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A cable car carrying passengers in a mountainous area of ​​southern Turkey broke down after colliding with part of the metal structure supporting it on Friday, sending its eight terrified occupants plummeting to the rocky slope below.One passenger was killed, seven were injured and nearly 200 others were trapped in other cabins in midair, some overnight and then for hours into Saturday afternoon, as rescuers worked to free them from the paralyzed line.Helicopters, cranes and hundreds of rescue workers were deployed to the area to evacuate a total of 174 people, Turkey's interior minister said. Those affected include children, local residents and foreign tourists who were stranded in cabins, some of them tens of meters above the ground in the Sarisu area of ​​Antalya province, official...

Arthur Mensch, tall and thin with a mop of unkempt hair, arrived for a talk last month at a sprawling Paris technology center wearing jeans and carrying a bicycle helmet. He looked unassuming, as someone European officials are counting on to push the region into a high-stakes game with the United States and China over artificial intelligence.Mensch, 31, is the CEO and founder of Mistral, considered by many to be one of the most promising challengers to OpenAI and Google. “You have become the symbol of artificial intelligence in France,” Matt Clifford, a British investor, told him on stage.Much depends on Mr. Mensch, whose company shot to prominence just a year after he founded it in Paris with two college friends. As Europe races to gain a foothold in the AI ​​revolution, the French gov...

American analysts and intelligence officials said Friday they expect Iran to strike several targets inside Israel in the coming days in retaliation for an Israeli bombing in the Syrian capital on April 1 that killed several senior Iranian commanders.The United States, Israel's main ally, has military forces in several locations in the Middle East. But Iran is not expected to target them to avoid direct conflict with the United States, according to U.S. and Iranian officials who spoke anonymously about the expected strikes, which they were not authorized to discuss publicly.Any Iranian attack inside Israel would represent a turning point in the decades of hostility between the two nations and would most likely open a new, volatile chapter in the region. Israel and Iran maintain no dir...

Bennett Braun, a Chicago psychiatrist whose diagnoses of repressed memories involving horrific abuse by devil worshipers helped fuel what became known as the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s and '90s, died March 20 in Lauderhill, Florida, north of Miami. He was 83 years old.Jane Braun, one of his ex-wives, said he died in hospital due to complications from a fall. Dr. Braun lived in Butte, Mont., but had been in Lauderhill on vacation.Dr. Braun gained fame in the early 1980s as an expert in two of the most popular and controversial areas of psychiatric treatment: repressed memories and multiple personality disorder, now known as dissociative identity disorder.He claimed he could help patients uncover memories of childhood trauma, the existence of which he and others believed was responsi...

Officials at Bayer Leverkusen, the long-established but usually middleweight German soccer team, have been issuing the messages since at least February. Some were delivered in person, a silent blessing after yet another victory. Others came via WhatsApp, unsolicited and unexpected messages from colleagues and acquaintances and, to their occasional surprise, from traditional enemies.Football, after all, is fiercely tribal. Rivals do not easily exchange encouragement or congratulations. But as the German league season picked up pace, many wanted to praise Leverkusen's impending achievement: with each victory, they moved ever closer to being crowned national champions for the first time.And that meant – just as importantly – that Bayern Munich were not.Leverkusen will cross the finish...

Endorsing an anti-Semitic post on X. Suspending Starlink satellite internet service from Ukraine to prevent a drone attack on Russian forces. Reposting conspiracy theorists who argue that the Biden administration's immigration policies are part of a plot to increase the number of people who vote Democratic.Elon Musk's behavior and public statements have clearly offended many people, especially left-leaning consumers who are more likely to purchase an electric vehicle.As a business journalist covering Tesla, the company where Musk is CEO, I'm exploring the extent to which his public persona is damaging the company's brand and hurting sales. Or, as Musk insisted, do people choose the best car regardless of what the CEO says and does?If you own a Tesla, are thinking about bu...

Israeli forces were on high alert Friday in anticipation of a retaliatory attack by Iran or its proxies, which analysts and officials warned could spur an Israeli reaction and potentially spark a broader conflict in the region.Iran is expected to launch an attack as early as this weekend in retaliation for an April 1 airstrike in which warplanes struck an Iranian embassy building in Damascus, killing three generals and other commanders, officials said Friday Americans and Iranians.Military analysts have said that neither Israel nor Iran appear interested in provoking a full-blown war involving the United States, but that a miscalculation on either side's red lines could result in an escalation of hostilities.An Iranian response was inevitable given the high profile of one of the genera...

The dengue fever epidemic that has swept through Latin America over the past three months is staggering in scale: a million cases in Brazil in a matter of weeks, a huge spike in Argentina, a state of emergency declared in Peru and now a more in Puerto Rico.It warns of a changing landscape for the disease. The mosquitoes that spread dengue thrive in densely populated cities with weak infrastructure and in warmer, wetter environments, the type of habitat that is expanding rapidly with climate change.More than 3.5 million cases of dengue were confirmed by Latin American governments in the first three months of 2024, compared to 4.5 million in all of 2023. There have been more than 1,000 deaths this year. The Pan American Health Organization warns that this could be the worst year on record ...

The mayor grew up in a building so decrepit – dirty hallways, no private bathrooms, no showers – that his friends in nearby concrete towers pitied him.Five decades later, that building – in St.-Ouen, a Parisian suburb – is a distant memory, and in its place stands the French Olympic pride: the athletes' village, with its architectural showcase buildings equipped with solar panels , deep-sunken pipes for cooling and heating, and lovely balconies from which to look down on the planted forest below. A quarter will become public housing after the Games.“Suddenly, we feel the same feeling of pride as people who live in the hypercenter,” said St.-Ouen mayor Karim Bouamrane, 51, using his personal shorthand for the glamorous elite playgrounds downtown. “There was Los Angeles, Barcelona, ​​​​...

Unlike the consumer goods, beverage or retail sectors, the note continues, there are no large consultancies publishing market share data in the Swiss watch industry. “This is due to the impracticality of conducting such investigations and the discreet nature of the Swiss watch industry,” he said.Perhaps no brand is more discreet and influential than Rolex, which continues to dominate the market. According to Morgan Stanley's seventh annual report, published in February, Rolex's share is said to have grown - to 30.3% - on the strength of its sales in 2023, estimated to have exceeded 10 billion Swiss francs.However, since the company is said to prohibit its authorized retailers from sharing point-of-sale data with third parties, Luxury Watch Barometer's monthly reports do not i...