Discuție zilnică - 16 mai 2024

Rusia a lansat o navă spațială de cercetare pentru armament nuclear.

Russia launched a satellite into space in February 2022 that is designed to test components for a potential antisatellite weapon that would carry a nuclear device, U.S. officials said.

The satellite that was launched doesn’t carry a nuclear weapon. But U.S. officials say it is linked to a continuing Russian nuclear antisatellite program that has been a growing worry for the Biden administration, Congress and experts outside government in recent months. The weapon, if deployed, would give Moscow the ability to destroy hundreds of satellites in low-Earth orbit with a nuclear blast.

Citeste mai multThe satellite in question, known as Cosmos-2553, was launched on Feb. 5, 2022, and is still traveling around the Earth in an unusual orbit. It has been secretly operating as a research and development platform for nonnuclear components of the new weapon system, which Russia has yet to deploy, other officials said.

Creșterea prețului spitalului menține inflația ridicată

One reason U.S. inflation is still high: Increases in prices for procedures to prop open clogged arteries, provide intensive care for newborns and biopsy breasts.

Hospitals didn’t raise prices as early in the pandemic as supermarkets, retailers and restaurants. But they have been making up ground since then. Their increases have contributed to stubbornly high inflation readings from the consumer-price index, which in April increased 3.4% from a year ago.

Hospital prices specifically jumped 7.7% last month from a year ago, the highest increase in any month since October 2010, the Labor…  Citeste mai mult Department said Wednesday.Among the procedures with hefty recent price increases are angioplasties placing stents in arteries to improve blood flow, which grew $670, or 4.5%, to $15,640 in the first three months of the year from the same period a year ago, according to Turquoise Health.

Tancul israelian a ucis accidental cinci soldați în Gaza

The Israeli military said Thursday that five of its soldiers were killed when an Israeli tank fired at a building in Gaza that was being used by its own troops, raising the war’s toll on Israel amid pressure from hostage families and allies to end the fighting.

Seven other soldiers were injured in the incident, which took place in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on Wednesday evening, the military said. An Israeli tank fired two shells at the building after mistaking a group of Israeli paratroopers located inside for militants. Three of the wounded soldiers sustained serious…  Citeste mai mult injuries, said the military, adding that it is investigating the incident.

Israelienii nu sunt încrezători că pot câștiga războiul din Gaza

A poll released Sunday by Israel’s Jewish People Policy Institute found the percentage of Jewish Israelis confident that Israel can win the war dropped below 50% for the first time since the beginning of the war—to 38% from 61% in March. A plurality of 41% respondents said that they weren’t confident Israel can win the war.

Cease-fire talks mediated by Arab governments have stalled amid disagreement on key issues, including whether a halt to the fighting would be temporary or permanent, and after a Hamas attack on a major border crossing with Israel killed four Israeli soldiers. Israel has stepped up attacks in eastern Rafah this

Netanyahu respinge apelurile SUA pentru un plan postbelic în Gaza

For days, senior Biden administration officials have pressured Israel to plan for postwar Gaza as the long-anticipated Rafah offensive gets under way. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally delivered his response: Not so fast.

On Wednesday, Netanyahu rejected the U.S. demands, arguing that it would be “just chatter” while Hamas remains intact.

“There is no alternative to military victory,” Netanyahu said in a video released by his office. “The attempt to bypass it with this or that claim is simply detached from reality.”

He appeared to be rejecting…  Citeste mai mult assertions by top U.S. officials—and by his own defense minister—that Israel can’t win with force alone.

"Lone Wolf" Acuzat de Împușcarea Prim-ministrului Slovaciei

A suspect in the shooting of Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, has been charged, the country’s interior minister said on Thursday, describing him as a “lone wolf” who was radicalized after last month’s presidential election.

Mr. Fico’s condition had stabilized after what his government called a politically motivated assassination attempt, but he was “not out of a life-threatening situation,” the deputy prime minister told a news conference. He said Mr. Fico had only a “limited” ability to communicate and faced a “difficult…  Citeste mai mult” recovery.

Unul desemnat de Biden a demisionat din cauza războiului din Gaza

An Interior Department staffer on Wednesday became the first Jewish political appointee to publicly resign in protest of U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

Lily Greenberg Call, a special assistant to the chief of staff in the Interior Department, accused President Joe Biden of using Jews to justify U.S. policy in the conflict.

Call had worked for the presidential campaigns of both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, and was a longtime activist and advocate for Israel in Washington and elsewhere before joining the government.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Call pointed…  Citeste mai mult to comments by Biden, including at a White House Hanukkah event where he said “Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world who was safe” and at an event at Washington’s Holocaust Memorial last week in which he said the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks that triggered the war were driven by an “ancient desire to wipe out the Jewish people.”

Ambasadorul Israelului spune că democrații "ajută Hamas-ul"

Congressional aides told HuffPost a May 8 letter from Israel's ambassador was “stunning,” “embarrassing” and “verging on offensive.”

One week after Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. sent dozens of Democrats in the House of Representatives an unprecedented rebuke, congressional staff say they’re still fuming over the letter, a note that accused lawmakers of aiding the Palestinian militant group Hamas, of misrepresenting Israeli policy and of inappropriately trying to influence President Joe Biden.

“It really is a stunning document,”…  Citeste mai mult said one Democratic staffer. “The tone of this letter is not reflective of the fact that the U.S. is the primary guarantor of Israel’s security. An unaware reader would assume that Israel is the superpower in this relationship and the U.S. the recipient of aid.”

Israelienii blochează ajutorul pentru Gaza

Individual members of Israeli security forces are believed to be tipping off far-right activists re location of the aid trucks once they're en route to Gaza, enabling their interception by those who have blocked the convoys from proceeding, and looting their contents.

Early on in the war, when the attacks were happening regularly near Israel's Kerem Shalom and Nitzana crossings into Gaza, National Security Minister Ben Gvir signaled to police, which are under his jurisdiction, to take lax approach on the crackdown, Israeli official said.

Un balon spion american s-a prăbușit în nord-estul Siriei

A sizable surveillance aerostat owned by the US military crashed on 15 May near the town of Rmelan in Syria's northeastern Al-Hasakah province.

Footage on social media showed the aerostat descending from the sky and, subsequently, its debris on the ground close to Rmelan, which was also near a US base. Allegedly, US fighter jets were seen flying over the vicinity during the event.

The US maintains several illegal bases in Syria, including the one in Rmelan, primarily in the northeastern provinces of Al-Hasakah and Deir Ezzor, as well as Al-Tanf in the southeast, purportedly to combat ISIS…  Citeste mai mult remnants.