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Hamas released three other Israeli hostages on Saturday as part of an exchange of Palestinian prisoners, in a highly theatrical delivery in which men were made to keep the speeches effectively under arms.The hostage version is the fifth of a series of tense exchanges that are part of an agreement of ceased the ceased of 42 days which entered into force last month by making a break to the fighting between Israel and Hamas. Hamas agreed to relent them in an incremental way 33 of the almost 100 hostages remained in exchange for over 1,000 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel and a partial Israeli retreat.Here is a more attentive look at the Israelis published on Saturday:Ohad ben am"The only important thing is that Ohad Torni," said Raz Ben Ami at the New York Times in August, adding: "It is sti...

The funds of the richest nation in the world once flowed from the largest global aid agency to a complex network of small, medium and large organizations that provided aid: drugs for HIV for over 20 million people; Nutritional supplements for hungry children; Support for refugees, orphaned children and women affected by violence.Now, that network is revealing. The Trump administration has frozen foreign aid for 90 days and planned to sell off the US agency for international development just 5 percent of its workforce, although a federal judge paused the plan on Friday. Given the wars and the financial economies, it is unlikely that other governments or philanthropies are compensated for deficiency and the nations intended are too hindered by the debt to manage on their own.The largest orga...

Salim Iskef had just bought a house and his next marriage would have been the highest point of the life he was building in Sweden, a decade after fleeing the war in Syria.Instead, Thursday, hundreds of people showed up in the church where he had to get married in July, to attend his funeral."We had decided how many children we wanted to have," said Kareen Elia, Mr. Iskef's girlfriend.Mr. Iskef, 28, was one of the 10 people killed on Tuesday by a man who started shooting in an adult education center in the city of Orebro. The Swedish Prime Minister called him the worst mass shooting in the history of the country.Filming left the country stunned, trying to understand how a nation in peace and known for high living standards also has one of the highest rates of armed violence in the European ...

Openi is intended to complete a fundraising agreement of $ 40 billion which doubles the evaluation of the high -profile company only four months ago.The new fundraising round, led by the Japanese conglomerate Softbank, Openai values ​​at $ 300 billion, according to three people with knowledge of the agreement that spoke on condition of anonymity. The agreement would make Openi one of the most precious private companies in the world, together with the Spacex and Bytedance missile company, the manufacturer of Tiktok.SoftBank will invest up to $ 40 billion in Openai and will unions the agreement, with other investors who provide about a quarter of the total funds, said people. That figure would be an increase of $ 15 billion compared to a total that was discussed a week ago.CNBC previously re...

President Trump has advertised the Abraham agreements of 2020 which established formal links between Israel and four Arab countries as one of the major foreign policy results of his first term.Now he is pursuing his longtime goal to convince Saudi Arabia to join the agreements, but a serious setback may have just been distributed. Mr. Trump's proposal to transfer all and two million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and therefore reconstruct the enclave while the "Riviera del Middle East" has antagonized some of the same people he needs to seal the agreement.Gaza's idea was quickly rejected by the Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia. The Golfo power plant released a statement before dawn immediately after Trump float the proposal on Tuesday evening together with Prime Minister Benjamin N...

Asanda Zondi received a surprising phone call last Thursday, with orders to reach a health clinic in Vulindlela, South Africa, where he was participating in a research study that was testing a new device to prevent pregnancy and H.IV. infection.The trial was closing, told her a nurse. The device, a silicone ring inserted in its vagina, had to be removed immediately.When Mrs. Zondi, 22 years old, arrived in the clinic, learned why: the US agency for international development, which financed the study, had withdrawn financial support and had issued a stop-work order to all organizations all over the world who receive his money. The Brusca move followed an executive order of President Trump who freezed all foreign aid for at least 90 days. Since then, the Trump administration has taken measur...

The freezing of the financing of President Trump has confused the future of a Syrian desert field that holds thousands of members of the Islamic State and their families, the director of the field and the people who are familiar, describe as a potential threat to safety in the region.The field, at the Hol, which hosts about 39,000 people, was short of a detention for the programs financed by the United States and then reprints and is still fighting to understand its status. Although some fundamental programs to guarantee the field have received temporary extensions, another essential organization for the management of the field has declared that it may have to stop its work there as soon as Monday.The confusion derives from the executive order of Mr. Trump last month who frozen the foreign...

In 2020, Uber was at a crossroads: the company had made a expensive bet on the taxis of the robots, but the project was full of legal problems and burning in cash. So Uber gave it to another start-up.But five years later, Uber's future seems to be linked to autonomous vehicles as always. The company is now betting that it can embrace the driver without driver without spending money to build them, at risk of being exceeded by the companies that do it.In recent months, Uber has doubled on what he calls his "platform strategy", collaborating with taxi robot companies like Waymo. In Phoenix, cyclists can order a Waymo car via the Uber and Austin app in Texas, Waymo's taxi robotes soon wear the Uber logo. The giant who spent the trip now has 15 autonomous partnerships for vehicles, from Waymo t...

Tuesday Trump said that the United States should take control of Gaza and permanently move the entire Palestinian population of the devastated sea enclave, one of the most brazen ideas that any American leader has advanced over the years.Hosting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel in the White House, Trump said that all the two million Palestinians from Gaza should be transferred to countries such as Egypt and Jordan due to the devastation caused by the Israel campaign against Hamas after the terrorist attack of 7 October, 2023."The United States will take control of the Gaza Strip and we will also do a job," Trump said during a press conference on Tuesday evening. "We will have it and will be responsible" for the disposal of unexploded ammunition and the reconstruction of Gaza in ...

Nevada dairy cows were infected with a new form of bird influence which is distinct from the version that has spread through the herds in the last year, has announced the Department of Agriculture of the United States on Wednesday.The discovery indicates that the virus, known as H5n1, has spread from birds in cows at least twice - leading to these two series of infections - and that it could continue to do so. It also suggests that the virus can involve a persistent risk for cows and people who work closely with them.Before last year, scientists did not know that the cows were susceptible to this type of influence."This is not what someone wanted to see," said Louise Moncla, an evolutionary biologist who studies avian influence at the University of Pennsylvania. "We must now consider the p...