• Iran, however, has shown no sign of ceasing its attacks. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is steadily launching missiles at cities across Israel and continues to strike U.S. military assets and outposts in the Persian Gulf. “The Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran are capable of continuing at least a six-month intense war at the current pace of operations,” IRGC spokesperson Ali Mohammad Naini said Sunday in video remarks broadcast on state media. “Iran will determine when the war ends.”

• “Iran’s goal is to impose such a great cost that the war ends and their ‘win condition’ is the war has ended and they are still the guys you have to talk to,” said Amir Husain, author of “Hyperwar: Conflict and Competition in the AI Century,” in an interview with Drop Site. Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks in the region are not aimed at causing random widespread damage or defeating the U.S. and Israel militarily, he said, but rather at inflicting economic damage that forces Trump to cease the war and deters future attacks. “The U.S. is the biggest military machine in the world. Nothing that the U.S. has lost is irreplaceable in time. The question is economic costs and that is really the big driver.”

• On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that the U.S. had begun relocating components from its THAAD missile defense system in South Korea to the Middle East, as well as more Patriot interceptors that had been deployed to East Asia. South Korean President Lee Jae-myung said that Seoul had “expressed opposition,” to the decision, which would increase its own exposure to the threat of war. “The reality is that we cannot fully push through our position” and block the transfers, he added.

• “There is a specific strategic problem that must be solved: unless the Strait of Hormuz can be reopened, the war cannot be brought to an end. If Hormuz remains closed, the vectors through which Iran can deliver economic pain are effectively unlimited,” Farooqi said. “The economic consequences of a three-month closure of the Strait of Hormuz have been modeled many times, and the results are catastrophic. Unless flows can be restored—even at reduced levels—the situation becomes extremely severe.”

• “The big shock of this war is that Iran has adopted a highly effective defense strategy mixing both counterforce and countervalue targeting,” Farooqi said, referencing attacks that strike both military and infrastructure targets. “The original U.S. strategy for defending the region was based on the assumption that it could deny Iran the option of closing the strait. But the economics of modern warfare—cheap drones, missile proliferation, and technological diffusion—have changed that equation. The old strategy was not simply responsive enough to the spread of precision-strike capabilities to countries like Iran.”

• If Trump decides he wants to end the war, which he has begun referring to as a “short term excursion,” there is no indication Iran would accept a temporary ceasefire similar to the “12-Day War” in June 2025. Iran’s senior leaders have said they do not trust the U.S. and point out that Trump has twice claimed to be negotiating with Tehran only to launch massive attacks. Iran’s strategic position, as articulated by its leadership, is that the war must end on terms that make clear the costs of future attacks on their country. “We are absolutely not seeking a ceasefire,” said Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of Iran’s Parliament, on Monday. “We believe the aggressor must be struck in the mouth so it learns a lesson and never again thinks of attacking our beloved Iran.”

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• A new “Help me create” tool in Docs lets users describe what they want to create, and Gemini will follow their instructions and gather information from Drive, Gmail, and Chat to generate a first draft. For example, you can ask Gemini to “draft a newsletter for our neighborhood association using the meeting minutes from my January HOA meeting and the list of upcoming events.”

    

• Docs is also getting a new “Match the format” tool that lets you mirror the structure and style of another document. For example, if you find a travel itinerary template you like, Gemini can fill it in with your own trip details by pulling information from your emails, such as flight confirmations, hotel bookings, and rental car reservations.

    

• As for Sheets, Gemini is evolving from a tool you work in to a collaborative partner, Google says. With a single prompt, it will pull relevant data from across your Gmail, Chat, and Drive to quickly create a fully formatted spreadsheet.

   

   

   

   

   

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• For example, you could ask it to “organize my upcoming move to Chicago. Create a checklist for packing by room, a contact list for utilities, and a spreadsheet to track moving company quotes from my inbox.”

    

• A new “Ask Gemini in Drive” feature lets you ask complex questions across your documents, emails, calendar, and the web. For example, you could select all of your tax-related files and ask, “What should I ask my tax advisor before filing this year’s taxes?” and get a detailed answer based on your actual data.

    

  All the new features are rolling out today in beta and will first be available to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers. They’re available in English worldwide for Docs, Sheets, and Slides, and in the U.S. for Drive.

   

       

   

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• Among more recent waves of immigrants there are tens of thousands who came for economic, not political, reasons. They did not necessarily bring with them the same hostility to the Cuban revolution.

      

• Tamara Bunke was born to Argentinian communist parents
• Due to her multilingual background, she was part of Che’s Bolivian revolution, which inspired socialist struggle against imperialism around Latin America.
• On 31st August 1967, the Bolivian army, backed by the CIA, captured her for infiltration in the country and planning revolution for working-class interests and shot her through her lung.

• and her remains were later buried in Santa Clara in the Che Guevara Mausoleum, Cuba.

      

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• and that documenting their erasure is an act of historical justice.
• In 1956, he resigned from his post at Oxford in protest of the Suez Crisis—the British‑French‑Israeli invasion of Egypt. This act of conscience revealed a defining principle of his life: scholarship must remain anchored in ethical responsibility, even when it carries personal and professional cost.

• In 1963, Khalidi co‑founded the Institute for Palestine Studies, establishing what would become the leading independent research center dedicated to the study of Palestinian history and society. For decades, the institute served as a global intellectual hub where rigorous documentation, critical inquiry, and institutional independence shaped a new generation of scholarship. Through its publications and archives, it provided scholars worldwide with credible, carefully researched materials on Palestine.

      
• In doing so, he transformed Palestinian memory from a contested narrative into a documented historical record—one that asserts the right of a people to be remembered

• His analysis of Plan Dalet, published in the peer‑reviewed Journal of Palestine Studies, stands as one of the most influential historiographical interventions in the study of the events of 1948. Drawing on Israeli archival sources as well as contemporary documentation, Khalidi argued that the depopulation of many Palestinian towns and villages was not merely incidental to war but reflected elements of a coordinated military strategy. His research reshaped international scholarly debates on the origins of the Palestinian refugee crisis and provided essential documentation for later discussions of historical accountability and transitional justice.

      

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• President Sharaa claimed that Syria now enjoyed greater levels of freedom of expression that many regional countries
• He also said a new law to allow for political parties would be introduced following the opening of the parliament and that the reconstruction challenge required patience. For areas in which “destruction reached 90% of 100%,” the state lacked the capacity to meet reconstruction needs and in these cases, “an investment model” would be required.