Two Years Since Hamas Attack, Physics Nobel, Woke 007

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Argentinian daily El Dia dedicates its front page to President Javier Milei dressed in leather presenting his new book while singing rock anthems on stage at the Movistar Arena, in Buenos Aires. The 573-page volume entitled La Construcción del Milagro (“Construction of the Miracle”) compiles speeches and social media posts from the past year. This comes as Milei awaits a potential financial rescue from the United States, amid a deepening political crisis following one of his political allies’ alleged links to drug-trafficking.

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• Israel marks two years since Oct. 7 attack as ceasefire talks. Israelis are gathering at memorial events to mark two years since Hamas’s attacks on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage. This comes as delegations from Israel and Hamas are in indirect negotiations in Egypt about U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to halt the war in Gaza. Meanwhile, a new academic study published on Tuesday showed that the United States under the Biden and Trump administrations has provided at least $21.7 billion in military assistance to Israel since the start of the Gaza war. For more, check Pierre Haski’s France Inter piece, translated from French by Worldcrunch: Two Years After October 7, Israel Still Has No Path Forward.

• Zelensky says Western parts found in Russian drones. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the hundreds of weapons used in Russian attacks over the previous two nights contained tens of thousands of components produced by firms in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, Taiwan and China.

• Outgoing French prime minister starts last-ditch talks to end political crisis. Outgoing French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu is starting two days of last-ditch talks on Tuesday with members of the main political parties, a day after his shock resignation. His government was the shortest-lived administration in modern French history.

• Chicago and Illinois sue to stop Trump’s Guard deployment plan after Portland ruling. Leaders of the state of Illinois went to court Monday to stop President Donald Trump from sending National Guard troops into Chicago, escalating a clash between Democratic-led states and the Republican administration over an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the nation’s third-largest city. The legal challenge came hours after a judge blocked the Guard’s deployment in Portland, Oregon.

• Madagascar president appoints army general as prime minister to defuse protests. Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina appointed an army general as prime minister, hoping to quell surging protests against his leadership that have plunged the country into crisis. In the latest in days of youth-led marches, security forces dispersed hundreds of demonstrators with tear gas in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo. 

• Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for scientists’ work on quantum mechanics. Three scientists from three different American universities won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum mechanical tunneling. The winners are UK’s John Clarke, France’s Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis, from the U.S. The Nobel committee said the laureates’ research will help develop “the next generation of quantum technology, including quantum cryptography, quantum computers, and quantum sensors.”

• News Quiz! Streaming giant Amazon faced fan outrage after editing classic James Bond movie posters. What did they remove from the images that sparked the backlash?

A. His gun
B. His cigar
C. His martini glass
D. His casual sexism
[Answer below]

#️⃣ BY THE NUMBERS

12,260

The Airbus A320 surpassed Boeing’s 737 to become the most-delivered jetliner in history. A delivery to Saudi airline Flynas raised the European manufacturer’s total to 12,260 aircraft since the model entered service in 1988.

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— AGENCIA OCOTE

👍 Pessimism weighs on both body and mind. But research shows optimism can be trained, and even small steps can make a difference.
— DIE ZEIT

♀️ The UK government will not meet its pledge to halve violence against women and girls unless it tackles tech companies.
— OPEN DEMOCRACY