Afghanistan authorities say four civilians have been killed after an exchange of heavy fire with Pakistan’s forces along their shared border, as tensions between the South Asian neighbours escalate after peace talks in Saudi Arabia failed to produce a breakthrough.

The governor of Afghanistan’s Spin Boldak district in the Kandahar province confirmed the deaths on Saturday. Officials from both sides said the clashes broke out late on Friday night, with the two countries accusing one another of opening fire first.

In a post on X, the spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban government, Zabihullah Mujahid, said Pakistani forces had “launched attacks towards” the Spin Boldak district, prompting Afghan forces to respond.

Afghanistan says 4 killed in heavy fire exchanges with Pakistani forces

Relations have soured between former allies Afghanistan and Pakistan since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.

^{Al Jazeera}

Gaza mediators Egypt and Qatar, and six other Muslim-majority countries have raised the alarm over Israel’s stated plan for a one-way opening of the Rafah border crossing, which would allow Palestinians to leave their territory, but not to return, and block the entry of humanitarian aid.

It comes as Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza continues unabated, with some 600 violations of the ceasefire in the last seven weeks.

The announcement, which breaches Israeli obligations under the first phase of a United States-led peace plan, was made on Wednesday by an Israeli military unit called the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), stating that one-way crossing would be allowed with Israeli “security approval” in coordination with Egypt.

Arab, Muslim nations reject Israeli exit-only plan for Gaza Rafah crossing

Ministers slam Israeli breach of truce plan, which ultimately aims to ‘displace Palestinian people from their land’.

^{Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)}

Hello everyone,

Hoping that this is a good place to post a question about Bash scripting. My wife and I have run into a problem in PhotoPrism where it keeps tagging pictures and videos with similar names together and so the thumbnail and the video do not match. I decided that rather than try to get her iPhone to tweak its naming it's easier to just offload to a directory then rename every file to a UUID before sending to photoprism. I'm trying to write a bash script to simplify this but cannot get the internal loop to fire. The issue appears to be with the 'while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do' portion. Is anyone able to spot what the issue may be?

\#! /bin/bash
echo "This script will rename all files in this directory with unique names. Continue? (Y/N)"
read proceed
if [[ "$proceed" == "Y" ]]; then
    echo "Proceed"
    #use uuidgen -r to generate a random UUID.
    #Currently appears to be skipping the loop entirely. the find command works so issue should be after the pipe.

# Troubleshooting
\#Seems like changing IFS to $IFS helped. Now however it's also pulling others., don't think this is correct.
\#verified that the find statement is correct, its the parsing afterwards that's wrong.
\#tried removing the $'\0' after -d as that is string null in c. went to bash friendly '' based on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57497365/what-does-the-bash-read-d-do
\#issue definitely appears to be with the while statement
    find ./ -type f \( -iname \*.jpg -o -iname \*.png \) | while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
       echo "in loop"
       echo "$file"
       #useful post https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/how-to-find-and-rename-files-in-linux/
       #extract the directory and filename
       dir=$(dirname "$file")
       base=$(basename "$file")
       echo "'$dir'/'$base'"
       #use UUID's to get around photoprism poor handling of matching file names and apples high collision rate
       new_name="$dir/$(uuidgen -r)"
       echo "Renaming ${file} to ${new_name}"
       #mv "$file" "$new_name" #uncomment to actually perform the rename.
    done
    echo "After loop"
else
    echo "Cancelling"
fi

Update: On November 26, 2025 the EU Council, after three years, agreed on a common position on Chat Control.

Chat Control is once again back on the menu. In the Council of the EU (the member states), several countries continue to work on new versions of the bill. The latest draft in November 2025 was presented with different branding and different semantics, but it would result in mass surveillance, AI-scanning of private data, ID requirement to use messaging services and – with vague legislative text – risk of mandatory scanning (even for end-to-end-encrypted services) in the future.

As long as the Council refuses to reject the bill (the way the European Parliament did), the Chat Control proposal could still become law – despite violating EU law and fundamental human rights.

To highlight the effects of mass surveillance and remind people of the corrupt history (full story below) behind the Chat Control proposal, we now present the film "And Then?"

I recently wanted to watch something a film and went to one of the first two sites listed on the Reddit's r/Piracy mega thread under it's online streaming section. I normally use an older laptop that I don't care about and have no sensitive info on but wanted to stream to a projector and only my personal laptop had an hdmi port.

I downloaded firefox exclusively to use for piracy streaming but initially forgot to add ublock origin or another AV extension to the browser. When clicking anywhere on the site, a new tab would open that I'd need to close before I could actually engage with the website content (search, play, etc), which had been my experience in the past using online streaming sites. Once, one of the popup tabs opened and immediately started a file download without my permission. I didn't open it and deleted it immediately but have recently been noticing some performance issues on my device Mostly that web pages and their content are slower to load than before and my computer has gotten overwhelmed and frozen a few times - not extremely substantially but enough that I've noticed a difference.

For context: I have a ThinkPad with windows 10 installed and an Intel i5 CPU. My default browser has been Opera for a few months now.

I just checked and the compressed zip file is in my recycling bin (not fully off my computer) and I'm not sure if/how it can affect my device without me ever opening or running its contents. I don't have an antivirus background process on my device aside from the default Microsoft Defender Antivirus that comes with Windows 10.

Is there possibly somewhere I could upload the file to check for malware/scan the file to know what it does (titled "XVlDEOSs_Elena_Frost_IMG_223606" - searching for that title didn't match anything on google)? Is there any chance the file is benign and the performance issues I'm noticing are unrelated to this situation?

TLDR: How concerned should I be about the possibility of a virus on my device from a popup window automatically downloading a zip file I never opened?

Would reinstalling my OS be the main/only possible resolution to a potential virus/worm/malware? I'd really like to avoid that if possible but many of the articles/info I can find about it have inconsistent info about risk and steps to take for resolution.
I don't know much about what kinds of risks I might've exposed my computer to. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!