Netanyahu says pilot of Israel-bound flight tried to crash the plane: the hour's strongest signal
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Business & Finance/Europe/Signal 50
Netanyahu says pilot of Israel-bound flight tried to crash the plane
Plane carrying more than 150 passengers en route to Tel Aviv was diverted to Saudi Arabia after issuing ‘unlawful interference’ code
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 45
Norwegian ministers grilled in parliament over Epstein ties
The Epstein files have shed light on ties between the US financier and Rod-Larsen and his diplomat wife Mona Juul, the architects of the 1993 Oslo Accords.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
‘We’re in charge of the flight now’: Passenger describes fight for flydubai cabin
The attacker was trying to push the other pilot out, apparently to take control alone. Israeli passengers sitting near the front rushed toward the struggle.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Netanyahu confirms that flydubai pilot conducted stabbing, commends passengers' heroicism
"The pilot has been arrested and is currently being questioned by the Saudi authorities," Netanyahu said.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Arab media reactions to flydubai hijacking attempt mixed between cautious, sensational
In the first hours of Arab media coverage, a clear divide emerged. As reports spread beyond Dubai, additional and increasingly serious claims emerged.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Female Gazan PLC candidate to 'Post': I want a say in the decisions shaping my life
In an interview with the Post, Hiyam Taha explained why she is seeking to enter politics and how she hopes to improve the future of the Palestinian people.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
After Flydubai incident: Should Israelis prefer flying blue-and-white?
Flydubai flight reignites debate on foreign airlines. Pilots chairman explains Israeli security differences: Foreign flights aren't all unsafe.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Reporter's Notebook: Tourists visit northern Israel as sense of normalcy returns to kibbutzim
In 2024 this area was a warzone. Most of the residents had been evacuated, including the entire city of Kiryat Shmona. Today, it’s hard to remember now how forsaken this place was during the war.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Cost-Cutting Disguised as Minimalism: Volvo's EX30 Dashboard Goes Too Far
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
The Easy Roller: An Alternative Take on the Pizza Cutter
While the traditional form of a pizza cutter is this… …Japanese manufacturer Fireside has a different take, offering a much more compact form factor: It's no surprise this Easy Roller came from Japan, where storage space is limited.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Raak Design Casts Light on a Medical Tool
ENT doctors use nasal speculums to look inside a patient's nose. Typically the tool is held in one hand and a flashlight in the other. Belgian industrial design firm Raak Design streamlined this approach with their new speculum design for client VisionTech.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
An Architectural-Scale Kintsugi Project
In the 1960s, college students stumbled across an abandoned ruin in the wilds of Warsaw, Virginia, outside of Richmond. The crumbling stone structure had been abandoned following a hurricane in the 1930s, and weather had taken its toll.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
How Navy SEAL Design Input Accidentally Created a New Knife-Drawing Mechanism
A. Emerson was also an accomplished martial artist, having trained since childhood; the reason he moved from his native Wisconsin to California was not to work at Hughes, but to train at the Filipino Kali Academy run by the legendary Dan Inosanto.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Mafell's Beefy Portable Drilling Station for Timber Framers
Traditional timber framing is still very much a thing in Europe. Timber framers often need to drill accurate holes for the pegs that will fasten two timbers, and these holes occasionally need to be drilled at angles.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
London Design Fair 2026: The Victoria & Albert Museum
The best place to start at LDF , and arguably the heart of the festival, is the Victoria Albert Museum in South Kensington.
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 40
Research shows how AI is getting better at exams: How universities can respond
When ChatGPT arrived at the end of 2022, universities scrambled to determine whether generative AI was good enough to pass assessments and make it easy for students to cheat.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 40
'Super intelligence is a national security issue,' Jay Clayton says; dodges AI 'czar' question
A media report this week said President Donald Trump stated that Clayton, the director of national intelligence, would make a good AI czar.
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Business & Finance/Global/Signal 40
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