Year: 2026

Indonesia prepares up to 8,000 soldiers in the first strong commitment of a peacekeeping force in Gaza

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✨ Read this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Gaza,Indonesia,peacekeeping,United Nations 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has begun training a contingent of up to 8,000 soldiers it plans to send as part of an international peacekeeping force to Gaza, the first firm commitment to a crucial element of U.S. President Donald Trump's post-war reconstruction plan. He watches: Trump presents the "Peace Council" in Gaza at the Davos Forum Indonesia has experience in peacekeeping operations as one of the top 10 contributors to UN missions, including in Lebanon, and has been heavily involved…

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This drama set on a desert island is a “daring and terrifying” nightmare ★★★★☆

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✨ Discover this must-read post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Teenage author Jack Thorne has adapted William Golding's classic novel for his latest TV series about young, murderous males - but it's a very different beast.Jack Thorne has long been a popular and prolific playwright and screenwriter, with credits including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child who achieved great success on stage. However, last year's Netflix phenomenon "Teenage," which he co-created with actor Stephen Graham, sent him into a different layer of the atmosphere, given how its story about a 13-year-old killer cleaned up the…

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Six Nations 2026: ‘No passengers’ as Ireland look to bounce back against Italy

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✨ Explore this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: France mercilessly dismantled Ireland last week. Having seen his team dominate the air, Farrell responded by removing wingers Stockdale and O'Brien and raising James Lowe and Balokoni. The hope is that both will help steer Ireland away from a lack of intent on Saturday. Lowe, the British and Irish lion who was a virtual presence in Farrell's Ireland squad, has been left out of Stockdale's squad while in-form Ulsterman Baloucoune returns to the green jersey for the first time since November 2022.While Nick Timoney was…

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T20 World Cup: Scotland vs England preview with Brad Weil

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✨ Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Scotland faced England on the defensive in the 2024 encounter in Barbados by reaching 90-0 in 10 overs.England were facing a tough chase of 109 in their 10 overs before rain killed off the match.In the 2018 ODI, Scotland made 371 at The Grange before bowling out England for 365.“Obviously this happened a long time ago and we can take some confidence from that, but it's a completely new team on both sides,” Will said.“Obviously we understand it's a tremendous competition in all sports.…

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Open Source is Not About You · GitHub

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✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The only people entitled to say how open source 'ought' to work are people who run projects, and the scope of their entitlement extends only to their own projects. Just because someone open sources something does not imply they owe the world a change in their status, focus and effort, e.g. from inventor to community manager. As a user of something open source you are not thereby entitled to anything at all. You are not entitled to contribute. You are not entitled to features. You…

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What services are affected by the Department of Homeland Security closure? What you need to know

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💥 Discover this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,Government Shutdown,immigration enforcement,U.S. Department of Homeland Security ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Another shutdown of parts of the federal government is expected this weekend as lawmakers debate new restrictions on President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agenda. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security is scheduled to expire on Saturday. Democrats say they won't help approve more funding until new restrictions on federal immigration operations are in place following the fatal shootings of Alex Peretti and Renee Judd in Minneapolis last month. He watches: TSA and FEMA…

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I’m Sorry, Prime Minister Review – Hacker and Sir Humphrey return as confused but charming old programmers | stage

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Comedy,Griff Rhys Jones 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: DDeath comes to all of us, but just before it, there also comes that period when no one is sure whether you still exist or not. “I'm not dead,” says Jim Hacker, played by Griff Rhys Jones, in the Yes Prime reboot. "I'm in the House of Lords!" The former Prime Minister is now also a professor at an Oxford university, but faces being fired from that job by students angry at his insults against the ultra-Orthodox faith. And…

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Cohere’s $240M public paves the way for an IPO

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✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Enterprise,Cohere,Enterprise AI 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: While top AI labs like Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI are seeking enterprise adoption, Canadian AI startup Cohere has been quietly cleaning up. The startup told investors in a note that it surpassed its annual recurring revenue target of $200 million in 2025, reaching $240 million with more than 50% quarterly growth over the year, according to CNBC. Cohere was founded in 2019 and is backed by enterprise technology investors such as Nvidia, AMD, and Salesforce. The startup's core technology is the Command family of…

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Formula 1 testing: Red Bull’s advantage is ‘pretty scary’, says George Russell

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💥 Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The second day of testing on Thursday saw two of last year's title contenders, Lando Norris and Max Verstappen, disagree over whether the new cars are fun to drive.Russell said the 2026 cars were "better to drive" in terms of handling and ride than last year, but added that "the engines are very complex."“These two tracks, Barcelona and Bahrain, are arguably the easiest tracks for the engines,” he said. “I don’t want to say anything too early before we get to the likes of Melbourne…

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Winter Olympics 2026: Vomit Andrew Musgrave battles heat and Norwegians set new best

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💥 Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: “With 2.5km to go, I put myself in the fight for a medal, but I think I went too fast because the last hills were very difficult. I lost a huge amount of time.“I would never have been in contention for a medal, but maybe I should have finished fourth. But there's not much difference from sixth place, no medal. “It was good, but I still got beaten up by too many Norwegians.”Musgrave, who moved to Norway 17 years ago, finished seventh in ski racing…

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