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Nursing shortages and migration: a two-decade study of Ireland’s dependence on migrant nurses - ScienceDirect share.google/rURSPxLpSStbXXK…

Footage of the firing incident on actor Tiger Shroff in Mumbai. Two shooters open indiscriminate fire. Tiger was damn lucky to have escaped unhurt.

I've said it before: my good friend @alansari is a damn good analyst! Not just because he's often right, but because he speaks plainly. No activist theatrics. No diplomatic waffle. No academic word salad. He gets to the point, tells it like it is, and makes you think. That's why he's worth listening to! His RT News interview is a perfect example. On Iran and the Houthis: Al-Ansari makes it clear that this is no longer just a local Yemeni conflict. The Houthis are an Iran-backed armed movement equipped with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, attack drones and explosive boats. Their attacks threaten Saudi Arabia, international shipping, global energy supplies and food security. This is a regional and international security problem. Treating it as somebody else's problem will not make it go away! On Saudi Arabia: He highlights Saudi Minister of Media Salman Al-Dossary's message that everyday life continues across the Kingdom and that protecting Saudi citizens remains the government's top priority. That's the reality Saudi Arabia is working to preserve despite the threats. On Israel: Al-Ansari doesn't mince words here either. Saudi Arabia has no diplomatic relations with Israel, and Israeli military involvement is not some magic solution to the Houthi threat! His position is straightforward: there can be no meaningful normalization that simply sidelines the Palestinian cause. A credible path towards a two-state solution matters. If Israel genuinely wants to help, it should contribute to a serious political solution or share relevant intelligence through Washington- not expect Saudi Arabia to hand over normalization for nothing! On Yemen: This is where the military realities matter. Al-Ansari argues that although the coalition and Yemeni government forces have recovered around 80% of Yemen's territory, the remaining Houthi-held areas contain roughly 80% of the population. That makes military operations extremely complex. Saudi Arabia cannot simply disregard civilian lives in densely populated areas. He also highlights the Yemeni government forces fighting under President Rashad al-Alimi, pointing to reported advances around Bab al-Mandab and on fronts including Taiz and Al-Jawf. His assessment? With coordinated, sustained operations, the Houthis could be militarily neutralised within four to six months!! That's a forecast, not a guarantee. But his central argument is clear: the Houthis are not invincible! And that's the bigger picture people need to understand. The Houthis are not simply a Yemeni militia causing trouble. They are an Iranian-backed military threat with the capacity to destabilise an entire region and disrupt global trade. Yemen deserves its sovereignty back. Saudi Arabia deserves security. And the world needs to stop treating the Houthis as a problem that can be contained indefinitely. That's why I keep telling people to listen to @alansari. He doesn't just describe the problem. He cuts through the noise and explains what's actually at stake!

This is a pretty cool use of AI. Thanks ‘Torque Reborn’ for the tribute. But many of the dates & car details need correction. Hey Team @Mahindra_Auto , we should be creating a clip like this ourselves!! Let’s get to work… @Velu_Mahindra

Elon Musk hat gerade Abschiebungen revolutioniert. 🙏

🚨🇮🇷 Iran hit Gulf oil, gas, nuclear and water sites 135 times with pinpoint precision... and Gulf governments covered it up as “falling debris” The investigation went site by site with satellite imagery, 36 insiders and 14 outside experts, and the pattern is unmistakable. Iran didn't spray missiles at the Gulf. It hit the one manifold that routes oil through Fujairah, twice. It hit the two "cold boxes" at Ras Laffan that take three to five years to replace. It hit the electrical substation at the Barakah nuclear plant 130 meters from a reactor, and the IAEA chief said whoever did it "knew exactly what they were doing." It hit the pumping station that feeds the Saudi East-West pipeline, Kuwait's desalination plants, Amazon's data centers, and the power plant for Abu Dhabi's aluminum smelter, which won't fully restart until 2027. Gulf governments blamed debris in at least 34 statements and made it illegal to photograph the damage. All 14 experts said debris could not have done this. Here's what it adds up to. Saudi output fell from 10 million barrels a day to under 7 million for six months, a $50 billion hole. Kuwait exported zero crude in April, a first since 1991. The UAE's attacks stopped in May, right after $3 billion in frozen Iranian funds were released, which Abu Dhabi denies and a senior Iranian official confirmed. This is how a country with no navy and no air force held off the Pentagon for seven months: it skipped the bases and went for the valves, and every bypass route around Hormuz got closed one small target at a time. Tehran's parliament speaker said it in September, the Gulf's oil chain is "sprawling, accessible, and exposed." Reuters just proved him right. Source: Reuters / Writer: Daniel

Britain truly does have low wages!

Trump: Canada will become the 51st state. Just like Greenland.

OMAAT Is Now Blocked In The UAE, Following My Etihad Coverage onemileatatime.com/news/omaa…

Jaliawalan was a denotified area for protest thus massacre was legit. - General NarenDyer

This is an extremely bad look for Saudi Arabia, and if the Saudi government is indeed involved, this should have significant implications for the US-Saudi AI relationship. Good on OpenAI for reporting this and the DOJ and FBI for acting quickly. Quick reactions: (1) US AI labs host some of the most valuable and sensitive technology in the world, and are now a prime intelligence collection target. They need to dramatically harden their cyber and physical security ASAP and strengthen their insider threat detection efforts. Any infrastructure that hosts frontier model weights needs to take similar steps. This attempt appears fairly ham-handed, but others will be (and likely already are) far more sophisticated. (2) DOJ is treating this as a counterintelligence matter, which usually involves foreign governments. The DOJ press release says the case is being prosecuted with assistance from the DOJ National Security Division's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section. If this were being treated as commercial espionage, it would be supported by DOJ's Criminal Division. (3) Abdulrahman Alfozan has ties to Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government, and the Saudi royal family. In addition to being a Saudi national, he is a Venture Partner at RAED Ventures, a Saudi venture capital firm whose investors include multiple Saudi government-owned funds. One of two other venture partners at RAED is Prince Khalid bin Bader Al Saud, a member of the Saudi royal family. (4) If Alfozan was acting in coordination with the Saudi government, I do not see how any company could possibly host a frontier AI model in Saudi Arabia after this incident. If Saudi intelligence services are spying on US frontier AI companies inside the United States, they surely are closely tracking everything these labs are doing in Saudi Arabia--and would almost certainly have access to any model weights hosted in Saudi Arabia. These weights are not only incredibly valuable IP, but increasingly provide national-asset-level defense and intelligence capabilities. US AI capabilities have to be protected from foreign espionage, which is exactly why DOJ charged Alfozan. (5) As a reminder, Saudi Arabia also maintains extensive and continuing ties to China in the AI space. It was recently reported that Saudi Arabia's AI national champion, Humain, is building its own AI model by using a Chinese open-source model from MiniMax as the base--and using US chips to train it. Huawei also maintains an extensive presence in Saudi Arabia. (6) If the Saudi government is indeed involved with this incident, and particularly given the longstanding concerns about Saudi Arabia's ties to China in the AI space and the rapidly increasing sensitivity of frontier AI technology, we have no choice but to immediately reexamine our AI relationship with Saudi Arabia. Last year Commerce approved licenses for 35,000 Nvidia Blackwell AI chips to Saudi Arabia. But if we can't trust Saudi Arabia not to steal any US models that it hosts, it makes zero sense to sell them any AI chips--especially given right now they're using these chips to fine-tune Chinese models. Stealing US AI models while building its ecosystem on top of Chinese models would be the exact opposite of supporting the US AI stack. If the Saudi government is involved, there must be consequences.

Kimberly Guilfoyle's qualifications to be ambassador to Greece were zero. And her dancing at the January 6 command center was disqualifying. The corruption allegations must be thoroughly investigated. If crimes were committed, indict her. No special treatment, no immunity.

Possible anti-ship ballistic missile launches reported from Iran's Yazd Province toward Sharjah Port anchorage in the UAE, with flight disruptions observed in UAE airspace.

🇸🇦🇾🇪 With Houthi missiles hitting Saudi airports and oil facilities, I've been hearing increasingly dramatic predictions about the future of the kingdom. So I wanted to hear from Ali Shihabi, who knows the Saudi leadership and advises on the NEOM project. He pushed back hard. Shihabi acknowledges that Saudi Arabia is vulnerable. It's a huge country with oil installations, pipelines and airports that are difficult to defend simultaneously. But he argues the kingdom has something the Houthis and Iran don't: the money, engineering expertise and international supply chains to repair damage and sustain a prolonged confrontation. We also disagreed about how this war began. I questioned whether Saudi Arabia's decision to bomb the runway at Sana'a airport had triggered a disastrous escalation. Shihabi insists the strike was intended to prevent Iranian military supplies from reaching the Houthis, and believes the confrontation was coming regardless. What interested me most was his position on the wider war. Despite defending Saudi Arabia's military response in Yemen, he says Riyadh opposed America's war against Iran from the beginning. “It was not a smart decision.” And while he expects a negotiated settlement with Iran, he believes MBS is determined to keep fighting the Houthis rather than accept their ability to threaten the Red Sea. It's a revealing perspective from someone close to the Saudi establishment, particularly when so many others are predicting the kingdom's defeat. @aliShihabi

OpenAI hiring an extra 200 jobs in Dublin, its European HQ. On top of 250 announced just in July. Anthropic (main rival, also HQ'd here), is expanding out to 300 in Dublin. Ireland seems to be catching the big tech wave (and future big taxes?) -- again. independent.ie/business/open…

India’s High Commissioner to Canada wants to bring 10 to 15 million Indians into the country over the next 10 years. Indians would become the largest ethnic group in Canada with cities like Toronto and Vancouver having 65%+ Indian populations.

The Link Between TCS, SIR’s Digital Stack, and the Noel Tata-N. Chandrasekaran Tussle S Raghotham reports thewire.in/business/the-link…

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