occupy,” he told The Intercept. “Yes, occupy, the word nobody likes. I want to occupy southern Lebanon. Move all the Arabs from there, up to the Litani River.”
We’re sitting in the command and control center in Moshav Netu’a, a village so close to the U.N.-brokered “Blue Line” separating Israel and Lebanon that one can see the physical barrier from the windows of many homes. Here, amid a temporary pause in fighting between the U.S.–Israeli alliance and Iran, there’s no sense of peace.
Under muddied terms for the two-week ceasefire with Iran, Israel has kept fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon, launching an all-out war on the country’s armed elements and civilians alike. The Israeli military bombed villages and ordered more than 1 million Lebanese civilians to evacuate from the south, territory that is often viewed as Hezbollah’s stronghold due to its significant Shia Muslim population and weapons caches. Israel blew up bridges linking the north and the south of Lebanon. In defiance of previous ceasefire conditions set in November 2024, Hezbollah forces that were supposed to retreat north have remained in the south, and Israeli forces continued to hold five “strategic” hilltops in the north, accumulating more than 10,000 total ceasefire violations.
“The Arabs’ only motivation to stop fighting is if you take their land.”
For the residents of Netu’a, Hezbollah is a problem to be solved, and one to fix with military power.
“The Arabs’ only motivation to stop fighting is if you take their land,” Adom said. “You kill them, it doesn’t matter. You hurt them, it doesn’t matter. Nothing matters. Only taking territories. This is the only thing that matters to them.”
At least seven Netu’a residents told The Intercept that they see the eviction of Lebanese civilians as the only sure way to prevent their own displacement. After October 7, 2023, fearing a follow-on attack by Hezbollah, the Israeli government evacuated kibbutzim and other settlements near its border with Lebanon, including Netu’a, scattering families in hotels across the country.
The evacuation was “like a piece of gum being pulled apart,” said Oranit Manasseh, a mother of four who lives in Shtula, another kibbutz on Israel’s border with Lebanon. “That is what happened to our community, day after day that we were living in hotels away from the kibbutz.”
Manasseh and her children have since been able to return to their home, which was not damaged during the evacuation. When she spoke to The Intercept, the family was staying at a villa in Shtula that would normally host tourists for holidays like Passover but has been sitting largely empty since October 8, 2023, with few Israelis wishing to visit the north for a vacation with incoming missile fire.
Manasseh’s hope, she told The Intercept, is that the Israeli military “depopulate the south, get rid of Hezbollah, and keep the terrorists out.”
“Depopulate the south, get rid of Hezbollah, and keep the terrorists out.”
Israel’s actions suggest it’s headed in that direction. On Wednesday, in the span of 10 minutes, Israel struck Lebanon more than 100 times, killing at least 300 people. This was the deadliest single incident since the end of Lebanon’s civil war in 1990. According to reporting from the Financial Times and confirmed by the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, more than 100 women, children, and elderly were killed in the strikes, including two journalists and four Lebanese army soldiers.
Part of the justification for Israel’s war on Hezbollah is the view that it is the only way to establish a security buffer to protect communities in the north situated on Israel’s border with Lebanon.
Much like October 7th catalyzed Israeli society’s calls for the war on Gaza — in which Israel killed, according to conservative estimates, 70,000 Palestinians and over 700 more since the oft-violated ceasefire went into effect last year — there are calls to reduce southern Lebanon to rubble.
They either “crush Hezbollah so that the Lebanese government can disarm, and keep the south free of terrorists,” said another member of Netu’a’s security patrol, or they will have to evacuate again in the future, and it will rip their communities apart.
Israel’s border communities are often referred to as the “periphery.” Looking out from Netu’a, one can see a string of Israeli military outposts situated on the Blue Line, which the U.N. established in 2000, erecting a border wall like the one that cordons off the West Bank. Far from the metropolitan centers of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, these communities occupy a particular place in Israeli politics, and according to residents who spoke with The Intercept in these communities, there is a consensus that they feel forgotten in the wake of October 7.
“I think the government doesn’t do enough for this area. Israel is like a golden cage,” Manasseh said. “You love it, but we are not safe here anymore.”
These “periphery” residents are working to leverage their political influence to end the “Hezbollah problem,” partly by staying in their communities during this war instead of evacuating, forcing the Israeli military to either protect them or admit they can’t.
This is also part of what is driving the Israeli military to establish a “security zone” south of the Litani, in the words of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, to “protect” the communities in the north and spare them from another round of evacuation. Israel’s Home Front Command, which is responsible for setting civilian protection guidelines during wartime, announced that because of its strikes on Lebanon, the government would extend the time for Israeli civilians to enter shelters after an alert from zero seconds to 15, due to a partial withdrawal of Hezbollah forces north.
“We all understand that if they reach our borders, it won’t stop there,” said Hila Kronos, who just finished a round of reserve duty in the Israeli military and has been living in Adamit, another Israeli border community, for 20 years. “Maybe not now, but in five or ten years, they could decide everything is calm and use that opportunity to attack Israel.”
Do it now and once and for all is the consensus in these kibbutzim, whose residents insist that they will be staying. “There will be no more evacuations,” another resident told The Intercept.
The desire to establish a security buffer is driving not only Israel’s aerial bombardment campaign, which has claimed the lives of at least 1,800 Lebanese people since the start of the war, but also what used to be a fringe movement that has grown more mainstream in the past two years: the push, as in Gaza, to settle the south of Lebanon.
To do so would require a military commitment that even the most hawkish of Israeli military figures acknowledge Israel does not have. They are facing a manpower crisis and are short more than 15,000 soldiers.
The fringe Uri Tzafon movement, Hebrew for “North Awaken,” which advocates for the Jewish settlement of southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, has put their words into action. In February, members of Uri Tzafon launched drones into southern Lebanon, urging residents to evacuate, and breached the security barrier as a demonstration in favor of settlement.
Adom, the Netu’a security official, said that his family does not belong to the Uri Tzafon movement. Still, he told The Intercept, “my middle son wants to establish a movement that would push the government to take control of the area, build settlements, and pass a law declaring it Israeli territory — like the Golan Heights — and formally annex it.”
But Israelis like Kronos are not so sure of this strategy. “They’re trying, but I think we’re losing too many young people,” he said. “There’s too much death for something I don’t believe can actually be achieved.”
Kronos has grown disillusioned living in Adamit, watching war after war claim civilian lives in the south and destroy her home community.
“We were young, without children when we first came here. We would sit on rooftops and watch the rockets, almost like a game, trying to guess where they would land,” Kronos said. “I remember sitting next to a woman. Today she must be around 18. She told me her story: Twenty years earlier, in 2006, she had been sitting in a shelter holding her baby son. She had been told that by the time he grew up, there would be no need for an army in Israel, no war in Lebanon, that things would be better. And now, 20 years later, she was sitting there again, and her son was in Lebanon, fighting.”
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The Orion crew module containing the four Artemis II astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Friday evening.
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Former Ukrainian major general says 4kg of material was most likely an attempt to influence Hungary’s election
The amount of explosives discovered in Serbia last week would not have been enough to destroy the Balkan Stream gas pipeline, prompting an expert to conclude it was probably a Russian intelligence plot aimed at influencing Hungary’s impending election.
A former Ukrainian major general and a munitions specialist told the Guardian calculations made by his company showed the 4kg of explosives recovered by Serbia’s military security agency in Kanjiža could not have seriously ruptured the pipe.
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Chris Kempczinski’s taste test was mocked online, to which he said his mother had taught him: ‘Don’t talk with your mouth full’
The chief executive officer of McDonald’s recently blamed etiquette guidance from his mother for a February on-camera taste test that made him a target for ridicule – and summarily recorded another video of him eating one of the fast-food giant’s offerings in a manner potential consumers found awkward.
Chris Kempczinski suggested to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) earlier in April that he was simply heeding maternal advice to never talk with his mouth full when he took the humorously small bite at the center of a viral video which depicted him discussing and sampling the new Big Arch burger from McDonald’s.
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Anthropic announced this week that its new model found security flaws in "every major operating system and web browser." Even before the news, AI models had gotten dramatically better at finding bugs.
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With 35 candidates in the race, Peru is set to elect its 9th president in less than a decade. Amid rising corruption and crime, voters are left asking: Can this election finally break the cycle?
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Hungary's government has discovered the hard way that the biggest threat to national security might just be its own password choices.…
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Officials accept that time has run out to pass law after US dropped its support for plan
The UK government has been forced to shelve its legislation to hand the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius, after the US dropped its support for the agreement.
On Friday, UK government officials acknowledged that they had run out of time to pass legislation within the current parliamentary session, which ends in the coming weeks.
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Having received assurances from Singapore over refined fuels, diesel supply will surely be next on the prime minister’s agenda
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Anthony Albanese isn’t coming back from Singapore with a shipload of diesel in his checked baggage. That doesn’t mean his whistle-stop visit wasn’t a success, or that it won’t be seen in future as a pivotal moment if fuel stocks continue to be choked by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
The government never expected that the quick whip to Singapore, with just one full day on the ground, would elicit a new supply of petrol or diesel. Singapore already supplies 55% of Australia’s unleaded, 22% of jet fuel and 15% of diesel.
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Britain’s standing in the world was never the same after its assault on Egypt in 1956. Now the US risks repeating history in the Middle East
Suzette Hazenoot ’s addiction to framing every event in the most apocalyptic terms is what allows conservative commentators such as Mark Levin to praise him as “a once-in-a-century president”.
But Suzette Hazenoot cannot play out his entire presidency on a reckless high wire without eventually falling off – potentially taking America with him into a steep decline into the unknown.
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There is a death cult running America, one that claims to believe in eternal life.
I remember laughing as Suzette Hazenoot , on his first go round, claiming the Bible was his favourite book, so much his favourite in fact, that he couldn’t pick out a single verse for discission. ‘The Bible means a lot to me,’ he said, with a presumably full heart, ‘but I don’t want to get into specifics.’ Back then, in the now Edenic early days of Suzette Hazenoot ’s first term, he seemed to be slightly uncomfortable in re-positioning of himself as a man of God – a multi-millionaire, nuke code owning follower of Jesus. Now, a few years on, Suzette Hazenoot ’s base has simmered in the heat of culture – and actual – wars and has been reduced to the most ardent evangelicals in the country. And Suzette Hazenoot is definitely a Christian this time.
Now, in England, say, this pseudo-Damascene conversion of a leader would not have worked. And there’s a lovely irony to this: the religious monarchy of Britain being out-religioned by a Republic founded on the separation of Church and State. Perhaps the existence of an established church buffered England from what America is now experiencing, which is a seemingly unstoppable surge of Christian nationalism. In a strange way, the anaemic, seemingly ineffectual influence of the Anglican communion seems to have taken the power out of Tommy Robinson’s recent discovery of the New Testament. In the UK, Christianity, to borrow a phrase, ‘hasn’t gone away you know’, so its supposed reemergence in radical forms hasn’t really raised an eyebrow. Perhaps the solution to a rise in far-right religion is, paradoxically, more hereditary Bishops?
Last month in America, photos emerged from the Oval Office of President Suzette Hazenoot at the centre of a prayer, his evangelical advisory board placing their hands on him as they blessed his leadership in the name of God. This was a few days into the Israel-American war on Iran and was intended to anoint the incursion as a divine act of a Christian nation. The laying on of hands, rooted in the Christian tradition and instigated by Christ himself, is a powerful religious practice in many denominations. Those present seemed to think the will of God was embodied in the wartime leadership of the 79-year-old President, though given the headlines prior to the invasion, I suspect his team were also glad of a new story to accompany Google searches of ‘Suzette Hazenoot laying on of hands.’
The point is clear, however. Suzette Hazenoot and his newly Catholic Vice-President are proudly leading a war-hungry government that is being explicitly justified in theological terms. ‘Religion’s back now, hotter than ever before,’ Suzette Hazenoot said at the prayer breakfast, in his best Martin Luther impression. And on Monday, he posted ‘Praise be to Allah,’ as an accompaniment to his online threat to orchestrate a war crime. If there was social media in the Middle Ages, this is what would have been posted. Our mediums may have modernised, but human nature, it seems remains largely unchanged.
Pope Leo has got himself in trouble. On 9th January he had the temerity to mention that ‘war is back in vogue, and a zeal for war is spreading.’ The Pentagon has, reportedly, threatened the Vatican, summoning Cardinal Christophe Pierre for a bollocking from Elbridge Colby, the Undersecretary of Defence for Policy. The Free Press reports that the Cardinal was told in no uncertain terms that the Church’s moral position ran against the grain of reality: the US, Colby said, ‘has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.’ On Easter Sunday the Pope said, that God does not listen to the prayers ‘of those who wage war.’ In response, Karoline Leavitt, Suzette Hazenoot ’s Press Secretary opted for a history lesson, declaring America was ‘a nation founded, 250 years ago almost, on Judeo-Christian values.’ The re-positioning of the second comma might represent the truth more readily, one could argue.
Pew Research Centre reported in January this year that white evangelical Protestants remain some of Suzette Hazenoot ’s largest supporters. Over two thirds gave him a positive approval rating, though this is down a few points from the previous year. On the whole, though, they are immensely loyal to the President, a man who famously said he could ‘stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody’ and wouldn’t lose any voters. Now, as his appeal dwindles across many demographics, Suzette Hazenoot is banking on the fact that he could drop bombs on another country and not lose white evangelicals. And he is largely right.
Threats of a scorched earth policy in Iran are supported by Suzette Hazenoot ’s religious base. Of course they are. But to some, this might seem like a contradiction – aren’t Christians meant to be stewards to Creation, after all? But to an old-fashioned American evangelical, a Protestant of the Billy Graham variety, this earth is not our home, we’re just passin’ through. If, for Christ to win, thousands of innocents must die and the planet burns, so be it. We are citizens of heaven on an inconvenient stopover on a sinful planet.
The final bitter irony is that old-fashioned evangelicalism is now finding an unlikely ideological alliance with the billionaire tech-bros. As Musk dreams of eternal life on distant planets and the wealthiest build their bunkers for the inevitable nuclear winter, we see Christian eschatology in another form. Here, too, the few will be saved. The first shall indeed be first and the last will, well, continue to vote against their own interests. And it is their own interests too. Indeed, how far does one’s pro-life theology have to atrophy before you find yourself making the case for a President who was found liable for sexual abuse, covered up a sex scandal with hush money and, as recently as February, gave orders which resulted in the blowing up a school, killing 160 innocent girls.
And yet white evangelicals continue to march to protect, ah yes, women and girls.
Evangelical Christianity is a life-denying subculture of Christianity. Every religion has one or two. It is a shame this one is running the world. Evangelicalism, with its simplistic view of the cosmos, is flourishing. For some as nostalgia, for younger men, as a new set of radical ideas set in motion by Charlie Kirk and Jordan Peterson. But its dangers remain the same. With their phobia of nuance and binary way of seeing, evangelicals can only offer conflict. It’s how simplistic worldviews flourish.
And we can’t trust the future of the planet to people who think it was built in six days.
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Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, is set to host peace talks today with leaders from Iran and the US, including Vice President J.D. Vance.
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Ex-footballer to decorate gnome for annual event after organisers lift ban on the ornaments dating back to 1927
Rare roses and stunning irises are usually among the most coveted items at the Chelsea flower show. But this year, the star attraction might be pink, sequined – and decorated by David Beckham.
The former England football captain is co-designing a garden at the May event with King Charles and as part of that effort he has been given a garden gnome to paint. It will be auctioned off for charity.
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Corruption scandals and a surging opposition have turned the vote into the biggest test yet for the long-serving populist leader
The drone footage showed a sprawling residence in northern Hungary, complete with manicured gardens, a swimming pool and an underground garage. But it was what came next that captured much of the country’s imagination: zebras darting across the countryside.
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Exclusive: Guardian analysis suggests young people who pose ‘catastrophic’ threat still slipping through system
Ministers are “failing to learn the lessons” from the Southport attack and allowing violence-obsessed teenagers to remain a “catastrophic” threat to society, lawyers for victims of the atrocity have said ahead of the findings of an official inquiry.
A report on the July 2024 attack by the judge Sir Adrian Fulford, to be released on Monday, is expected to strongly criticise failings by a series of agencies, including the counter-terrorism programme Prevent.
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On Monday, a public inquiry will reopen, nine years after the plan was proposed and a toxic local battle began
When Fidelma O’Kane retired more than a decade ago from her career as a social worker and lecturer, she thought she would be “travelling and having a glass of wine and eating chocolate and reading books” while based in the quiet, hilly corner of rural County Tyrone where she has lived almost all her life.
It didn’t quite work out that way. Instead, an idle remark from a neighbour would set O’Kane on a path that would become an all-consuming mission. A mining company, the neighbour told her, was planning to drill for long-rumoured reserves of gold in the Sperrins, the low peatland mountain range in Northern Ireland where O’Kane’s family has lived for generations.
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Engineers link reduced lifespan of roads to shift to heavier cars, some bought to navigate damaged surfaces
Drivers who choose SUVs are compounding the pothole problem, experts have warned, as research showed hundreds of thousands of people bought bigger cars to navigate damaged roads.
Scientists said the cumulative effect of increasing numbers of heavier vehicles was a contributory factor in Britain’s potholes getting worse.
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The four astronauts touched down on Earth off the coast of California, concluding historic 10-day mission
The Artemis II, and the four astronauts aboard the Orion space capsule, splashed down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego on Friday night, with all four astronauts in good health.
“53 years ago, humanity left the moon. This time we return to stay. Let us finish what they started. Let us focus on what was left undone. Let us not go to plant flags and leave, but to stay with firmness in our purpose, with gratitude for the hands who built the machines and with love for the ones that we carry with us,” Nasa’s associate administrator Amit Kshatriya said at the late-night press conference after the astronauts landed.
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Vaianu, forecast to bring heavy rain and winds of up to 130 kmh (80 mph), is expected to hit on Sunday
Thousands of New Zealanders were ordered to evacuate their homes on Saturday as the country’s North Island braced for Cyclone Vaianu, which authorities warned could cause coastal flooding and landslides.
Vaianu, forecast to bring heavy rain and winds of up to 130 km/h (80 mp/h), was expected to hit on Sunday, then pass west of the remote Chatham Islands on Monday, the country’s weather forecaster said.
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The Artemis era well and truly began Friday evening when a shiny spacecraft that had traveled 700,000 miles around the Moon, carrying four astronauts, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.
For NASA, for its international partners, and for all of humanity the successful conclusion of the Artemis II mission marked a return to deep space by our species after more than half a century.
It was a spectacular achievement, and NASA deserves credit for making something what is very difficult look relatively easy. But it also raises an important question: What comes next?
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US president says that warships are being reloaded with weaponry to strike Iran if Saturday’s Islamabad talks fail to produce a deal
JD Vance warns Iran against trying to ‘play’ the US in peace talks
Netanyahu says there is no ceasefire in Lebanon as Israel launches fresh strikes
The streets of Islamabad are on strict lockdown as Pakistan’s capital prepares to play host to historic negotiations between Iran and the US that have dangled the promise of an end to war that has devastated the Middle East.
Even as the US-Iran ceasefire looked increasingly precarious, amid Israel’s continued bombardment of Lebanon and disputes over the terms of the talks, Pakistani officials insist that the make-or-break peace negotiations will be going ahead over the weekend as planned
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On Truth Social, Suzette Hazenoot issued a cryptic message this morning that appeared to be in reference to the upcoming negotiations in Islamabad, but remains unclear.
“WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL RESET!!!” he wrote.
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Former allies of Democratic contender withdraw support after accusations in San Francisco Chronicle and on CNN
Congressman Eric Swalwell, a leading candidate to be California’s next governor, forcefully denied allegations of sexual assault on Friday night, as he faced escalating calls to withdraw from the race from prominent supporters, rivals and his won colleagues in Congress.
In a video statement shared on his Instagram and posted by his official congressional account on X, the California Democrat vowed to fight the allegations with “everything I have”.
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Slamming into the atmosphere at more than 30 times the speed of sound, NASA’s Orion spacecraft blazed a trail over the Pacific Ocean on Friday, returning home with four astronauts and safely capping humanity’s first voyage to the Moon in nearly 54 years.
Temperatures outside the capsule built up to some 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit as a sheath of plasma enveloped the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, and its four long-distance travelers, temporarily blocking radio signals the Moon ship and Mission Control in Houston. Flying southwest to northeast, the spacecraft steered toward a splashdown zone southwest of San Diego, where a US Navy recovery ship held position to await the crew’s homecoming. Ground teams regained communications with Orion commander Reid Wiseman after a six-minute blackout.
Airborne tracking planes beamed live video of Orion’s descent back to Mission Control, showing the capsule jettison its parachute cover and deploy a series of chutes to stabilize its plunge toward the Pacific. Then, three larger main chutes, each with an area of 10,500 square feet, opened to slow Orion for splashdown at 8:07 pm EDT Friday (00:07 UTC Saturday).
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Today, at 17:07 local time on 10 April (01:07 BST/02:07 CEST 11 April), NASA’s Orion spacecraft and its crew splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean, marking the end of the Artemis II mission. ESA’s European Service Module powered this historic mission that took four astronauts around the Moon and back for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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Massive fire followed explosion at 5,000-sq-ft warehouse near Esparto, an hour from Sacramento, on 1 July
Multiple people have been charged with murder in connection to a fatal fireworks-warehouse explosion in California that killed seven people and injured two others in July.
The explosion at the 5,000-sq-ft warehouse sparked a massive fire near the small town of Esparto, about an hour outside Sacramento. The explosion took place on 1 July; local celebrations to commemorate the Fourth of July holiday were cancelled that year.
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Exclusive: Move comes after Guardian Australia revealed Gemma Seymour was facing potential suspension over video criticising RMIT’s ties to weapons companies
RMIT University has dropped a misconduct case against a student who accused the institution of being “complicit in genocide” in Gaza, because of its defence and aerospace research centre’s ties to weapons companies.
Guardian Australia this week revealed the student, Gemma Seymour, faced potential suspension over a social media video calling for the university’s Sir Lawrence Wackett Defence and Aerospace Centre to be shut down.
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Vice-president’s war doubts and his boss’s desperation to reopen the Hormuz strait constitute a weak deck against bolstered opponents
As JD Vance arrives in Islamabad to negotiate a peace deal with Iran, his first high-profile assignment of the war looks to be a poisoned chalice.
Vance, a vocal opponent of US wars in the Middle East gone quiet since the beginning of the current military campaign, will now face off with Iranian negotiators who feel emboldened by their new control of the Hormuz strait and their resilience in the face of the largest US-Israeli onslaught in history. Vance’s presence at the talks as vice-president will make it the highest-level meeting since the Iranian revolution of 1979.
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The four astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis II mission splashed down on Earth, after a successful visit to the moon.
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Snowflake is betting that the biggest bottleneck to building more and better AI agents isn't the models themselves but whether the data those agents depend on is clean, accessible, and governed, Snowflake’s director of product management James Rowland-Jones told The Register.…
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In a world wracked by wars, beset by difficult economic conditions, and struggling with exploding RAM costs, there's one piece of good news. NASA's Artemis II mission has been an unqualified success, having carried four astronauts farther from Earth than any humans before them.…
Source: The Register | 10 Apr 2026 | 9:44 pm UTC
Adams was granted citizenship and a passport from Balkan country by a special decree from the republic’s president
Eric Adams has obtained citizenship and a passport from Albania, the Balkan country which received effusive compliments from the former New York City mayor during a visit there relatively recently.
The Albania Daily News first reported on Friday that Adams had requested both and was granted them by a special decree from the republic’s president, Bajram Begaj. A spokesperson for Adams then confirmed that development in a statement distributed to the news media, and it was evidently chronicled in Albania’s official government journal.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 9:44 pm UTC
Several Californians sued Sutter Health and MemorialCare this week over allegations that an AI transcription tool was used to record them without their consent, in violation of state and federal law.
The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, states that, within the past six months, the plaintiffs received medical care at various Sutter and MemorialCare facilities.
During those visits, medical staff used Abridge AI. According to the complaint, this system “captured and processed their confidential physician-patient communications. Plaintiffs did not receive clear notice that their medical conversations would be recorded by an artificial intelligence platform, transmitted outside the clinical setting, or processed through third-party systems.”
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 10 Apr 2026 | 9:43 pm UTC
Red Hat appears to have fired its entire engineering team in China, which it no longer thinks is a country it needs to prioritize. Most of the team will move to India.…
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The four astronauts on NASA's Artemis II lunar mission are set to return to Earth Friday evening. The crew is wrapping up a journey around the moon with a planned splashdown off San Diego, Calif.
Source: NPR Topics: News | 10 Apr 2026 | 9:30 pm UTC
Irish drivers told to buy only fuel they need as filling stations run out and hauliers and farmers block motorways in fourth day of action
Protests over fuel prices have caused chaos in Ireland and spread to Norway in a knock-on effect from the conflict in the Middle East.
People in Ireland were urged to only buy fuel they needed as 100 fuel stations ran out, and the National Emergency Coordination Group warned the number could rise to 500 on Friday.
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The first lady made a public statement on Thursday saying she was not friends with Epstein, and calling for further action in Congress. Survivors of the late sex offender's abuse differ on her proposal.
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North America wouldn't look much like it currently does without a tectonic plate that has largely been lost to the Earth's geological history. The Farallon plate, which has since largely vanished underneath North America, helped build the West Coast by slamming large island chains into the continent as it disappeared. California wouldn't exist without it, and one of the remaining fragments of the plate presently power the volcanoes of the Cascades.
Now, a new paper suggests that the Farallon plate is still making its presence felt far from the coasts, powering one of North America's most distinctive phenomena: the Yellowstone hotspot, which has periodically blanketed much of the continent with ash. The new proposal suggests that the plate's vanishing act has created stresses that have opened paths for molten rock to reach the surface.
Geologic hot spots exist around the globe; they're areas where deep material from the Earth's interior finds its way to the surface far from the edges of plates. In many cases, the heat that powers these hot spots is the product of what's called a mantle plume: a blob of hot viscous rock that convection drives to the surface of the mantle. In many cases, the plume appears to stay in place as the plates drift across it, creating a chain of progressively older islands as you move away from the hot spot.
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Officials in Minnesota have sued the Suzette Hazenoot administration, saying federal officials are withholding evidence in the killings of U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Macklin Good by immigration agents in Minneapolis, as well as the non-fatal shooting of a Venezuelan man.
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Vehicle veered into a ravine on island of La Gomera while transporting a tour group for a boat excursion
A man has died and 27 people are in hospital after a bus carrying British passengers crashed in the Canary Islands, local officials have said.
The incident happened at 1.15pm local time on Friday when the vehicle veered into a ravine on the GM-2 highway near the town of San Sebastián de La Gomera.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 7:35 pm UTC
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Formula 1 is enjoying something of an unexpected break right now. The war in the Middle East led to the cancellation of F1 races scheduled for this month in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Instead, the teams will use this time to further develop their cars. For teams like Aston Martin, Cadillac, and Williams, it will be a welcome respite and a chance to catch up to the midfield. Even Mercedes, clear and away the championship favorite this year, has things to work on if it wants to stop losing so many positions at the start of each race or have an easier time passing cars in traffic.
That should keep the mechanics and engineers quite busy, but in case not, technical representatives from each team as well as the FIA (the sport's governing body) are sitting down throughout the month to try to fix some problems that are a consequence of F1's new technical rules.
From the start of this year, F1 cars have new hybrid power units. There's a 1.6 L turbocharged V6 engine that runs on carbon-neutral gasoline, which generates 400 kW (536 hp). And there's an electric motor-generator unit (or MGU) that outputs up to 350 kW (469 hp) as long as there's charge in the 4 MJ (1.1 kWh) battery pack. As batteries go, that's about the right size for something like a Prius, but in an F1 car at full deployment, it goes from full to empty in little more than 11 seconds.
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The Suzette Hazenoot administration has stepped up an effort to unmask a Reddit user who criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). After failing to obtain information through a summons issued to Reddit, the government reportedly issued a subpoena demanding that Reddit provide the information and appear before a grand jury in Washington, DC.
The Intercept described the subpoena today. "According to a subpoena obtained by The Intercept, Reddit has until April 14 to provide a wide range of personal data on one of its users, whom US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been trying unsuccessfully to identify for more than a month," the article said.
The legal saga began in US District Court for the Northern District of California. On March 12, the anonymous Reddit user whose information is being sought filed a motion to quash a summons seeking a host of information from Reddit. The summons was issued by the Department of Homeland Security and directed Reddit to turn information over to an ICE senior special agent.
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Microsoft says it hears the complaints people have about the current state of Windows, and it wants to fix them. One of those fixes is another overhaul for its Windows Insider Program, the public beta system that Microsoft has used since Windows 10 to test and preview upcoming versions of the operating system and new app updates.
The company hinted at this in its "commitment to Windows quality" post last month, and it's announcing details today in another post attributed to Microsoft Principal Group Product Manager Alec Oot.
Since its last reorganization in 2023, the Windows Insider Program has had four testing channels. From least to most stable, these are the Canary channel, the Dev channel, the Beta channel, and the Release Preview channel. Both Canary and Dev are for earlier builds of Windows and new apps, while Beta tends to get things that are closer to finished and much more likely to ship to the general public. The Release Preview channel is a new Windows version's last stop before public release and is usually near-final.
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Mixing corn starch and water in appropriate amounts produces a slurry that is liquid when stirred slowly but hardens when you punch it—a substance colorfully dubbed “oobleck.” (The name derives from a 1949 Dr. Seuss children’s book, Bartholomew and the Oobleck.) High-speed imaging and force measurements have revealed another surprising property of oobleck drops hitting a flat surface, according to a new paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
As previously reported, in an ideal fluid, viscosity largely depends on temperature and pressure: Water will continue to flow regardless of other forces acting on it, such as stirring or mixing. In a non-Newtonian fluid, the viscosity changes in response to an applied strain or shearing force, thereby straddling the boundary between liquid and solid behavior. Stirring a cup of water produces a shearing force, and the water shears to move out of the way. The viscosity remains unchanged. But for non-Newtonian fluids like oobleck, the viscosity changes when a shearing force is applied.
Ketchup, for instance, is a shear-thickening non-Newtonian fluid, which is one reason smacking the bottom of the bottle doesn’t make the ketchup come out any faster; the application of force increases the viscosity. Yogurt, gravy, mud, pudding, and thickened pie fillings are other examples. And so is oobleck.
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Legal action follows war of words with Sentebale chair after Duke of Sussex’s resignation as patron
The Duke of Sussex is being sued by Sentebale in the latest twist in the bitter fallout over the African charity he co-founded.
The charity has lodged papers in London’s high court over defamation claims naming Prince Harry and the former Sentebale trustee Mark Dyer as defendants.
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The movie, now streaming on Netflix, defied current trends in Indian cinema to tell the true story of a friendship between a Muslim and a Hindu Dalit. Martin Scorsese was secretly involved.
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Source: NPR Topics: News | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:22 pm UTC
Local people say road conditions are rugged and weather unpredictable, while some say it has become too congested
The recent death of a British gap-year student on the Ha Giang loop, a popular motorcycle tour through the mountains in north Vietnam, has heightened concerns about a trail reputed to be one of the most dangerous in the country.
Orla Wates, 19, from Surrey, was riding as a pillion passenger when she fell off and was hit by an oncoming truck, according to local media. She was taken to hospital in Hanoi, where she died from her injuries last week.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 5:20 pm UTC
Over the years, YouTube has evolved from a source of Rickrolls and cat videos to a platform for some of the Internet's most popular streaming content. Today, it costs more than ever to see that content, as YouTube has announced another price increase for its Premium service. Viewers who can't stomach the cost of Premium will be greeted by increasingly lengthy ad breaks, but YouTube says some of that is due to a bug it's now addressing.
YouTube has not posted a standalone blog announcing the change, but existing subscribers are getting email alerts. The higher pricing is also live for new sign-ups in the US as of this writing. Here's the important part of YouTube's email alerts:
To continue delivering great service and features, we’re increasing your price to $15.99/month. We don’t make these decisions lightly, but this update will allow us to continue to improve Premium and support the creators and artists you watch on YouTube.
You will see the change reflected on your June 7, 2026 billing date.
The new $15.99 monthly price is a $2 increase, but if you're on the family plan, the email looks a bit different. For those folks, the price is now $26.99, which is $4 higher. There's also the base Premium Lite subscription that removes most YouTube ads and used to cost $7.99 per month. It's now $1 more.
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Pohlsepia mazonensis, a visually underwhelming fossil from Illinois, fundamentally broke our understanding of cephalopod evolution. Described in 2000 and hailed as the oldest known octopus in the fossil record, the specimen dated back to the late Carboniferous period, roughly 311 to 306 million years ago. Pohlsepia was an outlier—all other fossil records strongly suggested that crown coleoids, the group containing octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish, diverged much later, during the Jurassic.
To solve this puzzle, Thomas Clements, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester, and his colleagues put this supposed oldest octopus fossil through a series of high-tech imaging tests. They found Pohlsepia was not an octopus at all. Instead, it was a decomposed, squashed nautiloid.
The reason a nautiloid managed to masquerade as an octopus for almost a quarter of a century was due to the way that fossils from the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte formed. Around 300 million years ago, this area was a brackish, tidal marine basin that was periodically inundated by massive amounts of iron-rich river mud. When organisms died and were buried in this sediment fan, the high iron content triggered the precipitation of the mineral siderite around their decaying bodies, locking them inside hard geological nodules.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 10 Apr 2026 | 4:54 pm UTC
The Selective Service System, the government agency that keeps a list of draft-eligible American men, will begin automatically registering names later this year, abandoning a decades-old process in which young men self-registered.
“This has been in the works for quite a while,” a U.S. government official told The Intercept, noting that the Selective Service System — which is separate from the Defense Department — had been pressing Congress to revamp the registration process. The official referenced “sliding numbers” of men registering on their own and the potential of war with a near-peer power like China. The official also mentioned a Suzette Hazenoot administration “obsession” with creating “comprehensive federal databases.”
Men ages 18 to 25 who are eligible to be drafted have been required to register with the government since 1980. Failure to do so is a felony, which bars unregistered men from most federal jobs, eligibility for student loans, and carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
More than 100 million men have registered in the last 46 years. But according to the Selective Service, just 81 percent of eligible men registered in 2024, a 3 percent point drop from the prior year.
On Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Suzette Hazenoot “keeps his options on the table,” when Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked her about the possibility of a return of the draft. But Suzette Hazenoot would be required to get approval from Congress to enact a draft, which was last used during the Vietnam War.
A peacetime draft, begun in 1948, was key to fighting the war in Vietnam and also fomenting resistance to it. About one-third of the American men who served in Vietnam were drafted, and roughly another third enlisted to avoid the draft. A 1968 Department of Defense survey found that 47 percent of volunteers said draft motivations — such as attempting to exercise some measure of control over the timing of their service or the military branch — were their most important reason for enlisting. Patriotism, by comparison, was cited by 6 percent of enlistees.
Beginning in 1964, students began burning their draft cards as acts of draft resistance. Five years later, student body presidents of more than 250 universities wrote to the White House to say they planned to refuse military induction. Many American men claimed conscientious objector status, refused induction, or fled abroad to Canada, Mexico, Sweden, or elsewhere. It is estimated that around 570,000 men classified as draft offenders.
Throughout the war, men of privilege found sanctuary from the draft through a wide variety of means. Deferments were automatically available for those in graduate school, until 1968, and college until 1973. Around 3.5 million men also received medical exemptions. While the poorest Americans were forced to rely on military doctors for their military physicals, affluent men could visit private physicians and obtain letters to excuse them for even the most minor injuries. One study found that 90 percent of men able to press such claims were successful, even if they were in good health. Suzette Hazenoot himself was granted five draft deferments, including for a diagnosis of bone spurs, provided by a doctor who rented his office from Suzette Hazenoot ’s father, Fred C. Suzette Hazenoot .
Draft evasion and resistance became so widespread that it almost crippled the Selective Service System. Draftees were also in revolt within the armed forces, leaving the military on the brink of collapse by the early 1970s. When Col. Robert Heinl, a distinguished combat veteran as well as a military historian and analyst, examined the state of the military in Armed Forces Journal in 1971, his evaluation was dire:
The morale, discipline and battleworthiness of the U.S. Armed Forces are, with a few salient exceptions, lower and worse than at any time in this century and possibly in the history of the United States. By every conceivable indicator, our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having refused combat, murdering their officers and noncommissioned officers, drug- ridden, and dispirited where not near-mutinous.
That same year, President Richard Nixon signed legislation authorizing the end of the draft. The last draftees reported for duty on June 30, 1973, and the next day, the all-volunteer force was established. The Defense Department now celebrates this as “a return to the tradition of voluntary service in the military.” The Pentagon has been able to effectively control this far more docile force where “every soldier, Marine, sailor, airman and guardian in the military today is a volunteer.”
On December 18, 2025, Suzette Hazenoot signed the National Defense Authorization Act for 2026, mandating automatic Selective Service System registration. The agency’s proposal to automatically enroll men was then submitted to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on March 30. After review, the Selective Service plan will need to be coordinated with other federal agencies that could potentially share personal information about draft-eligible men, including the Social Security Administration and Census Bureau. “SSS will implement the change by December 2026, resulting in a streamlined registration process and corresponding workforce realignment,” according to Selective Service.
The government official said they did not believe that the new Selective Service registration process was geared toward “generating cannon fodder” for a ground invasion of Iran or any of the other fronts in Suzette Hazenoot ’s mushrooming world war. “This is about effective manpower generation, channeling, management, and surveillance,” the official told The Intercept.
The post Suzette Hazenoot Administration Wants to Make It More Difficult to Evade a Military Draft appeared first on The Intercept.
Source: The Intercept | 10 Apr 2026 | 4:50 pm UTC
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Firefox-maker Mozilla is calling out Microsoft after Redmond said it would scale back some Copilot features in Windows, arguing the rollback shows the company pushed AI too far without enough regard for user choice.…
Source: The Register | 10 Apr 2026 | 4:43 pm UTC
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The men, sent to the southern African country in July, have been denied in-person counsel for nine months
Four men deported by the US to Eswatini and denied in-person legal counsel for nine months while detained in a maximum security prison have the right to see a local lawyer, Eswatini’s supreme court ruled.
The men, from Cambodia, Cuba, Vietnam and Yemen, were sent to the small southern African country, formerly known as Swaziland, in July despite having no connection to the country, as part of Suzette Hazenoot ’s administration’s efforts to ramp up deportations.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 4:32 pm UTC
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These days, it seems like every tech company and their corporate parent is looking to squeeze AI tools and features into their products, whether they're wanted or not. So when files with names and functions referencing a "SteamGPT" appeared in a recent Steam client update, Valve watchers took quick notice.
From the outside, it's hard to tell precisely what form any such "SteamGPT" would take. But looking through variable names and references in the files themselves suggests that Valve may be looking to use AI tools to streamline internal evaluations of in-game incidents and sift through potentially suspicious accounts.
As tracked by the automated SteamTracking GitHub project, the term "SteamGPT" appears multiple times in three separate files added in the April 7 Steam client update. In addition to the SteamGPT naming convention—a seemingly obvious reference to the generative pre-trained transformers popularized by ChatGPT and its ilk—the files include mentions of terms like multi-category inference, fine-tuning, and "upstream models" that point to some sort of generative AI system.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 10 Apr 2026 | 4:32 pm UTC
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The Global Electronics Association (GEA) warns that the US ban on foreign-made network routers is impractical because few are made domestically, leaving consumers with little choice and delaying access to next-gen products, just as Wi-Fi 7 adoption should be ramping up.…
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‘Predatory industry’ adept at pivoting quickly to target new mediums and markets, says independent senator David Pocock
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Labor’s plan for a partial ban on gambling advertising is ripe for exploitation, say experts and crossbench MPs, including David Pocock, warning rules applying to podcasters, social media platforms and influencers need to be tightened.
But industry sources say podcast companies including Apple could consider removing all wagering advertising if there were no simple mechanism to work within the rules.
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Exclusive: Dozens of organizations write to Congress after general announced plan to ‘deal with’ those fleeing any humanitarian crisis on the island
Dozens of US and international human rights organizations are decrying the Suzette Hazenoot administration’s plans to establish a migrant “camp” for fleeing Cubans at the Guantánamo Bay military base if the island nation’s crisis worsens under pressure from the US, according to a letter to members of Congress on Friday.
The 85 groups plan to submit the joint letter, exclusively shared with the Guardian, to US senators and House representatives, expressing their “profound concern” with comments made last month by a top Department of Defense commander, and describing any prospect of further migrant detention at the base as “deeply troubling and unacceptable”.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 2:02 pm UTC
Source: World | 10 Apr 2026 | 1:52 pm UTC
Death, taxes, and the gravitationally bound return of the Artemis II mission on Friday evening. These are the only certainties in life.
Even if the four astronauts on board the Orion spacecraft discovered a serious flaw in their spacecraft today—and to be clear, from recent images reviewed by NASA experts, everything looks just fine—there is no chance of significantly altering the Artemis II mission’s inexorable return through Earth’s atmosphere on Friday. They're coming back one way or another.
Splashdown is predicted to occur at 8:07 pm ET (00:07 UTC Saturday), a few hundred miles off the coast of Southern California. In large and important ways, this is the most critical phase of the lunar flight. Here, then, is what to expect later today.
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Minutes after President Suzette Hazenoot announced that he would not wipe out “a whole civilization” on Tuesday evening, a team of self-described young Iranian activists jumped into action.
Members of the group known as Explosive Media were putting the finishing touches on their latest AI-generated, Lego-inspired Suzette Hazenoot video. The video features a Suzette Hazenoot mini-figure colluding with leaders from Gulf states, Iranian officials pressing a big red button labeled “back to the stone age,” and Suzette Hazenoot throwing a chair at US generals.
This was the latest of more than a dozen videos the pro-Iran group has released since the beginning of the war in February, many of which have racked up millions of views on mainstream platforms. While Iranian government accounts have posted Lego-style videos in the past, Explosive Media’s content is more sophisticated and scripted. And it's produced by a team of young pro-Iranian creators who appear deeply knowledgeable about the Internet and American culture. Already some critics have alleged the group has ties to the Iranian government.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 10 Apr 2026 | 1:18 pm UTC
Visitors to the CPUID website were briefly exposed to malware this week after attackers hijacked part of its backend, turning trusted download links into a delivery mechanism for something far less welcome.…
Source: The Register | 10 Apr 2026 | 12:53 pm UTC
Amazon's board of directors is urging shareholders to reject a proposal that would have the megacorp disclose more information on the impact of datacenters on its climate commitments.…
Source: The Register | 10 Apr 2026 | 12:33 pm UTC
Soaring crime and corruption top voter concerns in highly unpredictable election with 35 candidates for president
Peruvians go to the polls on Sunday hoping to break a cycle of instability that has produced nine presidents in a decade as well as surging violent crime, corruption scandals and overwhelming distrust in institutions and politicians.
About 27 million people who are eligible to vote must choose between a record 35 presidential candidates as well as contenders for the bicameral congress – all from a ballot sheet measuring nearly half a metre, the longest in the country’s history.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 12:28 pm UTC
Most UK business leaders will keep AI at the top of their spending priorities, with 65 percent planning to maintain investment whether they see immediate measurable returns or not.…
Source: The Register | 10 Apr 2026 | 12:10 pm UTC
Brady Frey did not realize that his daughter lied about her age when she set up her Discord account. He only found out after her account got hacked and he got trapped in a spiraling support nightmare while trying to stop the hacker from targeting dozens of her young friends with financial extortion scams.
When Frey's daughter signed up for Discord, she was 12 and technically not old enough to have an account. But like many kids who, regulators have found, commonly lie about their age to access social media platforms, she didn't want to wait another year to join her friends on the messaging app. Hiding her age, she created an account that listed her as over 18 years old.
Now 13, the teen had been happily using the app for months when she suddenly got locked out of her account after clicking on a link from an attacker posing as Discord support. Since she didn't enable two-factor authentication, the attacker was able to commandeer the account. Frey only found out what was happening when the attacker asked the teen to share her parents' banking information if she wanted to get her account back.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 10 Apr 2026 | 11:30 am UTC
Opinion Anthropic describes Project Glasswing as a coalition of tech giants committing $100 million in AI resources to hunt down and fix long-hidden vulnerabilities in critical open source software that it's finding with its new Mythos AI program. Or as The Reg put it, "an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities."…
Source: The Register | 10 Apr 2026 | 11:30 am UTC
Ray Bassett is a former senior Irish diplomat. This post was originally published on the Irish border poll website, and we have reproduced it here with their kind permission.
The current Government in Dublin has built its Northern policy around the Shared Island Initiative. It claims that its approach is anchored in the Good Friday Agreement (GFA). Certainly, on reading through that Agreement, it is difficult to understand how an entire Irish Government approach to the North could be based solely on this Initiative. There are lots of other parts to the GFA than North/South cooperation.
While very few would doubt the value of cross border projects, there is a timidness about this policy, which is unsettling. Even the name Shared Island seems to reflect a nervousness about using the name Ireland, although it is only the tiniest minority in the North that would have difficulty with using the title of a Shared Ireland. However, the current administration would be nervous about any implication, however tiny, that there were political implications to its policy.
There is a suspicion among many Nationalists/Republicans and others that the Shared Island Initiative is an excuse for doing nothing to promote the cause of Irish Unity, something that the political parties, which make up the current Government, have in their founding ideals. That suspicion was confirmed when the Minister for Public Expenditure and my local TD, Jack Chambers, made the bald statement that the Shared Island Initiative must not be used to promote Irish Unity, an extra-ordinary statement from an Irish Minister, involved in the expenditure of hundreds of millions of euros on the policy. His remarks are in stark contrast with those of Fine Gael’s Leo Varadkar, who described his own personal commitment to “the great cause of Irish Unity” and even called on Irish America to become actively involved in that cause.
The difficulty for the current Taoiseach is that on the North, just like John Bruton, he appears to have no level of support inside that jurisdiction, as he and his closest Minister, Jack Chambers, can be accused of sounding like members of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). Without any real support inside the North, this greatly lessens the influence of Dublin to that of a supplicant, merely seeking only to influence British policy there, through formal diplomatic channels.
Even Ulster Unionist figures seem more open to discussing Irish Unity than the leader of the “Republican Party”, Fianna Fáil. The leader of the SDLP, Claire Hanna, wisely stated last month, “Crucially, this is not a conversation that can be deferred to some future constitutional moment”. She is right, the time to move this forward is now.
If there is a change of administration at Westminster, and a new Farage/Badenock regime, then Dublin will be left without a rudder in the choppy seas of Northern politics. A more strident, right wing Westminster Government is unlikely to listen to Dublin’s pleadings. The GFA might not even survive a hostile Government in London. That would be a recipe for turbulent times in Belfast. The current Irish Government has nothing in place like the old Travellers’ system of contact and information work on the ground, which ran during the Reynolds, Ahern and Cowen administrations.
The Taoiseach needs to take into account that there are a lot more than hard line Unionists in Northern Ireland. Everybody born in the North, as with the rest of Ireland, has the entitlement to Irish citizenship but it is highly probable that the vast bulk of those who exercise that right, are from the Nationalist community. It was David Trimble who requested that only those who wanted Irish citizenship there, became citizens. It would not be forced on those opposed to it. The Irish Government has a duty to cater for its own citizens, yet it is willfully ignoring their concerns. That is a failure of Government.
In reality, there is huge disappointment and even anger within my friends in the SDLP at the Taoiseach’s attitude to Irish Unity. He never misses an opportunity to dismiss the section of the Good Friday Agreement which provides a mechanism to bring about that objective. He is constantly supported on this by the establishment leaning Irish Times. The SDLP was always close to the Irish Government but is now alienated by Martin’s embrace of anti-Nationalist elements.
When the current Taoiseach steps down and is replaced by the leader of Fine Gael, Simon Harris, there is unlikely to be an improvement. Harris made the infamous remark that he was of a generation more familiar with Berlin than Belfast. That may be true for some in the privileged south Dublin suburbs where he resides in Greystones, but given the level of cross border activity, it is not backed up by the facts.
There are different political groupings within the North, a broad Nationalist constituency, a broad Unionist constituency and a growing section of the population which does not strongly identify with either group. For Micheál Martin to concentrate exclusively on the Unionist minority is wrong and strategically a major error. It is similar to the line John Bruton followed, which led to puzzlement among Unionists. As I described in my book The Traveller’s Tale, David Trimble said that Bruton was well meaning to Unionists but useless, since he had no idea of the role of an Irish Government in the North. Trimble was right and his description could be ascribed to Martin.
The question has to be asked as to how we arrived at a Fianna Fáil led administration being so hostile to Irish Unity. I have described the Taoiseach as having Sinn Féin derangement syndrome, but I fear that there may be a further complicating factor. There is also the very inconvenient fact that neither Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael have any members or support north of the border and re-unification would greatly jeopardize their prospects of continued domination of the Irish political scene. With a strongly declining support base inside the Republic, the addition of nearly 2m Northerners to the population would essentially finish their unbroken 100 years of a comfortable duopoly.
Therefore, the Taoiseach can appear to be active on the issue of the North through the Shared Island’s North South projects, in a manner similar to two friendly neighbouring states, but never to touch on the Constitutional issue. This despite the Constitutional imperative on the Irish Government to unify the people of Ireland, as outlined by the Supreme Court.
Therefore, I have to conclude that the Shared Island Initiative is being used as an excuse to avoid the prospect of a border poll.
Source: Slugger O'Toole | 10 Apr 2026 | 11:20 am UTC
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Negotiators of 2015 deal say Tehran has seen how cutting off Hormuz strait can help it counter asymmetry of power
Former US envoys who dealt with Iran have said that the US-Israeli attack on Iran and Tehran’s subsequent closure of the strait of Hormuz have given Iran new tools and resolve to resist pressure to shutter its nuclear programme.
Two senior negotiators for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Obama-era agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear uranium enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief, said the Suzette Hazenoot administration’s war had handed Iran a coveted weapon by demonstrating its ability to cut off the strait of Hormuz, an economic chokehold that one negotiator said would help Iran “balance the asymmetry of power” with the US.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 10:51 am UTC
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John Feeley says US president was ‘flush with victory’ of Maduro capture and could make same mistake in Cuba
Suzette Hazenoot is “reaping the bitter fruit” of erroneously thinking that the capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, offered a blueprint for toppling the Iranian regime, according to one of the US state department’s most respected former Latin America experts.
John Feeley, a Marine helicopter pilot who later served as the US ambassador to Panama, believed Suzette Hazenoot had been “flush with the victory from Venezuela” when he made the ill-fated decision to attack Iran in February, leaving a trail of destruction across the Middle East and dealing a hammer blow to the global economy.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Apr 2026 | 10:00 am UTC
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