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The article discusses the transformation of Ireland's approach to combating organized crime, particularly in the wake of the Veronica Guerin murder and the significant seizure of €200 million from gangsters, attributed to the efforts of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB). #SeguridadEnLínea #ProtecciónDeDatos #AccesoWeb

As You Wake, Break the Shell - As You Wake, Break the Shell #1 by Becky Chambers Life on the resource-poor planet of Fortune is challenging, but for its inhabitants, it’s home. For two of them, Signy and Cora, this home might no longer be enough. Signy is a brilliant but reclusive botanist who bio-prints medicine from her small plant shop, often bending the rules to help those the system leaves behind. Her life is filled with the green of her store, the warmth of her one elderly friend, and the quiet determination to help others without putting herself in danger. Cora is a rorqual pilot, one of the few with the unique ability to navigate the massive, living ships that connect the scattered settlements of their solar system. Her bond with her rorqual, Colibri, is profound—a connection that is both her greatest gift and a threat to her career. It is that threat—the “mindbleed,” a dangerous side effect of her piloting—that brings her to Signy’s shop, and her appearance puts Signy in the danger she so fears. But it’s soon apparent it’s not just about losing her license—this delicate balance between risk and trust has the potential to change everything for them. Told in an alternating timeline of their initial coming together and a not-so-distant future where they have found domestic bliss, this is a story harrowing and haunting, heartfelt and hopeful. Through a love story centered around survival, we are given a glimpse into the very best of what Becky Chambers does in her writing: explore what it means to be human, and what it means to come together.

Monique X- Fluencer wrote that Yesim Candan had not consulted with Hajar's family in advance about whether they needed a wake. She accused Candan of using the murder of Hajar in Renze for a racist agenda. After the family had rightfully put her in her place, according to Monique, Candan shifted the attention to herself with an AI text. Monique stated that Candan should be deeply ashamed, but according to her, as a narcissist, she would never do that. #racisme #morbiditeit #respect (translated)

FOGGIA REPORTER: “THE NEWSSTAND IS NOT DEAD, IT HAS ONLY CHANGED ITS FACE: FROM SAN SEVERO, THE SPOTLIGHT IS TURNED ON AN ENTIRE SECTOR IN CRISIS” by CRISTIANA LENOCI SOURCE: https://www.foggiareporter.it/ledicola-non-e-morta-ha-solo-cambiato-volto-da-san-severo-si-accendono-i-riflettori-su-un-intero-settore-in-crisi.html SAN SEVERO (FG) — From 35,000 to 20,000 in twenty years, 5,000 Italian municipalities are without a kiosk. In San Severo an old newsstand in Via Matteo Tondi is becoming the smallest theatre in the world: 4 square metres, 6 chairs and a revolution. For sixty years it was the place where you went to collect the newspaper, to ask for the football score, to leave your keys with a neighbour. Then the shutter down, the opaque glass, the faded sign. That is how newsstands in Italy end today. But that, sometimes, is how they are reborn. In San Severo, in Via Matteo Tondi, a newsstand abandoned for six years became, on 27 March 2026, World Theatre Day, the Teatro Edicola Foyer ’97. Four square metres, six chairs, fifteen-minute performances. An idea by director and artistic director Francesco Gravino and his company Foyer ‘97. They have called it “the smallest theatre in the world” and the news has gone round the international agencies, until it became a case study for the Stanford Social Innovation Review with the report “The Six-Seat Revolution”. An old newsstand that is returning to being what it has always been: a place of knowledge, culture and work. Only instead of newspapers, it distributes stories. A sector at risk of disappearing The story of San Severo sheds light on a silent haemorrhage. There were 35,000 newsstands in 2005, there are about 20,000 in 2024: -43%. According to FENAGI data released in 2026, there were about 19,500 sales points in 2025, but only 6,000 were exclusive traditional newsstands. The most painful figure is geographical: almost 5,000 Italian municipalities no longer have a newsstand. In two out of three municipalities there is no longer a sales point for newspapers and magazines. Other counts, those of Sinagi, speak of a collapse from 38,000 exclusive newsstands to about 11,000 still active. In the last four years, from 2019 to 2023, almost 2,700 newsstands have disappeared, of which 2,327 were sole traders. Rome has lost 303, Turin 138, Milan 129. Isernia has lost over a third of its newsstands in four years. Why? Falling paper sales, digital subscriptions, rising operating costs, reduced margins. In economics it is called a “sector in demand decline”. On the street it is simply called the end of a habit. Not just newspapers And yet the newsstand has never been just newspapers. In the past it was an information outpost, a point of reference, the guardian of a neighbourhood. It was self-employment, often family-run, made of early starts at 4 a.m. to be ready when the city wakes up. Today those who hold out reinvent themselves: neighbourhood bookshop, service point, parcel collection, ticket office, coffee corner. Those who cannot manage it, close. The example of Foyer 97 in San Severo tells us a simple and uncomfortable truth: we cannot save all newsstands as newsstands. But we can save their purpose. A 4-square-metre kiosk in Puglia that becomes a theatre reminds us that those few square metres are worth more than the rent they no longer pay. They matter because they are already where people pass. They are already recognized as a public place. They are already culture, even when they no longer sell culture on paper. If newsstands stop selling newspapers, they do not necessarily have to stop selling knowledge.

Trump and Putin planning the new US-Russia Grand Alliance, Even Before Ukraine Is Conquered and Subjugated. Russia and the US are discussing a range of new joint projects including nuclear-powered data centres in the wake of last week's agreement on ‌diesel, President Vladimir Putin's investment

The post’s author claimed that Zelenskyy had spent the day outlining the hundreds of billions of euros he would need from European workers and when he would need the money. The author contrasted this with the situation at home and asked when people would become aware. #Zelenskyy #UkrainianCrisis #EuropeanPolitics #EU #UA

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle – and her followers are sick with envy. Her charming farmhouse on her working ranch is artfully cluttered, her husband is a handsome cowboy, her homemade sourdough boules are each more beautiful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers and industrial-grade ovens behind the scenes? What her followers don’t know won’t hurt them. Then, one morning, Natalie wakes up in a strange, horrible version of reality. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Is this a hoax? A reality show? A test from God? Natalie knows just two things for sure: this isn't her perfect life, and she must escape, by any means possible. As darkly funny as it is shocking and gripping, Yesteryear is an electrifying examination of tradition, fame, faith and the grand performance of womanhood, from a thrilling new talent in fiction.