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Israeli negotiators, offering a hint of hope for negotiations on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, have reduced the number of hostages they want Hamas to release during the first phase of the truce, three Israeli officials said on Monday.For weeks, ceasefire talks remained at a standstill. Now, with the new proposal in hand, a mid-ranking Israeli delegation planned to fly to Cairo on Tuesday to resume work, but only if Hamas agrees to participate, according to two officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue.Hamas did not respond to a request for comment on whether it plans to send representatives to Cairo. A senior Hamas official said on social media on Monday that the group was studying a new Israeli proposal.U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, wh...

As diabetes and weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have taken off in recent years, many people have abandoned established diet and nutritional products.Now, two retailers specializing in dietary supplements – GNC and Vitamin Shoppe – are trying new approaches to win over people who take those drugs or are interested in them.GNC is dedicating a wall of supplements at its more than 2,300 stores to products it believes will appeal to people taking Ozempic, which contains the compound semaglutide and other drugs known as GLP-1 medicines. The chain is also training workers to help customers evaluate which substances might help them manage common side effects of such prescription drugs.Michael Costello, GNC's chief executive, said his company saw a "big opportunity" in helping people...

Britain's recently ratified plan to put asylum seekers on one-way flights to Rwanda has sparked objections from human rights groups, British and European courts, the House of Lords and even some members of the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.Another injured party is added to this list: Ireland.The Irish government said last week that asylum seekers in Britain who fear being deported to Rwanda are instead traveling to Ireland. He is drafting emergency legislation to send them back to Britain, sparking a row with his neighbor who has said he will refuse to accept them.Irish officials estimate that 80% of recent asylum seekers entered the country through Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom and with which the Republic of Ireland has an open border. This...

Mustafa Suleyman grew up in subsidized housing in one of London's roughest areas. His father, a Syrian immigrant, drove a taxi. His mother was a nurse in the National Health Service. When the prestigious Queen Elizabeth's School accepted him at age 11, the family moved to a safer, leafier neighborhood a few miles north.There he met 20-year-old Demis Hassabis, after becoming friends with his younger brother. Demis was a chess prodigy and video game designer whose parents - one Greek Cypriot, the other Singaporean - ran a toy shop in London.Today they are two of the most powerful executives in the tech industry's race to build artificial intelligence. Dr Hassabis, 47, is the CEO of Google DeepMind, the tech giant's central research laboratory for artificial intelligence....

One December morning in central London, more than two dozen people from influential institutions in the Middle East, Europe and the United States gathered in a conference room to pursue an aspiration that, at the time, bordered on 'absurdity. They were there to plan the reconstruction and long-term economic development of Gaza.Gaza has been relentlessly bombed by Israeli military forces in response to terrorist attacks launched by Hamas in October. Communities across the territory were being reduced to rubble and tens of thousands of people had been killed. Families were confronted with the immediacy of hunger, fear and pain.Yet at the meeting in London, members of the international establishment discussed how to transform Gaza from a place characterized by isolation and poverty int...

Philips Respironics reached a $1.1 billion settlement over claims that people using CPAP and other breathing devices were harmed by harmful gases and blobs of foam that settled in their airways, sometimes For years.Thousands of people have claimed in lawsuits that they were injured by the popular Philips DreamStation machines. The deal covers CPAP, or continuous positive airway pressure, machines that people with sleep apnea or other breathing difficulties use at night to improve breathing, as well as other types of machines used at home and in hospitals.According to a financial report released Monday, Philips did not admit any fault in the settlement, nor whether the devices caused the injuries.The personal injury settlement follows a $479 million settlement reached in September for econ...

Russian troops captured or entered half a dozen villages on Ukraine's eastern front last week, highlighting the deteriorating situation in the region for outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian forces as they long await American military aid necessary.“The situation at the front has worsened,” General Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine's commander-in-chief, said in a statement on Sunday in which he announced that his troops had withdrawn from two villages west of Avdiivka, a Ukrainian stronghold in the the east occupied by Russia. earlier this year, and another village further south.Military experts say Moscow's recent advances reflect its desire to exploit a window of opportunity to carry out attacks before the first batch of a new American military aid package arrives in Ukraine to help ...

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Call it the end of the beginning of the AI ​​boom.Since mid-March, financial pressure on several AI startups has had a negative impact. Inflection AI, which raised $1.5 billion but earned next to nothing, has abandoned its original business. Stability AI has laid off employees and parted ways with its CEO. And Anthropic has raced to close the roughly $1.8 billion gap between its modest sales and huge expenses.The artificial intelligence revolution, it is becoming clear in Silicon Valley, will come at a very high price. And the tech companies that have bet their futures on it are scrambling to figure out how to close the gap between those expenses and the profits they hope to make in the future.This problem is particularly acute for a group of high-profile startups that have raised tens ...

World Central Kitchen said Sunday it will resume operations in Gaza with a local team of Palestinian aid workers, nearly a month after the Israeli army killed seven of the organization's workers in targeted drone strikes on their convoy.Israeli military officials said the attack was a "serious mistake" and cited a series of failures, including communication breakdowns and violations of military operating procedures.The Washington-based aid group said it was still calling for an independent international investigation into the April 1 attack and that it had received "no concrete assurance" that the Israeli military's operating procedures had changed. But the “humanitarian situation in Gaza remains dire,” the humanitarian group's director of operations, Erin Gore, said in a stat...