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The pedestrians soon formed a human column that extended as far as the eye can see: long miles and about 20 people in step. Rarely such an uncomfortable journey seemed such a relief."We are so happy," said Malak Al-Haj Ahmed, 17 years old, a high school student who was selfie with his family next to the coastal road. "There is no more joyful moment than to go home."To score the moment, some people have distributed sweets. Some signs of victory flashed to passage photographers. A group of kids led a celebratory song. "On the right or left, the North is the best," they sang. "In the north we go!"For the Palestinians, it was a moment imbued with symbolism. From the Foundation of Israel in 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled or fled from their homes in what is known ...

The video is grainy but threatening: three figures with hood, climbing one on the other to pull them on a heavy access door of the Drents museum - a museum of art and history in Assen, the Netherlands - and then an explosion and one Shades of Sparks in the Wee Wee Wee on Saturday.At dawn, it had become clear that this was not a theft with amateur burglary. The Dutch police said that the explosion was part of an effort developed to break into the acclaimed museum and steal some of its treasures, including a precious helmet made of gold on loan from Romania."This is a dark day for the Drents Museum in Assen and the National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest," said Harry Tupan, director of the Drents Museum. “We are intensely shocked by events last night at the museum. In its existence o...

The day after Christmas, a small Chinese start-up called DeepSeek unveiled a new artificial intelligence system that could match the capabilities of cutting-edge chatbots from companies like OpenAI and Google.That alone would have been a milestone. But the team behind the system, called DeepSeek-V3, described an even bigger step. In a research paper explaining how they built the technology, DeepSeek engineers said they used only a fraction of the highly specialized computer chips that major AI companies relied on to train their systems.These chips are at the center of a tense technological competition between the United States and China. As the U.S. government works to maintain the country's leadership in the global race for artificial intelligence, it is trying to limit the number of powe...

When avian flu for the first time hit the milk cattle a year ago, it seemed possible that it could hit some isolated herds and disappear with the same speed with which it had appeared. Instead, the virus has infected over 900 herds and dozens of people, killing one and the epidemic shows no signs of reduction.A pandemic is not inevitable even now, they said more than a dozen experts in the interviews. But a series of developments in recent weeks indicates that the possibility is no longer remote.Guidelines without teeth, inadequate tests and long delays in the release of data-and fake steps during the Covid-19 pandemic-the opportunities to contain the epidemic, the experts said.In an emblematic example of the disorder, some milk herds in the Aidoo who were infected in the spring showed sli...

The Israeli army broke into the Jerusalem headquarters of a member of Hamas released as part of an exchange of Israelis held hostage to Gaza, holding a person and embracing the others on Saturday evening, including a New York Times journalist who leads Interviews on the scene.A team of soldiers made his way into the house on the outskirts of Jerusalem and interrupted an event that marked the first release of Ashraf Zughayer, a member of Hamas, imprisoned in 2002 for pushing the terrorists in the positions of their attacks. Among them was a suicidal attacker who killed six civilians by exploding a bus. According to the court documents, Zughayer confessed the accusations.Mr. Zughayer, 46, was released on Saturday afternoon with other 199 prisoners.Supervised by a colonel, the soldiers entere...

Europe's longest-serving leader, Belarusian President Alexander G. Lukashenko, scored his seventh consecutive election victory on Sunday in a contest that his exiled opponents dismissed as a farce, the sole purpose of which was to consolidate his autocratic hold on the former Soviet Union. republic, Russia's closest ally.“Don't use the word election to describe this farce,” said Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, an opposition leader who fled Belarus after the country's previous presidential vote in 2020 and a brutal crackdown on nationwide protests over election fraud. “It's a setup by Lukashenko to cling to power at any cost.”A survey of voters leaving polling stations, published by state media on Sunday evening, showed Lukashenko won 87.6% of the vote, more than the 81% he said he won in 2020. Ex...

At first glance, the statement seems unlikely: in addition to being the richest man in the world, CEO of numerous companies and key councilor 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 highlights 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 in the global rankings of some games.But last week, the community of players who had been trying to impress for some time turned against him. It all started with a live streaming by Mr. Musk playing Path of Exile 2, a popular action role -playing game known for his diff...

An email obtained by the Times shows that a leader of the committee, Rep. Sharon Wylie, an industry advocate, shared a draft of the bill with a cannabis lobbyist. “Thank you for being open to the compromise approach,” he wrote.In an interview, Ms. Wylie said “the jury is still out” on the potential harms of cannabis and that regulated businesses bring in revenue for the state.Mrs. Davis doesn't give up. He plans to introduce legislation to another committee this month that would ban all concentrates above 35 percent THC, with exemptions for medical use.“The industry needs limits,” he said.METHODOLOGYThe New York Times examined sales data from two cannabis industry data companies, BDSA and Aurico brands in total.Journalists then located each brand's page on Weedmaps, where available. Four w...

On Saturday Hamas released four Israeli soldiers held hostage in the Gaza Strip, in a choreographed ceremony that was the last sign of the group's effort to project power despite the 470 -day military campaign of Israel to remove them.It was the second exit of hostages as part of an agreement of ceased the fire that entered into force almost a week earlier. According to the agreement, Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday who had been held in Israeli prisons.A row of white buses transporting prisoners left to prison 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 convictions for the involvement in attacks...