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Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to the UK, has died at home in England. Gordievsky died on March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting in 1985. Police said on Saturday that they are not treating his death as suspicious. Historians consider Gordievsky one of the era’s most important spies. In the 1980s, his intelligence helped avoid a dangerous escalation of nuclear tensions between the USSR and the West. Born in Moscow in 1938, Gordievsky joined the KGB in the early 1960s, serving in…

Hezbollah has denied being responsible for the rocket strikes on Israel and reiterated its “commitment to the truce agreement,” Lebanese daily L’Orient-Le-Jour reported. Two people were killed and eight other injured by the Israeli strikes, according to the Lebanese news agency. In a statement, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called for restraint and warned against “a new war which would be devastating for Lebanon.” The escalation comes just days after Israel resumed extensive strikes on Gaza, and amid a growing judicial and political crisis in Israel following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to dismiss the head of the Israeli domestic…

Israel struck Lebanon on Saturday in retaliation for rockets targeting Israel, in the heaviest exchange of fire since the ceasefire. Israel struck Lebanon on Saturday in retaliation for rockets targeting Israel, in the heaviest exchange of fire since the ceasefire. Earlier, rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel, for the second time since December, sparking concern about whether the fragile ceasefire with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah would hold. Israel had said on Saturday that it would respond “severely” to the attack from Lebanon early Saturday morning, when rockets were fired into northern Israel. Israel’s army said the intercepted rockets…

The American president has described his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as a “dictator without elections” — an assertion aligned with Russian-backed narratives that have sought to undermine the legitimacy of Ukraine’s leadership. Critics say wartime elections would expose Ukraine to Russia’s destabilization tactics and be a logistical nightmare to organize in a country defending itself from an all-out invasion. In the same interview, Witkoff also addressed Ukraine’s potential entry into the NATO military alliance, which Russia fiercely opposes. “If there’s going to be a peace deal, Ukraine cannot be a member of NATO. I think that’s largely accepted,” Witkoff said.…

Nearly 600 Palestinians have now been killed since the truce between Israel and Hamas was shattered on Tuesday. Israeli forces advanced deeper into the Gaza Strip on Friday and blew up the only specialised cancer hospital in the war-torn territory.The violence came as Israeli leaders vowed to capture more land until Hamas releases its remaining hostages.The hospital was located in the Netzarim Corridor, which splits Gaza in two and was controlled by Israeli troops for most of the 17-month-long war. Israel moved to retake the corridor this week shortly after breaking the ceasefire with Hamas. The truce delivered relative calm…

PARIS — Lui-même ne s’y attendait pas, en tout cas pas ce jour-là, selon trois sources au fait de l’affaire : reçu vendredi après-midi par Eric Lombard, ministre de l’Economie et des Finances, le PDG d’EDF, Luc Rémont, s’est vu montrer la porte. Et sans ménagement : tombé quelques heures plus tard, le communiqué de l’Elysée annonçant la nomination, à sa place, de Bernard Fontana — actuel directeur général de Framatome, l’équipementier nucléaire d’EDF — ne contenait pas un mot pour lui. Si la rupture est brutale, c’est que l’exécutif, lassé des retards accumulés sur la construction de six nouveaux réacteurs…

The polarizing figure of the tech billionaire who is a senior adviser to U.S. President Trump has been at the center of the political debate around the Starlink discussions in Italy. Earlier this month, opposition parties called on the government to halt talks with Musk’s Space X after the tech titan threatened to turn off its communication system in Ukraine, where Starlink provides telecommunications essential to Kyiv’s forces as they try to fend off Russia’s full-scale invasion. News of a possible Starlink deal was first announced in January following a visit by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to U.S. President…

President Kim Jong Un gave his full support to Moscow at a meeting with a top Russian official in Pyongyang, North Korean state media said on Saturday. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has expressed his unwavering support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during a meeting with a top Russian official in Pyongyang, North Korean state media said on Saturday. Friday’s meeting between Kim and Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu followed a South Korean intelligence assessment in late February that North Korea had likely sent troops to assist Russia in its ongoing war against Ukraine. Both Russian and North Korean state…

Woldbye stressed that the fire took place “outside the airport, and we had to deal with the consequences.” “I don’t know an airport that has back-up supply that can switch on in minutes to the magnitude of what we experienced yesterday. The same would happen in other airports,” he said. Europe’s busiest airport was forced to a standstill on Friday following a fire that broke out the evening prior at a nearby electric station, causing a power outage at Heathrow. The airport was returning to normal operation on Saturday, but passengers continued to face delays and cancellations, according to media…

Using AI tools can significantly cut down on travel planning time and effort, but there are some drawbacks. Could your next holiday be planned by artificial intelligence (AI)? More and more people are choosing to use tools like ChatGPT, Vacay and GuideGeek to cut down booking time and cost when deciding the details of their next trip.  AI trip planners can be quick, convenient and easy to use with itineraries often generated in seconds. These can then be customised as much as you like, depending on what details you feed into the planner. Omio’s 2024 NowNext travel report highlighted that 44 per…