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A stalemate between the Ukrainian Defense Minister and the official in charge of getting weapons threatened to intensify on Monday, arousing dissent in the government at a critical moment while trying to convince President Trump to maintain American support for the war against Russia.The dispute broke out three days ago when the minister, Rustem Umerov, said he did not renew the contract of Maryna Bezrukova, head of the defense procurement agency, citing "unsatisfactory" results. But on Monday, Mrs. Bezrukova said she would remain in her position, underlining that her contract had been renewed by the Agency's supervisory council and that Mr. Umerov did not have the right to bypass that decision.The agency was established to guarantee transparency and efficiency in the acquisition of weapon...

In the face, the statement seems unlikely: in addition to being the richest man in the world, the CEO of multiple companies and a key consultant of President Trump, Elon Musk says he is also a world -class video game player.It is a statement that Mr. Musk has repeated over the years. He has an account on X, his social media platform, dedicated to the publication of the salient moments of his gameplay. He streamed with some of the best competitive video game players in the world on platforms such as Twitch. He even engraved his name on the global rankings of some games.But last week, the community of players who tried long to impress against him. It started with a live streaming by Mr. Musk Playing Path of Exile 2, a popular action role -playing game known for its difficulty. Although his r...

The Israeli army broke into the house of Jerusalem of a member of Hamas released as part of an exchange of Israelis held hostage in Gaza, arresting a person and mistreating other people on Saturday evening, including a New York Times journalist who led Interviews on the scene.A team of soldiers broke into a house on the outskirts of Jerusalem and interrupted an event that marked the early release of Ashraf Zughayer, a Hams member imprisoned in 2002 for led the terrorists on the places of their attacks. Among them was a suicide bomber who killed six civilians by blowing up a bus. According to the courts of the court, Mr. ZGHYER confessed the accusations.Mr. Zughayer, 46, was released on Saturday afternoon with other 199 prisoners.Under the supervision of a colonel, the soldiers entered the ...

Carol Downer, leader of the feminist movement for women who became famous at national level for his role in a case known as Great Yogurt Conspiracy - so called because he was accused of practicing medicine without a license to distribute yogurt to treat an infection As a yeast - she died on January 13 in Glendale, California. He was 91 years old.His death in the hospital was confirmed by his daughter Angela Booth, who said he had a heart attack a few weeks earlier.Mrs. Downer self -refined herself a housewife and mother of six children in the late 1960s, when she joined the movement of women and began working in the abortion committee of her local section of the National Organization for Women. Years earlier he had had an illegal abortion and was determined to ensure that others did not su...

When a 28 -year -old volunteer named Nikolai climbed on a sandy beach on the coast of the Russian Black Sea in a Hazmat dress just before New Year, it was so overwhelmed by the amount of an oil film often that it has almost broken.He and other volunteers had the task of shutting through the flooded sand of oil, but "the scale is too big," he said.Two weeks after the new year and four weeks after the escape, President Vladimir V. Putin recognized the extent of the disaster and sent high officials to face the largest oil spill of Russia over the years, which has brought some of the most beaches popular of the country.The oil was released by two Russian elderly oil tankers who were damaged during a strong storm in the Kerch Strait on December 15th. At least 2,400 tons of oil were lived at sea...

For more than six years, Amazon Web Services, the largest cloud computing company in the world, has provided technical support to provide Tiktok videos with tens of millions of Americans.But during the weekend, Amazon faced a dilemma. A new law was entering into force by banning Tiktok, owned by the Chinese company Bytedance, in the United States. Technological companies have been prohibited distribution and updating or would have to face financial penalties. At the same time, the president elected Donald J. Trump was saying to the technological companies that had planned to pause the application of the law with an executive order.A few hours before the ban entered into force, Amazon seemed to respect the law, according to a revision of the New York Times of the way TikTok's web traffic is...

On Saturday Hamas released four Israeli soldiers held hostage in the Gaza strip, in a choreographic ceremony that was the last sign of the group's effort to project power despite the 470 -day Israeli military campaign to hunt them.It was the second release of hostages in the context of a ceased agreement the fire entered into force almost a week earlier. According to the agreement, Saturday Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners who had been detained in Israeli prisons.A row of white buses transporting prisoners left the prison of Ofer, in the West Bank occupied by Israel. The prisoners were also issued by another structure near Beersheba, in the south of Israel, said the Israeli prison service.Many of the 200 prisoners released on Saturday were serving life imprisonment for involvement...

And from the westernmost of the two piers you could directly admire the smaller, even more western, even more private pier, reserved for the exclusive use of guests of the Vivamayr villa (which costs 3,750 euros per night). My fellow regular guests and I squinted at the private villa dock and tried to discern the facial features, or even age, of the woman we saw there. (Impossible.) Constantly, people looked at each other to see if someone was a celebrity. As beautiful and expensive as Vivamayr was, almost everyone knew of an even more beautiful and expensive place, where even the wealthiest people could pay for similar services; I heard so much about these places that I eventually found myself thinking of Vivamayr as their rundown, dumpy cousin. Was this, I wondered, the key to Vivamayr's...

Derek Humphry, a journalist of British origin whose experience by helping his terminal wife to end his life led him to become a crusader pioneer in the movement of the right to a diet and publish "final exit", a more sold guide to suicide, He died on January 2 in Eugene, hours. He was 94 years old.His death, in a hospice structure, was announced by his family.With a populist touch and a talent to speak very still on death, Mr. Humphry almost galvanized a national conversation on the suicide assisted by a doctor in the early 80s, a period in which the idea had been little more than an esoteric Theory beaten by medical ethics."It was he who really put this cause on the map in America," said Ian Dowbiggin, professor at the University of the island of Prince Edoardo and author of "A Concise Hi...

Mark Zuckerberg spent all 2024 telling investors that artificial intelligence would be the key to the future of his company, destination. In 2025, he planned to put his money where his mouth is.On Friday, Mr. Zuckerberg said that the company expected his capital expenses in 2025 to arrive at around $ 60 at $ 65 billion, a great increase compared to the metal of approximately $ 38 to $ 40 billion spent in 2024.Much of this amount will go to the construction and expand of the data centers, the natural size buildings that provide the calculation power that feeds the products and algorithms of Ai di Meta among its apps, which include Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp."This is a huge effort, and in the coming years he will guide our main products and business, will unlock historical innovation a...