Diplomacy in crisis, digital chaos and the robbery of the century in Paris

A Palestinian delegation is in Cairo discussing Phase 2 of the peace plan, which envisages a technocratic government in Gaza and the disarmament of Hamas.

Technology: AWS failure exposes fragility of global internet

A major outage in Amazon Web Services (AWS) took hundreds of websites and applications offline. The collapse of the company’s main data center in Virginia affected banks (Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland), payment platforms (Venmo, Coinbase), social networks (Snapchat) and even games like Roblox and Fortnite.

AWS attributed the failure to an internal DNS error, a mechanism that directs online traffic. The incident reignited the debate about excessive dependence on a few global providers — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — and the systemic risk of a concentrated infrastructure. Small technical errors can now paralyze entire economies.

Cinema robbery at the Louvre

The Louvre Museum is closed after a lightning theft of eight historic jewels from the Apollo Gallery, which houses the French crown jewels. In less than ten minutescriminals used a ladder mounted on a truck to reach the second floor, broke reinforced windows and broke into security windows, injuring a guard.