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One hundred twenty-seven people, 85 of them children, have died from hunger or malnutrition as a result of Israel’s siege of Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blocked all aid to Gaza in March, claiming that it was to pressure Hamas into accepting a ceasefire that Israel broke unilaterally later that month. This week, the Israeli government has blamed the United Nations for the situation, even accusing its aid agency of working with Hamas to restrict food from getting to people. This was not the first time Israel blocked aid from entering Gaza. In March…

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with entomologist Edwin Burgess about a plan to combat flash-eating maggots threatening U.S. livestock. It involves breeding billions of flies and dropping them from planes.

President Trump is in Scotland while the Epstein controversy continues to pressure him, his administration, and Republican Congressional leaders. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: President Trump is in Scotland. He’s visiting his golf courses there and meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The president leaves behind sustained pressure on him, his administration and Republican leaders to release what the government knows about Jeffrey Epstein. NPR’s Ron Elving joins us. Ron, thanks for being with us.RON ELVING, BYLINE: It’s good to be with you, Scott.SIMON: And nice to be with you. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who was formerly a personal lawyer to…

Arch-rivals India and Pakistan are clubbed in the same group and are expected to square off again at the Dubai International Stadium in a Super Four game on next Sunday (September 21). File | Photo Credit: AP The Asia Cup men’s T20 tournament will be played from September 9 to 28 in the United Arab Emirates. India and Pakistan are likely to face each other thrice, with the first confirmed match to be played on September 14 in Dubai.Mohsin Naqvi, the Asian Cricket Council, confirmed the window and the venue of the tournament, to be hosted by the Board of Control…

Proton, the company that introduced the encrypted email service Proton Mail, has now unveiled an AI chatbot with focus on user privacy. Named Lumo, the chatbot can generate code, write email, summarise documents, and much more. Proton has dubbed its AI chatbot as an alternative to ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, etc. The AI chatbot preserves user privacy while storing data locally on users’ devices. Lumo is powered by several open-source large language models that run on Proton’s servers in Europe, including Mistral’s Nemo, Mistral Small 3, Nvidia’s OpenHands 32B, and the Allen Institute for AI’s OLMO 2 32B model. Lumo can…

The U.S. space agency NASA will lose about 3,900 employees under Donald Trump’s sweeping effort to trim the federal workforce — at the same time as the president prioritizes plans for crewed missions to the Moon and Mars. | Photo Credit: Getty Images The U.S. space agency NASA will lose about 3,900 employees under Donald Trump’s sweeping effort to trim the federal workforce — at the same time as the President prioritizes plans for crewed missions to the Moon and Mars.In an emailed statement, NASA said around 3,000 employees took part in the second round of its deferred resignation program,…

Tech India is witnessing a transformational shift, with its bellwethers currently busy deploying their AI-first strategy to nurture increased human+AI collaborations at their workplaces.This means a few unpleasant things for the software developer community(software): most of the low-hanging, also some of the not so low-hanging coding jobs will go to their AI colleagues; AI will make some developers and their current contribution to coding fully redundant; developers will need to adapt and learn how to work with their AI partners. However, AI has the potential to free up developers from boring, repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on deep-coding, for…

Areas affected include popular tourist destinations, such as Fairy Meadows, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan.Pakistan has issued a warning about glacial flooding in the northwest with more rain forecast in the coming week, as the country experiences above-average rainfall this monsoon season and continues to struggle to recover from devastating floods in 2022. Downpours are heavier in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province than the same period last year, prompting weather advisories and alerts for flooding from glacial lake outbursts, said Anwar Shahzad, a spokesperson for the local disaster management authority, on Saturday. The weather advisory alert comes after the authority sent out…

A group of staff and priests at the TTD’s Sri Balaji Mandir at Gol Market in New Delhi allegedly attempted to install a ‘Naga’ idol at the temple complex last month without securing permission from the authorities concerned and without following due religious ritualsAccording to sources, the idol was brought from an unverified source in Visakhapatnam, to which special ‘Puja’ was performed ahead of its consecration. However, the installation was opposed by another group of employees, which blew the lid off the matter and alerted the TTD.The authorities have now traced the entire episode to Special Officer K. Rama Rao,…

England captain Ben Stokes is said to have gotten his biggest leadership lesson from a Brad Pitt war movie. Fury is about a US Army officer taking on the Germans in World War II. In an iconic scene from the movie, Pitt, playing tank commander Don “Wardaddy” Collier, tells his men to retreat as he plans to guard the post alone. This was his way of telling them that the mission was too dangerous. After a moment of hesitation, every soldier lines up behind Pitt.“I would never ask somebody to do something that I wasn’t prepared to do. Have you…