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French UNIFIL soldier killed in Lebanon, Hezbollah responsible, says Macron

French UNIFIL soldier killed in Lebanon, Hezbollah responsible, says Macron

Published by Sam Flores

A UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon came under attack with small arms fire Saturday morning, leaving one French peacekeeper dead and three wounded, two of them seriously, French President Emmanuel Macron and the force known as UNIFIL said. Both Macron and the UNIFIL blamed Hezbollah, but the militant group denied involvement.  The attack near the southern Lebanese village of Ghandouriyeh came after a 10-day ceasefire went into effect at midnight Thursday between Israel and Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group. Read moreMiddle East war live: French UNIFIL soldier killed in Lebanon, Hezbollah responsible, says Macron The latest Israel-Hezbollah war began on March 2 when the Iran-backed group launched rockets into Israel after the US and Israel attacked Iran, killing top officials including the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.  The war, in which Israel invaded parts of Lebanon, left nearly 2,300 people dead in Lebanon, more than 1 million people displaced and caused wide destruction.  “Everything suggests that responsibility for this attack lies with Hezbollah,” French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on social media. “France demands that the …

Middle East live: French UNIFIL soldier killed in Lebanon, Hezbollah responsible, says Macron

Middle East live: French UNIFIL soldier killed in Lebanon, Hezbollah responsible, says Macron

Published by Sam Flores

18/04/2026 – 15:01 Iran in charge of management of Strait of Hormuz, Iranian media reports, citing first VP Aref 18/04/2026 – 15:00 Strait of Hormuz : Iran to block transit until US lifts its blockade Tensions continue to rise in the Middle East, with Iran briefly reopening the Strait of Hormuz before closing it again after around 20 hours. Tehran says the US is not respecting the terms of the agreement reached, casting further doubt on the fragile deal. Meanwhile, negotiations are still ongoing in Islamabad.   FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Tehran, Reza Sayah, brings the latest developments. 18/04/2026 – 14:58 ‘We’ve lost a lot’: Lebanese residents return to bombed-out homes in south Beirut Beirut’s southern suburbs. © Fadel Itani, AFP Residents on Friday began to return to their homes in Beirut’s southern suburbs after a 10-day truce between Israel and Lebanon came into effect. For many, Israel’s relentless bombing campaign has left little to go back to. Read more here: ‘We’ve lost a lot’: Lebanese residents return to bombed-out homes in south Beirut 18/04/2026 – …

Dining across the divide: ‘We both agreed Brexit was a disaster – but disagreed about who was responsible for that’ | Life and style

Dining across the divide: ‘We both agreed Brexit was a disaster – but disagreed about who was responsible for that’ | Life and style

Published by Sam Flores

Graham, 76, Pangbourne Occupation Property manager Voting record Always Conservative Amuse bouche Cycled from Land’s End to John o’Groats, taking five days to get to the Scottish border – then another four days to get to the end. Scotland is much bigger than you think Katherine, 53, Bath Occupation University researcher Voting record Historically, Labour but Lib Dem now due to the Lib Dem/Tory face-off in Bath Amuse bouche Spent a week walking about 75 miles of the Camino way in Spain with friends. Did not carry bags or stay in traditional hostels For starters Graham She was younger than I was expecting. When you meet someone you’ve never met before and you know you’re going to discuss things that can be contentious, there’s always going to be a frisson. But she was good company, very good. Katherine He seemed very lovely and friendly. We both had mussels and sea bream, and then I had blackcurrant sorbet, and he had a very nice blood orange pudding. The big beef Graham I definitely am a Europhile – my only reservation was …

2 Cases Show Supreme Court Isn’t Holding ISPs Responsible for Piracy

2 Cases Show Supreme Court Isn’t Holding ISPs Responsible for Piracy

Published by skeptic

Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled that ISP giant Cox Communications couldn’t be held liable for a billion-dollar judgment over music piracy in a case brought by Sony. On Tuesday, by sending another case back to a circuit court involving Grande Communications and music companies, including Sony, for reconsideration, the court seems to be reinforcing the idea that internet service providers can’t be held liable for their customers’ copyright infringement. The Supreme Court relied on the precedent from the first case to send the second back, reinforcing the earlier decision.  Grande Communications is a Texas-based subsidiary of Astound Business Solutions. A Sony Music representative didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.   The two cases back-to-back appear to suggest that copyright owners, like music companies, can’t expect to be compensated by broadband providers (including, presumably, wireless companies such as AT&T and Verizon) that have customers who engage in intellectual property theft across their networks.  What this means for ISPs and customers Eric Goldman, an associate dean for research and professor at Santa Clara University School …

Gravitational waves may be responsible for dark matter in the universe

Gravitational waves may be responsible for dark matter in the universe

Published by Jenni Sidey

Dark matter is thought to exist everywhere, wrapping around galaxies and helping to shape the largest things in the universe. But nobody knows what it is made of. Now, a new theoretical study presents a surprisingly unique situation that could provide some of the missing puzzle pieces. Some of the dark matter may have originated from ancient gravitational waves. These waves travelled through the early universe before stars or galaxies had formed. This hypothesis is the product of collaboration between Professor Joachim Kopp from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the PRISMA++ Cluster of Excellence. The work was also in collaboration with Dr. Azadeh Maleknejad from Swansea University. Furthermore, this work was published in Physical Review Letters. Visible matter makes up approximately 4% of our universe. It contains all the planets, stars, and living organisms which we can actually observe. Dark matter is estimated to represent around 23% of the universe. Although astronomers are aware of its existence due to its influence on the formation of galaxies and the structure of the universe as a whole, …

Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy on rebooting Enid Blyton: ‘You can be responsible, or stay true to outdated ideas’

Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy on rebooting Enid Blyton: ‘You can be responsible, or stay true to outdated ideas’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It’s been a few months since filming wrapped on the buoyant family film The Magic Faraway Tree, and its two stars have the slight air of having spent time in some kind of wonderful spa. “It was nice,” says Claire Foy, serenely. “I felt quite relieved to be playing a version of a mother that didn’t have to come with a whole side of trauma and grief.” Andrew Garfield nods. “I think joy was the priority,” he says. “It felt very, very different to whatever hell I usually experience as the character I’m playing.” It’s true enough: Foy and Garfield – cast in Faraway Tree as a pair of benevolent parents who move their family to a ramshackle countryside fixer-upper – have been through the mill lately. Foy comes to this off the back of films like H is for Hawk …

US responsible for deadly attack on Iranian school: Amnesty International | US-Israel war on Iran News

US responsible for deadly attack on Iranian school: Amnesty International | US-Israel war on Iran News

Published by Sam Flores

Rights group says Tomahawk missile likely used in Minab school strike that killed at least 170 people, mostly children. Listen to this article | 4 mins info Published On 16 Mar 202616 Mar 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share plus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo The United States is responsible for an attack on an Iranian primary school that killed at least 170 people, most of them children, Amnesty International has said in a new investigation, urging accountability for the assault. The rights group said on Monday that a US-manufactured Tomahawk missile was likely used in the attack on the school in the southern city of Minab on February 28. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list “Tomahawk missiles are used exclusively by US forces in this conflict and are precision-guided missiles,” it said. Using satellite imagery, video footage and interviews with experts, Amnesty said its investigation showed the school was “directly struck” alongside a dozen other structures in an adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) compound. “This points to a failure by …

Preliminary Inquiry Finds U.S. Responsible for Iran School Attack

Preliminary Inquiry Finds U.S. Responsible for Iran School Attack

Published by Sam Flores

new video loaded: Preliminary Inquiry Finds U.S. Responsible for Iran School Attack transcript Back transcript Preliminary Inquiry Finds U.S. Responsible for Iran School Attack An ongoing report determined that the United States was responsible for a Tomahawk missile strike that killed at least 175, most of them children, according to the preliminary findings of a Pentagon investigation. You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war. But you’re the only person in your government saying this. Even your defense secretary wouldn’t say that when he was asked, standing over your shoulder on your plane on Saturday. Why are you the only person saying this? Because I just don’t know enough about it. I think it’s something that I was told is under investigation. But Tomahawks are used by others, as you know. Numerous other nations have Tomahawks. They buy them from us. “As commander in chief, do you take responsibility for that?” “That is — what?” “As commander in …

Gerry Adams ‘directly responsible’ for bomb decisions, High Court told | UK News

Gerry Adams ‘directly responsible’ for bomb decisions, High Court told | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

Gerry Adams was “directly responsible for and complicit” in the decisions made by the Provisional IRA to detonate bombs on the British mainland, the High Court has heard. Three men are bringing legal action against the former Sinn Fein president and are seeking £1 in damages. John Clark, a victim of the 1973 Old Bailey bombing in London, Jonathan Ganesh, a 1996 London Docklands bombing victim, and Barry Laycock, a victim of the 1996 Arndale shopping centre bombing in Manchester, all allege Mr Adams was a leading member of the Provisional IRA on those dates, including of its Army Council. Mr Adams denies that he had any role in the Provisional IRA and is opposing the claim. On Monday, he arrived at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, wearing what appeared to be a bullet-proof vest, and was driven into the car park. Image: Pic: PA The court heard the three men want to show how Mr Adams was involved in the Provisional IRA “in the course of that conflict and to show on the balance …

Aphantasia study reveals the brain network responsible for visual imagination

Aphantasia study reveals the brain network responsible for visual imagination

Published by José Betancourt

People who lose their ability to conjure visual memories after a brain injury share damage that connects to a single, highly specific brain region. A recent analysis of these rare medical cases reveals that a structure called the fusiform imagery node acts as an essential hub for the human imagination. These results, published in the journal Cortex, help explain the physical origins of our mind’s eye. Most people can easily close their eyes and picture a childhood bedroom or the face of a loved one. This ability is known as visual mental imagery. It allows human beings to relive past events, solve spatial problems, and envision future scenarios without any external sensory input. However, a small fraction of the population lacks this internal visual experience entirely. This absence of a mind’s eye is called aphantasia. It occurs from birth in an estimated one to three percent of people across the globe. Individuals with congenital aphantasia live entirely normal lives, often realizing only in adulthood that other people can actually see pictures in their heads. In …