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The clashes between the new Syrian authorities and the armed men faithful to the external dictator Bashar al-Assad killed at least 147 people in the last two days, said a war monitor on Friday, in the bloodiest fights from the collapse of the old regime.The problems broke out through the provinces of Latakia and Tartus, longtime strongholds of Mr. Al-Assad along the Mediterranean coast of Syria. The area has become a Tinder box since Mr. Al-Assad was overturned in early December.The clashes began on Thursday afternoon, after Assad's lealists killed 16 security staff for the government in the Latakia campaign, the most fatal attack on the new security forces of Syria, according to government officials and the Syrian observatory for human rights, which monitored the Civil War of Syria.The go...

Since the Republicans of the Congress weighs important cuts in Medicaid, most voters do not want to see the financing of the public health plan reappeared, according to a survey released on Friday by Kff, a non -partisan health research company.Only 17 % of interviewees said they had supported cuts in Medicaid, the government's health insurance program that covers over 70 million people. Forty percent said he wanted to continue spending unchanged and 42 percent said he would have liked to increase.But at the same time, the survey found significant support for some policies that would limit the program, such as the need to work the members. More than 60 percent of the voters - and 47 percent of the Democrats - supported a work requirement, found the survey.It is estimated that that change, ...

Pierre Joris, poet and translator who faced some of the most difficult verses of the 20th century, making the complex work of the famous German poet Paul Celan in English, died on February 27 in his home in Brooklyn. He was 78 years old.His wife, Nicole Peyrafitte, said that the cause was cancer complications.Joris was the author of dozens of volumes of his poetry and prose. But much of the work of his life was spent grappling with Celan's poetry, which many critics considered, in the words of a scholar, "probably the greatest European poet in the post -war period".That greatness comes with a hitch for readers, however: the diabolical difficulty of a writer whose texts were trained and deformed by the chogiol of the Holocaust - "what happened", as Celan called it. Both his parents were ass...

To listen to Dan Bongino describing it, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is "the single institution of application of the law" in America and a "left -wing political action committee" dedicated to covering democratic crimes and holding the truth from the American people."It's time for a cleaning of the absolute house," he said in 2023.Now Mr. Bongino-the long-looking expert expert, the podcaster and the vocal ally of President Trump-was chosen to act as a new deputy director of the agency. Its podcast and the radio program will end the production on March 14th.The work, which does not require confirmation of the Senate, was traditionally filled by a senior agent with a vast operational experience and a profound understanding of how the various divisions of the Bureau. The last two deput...

Almost a week after the first phase of the ceasefire the fire of Israel and Hamas, both the Palestinians and the Israelis are in limbo, uncertain for how long the truce.The Trump administration, the Arab world, Israel, Hamas and others are now fighting for the future of the Gaza Strip in a complex series of negotiations - some of which are taking place along several channels, adding to the confusion.Here is a look at the state of the interviews of ceased the fire and who is involved.Israel and Hamas are negotiating through mediators.In mid -January, after 15 months of devastating war, Israel and Hamas agreed on a truce that would have freed hostages held in Gaza from the attack led by Hamas to October 2023 in Southern Israel in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.But the agreement did not e...

Perhaps no vote has been distressing for Senator Bill Cassidy, the Republican and doctor of Louisiana, of his vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the health secretary of President Trump. Mr. Cassidy wondered out loud for days like Mr. Kennedy, the most vocal and powerful critic of the nation vaccinations, could manage a crisis of infectious diseases.Now, while a morbillo outbreak rages in western Texas, Mr. Cassidy discovered it. Everything goes down, he told the "gestalt".On Monday, days after the Texas epidemic killed an unvaccinated child, Mr. Cassidy, the president of the Senate Health Committee, was carving out a Capitol corridor when he was asked of Kennedy. He indicated a piece of digital opinion of Fox News in which Kennedy advised parents to consult their doctors on vaccinati...

France is willing to discuss the extension of the protection offered by its nuclear arsenal to its European allies, said President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, while the continent climbs to reject the increased Russian aggression and decrease American support.France and Great Britain are the only two countries in Europe with their nuclear weapons; Only France is in the European Union. Russia and the United States are also nuclear powers."Our nuclear deterrent protects us: it is complete, sovereign and French for everything and for everything," Macron said in a television speech that was mainly dedicated to war in Ukrainian and security in Europe. "Since 1964, he has played an explicit role in preserving peace and security in Europe"."I decided to open the strategic debate on protection th...

In the summer of 2005, Alexis Ohanian, a technological entrepreneur, sent an e -mail to his colleague Steve Huffman with a line of threatening subject: "Meet The Enemy".The-email body contained only one line: a link to Digg, a social bulletin board focused on the community in which people shared and discussed news articles and connections to other sites that found interesting. Mr. Ohanian and Mr. Huffman, who had founded a similar effort called Reddit, put their competitive places on Digg and its founder, Kevin Rose.In the following 20 years, these entrepreneurs participated in other projects and, in the true fashion of Silicon Valley, have been immersed in other parts of technology. Along the way, Digg, who went from Popolare to No, is almost not dead.On Wednesday, Mr. Rose announced that...

On Tuesday, the National Security Service of Israel took responsibility for not having listened to the warning signals of a Hamas attack planned in front of the devastating strike of the militants on October 7, 2023. But the agency also criticized the Israeli government for the policies that has allowed Hamas to have silently admitting weapons, raising funds and gaining support, among other healing.The conclusions of The Shin Bet, as the security agency is known, were published days after a similar investigation by the Israeli military discovered that the high officers had significantly underestimated Hamas and interpreted the first warnings that a great attack was bad.The report published on Tuesday consisted only of a declassified summary, leaving an unknown amount of non -disclosed mate...

While a morbillo outbreak expands in the western Texas, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, on Tuesday has exulted several unconventional treatments, including liver oil of cod, but again has not urged the Americans to be vaccinated. In a pre -aggravated interview broadcast on Fox News, Kennedy said that the federal government was sending doses of vitamin A to the county of Gaines, the epicenter of the epidemic, and helping to organize ambulance races.The HHS officials previously said they had sent doses of the vaccine against Morbillo-Morbide-Rubella in Texas, but Mr. Kennedy did not discuss vaccination.Texas doctors had seen "very, excellent results", said Kennedy, treating cases of measles with steroid, Budesonide; an antibiotic called clarithromycin; and ...