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For the first time, Germany has failed to win a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
German FM Johann Wadephul blamed Russia, but also admitted Berlin's steadfast support for Israel cost it votes.
In Jerusalem, nuns have to be escorted by members of the volunteer group Standing Together to protect them against Israeli settlers.
Yes, nuns need protection against Israeli settlers...
US President Donald Trump lands in Beijing, and with him he brings the following CEOs to request "deals" with Chinese President Xi Jinping:
â Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO
â Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO
â Tim Cook, Apple CEO
â Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO
â Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone CEO
â Kelly Ortberg, Boeing CEO
â Brian Sikes, Cargill CEO
â Jane Fraser, Citigroup CEO
â Larry Culp, General Electric CEO
â David Solomon, Goldman Sachs CEO
â Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron CEO
â Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm CEO
Saher Alghorra (NYT) has won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for "his haunting, sensitive series showing the devastation and starvation in Gaza"
Announcing the preliminary program for Cedarcrypt â our inaugural applied cryptography summer school and conference, July 13â16, 2026 at the American University of Beirut - Mediterraneo in Paphos, Cyprus!
We've put together a program we're genuinely proud of â a pedagogical progression from accessible foundations to state-of-the-art constructions, featuring lectures, hands-on workshops, and research talks from leading voices across academia and industry.
The program spans everything from accessible foundations to cutting-edge research: Bart Preneel (KU Leuven) opens with a keynote, followed by deep dives into FHE with Emad Heydari Beni (Nokia Bell Labs), state-of-the-art hash-based SNARKs with Giacomo Fenzi (EPFL), and Zero-Knowledge Proofs with Tarek Galal (TU Berlin). Practitioners will hear from Zeke Hunter-Green how The Guardian built their anonymous whistleblowing system (CoverDrop + MLS), and a host of other guest speakers who will help attendees learn post-quantum migration strategies across lattices, isogenies, and codes, and get hands-on with threshold signing, MPC engineering, and constant-time programming â all in four days on the Mediterranean coast.
Organized in collaboration with the IACR, and hosted on Cyprus's Mediterranean coast â a UNESCO World Heritage city where you can step from a workshop on threshold signing straight to a seaside taverna.
Thanks to our generous sponsors â Electi, PQShield, Symbolic Software, Zama, and several anonymous donors â we're offering FULL SCHOLARSHIPS (travel + lodging) to students and early-career researchers, awarded on a rolling basis until funds are exhausted.
Graduate students, early-career researchers, and practitioners in applied cryptography: we built this for you!
Join us this July in sunny Paphos! Let's make this an inaugural event to remember!
CPJ calls on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, detained under new security and fake news laws.
Read more: https://t.co/H1qBu1OCFg
#FreeAhmed#FreeAhmedEldin
So many of you are shocked by Trump's behavior & methods.
But this is what Israel has been doing almost continuously for 80 years & you fucks kept looking the other way.
BREAKING: Greta Thunberg just eviscerated Trump for his comments about wiping out an entire civilization, dropping multiple F-bombs in the process.
"The President of the United States just said that a whole civilization will die tonight and never to be brought back again and no one is reacting. This speaks for itself, what the f--k is anyone even doing at this point? We have normalized genocide, total annihilation of entire people, the systematic destruction of the biosphere which we are all depending on to survive, and that corrupt racist war criminals can act with complete impunity. But even though we have allowed far too much so far, it is not too late to say 'stop!' If we donât, we shouldnât f--king be able to call ourselves human"
Absolute bombshell on Al Jazeera. The US and Israel have deliberately bombed over 30 universities across Iran, assassinating professors in their homes and massacring over 60 students. Washington is systematically trying to destroy Iranian scientific progress.
I have not seen a single mainstream media outlet give this the attention it deserves.
Israel blew up an entire Lebanese town, an ancient place. It should be headline news. Thereâs footage of it happening.
Imagine this was your town, and you saw every building blown up by a terrorist army to prevent you from ever returning. You would at the very least expect wall to wall coverage. Instead it passes without a word.
Itâs not the only town Israel has blown up. And sadly it probably wonât be the last.