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A British charity is calling on the UK government to facilitate the urgent evacuation of 21 critically ill children from a besieged hospital in northern Gaza. The Kamal Adwan Hospital was recently raided by Israeli soldiers and many of the medical staff detained. Only two doctors remain to care for more than 150 patients, there is a severe lack of medical supplies, and the surgical facilities no longer function. The hospital was hit by another […]
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In eastern Lebanon right now, there is a frantic race to create shelter. Schools, universities and sports halls are being transformed into relief centres for those who’ve been forced from their homes. As night fell in the town of Qob Elias, 25 miles from Baalbek, we found a technical college being cleared out by a group of local volunteers. Desks, tables and chairs were removed; mattresses, medical kits and drinking water were carried in. We […]
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Mittelsteadt adds that Trump could punish companies in a variety of ways. He cites, for example, the way the Trump government canceled a major federal contract with Amazon Web Services, a decision likely influenced by the former president’s view of the Washington Post and its owner, Jeff Bezos. It would not be hard for policymakers to point to evidence of political bias in AI models, even if it cuts both ways. A 2023 study by […]
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The video from inside the van shows a bumpy ride, with a cage separating the mostly Black door knockers from their driver. The driver also told the group of door knockers that he was in pain and had difficulty driving: “I just had surgery, bro,” the U-Haul driver says in another recording obtained by WIRED. “Like half of my foot is cut off.” “I’m scared,” the door knocker who spoke to WIRED replies on the […]
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Israeli strikes on Baalbek, in eastern Lebanon, have killed 19 people, according to Lebanon’s health ministry, after an evacuation warning was issued for the city and its outskirts. It comes as the new leader of Hezbollah, Naim Kassem, vowed that his group would keep fighting Israel until it was offered ceasefire terms it deemed acceptable, despite Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister saying he hoped a ceasefire deal between Hezbollah and Israel would be announced “within hours”. […]
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Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has said he hopes a ceasefire deal between Hezbollah and Israel will be announced “in the coming hours or days”. Najib Mikati made the comments after speaking to American envoy Amos Hochstein. Israeli broadcaster Kan said the draft deal was written by the US and dated 26 October, and would see Israel pull out within a week of the truce starting. It would reportedly last an initial 60 days and includes […]
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TikTok’s founder Zhang Yiming has become China’s richest man with a fortune of almost $50bn (£38bn). Dubbed the “short video king”, the 41-year-old topped the Hurun China Rich List for the first time with $49.3bn (£37.9bn). Mr Yiming stepped down as chief executive of ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, in 2021. He is the 18th individual to be crowned China’s richest person in the 26 years since the Hurun China Rich List began. He dethroned bottled […]
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Several people have been reported missing after flash floods struck Spain, sweeping cars through the streets. Shocking images and videos have emerged from eastern and southern parts of Spain, showing heavy rainfall turning once-busy roads into muddy rivers. Flooding caused havoc, running from the provinces of Malaga in the south to Valencia in the east. Image: A man looks on at the destruction caused by the flash floods in Malaga province. Pic: AP Image: Cars […]
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Steve Bannon got out of federal prison at around 3 am Tuesday. Seven hours later, he was live on his War Room podcast to “flood the zone with shit” exactly one week before the presidential election. Flooding the zone with shit is Bannon’s own oft-quoted description of his media strategy: churning so many lies or half-truths into the stratosphere that it becomes impossible to draw a line between fact and fiction. “I am more energized […]
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“It seemed like I was opening Pandora’s box, when it wasn’t absolutely necessary,” she says of purchasing a smartwatch. (Still, she didn’t forswear technology entirely. Her daughter now bikes with a Wi-Fi–only tablet, connects it to the internet when she arrives at a friend’s house, and sends her mom a message on Facebook Messenger Kids letting her know she arrived safely.) “They’re disruptive, distracting. It all just gets in the way of what teachers are […]
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