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Israeli soldiers and special operations police rescued four hostages from Gaza on Saturday during a heavy air and ground attack and flew them back to Israel by helicopter to be reunited with their families. The news was greeted with jubilation in Israel, where anxieties over the fate of around 120 remaining prisoners have grown after eight months of war.Residents in the town of Nuseirat, where the hostages were held, reported intense shelling during the rescue operation. Khalil al-Daqran, an official at a hospital in the city, told reporters that dozens of Palestinians had been killed and that the hospital's wards and corridors were full of wounded.Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, an Israeli military spokesman, told reporters that the rescue mission occurred around 11 a.m. Saturday, when ...

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Israeli troops have overrun much of Gaza since their ground invasion began in late October. But they managed to save only seven living hostages in three separate military operations, with around 120 prisoners remaining in Gaza. Several proposed rescue missions did not go forward for fear that hostages or law enforcement would die in the process, according to two Israeli defense officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive operation.In December, Israeli special forces attempted to rescue a hostage from Hamas captivity, according to the two defense officials. Sahar Baruch, an Israeli hostage, was killed during the firefight and two Israeli officers were seriously injured.According to one of the defense officials, Israeli intelligence first learned that Ms. Argam...

President Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron stressed Saturday how much they agree with each other on world affairs, including the war in Ukraine, even as their countries expressed sharply different views on the fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.Appearing briefly together before reporters after two days of D-Day reminiscences and hours before a lavish state dinner at the Elysée Palace in Paris, the two presidents refused to answer any questions and hid their sharp differences on the Middle East. Instead, both affirmed the enduring strength of the Franco-American partnership on climate, the economy, European security and cultural ties.“Today I proudly stand with France to support freedom and democracy around the world,” Biden said, as the two men emerged from a closed-door ...

Days before gadget reviewers opined on the Humane Ai Pin, a futuristic wearable powered by artificial intelligence, the company's founders gathered their employees and encouraged them to prepare. Reviews could be disappointing, they warned.Humane founders Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri were right. In April, reviewers brutally panned the new $699 product, which Humane had marketed for a year with ads and at glitzy events like Paris Fashion Week. The Ai Pin was "totally broken" and had "glaring flaws," some reviewers said. One declared it “the worst product I have ever reviewed”.About a week after the reviews were published, Humane began talking to HP, the computer and printer company, about selling itself for more than $1 billion, three people familiar with the conversations s...

Four hostages kidnapped from the Nova music festival and held by militants in Gaza over the past eight months were rescued by Israeli forces on Saturday.Since the Hamas-led terrorist attack on October 7, Israel has freed only a small number of hostages through military force. Saturday's rescue efforts occurred in Nuseirat in central Gaza, where health officials said dozens of Palestinians had been killed.Here's what we know about the four hostages brought back to Israel.Noah ArgamaniNoa Argamani, 26, was taken hostage in the October 7 attack along with her boyfriend, Avinatan Or. Viral footage showed Ms Argamani being driven into Gaza on the back of a motorbike as she screamed in despair.Ms Argamani and her boyfriend were kidnapped during the Nova music festival in southern Israe...

Surgeons removed a genetically engineered pig's kidney from a critically ill patient last week after the organ was damaged by inadequate blood flow related to a heart pump, according to officials at New York University's Langone Transplant Institute. which the woman had also received.The patient, Lisa Pisano, 54, still hospitalized, has returned to renal dialysis after the removal of the pig's organ. She lived with the transplanted organ for 47 days, said Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of the institute. The kidney showed no signs of organ rejection.“Lisa is in stable condition and her left ventricular assist device is still functioning,” Dr. Montgomery said, referring to the heart pump. “We hope to bring Lisa home to her family soon.”“Lisa is a pioneer and a hero in the eff...

In the sunlight of Normandy, in front of the surviving American veterans who helped turn the tide of the war against Hitler eighty years ago, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke last week of the "bond of blood shed for freedom" that binds the his country in the United States.It's a connection that dates back to the founding of the United States in 1776 and decisive French support for American independence against the British. Stormy, often strained as France clashes with postwar American leadership in Europe, ties between Paris and Washington are nevertheless resilient.President Biden's five-day stay in France, an exceptionally long visit for an American president, especially in an election year, is a powerful testament to this friendship. But it illustrates its double-edged n...

Last month, Meta announced that it would expand its AI services around the world, and the company let users in Europe know that it would use their public information to train its AI services starting June 26 .Notifications sent to Facebook and Instagram users in Europe informing them that their public posts could be used to train artificial intelligence services, including Meta's chatbot, raised privacy concerns and backlash as users wondered where it would be the policy change came into effect.But for those who live in the United States, where online privacy laws aren't as strict, Meta AI has already used public posts to train its AI. It's unclear where else Meta might expand the program.Privacy watchdogs have raised concerns about the use of data and the lack of details abou...