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The longer the war lasts, the more the desire to return diminishes as Ukrainians become accustomed to their new lives elsewhere. As the years go by, "Ukrainians abroad are increasingly determined to stay in their host country because their children are now enrolled in those countries' national schools, they are completing their adaptation and it is about their future," said Dukhnich. "If you are a Ukrainian mother, you do not think about your own fulfillment, but about the future of your children. And many people see more opportunities in these countries than in Ukraine."

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French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has promised to act swiftly to protect crypto players and their families after a series of violent attacks and kidnappings that have shocked France, prompting calls for deregulation of the sector.

The new measures include better partnering between law enforcement and crypto firms, giving top executives priority access to emergency services and offering them home security assessments by police experts.

Crypto professionals will be eligible for special security briefings provided by elite police units.

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If registration mode is set to "Open" (no approval needed) then the site admin(s) receive a notification instead.

A throwaway email address isn't always a bad thing but it's one factor that admins might want to take into account.

Baghdad (AFP) – The Arab League is meeting in Baghdad on Saturday to discuss Gaza and other regional crises, but some key leaders are expected to miss the talks that come straight after US President Donald Trump's Gulf tour.

Trump sparked uproar earlier this year by declaring that America would take over Gaza and turn it into a "Riviera of the Middle East", prompting Arab leaders to come up with a plan to rebuild the territory at a March summit in Cairo.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was the first Arab leader to arrive in Baghdad Friday.

But a diplomatic source said that most Gulf countries will attend at a ministerial level.

The war in Gaza is expected to dominate the agenda, especially after Israel approved plans to expand its offensive and spoke of the "conquest" of the territory.

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres will attend the summit, and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez -- who has sharply criticised Israel's devastating offensive in Gaza -- is expected to address it as a guest.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said the Baghdad summit will endorse decisions that were made in Cairo's meeting in March to support Gaza's reconstruction as an alternative to Trump's widely condemned proposal.

Trump on Thursday reiterated from Qatar that he wanted the US to "take" Gaza and turn it into a "freedom zone".

Iraq has only recently regained a semblance of normalcy after decades of devastating conflict and turmoil, and its leaders view the summit as an opportunity to project an image of stability.

In an op-ed about the summit earlier this month, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani wrote: "Today, we are not just rebuilding Iraq, we are also reshaping the Middle East through a balanced foreign policy, a wise leadership, development initiatives, and strategic partnerships."

Baghdad last hosted an Arab League summit in 2012, amid domestic tensions and at the start of the war in neighbouring Syria, which only six months ago entered a new chapter after the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.

In Riyadh, Trump met Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a onetime jihadist whose Islamist group spearheaded the offensive that toppled Assad.

Sharaa, who was imprisoned for years in Iraq on charges of belonging to Al-Qaeda following the 2003 US-led invasion, will miss Baghdad's summit after several powerful Iraqi politicians voiced opposition to his visit.

Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani will represent Damascus instead.

The summit also comes amid Iran's ongoing nuclear talks with the United States.

Trump has pursued diplomacy with Iran as he seeks to stave off a threatened military strike by Israel on Iran -- a desire shared by many of the region's leaders.

On Thursday, Trump said a deal was "getting close", but by Friday, he was warning that "something bad is going to happen" if the Iranians do not move fast.

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Hadera (Israel) (AFP) – With its golden sand and blue waters, the beach front in central Israel looks much like any other stretch of Mediterranean coast, but a closer look reveals something unusual peeking through the rippling surf: black shark fins.

The sharks are attracted to this patch of water in Hadera during the cold season because of the warmth generated by the turbines of a nearby power station.

This has provoked an adrenaline-filled coexistence between the increasingly bold ocean predators and the curious, sometimes even careless, humans who come to swim.

Last month, a man who got a little too close was mauled to death as spectators on the beach screamed in terror.

All that was left were his bones, rescuers told AFP.

Now, bathers, authorities, and environmental and shark experts are asking how such an event, never seen before in Israeli waters, happened and what can be done to prevent it in the future.

"Sharks do not harm and never normally attack unless they feel either threatened or if somebody's getting into their territory," Irene Nurit Cohn, a member of rescue agency Zaka's scuba unit and a seasoned diver, told AFP.

"I've been diving since 1982. I've seen many sharks in my life, it has been thrilling and beautiful to watch sharks... but they're not, and I repeat, they're not dangerous," she said.

Cohn, who was part of the team that searched for the remains of Barak Tzach, a 45-year-old father of four, added that it was the people visiting the unique site who were "not behaving as they should."

"People were touching them and disturbing them," she said, adding that recent media coverage had drawn even more people to the beach.

Immediately after the deadly attack, the local authority erected metal fences with "danger" signs and blocked an access road into the adjacent nature reserve with a cement barrier.

Two weeks later, those had been removed, and life at the beach was back to normal.

Friends Einav and Carmel, teenagers from a nearby town, appeared largely undeterred by the recent death. They had come specifically to see the sharks.

"Sharks are my favourite animals and so I really wanted to see them, but we said that we will not go inside (the water) because it's dangerous," said Carmel.

Matan Ben David, a spear-fishing and diving instructor who said he has continued to enter the water, said swimmers should keep a distance and adhere to the rules of the sea.

"Sharks are part of nature, something we have to respect, we have to respect the ocean, we're just visitors here," he said, describing how he had witnessed people crowding the sharks and taking photographs.

"Sharks are an incredible animal, very majestic but they're an alpha predator and, at the end of the day, a lot of people do not always follow best practices," Ben David noted.

Like all unsupervised beaches in Israel, the one where the fatal attack took place was off-limits to swimming -- a ban that is widely flouted.

Leigh Livine, a shark researcher who has been monitoring this area for the past four years, said that initially, research showed "the sharks were staying away from direct conflict with the humans entering the water."

But "you have a very, very small space that you see this human-wildlife conflict really coming out at certain times of the year."

Livine said the sharks were a combination of Dusky and Sandbar sharks and that they were present in the area between November and May.

But with temperatures rising each year due to climate change, "you have a lot more bodies in the water coming into conflict with the sharks."

Livine said she was shocked by last month's attack but, with interaction between the sharks and humans increasing, was surprised "that something hasn't happened sooner."

"It usually comes down to a conflict of space, either food resources, space resources, and we've been seeing humans harass the sharks, really provoking them," she said.

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Four former soldiers from the elite 8th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment in southern France have filed formal complaints accusing their superiors of physical violence, moral harassment and degrading treatment.

They also described “entrenched” racism, saying words like “bonobo” and “negro” were used freely.

Tritto said two-thirds of those who joined the regiment in the same year as him have since left the army, and one in four are dealing with depression.