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Ya Libnan
4 days ago
- Politics
- Ya Libnan
Israeli strike targets a Hezbollah anti-tank missile operative in South Lebanon, Update
Smoke billows from the reported site of an Israeli airstrike on the southern Lebanese village of Wata al-Khiam, July 12, 2025. Lebanon's health ministry said on Saturday that an 'Israeli enemy strike' on a home in south Lebanon's Wata al-Khiam killed one person. Wata al-Khiam is about 5 kilometers from the Israeli border The Israel Defense Forces later issued a statement confirming the strike, saying it targeted an operative of Hezbollah's anti-tank missile unit. The ceasefire, which ended over a year of hostilities, required Hezbollah to vacate southern Lebanon, and gave Israel 60 days to do so, to be replaced by the Lebanese military and international peacekeepers. Israel has since withdrawn from all but five points overlooking the border. On Friday, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Israel's continued presence in south Lebanon was preventing the Lebanese army from deploying. The president expressed interest in peaceful relations with Israel but said normalizing relations was off the table for now. He also reaffirmed his government's commitment to maintaining a monopoly on arms — a veiled threat against Hezbollah's extensive arsenal. Unprovoked, Hezbollah began firing near-daily rocket attacks at Israel on October 8, 2023 — a day after its Iran-backed ally Hamas stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,139 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza. Hezbollah's rocket fire displaced some 60,000 residents of northern Israel. In a bid to ensure their safe return, Israel stepped up operations in Lebanon in September, leading to two months of open warfare with Hezbollah in which the group's leadership was decimated. Lebanon faces Existential Threat if Hezbollah is not disarmed US Special Envoy Tom Barrack warned, in an interview with the Emirati newspaper The National, that Lebanon risks falling into the hands of regional powers unless Beirut moves to resolve the issue of Hezbollah's arms He pointed out that 'Lebanon needs to resolve this issue, otherwise it could face an existential threat,' adding, 'Israel on one side, Iran on the other, and now Syria is emerging very quickly. If Lebanon doesn't act, it will return to the Levant.' Updated to correct the target of Israeli strike News Agencies
25-06-2025
- Politics
Israel-Iran live updates: Trump again claims 'total obliteration' of Iran nuclear sites
The president disputed an early intelligence assessment from the Pentagon. 1:22 President Donald Trump told ABC News on Tuesday morning he is "not happy" with either Israel or Iran after the opening hours of a nascent ceasefire between the two combatants were marred by reported exchanges. Trump said Iran and Israel both "violated" the ceasefire that he announced late on Monday, in comments made as he departed the White House. On Wednesday morning, the president and his administration continued to push back on an early intelligence report suggesting that the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities likely only set Tehran's nuclear program back by months. Latest headlines: 1 hour and 8 minutes ago Trump again claims 'total obliteration' of Iran nuclear sites Jun 24, 2025, 9:01 PM EDT Special envoy calls 'leak' of strike report 'treasonous,' says Iran-Israel ceasefire is holding Jun 24, 2025, 7:51 PM EDT Classified report on damage to Iran's nuclear program viewed by some senators Jun 24, 2025, 3:46 PM EDT US strikes on Iran only set back nuclear program by months, early intelligence finds Here's how the news is developing. 75 Updates Jun 23, 2025, 5:31 AM EDT US strikes won't stop nuclear program, Khamenei aide says Ali Shamkhani, an adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in a post to X on Sunday that the American strikes on Iran's key nuclear facilities will not stop Tehran's nuclear program. "Even assuming that the facilities are completely destroyed, the game is not over; the enriched materials, local expertise and politics will remain," Shamkhani said. "Now, the political and operational initiative, along with the right to legitimate defense, lies with the side that plays smart and avoids indiscriminate fire," he added. "The surprises will continue!" -ABC News' Joe Simonetti Israel launches new wave of attacks on Tehran The Israel Defense Forces said in a post to X on Monday morning that Israeli warplanes began a "wave of attacks on military targets in Tehran." The strikes followed several waves of Iranian missile launches toward Israel. Jun 23, 2025, 3:28 AM EDT Iran launches missiles toward Israel, IDF says The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement posted to X on Monday morning that it detected the launch of a new barrage of ballistic missiles from Iran, urging citizens to head to safe areas and shelters. "The defense systems are working to intercept the threat," the IDF said. Jun 22, 2025, 11:29 PM EDT 'Bullseye': Trump says damage to Iran nuclear sites is 'far below ground level'
Epoch Times
27-04-2025
- Politics
- Epoch Times
The AI–Robotics Combo: Will All Employees Be Replaced?
Commentary On April 14, a local government administrator in the United States sent my relative a letter that she suspected of including artificial intelligence (AI) content. Sure enough, an AI detector found 83 percent generated by AI GPT. She said it was the best letter she had ever received from a politician—and she writes to her representatives frequently. She praised the letter for responding to every single point she raised in her own letter, something no unaided politician had ever done. We toyed with the idea of confronting the administrator publicly. If AI wrote a better letter than the administrator himself, perhaps he could be replaced with the technology, and his salary redeployed for more substantive taxpayer benefits. It was a tongue-in-cheek idea. But the logic is nevertheless disturbing. If artificial intelligence is now better than one politician for one task, according to one constituent, is it plausible that in 10 or 20 years, AI could be better than all politicians for all their tasks, according to most constituents? At that point, voters might just vote for an AI politician rather than a human one. Human politicians are, after all, time-constrained by their need to sleep, eat, and hobnob with their elite donors and other benefactors. Related Stories 3/16/2025 2/20/2025 My relative decided not to confront the politician at his next public meeting. She wants to influence his decisions in the future, and public shaming is probably not the best way to do this. So he gets a pass to continue using AI on unsuspecting constituents. Even his tiny hold on power at the local level protected him from the truth. If he can get away with it, perhaps many other politicians are doing the same. This The United Arab Emirates ( The UAE considers using AI to write legislation to be 70 percent more efficient than relying on human legislators to write laws. How that remarkably round number was arrived at is unclear. But as UAE citizens cannot vote, they could essentially become forced laborers working not only for the president of the UAE but also for AI, given that nobody understands exactly how AI comes up with its recommendations. Now, consider expanding this to everything. A new startup in Silicon Valley, called But the company also envisions pairing AI with robots to mechanize other jobs, for example, in agriculture, construction, and manufacturing. Companies like That the military could also be automated, despite the promises of AI companies to do no such thing, is obvious given the rise of armed drones on the battlefields of Ukraine, and the interest of the U.S. and The Israel Defense Forces reportedly used AI to target as many as 37,000 Communists have long promoted the idea of full mechanization to 'free' humans of the need to labor. In their 'utopian' schemes, full mechanization would allow humans the free time to pursue whatever they want, including leisure, art, and family. With the rise of mechanization, automation, robots, and AI, a new utopianism is coming that will appeal to the ' With AI, this coming 'tech vanguard' can seek an AI communism, in which humans frolic in nature while being watched over by the machine. It sounds dystopian and easily manipulable by Leninists if not Stalinists. But its rosy-glassed adherents will see it the other way around. They have likely read Richard Brautigan's 1967 where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace. Brautigan was not specifically communist, though he was counter-culture. In the mid-2000s, a British movement developed a concept similar to being 'watched over by machines of loving grace' that would become known as ' AI is being touted, by even those who know its In any conflict that occurs, Beijing will certainly deploy all technologies at its disposal. This puts those who would prefer to go slowly and carefully, or avoid any future of AI, in a bind. Use AI fire to fight fire, or not? And what if the fire blows back on the freedom of the individual in a market democracy, after burning the authoritarian adversary? Handing over so much power, up to and including 'AI communism,' whether in the form of political power to legislate or industrial power that replaces trillions of dollars worth of human labor, is an immense concentration of power in the hands of whoever controls AI. That could be a dictator, an oligarchy, an elected official who accrues too much power, or a hacker. It could even be AI itself, if it goes rogue or is irretrievably granted that power at some point in the future. The advent of AI is likely a Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
Yahoo
21-02-2025
- Yahoo
Israel says checking claims new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have said they are looking into reports that Hamas has handed the body of hostage Shiri Bibas to the Red Cross on Friday evening. The reports are "currently under review", IDF international spokesperson Lt Col Nadav Shoshani wrote in a post on X. It comes after Israel said forensic testing showed a body handed over on Thursday, said by Hamas to be Shiri Bibas, was not that of the Israeli mother but a different unidentified woman. The IDF is in contact with the Bibas family, Shoshani said. "We emphasise the family's request to show responsibility and not publish unauthorised reports," he added. Israel's National Centre for Forensic Medicine was preparing to conduct an identification test on the body, Israel's Channel 12 reported.
