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Drones: The latest weapon used by al-Qaeda and Islamic State-linked jihadists in West Africa Insurgents have carried out a wave of drone strikes on military positions in the region.

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AI is misidentifying body parts and creating more risks in surgeries, reports say At least 1,357 medical devices using AI are now authorized by the FDA – double the number it had allowed through 2022

Slow the F down with AI.
Peel the dollar signs off the insides of your eyelids, investors.

Patient safety comes first.

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...

ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

How can you verify that mandating ID is safe when this has happened effectively overnight.
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Epstein was not ostracised for his crimes. To some powerful men, he became even more appealing | Moira Donegan The latest tranche of files expose how he was viewed as a sexual svengali – and an expert on dodging the #MeToo movement, says Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Bonfire of the Élites His correspondence illuminates a rarefied world in which money can seemingly buy—or buy off—virtually anything, and ethical qualms are for the weak-minded.

The Epstein files “illuminate, in indelible detail, the ways in which Epstein’s money and connections appeared to count for more than his well-earned reputation as a sexual predator and procurer,” John Cassidy writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/MPMVz8

West Bank: Palestinians say new Israeli steps amount to de facto annexation The measures aim to increase Israeli control over the occupied West Bank in terms of property law, planning, licensing and enforcement.

Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the moves that would make it easier for Jewish settlers to take over Palestinian land. "We will continue to kill the idea of ​​a Palestinian state."

All settlements are seen as illegal under international law. www.bbc.com/news/article...

San Francisco teachers strike over wages, health benefits and student resources The San Francisco Unified School District closed all 120 of its schools Monday and offered independent study to some of the district’s 50,000 students.

About 6,000 public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike Monday, the city's first such walkout in nearly 50 years. https://to.pbs.org/4rqPt1z

Exclusive: Venezuela's Orinoco Belt loosening helps lift oil output to 1 million bpd, sources say Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA has reversed most output cuts at its own oilfields and joint ventures in the Orinoco Belt, the country's main crude region, boosting total output close to 1 million barrels per day (bpd), sources close to operations said.

Exclusive: Venezuela's Orinoco Belt loosening helps lift oil output to 1 million bpd, sources say reut.rs/4ko0Owl

Taiwan says 40% shift of chip capacity to US is 'impossible' It would be "impossible" to move 40% of Taiwan's semiconductor capacity to the U.S., the island's top tariff negotiator said, pushing back against recent comments by American officials who called for ...

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Unredacted Epstein files now available to Congress for review The Justice Department made unredacted Epstein files available to members of Congress on Monday. CBS News' Taurean Small has more.

Unredacted Epstein files now available to Congress for review

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Norwegian diplomat steps down over Epstein ties, in widening scandal Norway's foreign ministry on Sunday said a prominent ambassador, Mona Juul, would step down due to a "serious failure of judgement" over ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, part of a growing sc...

Norwegian diplomat steps down over Epstein ties, in widening scandal - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

How reconstruction became Israel’s new weapon of ‘silent transfer’ in Gaza Experts warn promise of reconstruction turns right to shelter into political extortion and alleged demographic change.

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Israel blocking the entry of “dual use”/construction items “is the [sinister] continuation of war by bureaucratic and economic means” to support its “demographic engineering” ie ethnic cleansing via ensuring that Gaza stays inhabitable & Gazans will leave

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Max Richter: the composer who crosses the invisible divide between ‘high’ and ‘low’ music His first Oscar nomination, for Hamnet, is testament to the German-born British composer’s chameleon-like adaptability

Max Richter: the composer who crosses the invisible divide between ‘high’ and ‘low’ music. His first Oscar nomination, for 'Hamnet', is testament to the German-born British composer’s chameleon-like adaptability. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f... via @theguardian.com @philipoltermann.bsky.social

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?

These damn people are unbelievable; Murdoch should be deported.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Police in France arrest six suspects after a magistrate and her mother were held captive last week for around 30 hours, in the country's latest cryptocurrency ransom plot.
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From New York to New Mexico: new Epstein files shed light on his sprawling ranch outside Santa Fe Several men appear in photos on the nearly 10,000-acre Zorro ranch, which included a 26,700 sq ft mansion

For years, Jeffrey Epstein lived at a sprawling ranch in the desert scrub outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Epstein’s nearly 10,000-acre (4,000-hectare) property – was known as the Zorro ranch.

Several men had been ID'd at this ranch.

McSweeney’s exit leaves the PM hanging by a thread Keir Starmer’s path has always been a lonely one. Now, he is out of friends and nearly out of a job

“Starmer is now undeniably isolated. His rise to the premiership was a lonely one. There is no group of MPs that represent his longtime friends and allies, no wider Starmerite ideological grouping upon which he can draw. Almost all of the staff who accompanied his rise to power have already gone.”

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‘No end in sight’ to Britain’s wet weather as dozens of flood warnings issued Met Office forecasts more rainfall to continue UK’s 37-day run, and flooding expected especially in south-west England and Midlands

The unrelenting rain is expected to continue into next week with dozens of #flood warnings in place across GB. The Environment Agency has issued 85 warnings for England, meaning #flooding is expected, mainly in the south-west and Midlands. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... #ClimateEmergency

Gladys West obituary Mathematician whose work at the US Naval Weapons Laboratory was pivotal to the development of GPS

Rest In Power Gladys West.
#RIP
#BlackHistoryMonth

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

The Epstein Papers

From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1615, January 2024.

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski Everyone Deserves Equal Rights | Doris | Zack Polanski

A group of hotel housekeepers went on strike for the first time in 40 years.

And won!

Organising works. Trade unions work.

This is the story of @uvwunion.bsky.social & the amazing Doris.

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The problem every other politician and journalist has is that Zack has zero vested interest and he’s just too bloody good at this!

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Virginia Giuffre's accusation against former Prince Andrew on NBC in 2019

"Israeli border tech is not about security, it’s a tool for ethnic cleansing"

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NEW: Hearing that Starmer is considering making Vidhya Alakeson and Jill Cuthbertson, Morgan McSweeney's deputies, his joint chiefs of staff.

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