• Reuters

    France pushes efforts in Lebanon to prevent war between Hezbollah and Israel

    France's foreign minister said that he would discuss proposals with Lebanese officials on Sunday aimed at easing tensions between Hezbollah and Israel and preventing a war breaking out. France has historical ties with Lebanon and earlier this year Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne proposed Hezbollah pulls back 10 km (6 miles) from the Israeli border while Israel would halt strikes in southern Lebanon.

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    Bitcoin Could Hit $100,000 if Past Halving Trends Play Out

    With another halving passed, a six-figure price tag looms for the world's original cryptocurrency.

  • The Telegraph

    Jurowski’s beautiful, blood-curdling Götterdämmerung, plus the best of April’s classical concerts

    Wagner is of course renowned for taking his time, but even so the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Ring cycle has taken longer than most. Its concert staging of Siegfried (third of the Ring’s four instalments) in February 2020 had been scheduled to be followed by full cycles in 2021, representing Vladimir Jurowski’s swansong as the LPO’s principal conductor before he left to become music director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. But the pandemic intervened, and four years on the cycle has f