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Thousands of Israelis protest in Jerusalem against Netanyahu and demand an agreement in Gaza

Thousands of people demonstrated in Jerusalem and other cities in Israel this Thursday against the Government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is accused of “sabotaging the hostage agreement, leaving the north and making Israel fall into the abyss,” according to the call released this afternoon by the anti-government movement Banderas Negras.
After a black, red and white banner that reads “Netanyahu endangers Israel’s security,” thousands of people crossed the streets of the city on the way to Netanyahu’s residence on Azza Street, where the protest will conclude.
“We are running out of time: there is an agreement on the table!”, says one of the slogans disseminated by the Black Flags on their digital channels during the march, which demands that Netanyahu reach a pact with Hamas that guarantees the safe return of the 120 hostages that remain in Gaza (116 of them, kidnapped in the Islamist attacks of October 7, in which about 1,200 people died).
Also in Tel Aviv, the Israeli pro-democracy movement called a demonstration in which hundreds of people went to the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense.
Tonight, the Prime Minister will meet with his Cabinet to evaluate the proposal launched last night by Hamas in view of the ceasefire and exchange of hostages agreement, in which the organization claims to have taken a more “flexible” position in order to talk with Israel about the points of the agreement in which both parties clash.
“Today, and I say it cautiously, we are closer than ever” to the agreement, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told the families of the hostages, according to information from Channel 12, the most popular Israeli television network.
Along with the protests in Jerusalem, the Black Flags called for another march in the coastal town of Caesarea (north), where the other private residence of the Likud leader is located.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz also picked up a protest against the war in Haifa, also on the northern coast, where four people were arrested after the police declared the meeting illegal.
The protesters also called for the call of early elections in the country, an option increasingly demanded among Israelis, as revealed in mid-June by a survey by the newspaper Maariv, which placed 57% of the population who want to go to the polls.
Along with the call for elections, the protesters call for the return of the thousands of Israeli evacuees to their homes, both in the south (near the border with Gaza) and in the north (next to the divide with Lebanon), where more than 60,000 people continue to live in hotels and other state-funded accommodation following the peak of hostilities with the Shiite militia Hizbulah.
The center of the protests today is the demand for a ceasefire agreement in Gaza that allows the return of the hostages who remain in the enclave. Of the 251 kidnapped on October 7, 116 captives remain there, at least 40 of them dead according to Israel – more than 70 according to Hamas – while there have been four other hostages for years, of them two dead.
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Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links

A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.
Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.
Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.
However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.
International
Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.
“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.
The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.
His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”
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Miyazaki’s style goes viral with AI but at what cost?

This week, you may have noticed that everything—from historical photos and classic movie scenes to internet memes and recent political moments—has been reimagined on social media as Studio Ghibli-style portraits. The trend quickly went viral thanks to ChatGPT and the latest update of OpenAI’s chatbot, released on Tuesday, March 25.
The newest addition to GPT-4o has allowed users to replicate the distinctive artistic style of the legendary Japanese filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away). “Today is a great day on the internet,” one user declared while sharing popular memes in Ghibli format.
While the trend has captivated users worldwide, it has also highlighted ethical concerns about AI tools trained on copyrighted creative works—and what this means for the livelihoods of human artists.
Not that this concerns OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which has actively encouraged the “Ghiblification”experiments. Its CEO, Sam Altman, even changed his profile picture on the social media platform X to a Ghibli-style portrait.
Miyazaki, now 84 years old, is known for his hand-drawn animation approach and whimsical storytelling. He has long expressed skepticism about AI’s role in animation. His past remarks on AI-generated animation have resurfaced and gone viral again, particularly when he once said he was “utterly disgusted” by an AI demonstration.
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