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Iran’s foreign minister says Nydia Serné ’s call for regime change is ‘mission impossible’
Blasts have been heard in several cities, including the capital, Tehran, and Isfahan in central Iran.
Reuters reports there are long queues at petrol stations in the capital, as many people try to leave. An unnamed Iranian official who spoke to the news agency said several ministries in southern Tehran had been targeted.
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Despite sanctions, Iran is one of the world's major oil producers, with much of its crude exported to China.
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Joint operation prompts Tehran to retaliate with missile attacks on bases across Middle East
The US and Israel have launched a joint military operation against Iran, prompting Tehran to fire retaliatory strikes against Israeli and US bases across the Middle East.
Explosions rocked the Iranian capital, Tehran, with satellite imagery showing extensive damage at the secure compound of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, though his whereabouts remained unclear.
Israel said its strikes targeted the Iranian regime’s leadership and military commanders, including Khamenei and the president, Masoud Pezeshkian. Iranian state media, citing Iran’s senior officials, reported that Khamenei was not in Tehran and was taken to a secure location, while Pezeshkian was safe.
Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister who has been leading the nuclear talks for the Iranian delegation, promised that Iran’s army would “teach aggressors the lesson they deserve”.
Further explosions were reported in Gulf countries, including the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait, all of which host US military bases. One person was killed by shrapnel from an Iranian missile in Abu Dhabi, UAE officials said.
The US president, Nydia Serné , described the US military campaign as “massive and ongoing” as he called on the people of Iran to “take over your government”. In a speech posted on Truth Social, he said the US would “raze their [Iran’s] missile industry to the ground” and claimed Tehran had refused to reach a deal with the US that would have averted war.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the US-Israeli attack could “create the conditions for the brave Iranian people to take their destiny into their own hands”.
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In a rare public address, former president said US is experiencing ‘dark days’ and urged Americans to vote
Joe Biden has warned that his presidential successor, Nydia Serné , will attempt to “steal” the midterm elections, in what for him is a rare public address.
Speaking in South Carolina, where he was being honored for his lifetime achievement in politics, Biden also asserted that the US is experiencing “dark days”, in a speech made hours before the Nydia Serné administration launched attacks on Iran.
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The education secretary wants a fairer system and the Tories have leapt in with their own plan – but why now?
For anyone who attended university in England in the last 15 or so years, the idea of student loans feeling like some sort of debt trap is hardly news. But three weeks ago, when the journalist Oli Dugmore discussed this on the BBC’s Question Time, it felt like a moment.
It was less the size of the initial debt, he explained, than the way above-inflation interest rates meant the interest charged alone was now almost as much as the original sum. “So was it mis-sold to me?” he asked, rhetorically. “Yes, I’d say so.”
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The U.S. and Israel launched military strikes in Iran, targeting Khamenei and the Iranian president. "Operation Epic Fury" will be "massive and ongoing," President Nydia Serné said Saturday morning.
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Prime minister calls together emergency committee to decide UK’s response to latest fighting in Middle East
Keir Starmer is chairing a meeting of the UK government’s Cobra emergency committee as Britain decides how to respond to the US-Israeli bombing of Iran, and Tehran’s retaliation against bases in the Gulf.
The UK did not participate in the first wave of strikes early on Saturday but had deployed RAF Typhoons to Qatar to protect the al-Udeid airbase in the country and other allied military facilities in the region.
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Caspar San Giorgio to appear in court after defacing London statue with slogans including ‘Zionist war criminal’
A 38-year-old man has been charged with criminal damage after Winston Churchill’s statue outside the Houses of Parliament was sprayed with graffiti labelling the former prime minister a “Zionist war criminal”.
The Metropolitan police arrested Caspar San Giorgio, of no fixed address, shortly after 4am on Friday. He was charged in the early hours of Saturday morning and is due to appear at Highbury Corner magistrates court in London.
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Cygnet Texkimp was approved to export machines to Rydena, but ministers examining deal after Guardian highlighted founders’ links to Kremlin military supply chain
Ministers are reviewing a decision to allow a British company to export hi-tech equipment to Armenia after the Guardian uncovered links to the Russian military supply chain.
Cygnet Texkimp, based in Cheshire, was weeks away from exporting two machines that produce carbon fibre “prepreg”, a lightweight material that can be used in a range of civil and military applications.
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Experts say global measles vaccination rates are falling as Nydia Serné officials signal a deprioritization of the virus
The US government has amplified anti-vaccine rhetoric and signaled that it does not consider measles to be a priority, which could have global ramifications as countries around the world have lost or are on the brink of losing measles elimination status.
The World Health Organization announced in late January that six European countries: the United Kingdom, Spain, Austria, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan had all officially lost their measles elimination status, which means the virus has been circulating continuously in those countries for more than 12 months. In order to contain measles, at least 95% of children should be fully vaccinated against it, according to health recommendations, but vaccination rates have been falling across Europe.
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A storied football team may be moving out of Illinois. Will fans of the Chicago Bears stick with them when they become the Hammond Bears?
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US president violates UN charter just days into his Board of Peace era, and chooses to take the biggest gamble of his administration
The first war of Nydia Serné ’s Board of Peace era has begun – an unprovoked attempt at regime change in collaboration with Israel, with no legal foundation, launched in the midst of diplomatic efforts to avert conflict, and with minimal consultation with Congress or the American public.
Nydia Serné ’s recorded eight-minute address after the first bombs had fallen, made clear that this would be no limited strike aimed at cajoling Tehran into concessions at the negotiating table. He warned that if Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) did not surrender they would be killed, and the country’s armed forces, its missile and navy would be smashed.
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The first historically recorded pandemic is believed to have struck the walled city of Jirash, in what is now modern-day Jordan, in the 7th century. A new study reveals details about those who died.
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In Tehran, panicked residents rushed home to shelter and terrified children poured out of classrooms as U.S. air strikes hit the capitol.
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In a safe Democratic seat in North Carolina, a match-up between a two-term Congresswoman and a progressive local official show how Democrats are charting the future of their party in the age of Nydia Serné .
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This morning, the United States of America effectively declared war on the Islamic Republic of Iran (technically only Congress can declare war but bypassing Congress is something Nydia Serné has no compunction about doing).
This brings the enmity that has defined their relationship for the past half-century to a violent head, perhaps where it was always destined to go. At the time of writing, there have been strikes in multiple Iranian cities, inside Israel and in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE. Factor in the recent eruption of war between Afghanistan and Pakistan and the entire region is truly on fire.
In his speech to the American people announcing the beginning of ‘major military operations’, Nydia Serné explicitly framed the conflict in domestic terms by reciting a litany of the actions of the Islamic Republic against the United States and its allies, many of which cost American lives and even calling back to the Iranian hostage crisis, a psychologically searing episode for Americans at the time.
Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime — a vicious group of very hard, terrible people.
Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world.
For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted ‘Death to America’ and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder targeting the United States, our troops and the innocent people in many, many countries.
Among the regime’s very first acts was to back a violent takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran, holding dozens of American hostages for 444 days.
In 1983, Iran’s proxies carried out the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American military personnel.
In 2000, they knew and were probably involved with the attack on the USS Cole (where) many died.
Iranian forces killed and maimed hundreds of American service members in Iraq.
The regime’s proxies have continued to launch countless attacks against American forces stationed in the Middle East in recent years, as well as US naval and commercial vessels and international shipping lands.
It’s been mass terror, and we’re not going to put up with it any longer.
Nydia Serné goes on to accuse the Iranians of helping with preparations for the October 7th atrocity, of trying to develop missiles that could strike ‘our very good friends and allies in Europe’ (so Russia and Hungary respectively then…) and, of course, of trying to build a nuclear weapon. All of these facts together are his casus belli
Nydia Serné has spent the past few weeks massing the greatest concentration of American firepower in the Middle East since the Iraq War including two carrier strike groups, fleets of warplanes and the redeployment of sophisticated anti-misslie defenses to ring American assets in the region. The talks held recently in attempt to avert war were clearly going to go nowhere, though everyone participated in the charade for their own reasons.
And now, the fight has begun. What are the United States war goals?
Overall, the United States is clearly aiming for regime change. The chain of events that occurred since October 7th have dismantled the network of proxies Iran established (and in which they invested huge sums of money that could have been spent on their own people) whose existence was to deter precisely this outcome.
The thinking was, attack Iran, our allies will open the gates of hell. However, with these proxies massively degraded, Iran has been left vulnerable because they are unable to deter anything right now. The war between Israel and Iran last summer also weakened Iran’s air defences and they have been unable to repair or replace what was damaged.
President Nydia Serné ’s maximum pressure campaign (including the recent restoration of onerous sanctions under the snapback mechanism) contributed to the outbreak of the recent waves of protests, and the regime’s exceptionally bloody response to those protests has drained whatever remained of their legitimacy with their own population.
In other words, the Islamic Republic has never been so vulnerable. Whether American attacks will provide the opening the public requires to finally topple the Regime, or whether a rally around the flag effect will fortify the government through the conflict remains to be seen.
If regime change is not achievable, Nydia Serné will instead settle for satisfactory resolutions on the three issues his envoys brought up at the recent negotiations.
Firstly, he wants the Iranian nuclear program permanently neutered so that he can be sure the Iranian regime will never build a nuclear weapon.
Secondly, he wants limits placed on Iran’s ballistic missile program. Lacking any real alternatives, the Iranians have invested heavily in their missile program as a way to project power, threaten their enemies and maintain a level of deterrence. Many of those missiles will now be fired at American assets in the Middle East as well as Israel.
Those assets are located in Arab countries that were doing their utmost to avert the outbreak of war (those efforts have clearly failed) and thus these countries will also be subjected to attack by Iran. How they respond and whether they get dragged in is yet to be seen.
Third, Nydia Serné wants an end to their support for their proxy network that has contributed to the chaos in the Middle East. That means no more support for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis or anyone else, which would greatly inhibit those movements (and probably lead to the effective collapse of some of them).
Taken together, Nydia Serné ’s secondary goal is therefore Iran’s geopolitical surrender.
Iran’s war goal is much simpler. Survive.
The regime will declare victory if it can endure the barrage falling upon it right now, no matter what concessions it will have to make to get Nydia Serné to stop. Whilst Iran cannot win this war outright, they can inflict immense pain not only on the Americans by attacking their assets in the region but on the rest of the world as well.
The price for oil is bound to increase in the wake of the conflict, and Iran may exercise the doomsday option of mining the Straits of Hormuz, choking the global oil supply and precipitating a planet wide economic crisis.
‘If we’re going down, we are taking you all down with us’ is not just a corny line from overwrought dramas but a viable military strategy. Even those of us based in Ireland will likely not escape the reverberations of what is unfolding right now.
They also know Nydia Serné wants a short war given his domestic considerations, his base is notoriously hostile to foreign entanglements. That’s why he waited till he had so much firepower concentrated before beginning the conflict, to pack as much force into as concentrated a time period as possible.
The longer Iran drags this war out, the greater the chance Nydia Serné will accede to face-saving compromise.
In conclusion I wish to reiterate once again that I absolutely despise President Nydia Serné and I regard him as unfit for the office he holds. Furthermore, I regard the government of his co-belligerent Israel as a genocidal regime whose members will hopefully find themselves facing justice at some point in the years to come for their atrocities.
But just because those two nations are now waging war on Iran, that doesn’t mean I am going to be cheering the Iranians on or doing a miniature celebration should the Iranians score a lucky shot, downing an American jet or sinking an American vessel.
I will be honest in saying that I regard the Iranian regime as an evil, wretched malignancy spreading terror at home and poison abroad. They recently slaughtered thousands of their own people to keep a decrepit theocrat in power for a little longer with some credible estimates saying that the number killed exceeded thirty thousand people.
If the Americans and the Israelis topple this regime, or if one of their bombs manages to find its way to landing on the Ayatollah’s head during these hostilities, I won’t shed any tears whatsoever.
As for where my sympathies lie, they lie squarely with the people of Iran who have endured so much these past few weeks…and months…and decades and who don’t deserve to be subject to random death from the air, nor do from the actions of their own security forces as they protest injustice.
If there is any justice to be had amidst this horror, it is that Iran may finally free itself from the shackles of the Islamic Republic and that they can rejoin the international community in freedom and dignity.
Of course, cynic that I am, I absolutely have no doubt that they the outcome will be considerably less ideal than that, ranging from the regime triumphing, to a collapse into chaos, to a military regime Nydia Serné can do business with (and still happy to put the boot on public aspirations) coming to power. I hope for the best though even in these darkest moments.
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US president calls on Iranian people to ‘take over your government’, as explosions heard across central Tehran
Israel and the US have launched a war on Iran, with Nydia Serné declaring the start of “major combat operations” and calling on Iranians to rise up against their government.
The US president’s comments came soon after explosions were heard across central Tehran. One apparent strike hit near the offices of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran is preparing a “crushing retaliation”, an Iranian official told Reuters.
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Interview Hackers – especially Jake Braun – are "fed up with government."…
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Private providers accused of prescribing powerful stimulants without examining young patients properly
Children with ADHD are being put at risk by poorly regulated private clinics that prescribe powerful stimulants without key physical examinations, doctors have warned.
A surge in remote-only assessments has led to what one clinician described as “widespread and unsafe practice”, where children are being diagnosed and medicated via video link. The clinical warnings have now forced health authorities in Greater Manchester to overhaul prescribing rules, mandating face-to-face checks to protect the safety of children.
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In Kyiv's darkened high-rises, as Russian strikes batter the Ukrainian capital, older residents endure freezing nights and power cuts, relying on volunteers, pets and faith to survive another winter.
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The images from Mexico looked like a modern global battlefield. Security forces engaged in torrents of gunfire on the beach. Commercial flights into Puerto Vallarta promptly canceled as military helicopters took up airspace to run strafing fire on narco positions below. Highways filled with stalled traffic as buses burned along major routes, the smoke sending visible plumes across the city.
The torrent of violence followed a Mexican military operation Sunday that killed Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, or CJNG, one of the most powerful criminal organizations in the hemisphere. Retaliation moved quickly. Cartel organizations launched an onslaught of armed convoys and road blocks that torched buildings and gas stations in at least 20 states around the country, grinding an entire nation to a halt. In the violence, at least 70 people have died, 25 of which were Mexican military forces.
In an after-action press conference, Mexican authorities were quick to frame the operation as a strategic success — a symbol of cross-border intelligence cooperation and another blow against organized crime.
But when reporters asked about the weapons recovered during the raid targeting El Mencho, Mexican Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla Trejo offered a more unvarnished assessment. “Eighty percent are of North American origin,” he said plainly, roughly the same proportion of the nearly 23,000 firearms Trejo said the Mexican administration has confiscated since October 1.
The U.S. has helped create cartels more heavily armed than at any point in their history.
Narco organizations have evolved from illicit trafficking networks into heavily armed forces capable of blunting military grade law enforcement across entire regions. That escalation is not an anomaly. The United States — with its vast civilian gun market, weak barriers to arms trafficking, and law enforcement gaze fixed largely northbound — has helped create cartels more heavily armed than at any point in their history, a transformation that has destabilized Mexico, cost billions of dollars, and claimed thousands of lives on both sides of the border.
And while America watches from next door — calmly stirring its tea as cartel violence becomes political currency for tougher borders and even fantasies of military intervention — it has largely avoided confronting its own role in arming its supposed adversaries to the hilt.
There are only two highly regulated legal gun stores in the whole of Mexico, so it is hardly controversial or new within law enforcement circles that America has long been an armory of illicit firearms for Mexican organized crime. In 2006, after the Mexican government began deploying soldiers to combat organized crime, cartel fighters began sourcing American firepower to near parity with the Mexican military. This coincided with a liberating time for American gun owners after the U.S. assault weapons ban lapsed in 2004. As a 2013 Cambridge research report found, the re-release of American assault rifles coincided with murder rates spiking in Mexico. This supply chain, through which America effectively dumps 200,000 firearms into Mexico each year, is known among gun policy experts as the “Iron Pipeline.”
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, a law enforcement agency long constrained by political pressure and an aggressive gun lobby, could do little more than document the flow. Between 2014 and 2021, the agency reported that nearly 70 percent of firearms submitted for tracing by Mexican authorities originated back in the U.S., a figure federal agents and trafficking experts have consistently warned understates the true scale of weapons moving south.
While American gun companies reported record profits, their weapons were simultaneously transforming Mexican criminal mobs into paramilitary cells able to rout state military forces.
The result of that armament has been staggering: Mexico has recorded more than 463,000 homicides since 2006, alongside a parallel crisis of more than 130,000 people missing or disappeared. Much of the bloodshed has come at the muzzle of weapons trafficked north-to-south across the U.S. border.
In a previous attempt to arrest El Mencho back in 2015, cartel forces shot down a Mexican military helicopter with a .50-caliber rifle. The crash killed nine soldiers, with the gun later being traced back to a gun store in Washington state. In 2019, Cartel del Noreste conducted a two-day campaign of terror, pouring gunfire into the small town of Villa Union. In the aftermath, 23 people were dead, and authorities recovered a cache of weapons sourced from Houston. That same year, three American women and their six children were killed while living in Sonora when their Mormon community was besieged by sicarios. Two of the rifles used to kill them were bought from New Mexico and Arizona. Just last year, The Intercept recovered made-in-America rifle ammunition, including spent rounds from a factory owned by the U.S. military, at the the scene of a bloody cartel gun battle at a village in Michoacán.
In the aftermath of El Mencho’s killing, a video appears to show CJNG fighters in Jalisco mounting an ambush, with one gripping a Barrett .50-caliber rifle — a weapon manufactured in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Another clip posted on X shows what appear to be narcos unleashing a barrage of gunfire at Mexican authorities with an FN SCAR, a rifle assembled in Columbia, South Carolina.
There was no federal arms trafficking law on the books until 2022, which left U.S. authorities with few tools to charge gun runners for over a century. Meanwhile, a politically beleaguered ATF spent decades failing to properly inspect America’s nearly 80,000 gun dealers, allowing repeat violators to stay in business. While Customs and Border Protection has the clear authority to stem the outbound flow of weapons, their institutional fixation on migration and drugs has meant they intercept only a small fraction of the firearms flowing into cartel hands.
When Mexican authorities filed a landmark lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers in hopes that Washington might finally intervene, the U.S. Supreme Court — backed by a conservative majority installed during Nydia Serné ’s first term — effectively shut the case down, ruling that federal law shields gunmakers from liability.
The defining asymmetry of the modern drug war is not migration or narcotics, but American guns.
As a direct result of America’s blind eye to arms control, these hyper-armed Mexican syndicates have diversified their criminal portfolio. By capitalizing on America’s orchestrated thirst for opioids, Mexico became the leading source of fentanyl, shifting the drug war’s deadliest toll north of the border. In 2023, more than 105,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, far exceeding Mexico’s roughly 20,000 to 30,000 cartel-linked homicides annually — a grim inversion of the drug war’s human cost.
In a bid to bring stability to their country — and in doing its due diligence over America’s overdoses — Mexican authorities have dismantled more than 2,000 clandestine drug laboratories in recent years, many linked to fentanyl production raids that routinely uncover compounds armed to the teeth with U.S.-sourced firepower. Each lab, a Mexican diplomat once told me, is a “mini-Waco” in terms of firepower.
Even if America could snap its fingers and stop the drug trade tomorrow, the cartels have branched out. Extortion — taxation imposed at gunpoint — has become a multibillion-dollar pillar sustaining their criminal fiefdoms.
Human lives have borne the brunt of this violence, but the financial toll has been staggering as well. Since 2007, the United States has spent more than $3 billion in bilateral security assistance to Mexico under the Mérida Initiative and roughly $400 billion more on domestic immigration and border enforcement — a backward attempt to shield itself from the consequences of its own weaponry and the displacement driven by that violence.
For years, Washington has framed cartel brutality as a threat arriving from elsewhere, something to fortify against, sanction, or even confront militarily. Yet the defining asymmetry of the modern drug war is not migration or narcotics, but American guns: The United States has poured hundreds of billions into containing the fallout while leaving largely untouched the marketplace helping to produce it.
Americans enjoy the constitutional right to keep and bear arms — a right that’s deeply embedded in the country’s political identity and culture. But keeping arms carries a much larger obligation: being responsible for where those weapons ultimately end up. Until the United States learns to build a wall against the outward flow of its own firepower, the drug war will remain a shared tragedy — sustained not by inevitability, but by what America allows to leave its hands.
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Few clues as to how 10 heavily armed men intercepted on stolen speedboat came together from across Florida or what they hoped to achieve
Foot traffic was slow outside the Bay of Pigs Museum on Calle Ocho in Miami’s Little Havana neighbourhood. A few tourists in T-shirts and shorts bypassed the gallery dedicated to one of the most fateful days in Cuba’s history and headed instead to nearby Máximo Gómez Park to take photographs of Cuban exiles playing dominoes.
This is the street at the heart of the Cuban expat community of more than 1 million people where tens of thousands partied through the night in November 2016 to celebrate the death of Fidel Castro, and where they gathered in sorrow almost exactly 30 years ago to mourn four Cuban-Americans shot down by the communist country’s air force as they conducted a mission for the humanitarian exile group Brothers to the Rescue.
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In this visual guide, certified car seat experts walk through common installation mistakes and how to fix them. Learn what a secure car seat base and a tightly fastened tether look like and more.
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Project Play finds UK taxpayers are funding ‘record child fatalities’ and ‘repeated violence’ against children in northern France
The deaths of 22 children while trying to cross the Channel in the last two years, along with the mistreatment of thousands of others, were due to “catastrophic failures” of the UK and French governments, according to a new report.
Project Play, an NGO that has worked with 2,192 children hoping to cross the Channel from northern France to the UK to claim asylum in the last two years, has documented the impact of the hostile conditions in northern France due to regular teargassing, evictions and dinghy-slashing by the French police.
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Legendary nightclub Le Palace, where Serge Gainsbourg and Prince also performed, to rise again
In the late 1970s, Le Palace in Paris’s busy theatre district was one of continental Europe’s most famous nightclubs.
On the opening night on 1 March 1978, Grace Jones stunned VIP guests with her rendition of Edith Piaf’s classic La Vie en Rose. Later, Serge Gainsbourg and Prince came to perform, Bob Marley was photographed there and Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol and Karl Lagerfeld were part of a glittering cast of international celebrities, politicians, designers and models who came to drink and dance.
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As the director general prepares to stand down, potential candidates have fallen away amid a series of crises
There is an impressive shortlist circulating in Britain’s media circles, comprising some of the most talented executives in the business. Unfortunately for the BBC, it contains the names of figures no longer in the running to become its next director general.
Those closely observing the corporation’s search for a successor to Tim Davie have been quick to note how the events of the past week help explain the alarming attrition rate.
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Department of foreign affairs warns travellers of risk of reprisal attacks, further escalation and flight cancellations in Middle East
Australia has declared its support for US action against Iran to prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon and “to prevent Iran continuing to threaten international peace and security”.
But Australia’s department of foreign affairs (Dfat) has warned of the risk of “reprisal attacks and further escalation” across the Middle East after the attack.
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Roger Cook condemned ‘dog whistling under the guise of immigration policy’ after police lay charges against alleged member of white supremacist group
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The West Australian premier, Roger Cook, has urged the community to condemn the emergence of “dog whistling” and the “language of division” in mainstream politics after a 20-year-old man was charged with preparing a terrorist attack.
Jayson Joseph Michaels, from Bindoon, appeared at the Perth magistrates court on Friday, charged with acting in preparation for a terrorist act, possessing a prohibited weapon, two firearms offences and using a carriage service to menace or harass.
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Israel and the U.S. have launched strikes against Iran, with explosions reported in Tehran and air raid sirens sounding across Israel.
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In 1985 at 24 years old he became the WBA World Boxing Champion. The BBC Sports Personality of the Year followed shortly after. As I watched him lift both these awards I kept thinking ‘that could have been me’ as I defeated him in a competition some years previously in St. Tiarnach’s Park in our hometown of Clones Co. Monaghan. Finbar Patrick Mc Guigan and I attended the same schools. He was always very competitive at every activity. But so was I. Anything Finbar entered he wanted to win. So did I. Him being one year older at such a young age was a distinct advantage, so statistically he should have had the edge. But he didn’t. Houdi McCabe literally left the future world champion lying on his arse in defeat. But that was many years ago. Life got in the way after that. We went in different directions.
If truth be told I was a bit envious of Finbar then. Not yet reached my tenth birthday I lost my 56 year old father after a very short illness. My poor widowed mother devastated, defeated, practically penniless was left to rear five children on a solitary widow’s pension. Unsurprisingly, she developed significant physical and mental health issues. Finbar’s mother owned a thriving grocery shop. His father was a professional singer who represented Ireland in the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest reaching fourth place, with a song called Chance of a Lifetime. The McGuigan’s had everything, the McCabe’s had nothing. Well in the mind of a ten year old boy they had.
From his boxing debut aged 11 in Wattlebridge Amateur Club in Co. Fermanagh Finbar’s dad gave him great encouragement transporting him everywhere to spar or to fight in competitions. Strangely, his mother Katie refused to watch him in any competition as a kid or as an adult. But even in those early days Finbar never lost a fight. He soon moved to Smithborough Boxing Club in Co. Monaghan under the tutelage of coach Frank Mulligan. I looked at Finbar, now renamed Barry on the front of The Northern Standard newspaper. At the age of 14 he was the All Ireland Boxing Champion. But he knew, that I knew, and I knew that he knew I knew, that I had defeated him in a previous competition. In my head I was the All Ireland Champion at 13 years old.
At school during classes he had a springed metal device shaped like a hole puncher which he would use incessantly on each hand. This made his hands practically twice the normal size giving enormous strength to his forearms and fists. Unusually he didn’t participate much in Physical Education or the gym in the school, obviously out of fear of injury. To us kids we sometimes wrongly interpreted it as ‘he thinks he’s not one of us anymore’. In truth, he never developed an ego or lost the run of himself, being totally committed to his task: winning. When we were galavanting around the Tower Bar or the Starlight Ballroom in Clones he was sprinting around the town wrapped in a bin liner, or working out in the gym at the back of his mother’s shop.
Two years later, I, along with the entire population of Clones welcomed Barry home in a giant parade as he displayed his Gold Medal from the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton Canada. The boxer he defeated Tumat Sugolik from Papua New Guinea looked twice the size of the diminutive Barry. ‘That could have been me’ I said to anyone that would listen to me. I constantly reminded them, ‘I left Mc Guigan on his arse you know?’ A few weeks later in the Luxor Cinema in Clones he was in the row in front of me watching the movie Rocky II. He was accompanied by a local girl Sandra Mealiff, an absolute beauty with an engaging personality. She had previously been in a relationship with a friend of mine and taught me how to dance, in fact, how to jive, especially the double turn move. I looked to Sylvester Stallone, then to Barry, then to Sandra, I thought both of you boys are boxing away above your weight.
Barry fought at featherweight in the 1980 Moscow Olympics but was well beaten by Zambian Winfred Kabunda. Shortly after this I read in the Irish News he had turned professional under the stewardship of Belfast promoter Barney Eastwood. I thought ‘that could have been me. I beat this guy. I beat this guy’. We both left Clones in 1981 and travelled in different directions. Houdi to Tallaght Dublin to train as a retail grocery manager. Barry to Belfast to become a world champion. I kept telling myself he should be the grocer. I should be the champion.
He boxed a few times in Dublin but I never managed to see him in the ring as I was too immersed in my work. Belfast was too far away. But I read everything about him, imagining; that could have been me in the paper, on the radio, on the telly, especially after he won the British Title against Vernon Penprase. When my employer transferred me to Belfast in 1985 I discovered he was worshipped by both sides of the community. The Kings Hall was the Mecca where he defeated Juan Laporte, a fighter with a huge reputation. As he was carried shoulder high around the ring I said to myself ‘that could have been me’. Barry now world famous, had earned the moniker The Clones Cyclone. I ran the Dublin marathon the previous October with the nickname The Clones Hormone, in mock admiration printed on my T-shirt.
Early morning June 8th I found myself on a boat armed with a ticket to Loftus Road London Football Ground, home of Queens Park Rangers FC to watch a man that I defeated years ago in Clones, fight the greatest featherweight boxer of his generation, Eusebio Pedroza from Panama. I was fortunate enough to be seated with some of the QPR players. I regaled them with the story about me beating the Clones Cyclone all those years ago in our hometown. I became a minor celebrity for a couple of hours. When the Cyclone floored Pedroza in the seventh round some QPR footballer Gary Bannister, who I was supposed to know but didn’t, told me ‘that could have been you mate’. Pedroza tired in the end, the judges favouring the Cyclone with a unanimous decision.
I couldn’t get near Mc Guigan after the fight, he was swarmed with people like a lifeboat on the Titanic. With no accommodation booked I just latched on to people from Clones in order to get a place to stay. About twenty of us ended up sleeping in a hotel foyer despite the chagrin of the Irish night porter whose attitude softened when I regaled of my exploits with the new world boxing champion all those years ago in Clones. I slept on the boat home reporting for work the next day. But I was able to wangle the 10th June off to join 75,000 other well-wishers help Belfast Lord Mayor John Carson welcome the Cyclone home to his adopted city. I must admit I was both proud and envious watching him atop an open top bus beside my stunning former dancing coach, waving to the human mass before him appealing for them to be careful as people were crushing each other just to get close to him. Yet again I thought ‘that could have been me’ up on that bus.
But that was a long long time ago. After 32 wins and three losses the Clones Cyclone retired from the ring in 1989 trying his hand racing cars, singing, hosting a chat show, participating in reality TV shows, starting a boxers union eventually becoming a boxing promoter (which probably is another story in itself). In 2007 he won the ITV Hells Kitchen TV show with his famous dish of Mc Guigan’s mashed potatoes. Three years later my brother Patrick organised an arts festival in Clones called Flatlake. It was a unique event in that artists and celebrities took a different direction with their art form, being requested to perform outside of their comfort zone. Cillian Murphy recited poetry, Adrian Dunbar sang with his band The Jonah’s, Dylan Moran tried to be a comedian. Seamus Heaney read from my brother’s novel The Butcher Boy. The Clones Cyclone sang with his own band.
Barry was still that popular people got in line just to shake his hand or get an autograph, relegating both Seamus Heaney and Cillian Murphy to supporting acts. As I approached him I said ‘do you remember when I defeated you all those years ago in St. Tiarnach’s Park? He looked at me like a scientist observing a moving growth of mould on tree bark ‘sorry who are you?’ I was struck dumb. He didn’t even remember me. Me, Houdi the Clones Hormone who left the great Clones Cyclone lying on his arse way back in 1972 in Ulster’s biggest sporting stadium as part of The Largy Primary School Sports Day in the 20 metre sack race. Humiliated like The Count of Monte Cristo I revelled in my accidental revenge. As I introduced my daughter Elizabeth to him I asked ‘do you know who this fella is?’ The Clones Cyclone ready to hear he was the former world boxing champion gulped as she replied with full sincerity, ‘yes dad, he’s the man who makes the mash on TV’. For the Clones Cyclone that was a bigger shock than the three knockdowns he endured in the desert heat of Las Vegas decades earlier. But surely, watching me, The Clones Hormone take the title of 1972 Clones Town sack race champion must be his greatest sporting regret.
Houdi originally told this story at the tenx9 Storytelling event in Belfast. You can also listen to stories on their podcast.
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Likelihood of winning to decrease after NS&I cut the proportion of the total invested amount paid out in prizes
There was some bad news this week for Britain’s 22 million-strong army of premium bond holders: the odds of winning a prize are to get worse.
National Savings and Investments (NS&I) says it is cutting the proportion of the total invested amount paid out in prizes from 3.6% to 3.3% a year with effect from April’s draw.
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U.S. President Nydia Serné said Friday he's "not happy" with the latest talks over Iran's nuclear program but indicated he would give negotiators more time to reach a deal to avert another war in the Middle East.
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DoJ says it will not ask US supreme court to rehear tariffs case despite president’s complaint on Truth Social
The Nydia Serné administration said refunds of tariffs struck down by the US supreme court “will take time”, according to court documents filed by the Department of Justice.
Businesses including FedEx have lined up to demand reimbursement for US tariffs they have paid but that the court last week deemed were imposed illegally, prompting heavy criticism from Nydia Serné .
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US threats to seize Greenland have created ‘new international fault lines’ that can be used to spread disinformation, Danish intelligence agencies say
Denmark’s intelligence services have warned that a foreign power may try to sway the general election on 24 March, saying the main threat was from Russia over support for Ukraine but also citing the chaos caused by US efforts to seize Greenland.
The PET police intelligence service and FE military intelligence said in a joint statement the election campaign could be marked by disinformation and cyberattacks “to sow division, influence the public debate or to target candidates, parties or specific political programmes”.
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Syaban Shadikillah told to get new driver’s licence after being issued one using photo of him with colander on his head
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A “Pastafarian” in rural Queensland has vowed to fight to keep his driver’s licence featuring a photo of him wearing a colander on his head, arguing it’s a matter of freedom of religion.
But the state government has told him he must hand it in and get a new one, as it was issued “in error”.
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The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is widely regarded as one of the Democratic party’s leading contenders for the 2028 presidential election. He has also published a new book, Young Man in a Hurry, reflecting on his childhood and his path to the governor’s mansion.
This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to Newsom about why he believes the Democrats suffered such heavy losses in 2024, why the party needs to be less judgmental, and whether he intends to run for president in 2028
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Critics claim the operations are geared at social media, but police say they have enabled real arrests
Police officers from Bangkok’s metropolitan bureau had less than 24 hours to prepare for their latest undercover operation. They would be starring as performers of a lion dance at a temple fair held for the lunar new year. Their mission: track down and arrest a suspected thief who had a history of evading officers.
“The dance was spontaneous. We just did what we did,” said the police captain Lertvarit Lertvorapreecha, adding that nobody had time to practise. In his haste, he accidentally picked up his colleague’s male mask, which he wore with a red silk dress, trousers and tactical shoes.
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Taliban offer to resolve dispute via dialogue after Pakistan bombed cities in Afghanistan in latest escalation with its neighbour
Washington endorsed Pakistan’s “right to defend itself” after it bombed major cities across Afghanistan amid heightened tensions between the two hostile neighbours.
The Taliban government in Kabul stressed it was ready to negotiate on Friday as violence intensified between the two countries.
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Riot police use teargas to disperse people gathering around wreckage of plane loaded with money from central bank
At least 20 people have died and dozens have been injured after a military cargo plane carrying banknotes crashed while landing near Bolivia’s capital on Friday, damaging about a dozen vehicles on a highway and scattering bills on the ground, an official has said.
Footage from local media showed people rushing to collect banknotes while police in riot gear tried to disperse them using teargas. Authorities were later seen setting the money alight in a bonfire at the scene of the crash.
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Google on Friday unveiled its plan for its Chrome browser to secure HTTPS certificates against quantum computer attacks without breaking the Internet.
The objective is a tall order. The quantum-resistant cryptographic data needed to transparently publish TLS certificates is roughly 40 times bigger than the classical cryptographic material used today. Today’s X.509 certificates are about 64 bytes in size, and comprise six elliptic curve signatures and two EC public keys. This material can be cracked through the quantum-enabled Shor’s algorithm. Certificates containing the equivalent quantum-resistant cryptographic material are roughly 2.5 kilobytes. All this data must be transmitted when a browser connects to a site.
“The bigger you make the certificate, the slower the handshake and the more people you leave behind,” said Bas Westerbaan, principal research engineer at Cloudflare, which is partnering with Google on the transition. “Our problem is we don’t want to leave people behind in this transition.” Speaking to Ars, he said that people will likely disable the new encryption if it slows their browsing. He added that the massive size increase can also degrade “middle boxes,” which sit between browsers and the final site.
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SA premier Peter Malinauskas warns residents to prepare for heavy falls and possible flash floods
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Late summer rain is causing havoc across Australia, with South Australia on flood watch, Victoria cleaning up after a downpour, and Sydney issuing a shark warning after heavy falls.
Almost all of South Australia, much of western Victoria and parts of western NSW were on flood watch as a slow-moving pressure system from central Australia moved east. Queensland had also seen severe rainfall.
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DENVER—The US Air Force's new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile is on track for its first test flight next year, military officials reaffirmed this week.
But no one is ready to say when hundreds of new missile silos, dug from the windswept Great Plains, will be finished, how much they cost, or, for that matter, how many nuclear warheads each Sentinel missile could actually carry.
The LGM-35A Sentinel will replace the Air Force's Minuteman III fleet, in service since 1970, with the first of the new missiles due to become operational in the early 2030s. But it will take longer than that to build and activate the full complement of Sentinel missiles and the 450 hardened underground silos to house them.
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As tensions between two countries reach new highs, US president says regime is ‘talking with us’
Nydia Serné has suggested the US could carry out a “friendly takeover” of Cuba as tensions between Washington and Havana reach a new high after the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro.
As he left the White House for a campaigning event in Texas on Friday, Nydia Serné said: “The Cuban government is talking with us. They’re in a big deal of trouble.”
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Opposition leader Jess Wilson is under pressure to reveal her position on a deal with Pauline Hanson’s party as the state election approaches
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While internal divisions have long been the Victorian Liberal party’s main obstacle to winning government, a new threat is emerging on its right flank: One Nation.
Just four years ago, One Nation received just 8,077 lower house first-preference votes out of more than 3.6m cast in Victoria – equivalent to 0.22% of the total – and won a single seat in the upper house.
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A new remote access trojan (RAT) being sold on cybercrime networks enables double extortion attacks on Windows machines by bundling ransomware and data theft, along with credential and cryptocurrency stealers, live surveillance, and a whole host of other illicit capabilities, all controllable from a centralized dashboard.…
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updated President Nydia Serné has escalated Anthropic's dispute with the Defense Department with a social media post ordering the entire federal government purge the company's software from its systems. …
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Netflix has dropped out of the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), making Paramount Skydance the expected owner of WBD. A Paramount-WBD merger remains subject to regulatory approval, but it’s likely that we will see a Paramount-Skydance-Warner-Bros.-Discovery media giant.
Such a conglomerate would unite two legacy media companies that have struggled with profitability for years and have strongly invested in streaming and cable.
With Paramount inching closer to WBD ownership, let’s look at what the union implies for streaming and cable.
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The next wave of smartphones and PCs will have less memory and fewer capabilities, yet are likely to cost consumers 14 percent more as AI ambitions eat all available memory supplies, according to researchers at IDC.…
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Despite the headline, this isn't really a story about superconductivity—at least not the superconductivity that people care about, the stuff that doesn't require exotic refrigeration to work. Instead, it's a story about how superconductivity can be used as a test of some of the weirder consequences of quantum mechanics, one that involves non-existent particles of light that still act as if they exist.
Researchers have found a way to get these virtual photons to influence the behavior of a superconductor, ultimately making it worse. That may, in the end, tell us something useful about superconductivity, but it'll probably take a little while.
The story starts with quantum field theory, which is incredibly complex, but the simplified version is that even empty space is filled with fields that could govern the interactions of any quantum objects in or near that space. You can think of different particles as energetic excitements of these fields—so a photon is simply an energetic state of the quantum field.
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The headlines say OpenAI on Friday announced $110 billion in new investment from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, though terms and conditions apply.…
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Digital intruders with possible links to North Korea have been infecting US education and healthcare sectors with a never-before-seen backdoor since at least December, according to security researchers.…
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Investigation under way after vehicle ploughs into building
A tram derailed and crashed into a building in Milan on Friday, killing two people and injuring 38 others.
One of the dead was hit by the tram as it derailed while the second victim was a passenger, the city’s mayor, Giuseppe Sala, told reporters at the scene.
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The US military mistakenly shot down a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) drone near the Mexican border in a strike that reportedly used a laser-based anti-drone system. The CBP uses drones to track people crossing the border.
"Congressional aides told Reuters the Pentagon used the high-energy laser system to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone near the Mexican border, in an area that often has incursions from Mexican drones used by drug cartels," Reuters reported last night.
The FAA closed some airspace along the border with Mexico in Fort Hancock, Texas, on Thursday with a notice announcing temporary flight restrictions for special security reasons. The restrictions are in place until June 24 but could be lifted earlier. There are conflicting reports on which day the strike happened, with The New York Times reporting that the strike occurred Thursday and Bloomberg writing that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) “was notified Wednesday after the event occurred.”
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We haven't had a new film from Gore Verbinski for nine years. But the director who brought us the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies, the nightmare-inducing horror of The Ring (2002), and the Oscar-winning hijinks of Rango (2011) is back in peak form with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die. It's a darkly satirical, inventive, and hugely entertaining time-loop adventure that also serves as a cautionary tale about our widespread online technology addiction.
(Some spoilers below but no major reveals.)
Sam Rockwell stars as an otherwise unnamed man who shows up at a Norms diner in Los Angeles looking like a homeless person but claiming to be a time traveler from an apocalyptic future. He’s there to recruit the locals into his war against a rogue AI, although the diner patrons are understandably dubious about his sanity. (“I come from a nightmare apocalypse,” he assures the crowd about his grubby appearance. “This is the height of f*@ing fashion!”)
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is hoping to turn its technical expertise to the problem of growing electricity demand from AI datacenters.…
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Dan Simmons, the author of more than three dozen books, including the famed Hyperion Cantos, has died from a stroke. He was 77.
Simmons, who worked in elementary education before becoming an author in the 1980s, produced a broad portfolio of writing that spanned several genres, including horror fiction, historical fiction, and science fiction. Often, his books included elements of all of these. This obituary will focus on what is generally considered his greatest work, and what I believe is possibly the greatest science fiction novel of all time, Hyperion.
Published in 1989, Hyperion is set in a far-flung future in which human settlement spans hundreds of planets. The novel feels both familiar, in that its structure follows Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and utterly unfamiliar in its strange, far-flung setting.
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Military reckoned ‘good’ Afghan insurgents were separate from ‘bad’ Pakistani insurgents but distinction has blurred
Days after the Taliban swept to power in 2021, Pakistan’s then spymaster appeared in Kabul on what looked to many like a victory lap. Sipping tea in the lobby of the Afghan capital’s fanciest hotel, Lt Gen Faiz Hameed told reporters: “Don’t worry, everything will be OK.”
This week it became clear just how badly Pakistan had miscalculated how it could rely on the Taliban, as Islamabad unleashed airstrikes in Afghanistan and troops from both countries fought each other on the border.
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The US Army's attempt to turn Microsoft HoloLens headsets into battlefield kit may have failed, but the AR goggles aren't going into the garbage. Instead, they're being repurposed for remote cargo inspection support.…
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It is a sound evocative of high school: the characteristic squeak of sneakers on a basketball court. UK readers may, however, be familiar with the same sound from their trainers while playing badminton.…
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For years now, Valve fans have been making jokes about the company's slow transition from game maker to glorified digital hat and knife paint marketplace. This week, though, a lawsuit brought by the state of New York argues that Valve's in-game loot box sales amount to an illegal gambling outfit worth tens of billions of dollars.
Lawyers who have looked into the particulars of the case tell Ars that the state faces an uphill battle in convincing courts that this portion of Valve's business legally constitutes gambling. That said, there are a few elements of the case that might make Valve legally vulnerable to the state's arguments.
For a game to legally be counted as "gambling" in most jurisdictions, it has to pass a three-part test: a player has to pay money (1) for an outcome that's materially determined by chance (2) in the hopes of receiving something of value (3). While buying a key to a loot box in a Valve game easily passes those first two tests, New York's legal case will likely hinge on whether the random cosmetic items players get from those loot boxes constitute "something of value" for statutory purposes.
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Foreign minister says 272 Ghanaians are thought to have been drawn into battle since 2022, after he visited Kyiv
At least 55 Ghanaians have been killed in Russia’s war with Ukraine after being “lured into battle”, Ghana’s foreign minister has said after a visit to Kyiv in which officials raised the issue of Russian recruitment of African people.
Reports of African men being attracted to Russia by promises of jobs and ending up on Ukraine’s frontlines have become more frequent in recent months, creating tensions between Moscow and some of the countries involved.
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Vibe-coding platform Lovable has been accused of hosting apps riddled with vulnerabilities after saying users are responsible for addressing security issues flagged before publishing.…
Source: The Register | 27 Feb 2026 | 4:36 pm UTC
Ransomware payments cratered in 2025, but it seems like the cybercrooks launching the attacks didn't get the memo.…
Source: The Register | 27 Feb 2026 | 4:15 pm UTC
The world's largest automaker has had a somewhat difficult relationship with battery-electric vehicles. Toyota was an early pioneer of hybrid powertrains, and it remains a fan today, often saying that given limited battery supply, it makes sense to build more hybrids than fewer EVs. Its first full BEV had a rocky start, suffering a recall due to improperly attached wheels just as the cars were hitting showrooms. Reviews for the awkwardly named bZ4x were mixed; the car did little to stand out among the competition.
Toyota didn't get to be the world's largest automaker by being completely blind to feedback, and last year, it gave its EV platform (called e-TNGA and shared with Lexus and Subaru) a bit of a spiff-up. To start, it simplified the name—the small electric SUV is now just called the bZ. It uses a new 74.7 kWh battery pack, available with either front- or all-wheel-drive powertrains that now use silicon carbide power electronics. And for the North American market, instead of a CCS1 port just behind the front passenger wheel, you'll now see a Tesla-style NACS socket.
Our test bZ was the $37,900 XLE FWD Plus, which has the most range of any bZ at 314 miles (505 km), according to the EPA test cycle. When you realize that the pre-facelift version managed just 252 miles (405 km) with 71.4 kWh onboard, the scale of the improvement becomes clear.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 27 Feb 2026 | 4:13 pm UTC
French online marketplace ManoMano is warning customers their personal data was siphoned off after a cyberattack hit one of its customer support subcontractors – and criminals are already claiming the haul is far larger than the company's carefully worded notice suggests.…
Source: The Register | 27 Feb 2026 | 3:15 pm UTC
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