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Trump’s failure to strong-arm allies on Iran shows that pressure is losing its effect

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🔥 Check out this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,EU,France,iran war,U.K.,U.S. allies 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: PARIS (AFP) - We have been supporting you for a long time, and now it is our turn. This is how US President Donald Trump, famous for his dealings, formulates his demands for allies to help him in the Iran war. He wants to demand IOUs in exchange for decades of US security guarantees. Read more: AP Analysis: After two weeks of war with Iran, Trump has reversed his policy stance The string of rejections suggests that…

‘There’s no science for people like us’: electro-punk duo chalk up extended divisions in post-Troubles Belfast | music

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Electronic music,Punk,Dance music,Pop and rock,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IAt Belfast's Kelly's Cellars, a bar that has been bringing the city's people together since 1720, traditional music oozes from somewhere deep inside when Ross Cullen and Benedict Goddard arrive from the street. They settle down in a corner corner and eat pints of tough meat.Together they form the duo Chalk. When the Kneecap exploded outside Belfast, Chalk's longer fuse was quietly burning alongside them. Formed when they met while studying film at university, the duo have…

Facebook has launched a new monetization program to attract popular creators from TikTok and YouTube

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💥 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Social,Facebook,Meta ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Facebook announced Wednesday that it will launch “Creator Fast Track,” a new program designed to help creators grow on Facebook with guaranteed pay and increased access to content. The social network also shared that it will pay creators nearly $3 billion through its monetization programs in 2025, a 35% increase from the previous year and its highest annual total to date. The idea behind the new monetization program is to attract creators who have built a following on other platforms to start publishing on…

Africa Cup of Nations: “The longest VAR check in history” – how African football needs to move forward

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💥 Read this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: While working through the tournament, I remember feeling like there was an extra advantage in the build-up to the final in Rabat, compared to previous editions.What emerged were claims - on social media - that host country Morocco was being influenced by the green when it came to refereeing decisions. It has become a big part of managers' pre-match press conferences.Conspiracy theories appear to be linked to a close relationship between the Moroccan Football Federation and the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Morocco has become…

URC: Cornel van Zyl has held positive talks with Cardiff after missing the Benetton job

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✨ Read this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Van Zyl's bid for the top job is supported by fifth-placed Cardiff being in a strong position to qualify for the URC play-offs.The team is one point behind the Stormers, who are in second place, and 10 points ahead of Connacht, who is in ninth place, but will face two difficult matches in South Africa.They face Cardiff Bulls in Pretoria on Friday (17:00 GMT) and then Sharks in Durban seven days later, and have traveled with six of Wales' eight-man squad.Only winger Alex Mann and…

Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: iPhone hacking techniques have sometimes been described almost like rare and elusive animals: Hackers have used them so stealthily and carefully against such a small number of hand-picked targets that they're only rarely seen in the wild. Now a recent spate of espionage and cybercriminal campaigns has instead deployed those same phone-takeover tools, embedded in infected websites, to indiscriminately hack phones by the thousands. And one new technique in particular—capable of taking over any of hundreds of millions of iOS devices—has appeared on the web…

China rejects US request over the Strait of Hormuz as Trump’s trip to Beijing is postponed and the war with Iran worsens

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🚀 Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Beijing,China,Donald Trump news,Iran,President Xi Jinping,Strait of Hormuz 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — China will not help the United States reopen the Strait of Hormuz at the request of President Donald Trump, but it may welcome a delay in Trump's upcoming trip to Beijing as the United States risks entanglement in the Middle East, analysts say. Read more: Trump has veered from diplomacy to war in Iran. He is now asking for help from China and others The latest developments are unfolding as Trump's war against…

BTS’s comeback album is almost out – and you better believe I’m stepping back into the era of K-Pop obsession Aastha Agrawal

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💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: K-pop,Life and style,Music,Pop and rock,Culture,Hobbies 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When I heard the surprising news that BTS would be releasing a comeback album, it took me back to a previous version of myself, a version that was extremely consuming in its obsession, but equally characterized by shyness.When I was 14, I mastered the art of lowering the brightness of my screen and switching tabs to hide my shameful secret from any passer-by or seat-sharer.While schoolchildren would gather around computer screens and shamelessly watch live cricket matches at…

More than 672,000 people had their personal and financial data stolen in the ransomware attack, Marquez says

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✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Banking,cybersecurity,data breach,ransomware,marquis 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Marquis, a technology company used by hundreds of banks to analyze and visualize their customers' data, says hundreds of thousands of people had their personal and sensitive financial information stolen in a ransomware attack last year. The Plano, Texas-based fintech company notified at least 672,075 people that hackers stole their information during the August 2025 cyberattack, according to a list from the Maine Attorney General's Office. More than half of those affected live in Texas, according to a separate data breach notification filed in…

Nico de Boinville: The English rider has been cleared of making racist comments to Declan Coeli

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🔥 Read this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Nico de Boinville has been acquitted of making racist comments towards fellow jockey Declan Coeli at the Cheltenham Festival.De Boinville, 36, "categorically" denied accusations that he used such language, after Irish amateur jockey Quili said he was targeted ahead of the Novices' Hurdle when it was postponed due to a false start on the second day of the meeting.Queally, riding I'll sort that out, Englishman De Boinville, in Act Of Innocence, can be seen exchanging words at the start line.The two later appeared on ITV…