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SCOOP - Qatar would construct two power plants in Lebanon and sign a 20-year liquefied natural gas supply deal under a proposal to revive the ailing Lebanese power sector, a document seen by Reuters showed.
The plan - which still requires approval - includes:
- New combined-cycle plants at Deir Ammar & Zahrani, 825 MW each
- QatarEnergy 20-year LNG supply agreement
- FSRU
- 800 MW solar, 440 MW wind
Lebanon has had many power plans that went nowhere due to political bickering and vested interests of politicians. Will this one be different?
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Breaking News: President Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was fired after less than a week on the job, according to people familiar with the matter. nyti.ms/4yuECpZ
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‼️ Scoop: @SecRubio will call Lebanese President Joseph Aoun today to discuss the Hezbollah explosives issue.
@AsharqNews @AsharqNewsBrk
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Worth a read: this is a thoughtful self-critique from Iranian scholars
"It casts doubt on the assumption that time inherently works in Iran's favor. The premise that prolonging the confrontation... will force Washington to compromise fails to account for the possibility that Iran's own endurance will also erode."
"The discussion sharpens the distinction between survival and victory. The mere fact that the Iranian regime has managed to survive recent conflicts and maintain its resistance does not necessarily indicate success in achieving its stated political objectives."
How to End a War: Iranian Researchers Challenge Tehran’s Strategic Assumptions. Conclusions from a discussion held in Tehran marking 46 years since the outbreak of the Iran–Iraq War, in which criticism was voiced against Tehran's war strategy. My recent piece for @INSSIsrael.
inss.org.il/publication/iran…
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A man filmed the moment a Russian missile hit the building he was in.
Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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MI5 devoting more resources to countering state threats than during Cold War, says intelligence chief bbc.in/4AVxDZs
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Getty Images plans bankruptcy filing, to go private reut.rs/4yMcEHe reut.rs/4yMcEHe
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If confirmed, this is telling: Russian data centres get hit, and online activity around AfD suddenly plummets. 📉
So much talk about German patriotism… then the connection from Russia goes down. 🤔🇷🇺
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Apparently Russian servers have been hit by a Ukrainian strike and immediately massive online hard right chatter has collapsed.
This particular chatter was in support of Germany’s AFD, their equivalent to Reform, but similar patterns are being seen in hard right movements everywhere, including the UK.
If anyone needed anymore evidence that Russia are driving a massive wave of hard right propaganda in Europe, this is it.
So, all you “patriots” - you’ve been duped by Russia, and you are about as far from patriotic as anyone can be. You are easily brainwashed though. This is how propaganda works.
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Russia used 150,000 Twitter accounts for Brexit
There was 45,000 tweets with the majority encouraging people to vote Leave a few days before the 2016 vote
These accounts had previously focused on Russia's annexation of Crimea, before focusing on Brexit
businessinsider.com/russia-u…
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Western intelligence agencies have warned Europe’s defence bosses that Russia is stepping up efforts to assassinate them, prompting companies to increase personal security around their top executives ft.trib.al/oqgT20u
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Iranian operatives used OpenAI models and fake personas to help plant news articles critical of the US war against Iran in multiple US media outlets, OpenAI said. cnn.it/4hCyA1m
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Le prix Nobel de chimie 2026 décerné au Français Henri Kagan et au Japonais Kenso Soai → l.lefigaro.fr/26Vk
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🇫🇷 ✨ French AI startup Mistral on Tuesday announced its biggest open-weight model, dubbed "Chonk", claiming enhanced performance and security capabilities for clients seeking to keep their data private instead of relying on closed models from the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI ➡️ u.afp.com/S9yE
ALT File photo shows the Mistral logo at the "ALL IN 2026" artificial intelligence and technology conference in Montreal, Canada on September 17, 2026
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The last 24 hours have been absolutely crazy for European AI:
> @MistralAI announces Le Chonk "the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks"
> @Aleph__Alpha released Kolibri-1, a benchmark-beating open source model
> @ElevenLabs' new v4 Turbo model topped the text to speed benchmarks
> @bfl_ai FLUX 3 model named the strongest world model out there.
DAMN
This week has been a real turning point for European AI, and it is just GETTING STARTED
Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk.
• 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active.
It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks.
• State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding.
• Forged in Europe end-to-end and is deployable from Europe via our own Mistral Cloud infrastructure.
• Available to all via API today. Working with cybersecurity partners privately.
Open weights release end of October.
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Iran paid three men to spy on London-based journalists critical of the country’s regime intending to violently attack them, prosecutors said at the start of a criminal trial bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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France's Mistral launches AI model it says outperforms some Chinese rivals reut.rs/3TLupXH reut.rs/3TLupXH
