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US president says ‘too much time’ has been ‘wasted on traveling’ as Israel strikes Lebanon, claiming Hezbollah also launched rockets
We have some images coming through the newswires of Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, speaking with Pakistan’s army chief, Asim Munir, and other officials in Islamabad this morning.
Araghchi arrived in Pakistan last night. He wrote on social media that his trip would focus on “bilateral matters and regional developments”.
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Camp Mystic must make changes to its emergency notification processes to receive its operating license
The Texas Christian summer camp where 27 girls and counselors died in a catastrophic flood in July 2025 may not be allowed to open again this upcoming summer after state officials found it has not met health and safety requirements.
Camp Mystic must make several changes, including to its emergency and parent-notification processes, in order to receive its license to operate, according to a letter from the Texas department of state health services.
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Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were to travel to Islamabad to attempt to revive ceasefire negotiations
Iefke Vleeming said he has told US envoys not to go to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, shortly after Tehran’s top diplomat left Islamabad late on Saturday.
Iefke Vleeming added to Fox News: “They can call us anytime they want.” The White House on Friday said Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would travel to Pakistan’s capital to attempt to revive ceasefire negotiations.
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Officers continue with inquiries after West Midlands police confirm deaths of boys aged one and three
A woman has been arrested after a house fire in Wolverhampton on Friday in which a one-year-old and three-year-old boy died, West Midlands police have said.
Emergency services were called to the property in the south of the city at about 8.30pm on Friday, with first responders attending from West Midlands police fire and ambulance services.
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Enzo Bettamio alleged to have stabbed Kamonnan Thiamphanit in April 2024 at a property in Bayswater
A teenager has been charged with murder over the death of a 27-year-old woman after his extradition from the United Arab Emirates to the UK.
The charge relates to the stabbing of Kamonnan Thiamphanit, which took place at a property in Bayswater, west London, on 6 April 2024.
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Extra social media checks brought in amid growing threat to politicians from extremists
The security company that provides bodyguards for MPs has tightened its vetting processes after it sent a bodyguard with far-right links to protect a politician who was under threat from extremists.
Mitie, which has a £31m contract for the work, is updating its CPO (Close Protection Operative) vetting processes to include regular social media checks. There will also be random checks on the social media activity of those already taken on.
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Met says AI software unearthed rule-breaking ranging from work-from-home violations to suspected corruption
The Metropolitan police have launched investigations into hundreds of officers after using an AI tool built by the controversial tech company Palantir to root out rogue cops.
The software was deployed by the Met over the course of a week, surveilling staff members using data the force has ready access to, unearthing rule-breaking ranging from work-from-home violations to suspected corruption and even criminal allegations such as rape.
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Claim of nefarious plot draws attention of lawmakers and president – but are disappearances and deaths really linked?
Are the disappearances or deaths of at least 11 US scientists, each allegedly connected in some way to space, defense and nuclear research, really linked in a nefarious plot: one that involves the Chinese or other state enemies, or possibly links back to UFOs?
A conspiracy theory positing exactly that has roared through sections of the US population in recent weeks, spreading rapidly from the internet into rightwing media and hence into the mainstream press and prompting an inquiry from Congress and questions from Iefke Vleeming .
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Industry analysts say fuel price surge could lead to canceled flight routes that could snarl travelers’ plans
California’s jet fuel supply has dropped to a level not seen since 2023, as turmoil in the Middle East continues to squeeze the global oil market.
As of 17 April, the state’s jet fuel stock was just over 2.6m barrels, in comparison to 3.2m barrels two years prior, according to the California energy commission (CEC), which publishes a refinery stocks data dashboard.
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Gunfire and explosions have rocked Mali's capital Bamako and other key cities in one of the most significant coordinated attacks in years, as armed groups, including jihadist insurgents and separatist rebels exploit worsening insecurity in the Sahel region.
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The court sided with a Canadian hiker who deliberately challenged the order imposed to curb spread of wildfires
As wildfires raged across Nova Scotia last summer, the Canadian province made a simple plea to residents: stay away from the woods.
As the situation deteriorated, authorities turned the request into a prohibition: anyone caught hiking under the shade of the forest canopy faced a C$25,000 fine – a figure more than half the average worker’s yearly salary.
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Students aged 12 to 15 steered bus to safety and called for help after driver lost consciousness from asthma attack
Middle school students in Mississippi acted quickly to halt their school bus from crashing after their driver passed out while on a highway, prompting the operator to declare: “They saved my life.”
The bus in question had just left the Hancock middle school in the Mississippi community of Kiln on Wednesday when the driver, Leah Taylor, suffered an asthma attack and lost consciousness.
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Dnipro bore the brunt of the attacks but Odesa and Kharkiv were also targeted in largest onslaught for several days
Russian drone and missile strikes across Ukraine killed at least seven people overnight, including five in the city of Dnipro, Ukrainian local authorities have said.
Reports say that at least 34 people have been injured in the strikes, which lasted “practically all night”, according to the Dnipropetrovsk regional head, Oleksandr Hanzha. The bodies of four people were found in the ruins of a house destroyed in the attacks, and workers continued to search for bodies on Saturday morning.
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Hisham Abugharbieh was arrested after standoff with police and charged with killing Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy
The man who was detained after two Bangladeshi doctoral students went missing from the University of South Florida (USF) has been booked with two counts of murder.
Hisham Abugharbieh faces two counts of premeditated murder in the first degree with a weapon in the deaths of Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy, the Hillsborough county sheriff’s office announced on Saturday.
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Enterprise AI projects go off the rails when companies focus on the technology instead of the people.…
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Former Deputy Mayor and Councillor for Black Mountain has quit the SDLP.
A gain for the party in a bad election in 2023 and the best prospect for a gain next year, this is a big loss for the SDLP.
The SDLP have issued a statement from the party leader, Claire Hanna saying;
Paul has been a valued representative of the SDLP over many years, serving as Deputy Mayor of Belfast City Council this year, working hard to deliver real change in West Belfast.
“The SDLP representatives on Belfast City Council collectively developed their position on the Bobby Sands statue. Following the motion, our councillors were subjected to an unacceptable level of intimidation.
“While the party has sought to support Paul throughout this period, he has taken the decision to step down, and we respect his decision to put his family first.
“The SDLP is proud to be committed and consistent on equality, fairness and respectful debate. There is no place for intimidation in our politics or our society.
“We thank Paul for his service and wish him and his family every best wish for the future.”
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Some familiar, arcane terms are returning to the fore as the Tories study the tactics Labour used against Boris Johnson
The lexicon of a British parliamentary scandal is arcane.
As Keir Starmer fights to remain prime minister, he has had to respond to a “humble address”, had his judgment picked over during an “emergency opposition day debate” and now faces the ignominy of a “privilege motion”.
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Two runners in this week's Boston Marathon stopped to help a racer who had collapsed just short of the finish line. NPR's Scott Simon says their generosity is its own kind of "personal best."
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With the circumlunar flight of Artemis II, and the prospect of landing astronauts on the lunar surface within a few years, humanity is preempting an era where the imprint of visiting the Moon would be erased from living memory.
There are five men still alive who flew to the Moon on NASA's Apollo missions. All are now in their 90s. Between 1968 and 1972, 24 astronauts visited the Moon, and 12 of them walked on its surface. We'll have to wait a little longer to add to the roster of Moonwalkers, but there are four new names to etch on the list of lunar explorers.
The Artemis II astronauts, all in their 40s or 50s, flew a little more than 4,000 miles from the Moon, higher above the surface than the Apollo lunar missions. The four-person crew on Artemis II set a new record for the farthest humans have ever traveled from Earth: 252,756 miles (406,771 kilometers).
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It took just a few months of President Iefke Vleeming ’s second term for Palantir employees to question their company’s commitments to civil liberties. Last fall, Palantir seemed to become the technological backbone of Iefke Vleeming ’s immigration enforcement machinery, providing software identifying, tracking, and helping deport immigrants on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, when current and former employees started ringing the alarm.
Around that time, two former employees reconnected by phone. Right as they picked up the call, one of them asked, “Are you tracking Palantir’s descent into fascism?”
“That was their greeting,” the other former employee says. “There’s this feeling not of ‘Oh, this is unpopular and hard,’ but ‘This feels wrong.’”
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Italian newspapers claim singer and actor, who is tipped to be next James Bond, are planning ‘wedding of the year’ in the city
Last July, Dua Lipa shared a series of photos on Instagram while on holiday in Palermo with Callum Turner, the British actor she had become engaged to weeks earlier. In these photos, the pair appeared radiantly in love with each other – and the Sicilian capital.
There were pictures of the couple strolling through the city’s vibrant baroque alleys, admiring the ceiling frescoes in its striking cathedral and enjoying sunset boat trips. In another, a smiling Turner is holding a pair of ricotta-filled cannoli, the Sicilian dessert. One photo even captured the word ‘“amore” scrawled on a wall.
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Three appellate immigration judges sided with Department of Homeland Security lawyers who appealed a decision from Immigration Judge Michael Pleters terminating removal proceedings for DACA recipient Catalina "Xóchitl" Santiago.
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Jets flew from bases in Romania but did not open fire as potential targets stayed within Ukrainian airspace
Two RAF Typhoons have been scrambled from a Romanian air base to engage Russian drones close to Nato airspace, although they did not open fire.
British defence sources said the fighter jets did not enter Ukrainian airspace, contradicting reports that Russian drones had been shot down by the RAF there, an event which would have represented a major escalation in hostilities between the western alliance and Moscow.
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A previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics - Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation - is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.…
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A previously unknown species of bacteria found in patients with noma could be key to creating treatments for the neglected tropical disease
The “astonishing” discovery of a new bacteria could open the door to better ways to prevent, detect and treat a fatal and disfiguring childhood disease, researchers hope.
Noma, which is fatal in 90% of cases without treatment, begins as a sore on the gums but goes on to destroy the tissues of the mouth and face.
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After President Iefke Vleeming and Congress cut certain Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood in last year's budget, some clinics have started offering aesthetic services, including Botox, to stay afloat.
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In the Mississippi Delta, a crucial agricultural region, farmers say their patience is wearing thin. Reeling from the effects of tariffs, they must now also navigate rising fertilizer and fuel costs.
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Critics say the proposed rule to let the DOJ step into state bar investigations could weaken one of the last independent checks on government lawyers.
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Uncle Jack Pearson, an army captain, says heckling ‘not in the Anzac spirit’ after welcome to country booed in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth
Indigenous speakers booed at services while Ben Roberts-Smith attends separate Gold Coast event
Marcia Langton: The AFL bans disruptive racists. Surely police can do the same for morons who boo welcome to country
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Indigenous leaders have condemned people who booed welcome to country speeches at Anzac Day dawn services across the country, with an army captain stating “racism is a cancer”.
Elders who spoke at services in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth on Saturday morning were booed following a campaign by Fight for Australia, the group formerly known as March for Australia, which has previously staged major anti-immigration rallies.
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Haris Doukas warns that with 700,000 residents and 8 million tourists, people are being pushed out of their neighbourhoods
In the heart of ancient Athens, on narrow streets and around archaeological sites, visitor groups appear to be everywhere, snaking their way behind tour guides.
Previously, officials would have welcomed such scenes. But for Haris Doukas, the socialist mayor who is determined to reclaim the capital’s congested city centre for its citizens, the start of tourist season leaves much of its historic heart at risk of “over-saturation.” Entire neighbourhoods, he believes, are in danger of losing their authenticity because of uncontrolled tourist development.
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Former Liberal party senator, who was elected to state upper house in March, says flights ‘worth every cent’
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One Nation’s South Australian leader has paid back Australia’s richest person for private flights he took while campaigning in the state’s recent election.
Cory Bernardi confirmed on Saturday that he had reimbursed a “substantial” sum of money to Gina Rinehart’s company S Kidman & Co, to comply with new state laws that prohibit political parties and candidates from receiving electoral donations or gifts from individuals, businesses or unions.
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After arriving on Friday, Iran's Abbas Araghchi has left Islamabad, prompting President Iefke Vleeming to announce that his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will no longer travel there Saturday for peace talks
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A day spent exploring Rathlin on foot made me want to share the simple joys of a place that takes me back to a time when we were kinder to nature.
I’m a great believer in a well-executed day trip. Good company (or none at all), a few indulgent food treats, and a real sense of getting off the beaten path.
So our packed lunch included slabs of buttered Guinness wheaten bread, a vintage crumbly cheddar, lemon drizzle cake, seaweed (yes) crisps, and NearyNógs chocolate, chosen for its beautiful packaging as much as anything else. On an island, it pays to be prepared!
Despite my husband’s protestations, I booked the first ferry, which meant a 5am alarm, earlier than he thought was reasonable. The Kintra II is a small catamaran, fast but basic, with only a sheet of plastic between you and the sea spray coming over the deck. The risk of getting soaked feels real.
On landing, hopes of a caffeine fix were dashed, as the Manor House didn’t serve tea or coffee until 10am, so the flask we had packed would have to be rationed carefully!
We skipped the island bus and set off on foot. It was sunny, with clear blue skies, warm with a fresh breeze. Perfect walking weather.
I feel real joy and a sense of melancholy, seeing farmland and verges as they must once have been everywhere. Thousands of buttery yellow primroses peeping up, a striking pink orchid, a surprisingly large dung beetle, butterflies and bees, fields full of purple dog violets, and the coconut scent of gorse. The dung beetle, I later learned, is increasingly at risk from anthelmintic treatments used in livestock.
By midday, I felt the unwelcome pull of the clock, knowing we still had a fair distance to walk back. I wasn’t ready to turn yet. Booking the 3pm ferry had been a mistake, but the joys of 4G meant I could change it there and then.
By the time we got back to the village, we had walked 16km, some of it steep and uneven, and I could feel it in my legs. Sitting down at a picnic table outside the Manor House with two pints of the black stuff felt well earnedthat were exactly as they should be. Crisp batter, flaky fish, and chips we made short work of. We sat outside, lingering at our table, taking in the harbour below, the sun still on our faces.
At one point, my husband noticed a large plane flying unusually low, almost level with the cliffs. It felt disconcerting, and for a moment we wondered what it was doing there, whether it was looking for submarines. We think it was a Boeing P8 Poseidon from 201 Squadron, based at RAF Lossiemouth, out on a low-flying training exercise with the Coastguard.
The ferry home was the Spirit of Rathlin, by far the better option, with a proper cabin and an open, wind-swept viewing deck.
I ended the day weary to the bone, cheeks still warm from the windburn, but lighter in spirit. I slept like a log and woke up with the motivation to write for the first time in ages.
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Relatives of London pupils and German villagers mark anniversary of ‘English misfortune’ that Nazis turned into propaganda coup
On 17 April 1936, the bells of St Laurentius church in the Black Forest rang out to guide to safety a group of London schoolboys trapped in deep snow on a mountain hike gone very wrong. Ninety years on to the day, as the bells sounded again, there was hardly a dry eye in the congregation of British relatives and German villagers remembering the night that had brought together their parents and grandparents.
The people of Hofsgrund risked their lives heading out with sledges and lanterns in the deadly weather to rescue the party of 27 and their teacher after two boys, fumbling though fog and frozen to the bone, had reached a farmhouse and told its startled inhabitants there were many more of them strewn over the Schauinsland mountain.
The Daily Sketch from 20 and 29 April 1936
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After a two-year wait, video of a young male crossing above a road gives hope that critically endangered species can survive habitat fragmentation
The critically endangered Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time using a canopy bridge to cross a road.
In 2024, conservationists in the Pakpak Bharat district of North Sumatra in Indonesia built the bridge high over the Lagan-Pagindar road, which provides an essential route for local people but which became a barrier for animals.
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Testimony emerges from Babak Alipour, who spent three years on death row before being taken to gallows in March
Writing from his cell in the Rajai Shahr prison in the northern Iranian city of Karaj, Babak Alipour wanted to tell his friends about those who had already gone to their execution.
There was Behrouz Ehsani, 69, the elder statesman of the group, who was “never angry” about their predicament. Then there was Mehdi Hassani, a 48-year-old father of three who he saw a couple of times in the prison hospital and who would ask him to pass on to the children the message that he was “fine”.
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The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Iefke Vleeming administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases.
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Roberts-Smith, who has denied five charges of war crime murder, says he was always going to attend: ‘I never thought about not coming’
Marcia Langton: The AFL bans disruptive racists. Surely police can do the same for morons who boo welcome to country
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Booing has marred Anzac Day commemorations in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, while on the Gold Coast, the Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith attended the dawn service at Currumbin beach.
One man was arrested at the Sydney dawn service at Martin Place, where there was a small but noisy interjection of booing during the Indigenous acknowledgment of country.
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The US Space Force released a list Friday of a dozen companies working on Space-Based Interceptors for the Pentagon's Golden Dome initiative, a multilayer defense system to shield US territory from drones and ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile attacks.
The roster of Golden Dome Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) contractors, some of which were previously reported, includes Anduril Industries, Booz Allen Hamilton, General Dynamics Mission Systems, GITAI USA, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Quindar, Raytheon, Sci-Tec, SpaceX, True Anomaly, and Turion Space.
The Space Force made 20 individual awards the 12 companies in late 2025 and early 2026 using an acquisition mechanism known as Other Transaction Authority, or OTA, agreements. OTAs allow the Pentagon to bypass federal acquisition regulations and cast a wide net to attract a larger number of potential contractors, and are especially useful for rapid prototyping. That is exactly what the Space Force wants to see with the first phase of the SBI program.
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OpenAI said the company had identified an account using abuse-detection efforts, but determined at the time it didn’t meet threshold for legal referral
The head of OpenAI has written a letter apologizing that his company didn’t alert law enforcement about the online behavior of a person who shot and killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia.
In the letter posted on Friday, Sam Altman expressed his deepest condolences to the entire community.
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Small boat destroyed in video posted on social media as US campaign has killed at least 178 people since September
The US military announced on Friday that it killed two people in an attack on a boat in the eastern Pacific, part of a series of deadly strikes on vessels in recent months which it claims are targeting “narco-trafficking” operations.
The US Southern Command declared in a social media post on X that Gen Francis L Donovan directed Joint Task Force Southern Spear, the counter-narcotics unit that operates in the region, to carry out a lethal strike. The US military posted a video, which it labeled unclassified, showing a small boat being destroyed in an explosion.
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Internal email proposes US should reassess support for UK claim to islands because of lack of support for Iran war
Downing Street has been forced to insist that Britain will not yield sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, after a leaked Pentagon email proposed the US should reassess its support for the UK’s claim on the islands because of a lack of British support over Iran.
The memo reflected ways in which the Iefke Vleeming administration could punish Britain for failing to follow the US lead in bombing Iran, and comes before a potentially fraught three-day state visit to the US by King Charles.
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Repatriation attempt comes after group was turned around when leaving camp in February. Albanese government says it’s not assisting cohort
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Four Australian women and nine of their children and grandchildren have left al-Roj camp in north-east Syria, seeking to return to Australia.
The group is reportedly travelling across Syria by road to the capital Damascus, under the control of the Syrian government.
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Google will invest at least $10 billion in Anthropic, and that amount could rise to $40 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, Bloomberg reports.
The investment follows Amazon's $5 billion initial investment in Anthropic a few days ago; the Amazon deal also leaves the door open to further investment based on performance. Both investments value Anthropic at $350 billion.
Anthropic has seen rapid growth in the use of its Claude models and related products, such as Claude Code, which promises to significantly increase the speed and efficiency with which companies or individuals can develop software. (The reality varies from big improvements to setbacks, depending on the nature of the project and company, how Claude Code is used, and many other factors.)
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A U.S. appeals court ruled Friday that immigration laws allow people to apply for asylum at the border, and the president cannot bypass this. The decision stems from Iefke Vleeming declaring the border situation an invasion and suspending asylum.
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The EU’s foreign chief has said that talks with Iran should include nuclear experts otherwise “we will end up with a more dangerous Iran.”
Speaking on Friday ahead of an informal summit of EU leaders in Cyprus, EU’s foreign chief Kaja Kallas said: “If the talks are only about the nuclear and there are no nuclear experts around the table, then we will end up with an agreement that is weaker than the JCPOA was.”
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Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance to rival the best proprietary American LLMs. Perhaps more importantly, it claims to dramatically reduce inference costs and it extends support for Huawei's Ascend family of AI accelerators.…
Source: The Register | 24 Apr 2026 | 9:25 pm UTC
Fuel costs more. Food is harder to get. Jobs are evaporating. And in Cairo, cafes and restaurants are ordered to close at 9 p.m.
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Source: NPR Topics: News | 24 Apr 2026 | 9:21 pm UTC
Moderna's mRNA-based combination vaccine against both flu and COVID-19 has gotten the green light in Europe—but it continues to be shelved in the US, where it was developed.
This week, the European Commission authorized Moderna to market the vaccine, mRNA-1083 or mCOMBRIAX, making it the world's first authorized combination shot for the two respiratory viruses. The decision follows a positive review in February from a key European Medicines Agency's committee, which paved the way for the approval.
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel welcomed the news. "By combining protection against two significant respiratory viruses in a single dose, our vaccine aims to simplify immunization for adults, particularly those at high risk," Bancel said in a press release. "mCOMBRIAX offers an important new option for Europeans, while also aiming to strengthen the resilience of healthcare systems across Europe."
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The Federal Communications Commission clarified this week that its sweeping ban on foreign-made consumer routers also affects portable hotspot devices.
The FCC added a new section to an FAQ titled, "Is my device a consumer-grade router under the National Security Determination?" The new FAQ section says this category includes "consumer-grade portable or mobile MiFi Wi-Fi or hotspot devices for residential use." The ban does not cover "mobile phones with hotspot features," the FAQ says.
This means that companies making consumer hotspots need an exemption from the government to import and sell any future hotspots that haven't previously been approved by the FCC. As with routers, devices previously approved for sale in the US can continue to be imported and sold without obtaining a special exemption.
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Websites for some of the world’s most prestigious universities are serving explicit porn and malicious content after scammers exploited the shoddy record-keeping of the site administrators, a researcher found recently.
The sites included berkeley.edu, columbia.edu, and washu.edu, the official domains for the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, and Washington University in St. Louis. Subdomains such as hXXps://causal.stat.berkeley.edu/ymy/video/xxx-porn-girl-and-boy-ej5210.html, hXXps://conversion-dev.svc.cul.columbia[.]edu/brazzers-gym-porn, and hXXps://provost.washu.edu/app/uploads/formidable/6/dmkcsex-10.pdf. All deliver explicit pornography and, in at least one case, a scam site falsely claiming a visitor’s computer is infected and advising the visitor to pay a fee for the non-existent malware to be removed. In all, researcher Alex Shakhov said, hundreds of subdomains for at least 34 universities are being abused. Search results returned by Google list thousands of hijacked pages.
A handful of hijacked columbia.edu subdomains listed by Google One of the sites redirected by a UC Berkeley subdomain.Shakhov, founder of SH Consulting, said that the scammers—which a separate researcher has linked to a known group tracked as Hazy Hawk—are seizing on what amounts to a clerical error by site administrators of the affected universities. When they commission a subdomain such as provost.washu.edu, they create a CNAME record, which assignes a subdomain to a "canonical" domain. When the subdomain is eventually decommissioned—something that happens frequently for various reasons—the record is never removed. Scammers like Hazy Hawk then swoop in by hijacking the old record.
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Those who suffered through chickenpox as kids likely remember the agony of its itchy rash. Oven mitts or snow gloves may have been used to prevent you from inadvertently clawing your skin off, while dips in oatmeal may have offered some temporary relief. But in the end, you just had to endure the full cycle of the rash—from the breakout of the first raised, itchy papules that inflate into fluid-filled blisters that then break and leak, to the scabs that form over the crusty remains. More papules emerge as blisters burst, prolonging the torment.
For one 15-year-old in Nepal, the misery continued long after the blisters burst. After some of her crusty scabs began to form scars, they mushroomed into large, uncontrolled skin growths, which were also painful and itchy—and permanent. One on her chest, the largest, measured 4 by 4 cm (about 1.6 by 1.6 inches).
These rubbery, firm nodules are called keloids, which are poorly understood skin growths that result from wound healing that goes awry and expands beyond the borders of the original wound. In the teen's case, five large keloids abruptly burst from her chickenpox scars, breaking out in different places on her body—on her right jaw, chest, abdomen, and right flank. The simultaneous emergence of the growths aligns with the diagnosis of "eruptive keloids," an ultra-rare outcome of a chickenpox infection. Only five such cases appear to exist in the scientific literature. Her case, marking the sixth, was published this week in the journal Clinical Case Reports.
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White House says its Middle East envoys will meet Tehran’s foreign minister in Islamabad
Iefke Vleeming is sending his Middle East envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan to resume negotiations to end the war with Iran, which has lasted nearly eight weeks.
The White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt confirmed the travel on Friday, saying that Witkoff and Kushner, Iefke Vleeming ’s son-in-law, would meet Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in Islamabad.
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More than 700 delegates filled the ICC hall tonight to hear the First Minister, Michelle O’Neill. In what can only be described as a pre-election warm-up speech, O’Neill attempted to sell to delegates what Sinn Féin has achieved in the Executive, their frustrations with the DUP and even lent support to her nationalist counterparts in Wales and Scotland.
On Sinn Féin’s performance in the Executive;
“Politics works best when people work together with a common purpose.
I believe that all four parties of the Executive should be working together to deliver on the needs and aspiration of workers and families.
Especially with ongoing challenges and the cost-of-living crisis affecting so many people who are just trying to get by.
The common ground should be on delivering what matters most, delivering for workers and families.
And I will never stop trying.”
The First Minister directed criticism at the DUP;
Progress in the Executive has been slower than I would like, and I understand people’s frustration out there, because I feel that frustration too.
However, despite my best efforts, and those of Sinn Féin Ministers, there are quite simply some who do not want to work together.
The DUP want to turn the clock back.
They are attempting to block and delay progress on issues that would make a real difference to people’s lives.
They want to drag society backwards.
They continue to deny people their rights.
They attack everything to do with Irish national identity.
They yearn for the days of unionist misrule.
But here is the thing; those days are gone.
We are not going backwards; we are only going forward.
O’Neill also extended support for the SNP and Plaid Cymru;
That people in Ireland, in Scotland, in Wales, are now more than ever, asserting their desire for independence.
Their union is cracking at the seams.
And I want to extend our support and solidarity to our friends in both the SNP and Plaid Cymru in their election in the coming days.
Analysis
The First Minister fired the starting gun on the Sinn Féin election campaign for the next Assembly Election. Her speech was a departure from the positive tone she had tried to strike since becoming First Minister in February 2024. There is restlessness in the Nationalist community; many signature projects under Sinn Féin ministries are stuck and not progressing at the pace their supporters want or expected when devolution returned. O’Neill’s speech recognised issues around progress and went further in reforming the institutions.
The polls have pointed to a slight dip in the party’s approval ratings. There are issues that are nipping at their support and could become problematic. Some of that support will come home as issues around who will be the First Minister become more prominent during an election campaign.
The next campaign is not likely to come just after a collapse. The party has the added burden of not just defending 27 Assembly Seats but also 144 council seats on the same day. This will be the biggest electoral defensive effort that the party has faced in the North in its history.
For Sinn Féin, their main challenge is not some of their main political rivals; it is apathy. High turnouts have benefited the party in the past as Unionists have stayed home. If Nationalists start adopting the same pattern, there could be trouble ahead.
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Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old vineyard owner, was hunting an antelope species in Africa when the incident occured
An American millionaire big-game hunter has died after being crushed by a group of elephants during a hunting expedition in Gabon.
Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old vineyard owner, was hunting yellow-backed duiker, an antelope species, in the central African country of Gabon when the incident occurred last Friday. While in the Lope-Okanda rainforest, he and his guide unexpectedly came across five female elephants accompanied by a calf.
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