nayera Shalaby

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on Monday that it has agreed to a “limited reopening” of the Rafah border crossing for Palestinian travellers, who undergo full Israeli inspection. Netanyahu conditioned the decision on the return of the remains of the last prisoner still inside Gaza — a condition that was met by the end of the day.

Ahmed al-Sharaa, the president of Syria’s interim government, stood before a pool of reporters on Sunday evening. He had just spent several contentious hours in a meeting with Syrian Democratic Forces head Mazloum Abdi and United States Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack in which the parties had hammered out a deal to bring an end to days-long clashes between the government and the SDF and integrate the Kurdish-led coalition into the central government.

Being online, sharing pictures and videos of ourselves with our friends, increasingly comes with the risk that our personal content can easily be stolen and altered in a matter of seconds. Image theft, manipulation and reproduction has become more accessible than it has ever been, all due to AI tools that are evolving far more quickly than regulation mechanisms. The results often affect lives offline just as much as online.