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23.07.26 - 13:36
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Dubai offers tourists benefits worth £610 as numbers plummet amid Iran war (The Guardian)
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Family and friends of residents eligible for dining and hotel packages as city spurned by visitorsMiddle East crisis – live updatesDubai is offering to pay family and friends of residents to visit in an effort to revive tourist numbers that have plummeted since the city was drawn into the US-Israel war on Iran.The Dubai Invite scheme, an initiative of the department of economy and tourism, allows residents of the United Arab Emirates to nominate friends and relatives to receive benefits worth more than 3,000 UAE dirham (about £610) for their visit. Continue reading......
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22.07.26 - 15:36
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Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement (The Guardian)
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Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed within settlement between AI startup and authors over use of protected workThe publisher of Harry Potter has received a multimillion-pound payout as a beneficiary of a $1.5bn copyright settlement between AI startup Anthropic and thousands of authors over the use of their protected work to power chatbots.Bloomsbury, which is home to bestselling novelists Sarah J Maas and Susanna Clarke as well as JK Rowling, said it had 14,087 titles listed within the settlement, with a proposed compensation of about $3,000 each. Continue reading......
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22.07.26 - 04:42
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CIA Distances Itself From Trump′s Iran War With Media Leak (ZeroHedge)
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CIA Distances Itself From Trump's Iran War With Media Leak
It seems that CIA and other US intelligence officials hope to distance themselves from Trump's Iran war, now with the US-initiated conflict having dragged on for nearly five months (with no end in sight), after White House officials had in the opening days touted a swift, limited military excursion.
They are leaking intelligence to the press which shows they have assessed that current American strikes on Iran are unlikely to change Iran's negotiating position. With tankers in Hormuz on fire and others too afraid to move, Iran is vowing that it will keep its leverage over the strait at all costs.
The Washington Post report says that "Iran's government is unlikely to feel significant impact or soften its negotiating position as a result of new rounds of U.S. military strikes like those now underway, according to a new intelligence assessment described by current and former U.S. officials."
To a large degree this intel a...
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21.07.26 - 16:31
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ProSiebenSat.1 und ZDF starten Streaming-Kooperation (DPA-AFX)
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MÜNCHEN/MAINZ (dpa-AFX) - Das ZDF und die Sendergruppe ProSiebenSat.1 bauen ihre Zusammenarbeit im Streaminggeschäft aus. Die Unternehmen haben eine Vereinbarung geschlossen, wonach ausgewählte Inhalte aus dem Streaming-Angebot des ZDF künftig auch auf ......
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