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The SPARTA IV, registered as a merchant ship, entered Portuguese waters at the end of the day on Sunday and was sailing off the coast of Nazaré on Wednesday evening.

Have his former properties been seized? Does someone else live there now?

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Swiss and Italian public prosecutors will work together more closely following the New Year's Eve fire disaster in Crans-Montana.

The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog.

In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger over a post that described how the Archive.today maintainer hid their identity behind several aliases.

Tehran, Iran – The Iranian government has again blamed “terrorists” for the killings of thousands during last month’s nationwide protests after United States President Donald Trump and human rights experts weighed in.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Saturday that the government has released a list of 3,117 people, whom he described as “victims of recent terrorist operation”, including about 200 security personnel.

“If anyone disputes accuracy of our data, please share any evidence,” the diplomat, who has previously stated that 690 people on the list were “terrorists” armed and funded by the US and Israel, wrote on X.

In recent decades, the Israeli right cultivated close ties with the Republican party and conservative Christian groups in the US. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu believed that Christian Zionists would prove a more useful longterm ally to Israel than liberal-leaning Jewish Americans, and that allying with the right was worth the risk of alienating other segments of American support.

But “I don’t think that a lot of Jewish groups, especially Jewish allies of the right, have understood that Protestant Christianity is … highly fluid,” said Eliyahu Stern, a professor of religious studies at Yale and the author of a forthcoming book entitled Nowhere Left to Go: Jews and the Global Right 1977-10/7. Protestantism is a protean movement, he said, that is constantly changing with larger political and social forces.

As long as Trump is in power, however, Maga critics of Israel will probably remain on the margins of deciding actual US policy in Israel and the Middle East. Yet once Trump leaves office, the right’s internal divide about Israel might pose serious problems to the coherence of the conservative movement.

Get ready for a wave of antisemitism that breaks in a tidal wave from the buildup caused by the only acceptable criticism of Israel being along a crude antisemitic thrust in the halls of power in the US, the ferocity of the hate is going to be awful and shockingly disgusting.

Hey, the silver lining though is that at least we got to finally be violent without hiding it towards leftists under the guise of protecting jews right? I think the best, most american part was beating up jews who were protesting in the name of stopping a genocide while calling them antisemitic!

May God bless us and not our victims!!!

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Known in Japan as The Hyrule Fantasy: The Legend of Zelda. The main title was dropped in the US to make the name shorter and some claim it was to avoid confusion with the upcoming Squaresoft Final Fantasy game, which would debut a year later.

The Legend of Zelda was inspired by Shigeru Miyamoto's explorations as a boy in the surrounding areas of his home in Sonobe, Japan. One of his most memorable experiences was finding a cave entrance in the middle of the woods. After some hesitation, he entered the cave and explored its depths with the aid of a lantern.

The story and setting were developed by Takashi Tezuka. He drew inspirations from fantasy books such The Lord of the Rings. The legend of the Triforce was written with inspirations from the battles of medieval Europe. The Master Sword was introduced as their version of Excalibur in A Link to the Past, which is regarded as reminiscent to the legend of King Arthur. Princess Zelda was named after American novelist, socialite and painter Zelda Fitzgerald. Tezuka modeled Link's appearance after the eponymous character of Walt Disney's Peter Pan.

What is your favorite Zelda memory?

Some background: Me - Late 50s male. Happily married.

My doctor: Ophthamologist. Attractive woman. 30-ish. Happily married.

Side note: I accidentally ran into her and her husband at a party about a month ago. Nice lady.

So, I went into her office yesterday morning for an appointment. When she came in the room, I noticed that her zipper was "XYZ" and her fly was totally open. Gaping open and pretty distracting. So, I try to make friendly conversation, eyes up.

As part of her job, she's straddling the chair and equipment as she's examining my eyes. Awkward. Continue eyes up!

I thought about mentioning "XYZ" to her, but didn't want to come across as a creepy old guy that's hitting on her. I didn't want to embarrass her. So, in the end, I didn't say anything, and she left.

So, is it better to say something, or not? I think she probably figured it out next time she went to the bathroom.

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Feb. 20, 2026

Individuals who carry out economic activities in the country will be able to access tax benefits for investments in renewable energy sources, following the update of the regulatory framework approved by the Ministry of Finance and Prices (MFP), as part of the strategy for the transformation of the national energy matrix.

With the publication of Resolution 41/2026 in the extraordinary Official Gazette No. 30, individuals who carry out economic activities, such as self-employed workers, agricultural producers, artists, and intellectuals, who are taxpayers subject to personal income tax, are exempt from paying this tax when they invest in renewable energy sources.

As US President Donald Trump threatens to attack Iran if it fails to reach a nuclear deal, 59 percent of Israelis support joining a potential US strike on the Islamic Republic, according to a Channel 12 poll released on Thursday.

Another 29% of respondents were opposed to joining a US strike on Iran, and the remaining 12% were uncertain.

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Meanwhile, both the Channel 12 poll and a survey by Zman Yisrael, The Times of Israel’s Hebrew-language sister site, showed Netanyahu’s coalition and the opposition parties again failing to clinch a Knesset majority in the next election without the support of an Arab faction.

Leaders of both blocs have rejected relying on Arab support to form a government.

The idea that negotiation is still on the table here to avoid bombing Iran frankly just not hold water.

Iranian students chanted anti-government slogans and scuffled with counter-protesters on Saturday in the latest display of anger at the country's clerical leaders, who also face a US military build-up aimed at pressuring them into a nuclear deal.

TORONTO (AP) — ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said Friday it considered last year alerting Canadian police about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history.

OpenAI said last June the company identified the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar via abuse detection efforts for “furtherance of violent activities.”

The San Francisco tech company said it considered whether to refer the account the Royal Canadian Mounted Police but determined at the time that the account activity did not meet a threshold for referral to law enforcement. OpenAI banned the account in June 2025 for violating its usage policy.

The 18-year-old killed eight people in a remote part of British Columbia last week and died from a self-inflicted gun shot wound.