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Harris campaign concerned about money after raising $1 billion (Michael Scherer/Washington Post)

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'The Apprentice' director talks about the film Donald Trump doesn't want you to see (Olivia Hampton/NPR)

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I Was a Whistle-Blower Under Trump. Here's What's at Risk for Public Health. (Rick Bright/New York Times)

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Israeli troops fire at 3 UNIFIL positions in southern Lebanon, U.N. source says


BEIRUT, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Israeli troops opened fire at three positions held by U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Thursday, according to a U.N. source who was not immediately able to specify the type of fire.

The source said one of the locations fired at was UNIFIL's main base at Naqoura.
There was no official statement from UNIFIL or immediate comment from the Israeli military.

UNIFIL had said on Sunday that it was "deeply concerned by recent activities" by the Israeli military near a peacekeeper position in southwestern Lebanon.

In a letter to Israel's military dated Oct. 3 and seen by Reuters, UNIFIL had objected to Israeli military vehicles and troops positioning themselves "in immediate proximity" to U.N. positions, "thereby endangering the safety and security of UNIFIL personnel and premises".

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-troops-fire-3-unifil-positions-southern-lebanon-un-source-says-2024-10-10/

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In 2006, during the last major confrontation, a UN Observation Position (OP) came under Israeli artillery and aerial bombardment.

Despite repeated appeals to the IDF to stop firing, throughout 25 July, the OP on the outskirts of the village of Khiam was finally destroyed.

Four UN military observers from Austria, Canada, China and Finland were killed.

Israel’s ambassador to the US, Danny Ayalon, said “Unifil obviously got caught in the middle", and suggested that the deadly fire could have come from Hezbollah.

A UN investigation concluded that the base had been destroyed by a 500kg precision-guided bomb dropped by an Israeli warplane.

Israel concluded that human error was to blame.

In 1996, during an earlier round of fighting, Israeli artillery shells hit another UN compound, at Qana, where around 800 displaced Lebanese civilians were sheltering.

106 civilians were killed and four Fijian peacekeepers were injured.

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IDF firing at Irish peacekeepers with no response from the administration would be a fitting capstone humiliation for Biden.

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A nice paradoxical one-panel comic to start off the morning


When it comes to public officials, this ignores the public's right to know...
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#Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” Is Now Available for Download, Here's What’s New 9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-10-ora…

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Voting Rights Groups Sue to Reopen Florida's Voter Registration Amid Hurricanes (Courtney Cohn/Democracy Docket)

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"A study by Climate Central published on Monday found the sea surface temperature around Milton’s path was 400-800 times more likely because of the climate crisis.

" 'If humans keep heating the climate, we will keep seeing storms rapidly morph into monster hurricanes, leading to more destruction.' "

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Global heating makes hurricanes like Helene twice as likely, data shows
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The creator of Openbox, Dana Jansens, is a Canadian software developer widely recognized for his contributions to the open-source community, particularly in the field of lightweight window managers. Openbox is a re-implementation of Blackbox, a popular window manager known for its simplicity and low resource consumption.

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I'm so happy to share that @rOpenSci has received new funding from CZI. This funding will allow us to continue our work with the Champions Program and Multilingual Publishing, focusing on Latin America.

This is the kind of work I wanted to do when I joined rOpenSci, and it’s fantastic to see these initiatives come to life, work so well, and provide a solid foundation to continue building on them.

Stay tuned for announcements!

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