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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...

Hamas said on Friday it will release four female soldiers held hostage for more than a year in Gaza as part of a hostage-for-prisoner swap that will take place on Saturday, as Israelis and Palestinians anxiously await the next steps in the deal.In a statement, Hamas named the four women, who were abducted from a military base near Gaza during the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023 that kicked off the war. Israel said mediators between the two sides forwarded a list of names of hostages scheduled for release on Saturday, without confirming their identities.Mediators hope the six-week truce between Israel and Hamas, which began Sunday, could lay the groundwork for a permanent end to the war in Gaza. But next weekend could prove a crucial test for the deal.Under the terms of the deal, Israel...

Robert F.Kennedy Jr. He has often oriented his criticisms of vaccines on a common ingredient: aluminum, which according to him is responsible for a series of childhood disorders, including food allergies, autism and depression."You wonder why a whole generation of children is allergic to things," said Mr. Kennedy during an interview from 2021. "It is because we induce allergies, filling them with aluminum."For many scientists specialized in vaccines, aluminum is a strange target. It is among the most studied ingredients in vaccines and perhaps in modern medicine."There is a huge amount of information collected," said Dr. Andrew Racine, pediatrician and medical director of Montefiore Health System. "If there was something that jumps to the eye about the lack of security, most likely we woul...

Bertrand Blier, an acclaimed director whose film scandalized, fascinated and entertained France of the 70s and 80s with their sometimes brutal projections of the sexual imagination of French men, died on Monday in his home in Paris. He was 85 years old.His death was confirmed by his son Léonard Blier.For two decades Bliers was one of the most decorated French directors, winning the first prize in Cannes, an Academy Award for best foreign film for "Get Out Your Handkerchiefs", released in 1978, and numerous Césars, the French equivalent of the Oscar .In a statement after his death, President Emmanuel Macron greeted Bliers (Blee-Ay pronounced) as a "French cinema giant, who marked our national imagination for fifty years with his free and pungent touch".Blier launched the career of men and w...

Two years ago, OpenAI kicked off the chatbot craze with the release of ChatGPT. Now it hopes to spark interest in a new wave of AI technology.On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled a tool called Operator that can go on the Internet and perform tasks autonomously, such as grocery shopping or restaurant reservations.“It can navigate websites and perform actions on websites, just like you and I do,” Yash Kumar, OpenAI head of product and engineering, said in an interview.Artificial intelligence researchers call this type of technology an AI agent. While chatbots can answer questions, write poems and generate images, agents can use other software on the Internet.During a briefing with The New York Times, Kumar showed how the system could make reservations at a San Francisco restaurant through the OpenTa...

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told President Trump on Wednesday that the kingdom plans to increase its investment and trade with the United States by at least $600 billion over the next four years, according to the official Saudi Press Agency .The crown prince, Saudi Arabia's de facto leader, told Trump that his new administration has the ability to create "unprecedented economic prosperity" in the United States and that the kingdom wants to participate, the Saudi Press Agency said . he said.There was no immediate confirmation of the call from the White House. Trump has promised to accelerate investment in the United States, particularly to help revive manufacturing. On the campaign trail last year, he said he would use a mix of tax cuts and tariffs to force companies to ...

The Trump administration, moving quickly to crack down on health and science agencies, canceled a series of scientific meetings and instructed federal health officials to refrain from all public communications, including upcoming reports focused on the nation's growing avian flu crisis .Experts serving on external advisory groups on a range of topics from antibiotic resistance to deafness received emails on Wednesday saying their meetings had been cancelled.The cancellations follow a directive issued Tuesday by the acting director of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, which prohibited the public dissemination of any public communications until reviewed by a presidential appointee or designee, according to federal officials and an internal memo reviewed by The New York Ti...