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People among the more than 50,000 who entered Spanish enclave this week describe the journey and their prospects

Four days ago, Youssef El Abbas saw an opportunity to reclaim the life he had lost seven years earlier. News was circulating that about 400 people had swum from Morocco to the neighbouring Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the north African coast, approximately 12 miles (19km) across the strait of Gibraltar from mainland Spain.

Here was a chance for the 44-year-old Moroccan father of four to return to Spain, from which he had been deported when his residency expired after the loss of his job in Bilbao in 2019.

Fire department says two-person crew of one aircraft killed in incident during gale-force winds to west of capital

Two firefighting helicopters have collided west of Athens, killing the two-person crew of one of the aircraft, as efforts to control a massive wildfire barrelling towards the outskirts of the Greek capital intensified.

Footage showed one of the helicopters losing control in the face of gale-force winds that have pushed flames towards settlements on Athens’ western fringes.

August usually sends me into an anxious funk, but I think I’ve worked out how to handle 2026’s terrifying heat and apocalyptic images

Unfortunately for hairdressers, “How’s your summer going?” is a loaded question this year. Even basking lizards and barbecue obsessives are wavering in their sun worship as cataclysmic wildfires engulf our nearest neighbours (and threaten the UK), Wales and parts of England experience drought, and farmers issue dire warnings about our food supply in the near future. Rescue centres are filling up with dehydrated hedgehogs and the Environment Agency is having to rescue fish. Lazy, joyful, sunscreen-scented days are giving way to stifling, existentially terrifying ones spent skulking in the dark (assuming you don’t need to be out in the extreme heat, as many workers do), sweatily scrolling through apocalyptic images.

Vanity Fair has decreed it’s a “sad-girl summer”, highlighting the female singer-songwriters soundtracking the myriad anxieties of an “undeniably cruel” 2026 season, but it’s not just the girlies who are sad – many of us are struggling and we still have August to survive. How?

Our new book tracks the growth over nearly eight decades, of the most powerful foreign policy lobby in US history

In 1948, with war raging in Palestine, Harry Truman found himself trapped.

On one side were Zionist lobbyists and the president’s domestic political advisers, who were urging him to support the establishment of a Jewish state in as much of Palestine as possible. On the other were his top foreign policy and national security officials, led by the secretary of state, George C Marshall. Their unanimous recommendation was to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state, which they believed would trigger war in the Middle East and endanger the future of US relations with the Arab and Muslim world.

Всем привет, меня зовут Михаил. Мне 23 года, и я работаю Senior Java разработчиком в ОТП Банке. До этого я работал ведущим back-end разработчиком в РЖД.

Я и мои коллеги в моем опыте не сомневаются - работаю сеньором уже больше 2 лет. Я попал на стажировку в 18 лет. Стажировался за копейки, усердно работал вместо "веселой студенческой жизни".

А потом получаю отказы в духе: "Вы слишком молоды для этой позиции"

Хотя и опыт подходит и стек. Сегодня я хочу затронуть тему, которая волнует многих, но о которой не принято говорить, о возрастной дискриминации в IT. 

Кто-то становится миллионером в 18, а мы чем хуже?

Сегодня попытаюсь разобраться в этой ситуации подробно, наливайте чай или кофе, поехали!

Volunteers painstakingly gather plastic pellets washing up on beaches after ship collision on 19 July

“You’ve got a local community that really cares about the coastline,” said Alice Laverty, reflecting on the huge army of volunteers who had taken to crisis-hit beaches in north-east England with passion and only the most basic tools. “They’ve all got a dustpan, a brush, a bucket, a kitchen sieve.”

On beaches from Cambois in Northumberland to Seaburn on Wearside, up to 2,000 dedicated volunteers have been painstakingly sifting through sand to find tiny, lentil-sized pellets of plastic.

Привет! Меня зовут Гарегин Казарян, я сервис-менеджер К2Тех. Это небольшая, но красочная история о том, как наша команда провела замену аккумуляторов в источниках бесперебойного питания (ИБП) в сотнях офисов крупной федеральной компании — от Калининграда до Сахалина и заполярных поселков, куда добраться можно только дождавшись, пока встанет лёд на реке. Десятки регионов и поездки на всем — от самолетов и поездов до катеров на подводных крыльях, теплоходов и выделенных заказчиком внедорожников.

Россия глазами наших инженеров, немного технических деталей и очень много красивых фото — под катом!

Представьте, что все линейки во Вселенной внезапно удлинились вдвое. Удвоились все атомы, планеты, измерительные приборы и человеческие тела. Заметил бы это кто-нибудь? Если бы все соотношения остались неизменными, это преобразование, возможно, не оставило бы никаких наблюдаемых следов. Углы треугольника остались бы прежними, Луна по-прежнему находилась бы на расстоянии в сколько-то радиусов Земли, а все единицы длины в физике увеличились бы вместе со всем, что они измеряют.

Этот мысленный эксперимент указывает на центральную идею шейп-динамики [shape dynamics] — необычной переформулировки гравитации. Согласно этому подходу, физически значимые характеристики пространства могут не включать абсолютные размеры. Важны формы, углы, относительные расстояния и то, как эти отношения изменяются. Теория заменяет привычную картину Эйнштейна о четырёхмерном пространстве-времени на нечто, больше похожее на космическую последовательность трёхмерных пространственных конфигураций.

After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain

The UK Home Office has started stripping some EU citizens of their post-Brexit residency rights, in a move that has raised concerns about Britain’s compliance with its withdrawal agreement with Europe.

The UK internal affairs authority has told at least 100 people that they were given residency rights “in error”, disrupting their lives just as they come to the end of their five-year “pre-settled status” and prepare to upgrade to the permanent “settled status”.

Lorena Wiebes sprinted clear in the yellow jersey to win in Geneva after Riejanne Markus’ breakaway bid was denied in the final kilometre

115km to go: We’re into the hills now, the first of the five climbs well under way as the riders head up to the summit of the Côte de Chexbres (3.2km at a 5.6% gradient). We’re in the hills for the next 70km or so.

117km to go: Several more attacks, Alison Jackson pushing again and Idoia Eraso (wearing the green jersey) also involved in a few moves. But once again; nothing decisive. It’s all still very tight in Vevey.

The president’s minions have trawled the statutes to restore roadblocks to trade. The invocation of Smoot-Hawley looks especially dangerous

Donald Trump may have found the killer weapon to punish countries at will: by imposing tariffs on their exports to the United States.

The president has been looking for a new tool since February, when the supreme court struck down tariffs he slapped on virtually all of America’s trading partners based on the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, or IEEPA, on the spurious grounds that the US faced a variety of national emergencies. It’s become a parlor game among policy wonks to predict what new legal justification he would deploy to replace them.

Eduardo Porter is a journalist focused on economics and politics. He writes the newsletter Being There on Substack

Conjuring memories of sun-drenched holidays and cool tapas bars, this dish is deliciously messy

As a devotee of the small, sweet and winningly cheap cold-water prawn, I don’t often find myself at the court of the king variety, but as a way to conjure happy memories of holidays past, sunny terraces and cool tapas bars, this particular dish is hard to beat. Served sizzling hot and drenched in red, garlicky oil, it’s deliciously messy stuff, and best paired with bread and an icy drink.

Prep 5 min
Cook 15 min
Serves 4 as a tapa, 2 as a starter

The singer and actor is partial to Mozart and once did Édith Piaf at karaoke, but to which musical showstopper does she owe everything?

The first song I fell in love with
I used to sing All I Have to Do Is Dream by the Everly Brothers with my schoolfriend who lived over the road, when I was 11 or 12. I sang the harmony and she sang the melody.

The song I do at karaoke
The only time was on holiday in Nice with a friend. We’d been out for a lovely supper and had far too much rosé, and I was about to play Édith Piaf in the West End. I ended up singing Hymne à l’amour, and he did Fools Rush In.

Tariffs are annoying and disruptive, but this round is less impactful – and business owners are taking them in their stride

Rebounding from his defeat at the supreme court in February, Donald Trump has recently announced a new round of tariffs, invoking sections of various trade acts to levy amounts on industries and countries based on reasons ranging from “forced labor” to “excess capacity”.

And how are small and medium-sized businesses in the US reacting? One word: snoozefest.

The president’s minions have trawled the statutes to restore roadblocks to trade. The invocation of Smoot-Hawley looks especially dangerous

Donald Trump may have found the killer weapon to punish countries at will: by imposing tariffs on their exports to the United States.

The president has been looking for a new tool since February, when the supreme court struck down tariffs he slapped on virtually all of America’s trading partners based on the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, or IEEPA, on the spurious grounds that the US faced a variety of national emergencies. It’s become a parlor game among policy wonks to predict what new legal justification he would deploy to replace them.

Eduardo Porter is a journalist focused on economics and politics. He writes the newsletter Being There on Substack

Convicted killer seeks to withdraw guilty plea and go to trial – but that could put death penalty sentence back in play

Could Bryan Kohberger, convicted 13 months ago of the murders of four University of Idaho students, now find himself on death row? That’s one potential outcome of a perplexing petition he filed last week in which he claimed he was misled by his defense attorneys into pleading guilty.

A new trial could grant the wishes of family members who hoped to see the 31-year doctoral criminology student convicted by a jury in open court and sentenced to death. Or is Kohberger simply following the example of many mass murderers in attempting to gain control of the narrative and extend the suffering of his victims’ families?

Hours of video analyzed in an 18-month investigation reveal what really happened the night Antonio Mays Jr. was shot at the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, and how protesters mistook him for a threat.

(Image credit: Ellen M. Banner)

Оглавление

Показываю, как подключить модуль ввода‑вывода AMIDJ14 к контроллеру ZONT 1000+ Pro v2, настроить обмен по Modbus RTU, создать дискретные и аналоговые сигналы, а также интегрировать модуль в систему автоматизации котельной.

Как AI на самом деле встроен в процесс дизайнера в 2026 — не с точки зрения хайпа, а по фактам из отчётов, интервью и постов практикующих дизайнеров: смена парадигмы, командная работа на одном канвасе, инструменты, которые дают точечно править вместо генерации с нуля, и дизайнеры, которые сами собирают AI-скиллы под себя. Отдельно — как это устроено у меня: designer-skills, разговор с AI вместо скетчей, макет руками + состояния AI, и обязательная проверка каждого шага.

Данная статья наврятли является гидом по созданию домашней лаборатории, скорее это некое описание намерений.

The president has blundered into a ‘forever war’ with Iran he can’t win, but refuses to end. Such hubris has a long history

It’s five years this month since the chaotic retreat of US forces from Kabul. The Nato-backed invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, launched after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington DC, is now widely regarded as a failure. It cost the lives of more than 2,400 US and 450 British troops, and tens of thousands of civilians (the exact number is unknown). Although al-Qaida terrorists were routed, their Taliban hosts reimposed repressive, misogynistic Islamist rule after regaining power in 2021. Afghanistan became a byword for ill-considered western interventionism and nation-building. It was the archetypal “forever war”, a phrase first coined during Vietnam.

If this cautionary tale had any lasting value, it was as a deterrent to politicians and generals tempted to rashly embark on open-ended conflicts without just cause, defined, achievable aims, and an exit strategy. Dismayingly, the forever war lesson had to be learned all over again in Iraq, which the US and UK invaded in 2003 and departed, having caused huge harm for scant benefit, in 2011. “Never again!” was the passionate cry at the time and since. And yet, it seems, the same disastrous pattern is now repeating after Donald Trump’s incomprehensibly foolish decision to attack Iran. A war he termed a “little excursion” is entering its sixth month and has been escalating rapidly. It, too, has a forever feel.

С середины 1950-х и вплоть до конца 1970-х годов тысячи молодых людей из западных стран отправлялись по одному и тому же маршруту: из Америки и Западной Европы через Балканы, Турцию, Иран и Афганистан в Индию, Непал и ещё дальше — в Таиланд.

Этот маршрут стал символом целой эпохи: эпохи свободной любви, лёгкого доступа к веществам, дешёвых авиабилетов (нет, это не рекламная интеграция) и духовных поисков целого поколения.Что это были за люди? Куда и зачем они ехали? Где останавливались по пути? С какими опасностями сталкивались? Как маршрут менял людей, и как люди меняли маршрут? Ну и, наконец, что они находили в конце долгого пути?

Поговорим про тропу хиппи.