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Football's Pep Guardiola calls on fans to attend Palestine charity match

Al Jazeera

How many times has Israel violated the ceasefire? How Israel is using'no war, no peace' model in Gaza How is Israel using PR firms to frame its war? Football's Pep Guardiola calls on fans to attend Palestine charity match NewsFeed Football's Pep Guardiola calls on fans to attend Palestine charity match Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola urged football fans to support an upcoming charity match featuring Palestine's national team at Barcelona's stadium, with the proceeds set to be donated to aid projects in Palestine. Ukraine's Kyiv pounded by hundreds of Russian drones Italian prosecutors investigate Bosnian war'sniper safaris' How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire?


Shelters for displaced Palestinians in Gaza flooded by heavy rain

Al Jazeera

How many times has Israel violated the ceasefire? How Israel is using'no war, no peace' model in Gaza How is Israel using PR firms to frame its war? The makeshift homes of displaced Palestinians in Gaza have been flooded by heavy rainfall, as millions prepare for winter in the enclave without adequate shelter or relief. Football's Pep Guardiola calls on fans to attend Palestine charity match Ukraine's Kyiv pounded by hundreds of Russian drones Italian prosecutors investigate Bosnian war'sniper safaris' How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire?


Ukraine's Kyiv pounded by hundreds of Russian drones

Al Jazeera

Is the fall of Pokrovsk inevitable? Is Trump losing patience with Putin? Will sanctions against Russian oil giants hurt Putin? Ukraine's Kyiv pounded by hundreds of Russian drones Italian prosecutors investigate Bosnian war'sniper safaris' How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire?


'Astonishingly lethal': BBC reports from site of Russian strike in Kyiv

BBC News

At least six people have been killed in a wave of Russia strikes on Kyiv, which the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned as a heinous attack. The BBC's James Landale visited the scene of one attack in eastern Kyiv where a drone rammed through a block of flats and left six people dead. Several other regions were also targeted. A drone attack on a market at Chornomorsk in the south of the country killed two people. Catherine Connolly has'never believed more' in the spirit of Ireland New Irish President Catherine Connolly says she has been given a powerful mandate to articulate a vision for a new republic.


Ukraine faces 'exhausting battles' against Russia in Zaporizhia, Donetsk

Al Jazeera

Is the fall of Pokrovsk inevitable? Is Trump losing patience with Putin? Will sanctions against Russian oil giants hurt Putin? Ukraine faces'exhausting battles' against Russia in Zaporizhia, Donetsk Russian forces pressed into Ukraine's eastern towns of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad during the past week as Kyiv's military mounted a stout defence. On Tuesday, Ukraine's commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskii said almost half of the battles on a 1,200km (745-mile) front were happening in the two towns, claiming Russia has committed 150,000 troops - almost a quarter of its strength in Ukraine - to capturing them.


Three killed in wave of Russian strikes across Kyiv, officials say

BBC News

Three people have died and at least 26 others injured in a wave of Russian drone and missile strikes on Kyiv, Ukrainian officials say. Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko described strikes, which caused explosions and fires in residential buildings across the city, as massive. Kyiv's energy infrastructure was also damaged, leaving some buildings in the north-east without heat, he said. Ukraine's air force reported several other regions across the country were also being targeted. Russia's defence ministry said it had downed or intercepted 216 Ukrainian drones that had targeted its industrial facilities and disrupted air travel, according to Reuters news agency.


Ksurf-Drone: Attention Kalman Filter for Contextual Bandit Optimization in Cloud Resource Allocation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Resource orchestration and configuration parameter search are key concerns for container-based infrastructure in cloud data centers. Large configuration search space and cloud uncertainties are often mitigated using contextual bandit techniques for resource orchestration including the state-of-the-art Drone orchestrator. Complexity in the cloud provider environment due to varying numbers of virtual machines introduces variability in workloads and resource metrics, making orchestration decisions less accurate due to increased nonlinearity and noise. Ksurf, a state-of-the-art variance-minimizing estimator method ideal for highly variable cloud data, enables optimal resource estimation under conditions of high cloud variability. This work evaluates the performance of Ksurf on estimation-based resource orchestration tasks involving highly variable workloads when employed as a contextual multi-armed bandit objective function model for cloud scenarios using Drone. Ksurf enables significantly lower latency variance of $41\%$ at p95 and $47\%$ at p99, demonstrates a $4\%$ reduction in CPU usage and 7 MB reduction in master node memory usage on Kubernetes, resulting in a $7\%$ cost savings in average worker pod count on VarBench Kubernetes benchmark.


Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,358

Al Jazeera

Is the fall of Pokrovsk inevitable? Is Trump losing patience with Putin? Will sanctions against Russian oil giants hurt Putin? Russian forces launched 645 attacks on Ukraine's Zaporizhia region in the past day, killing one person in the Polohivskyi district, Governor Ivan Fedorov wrote in a post on Telegram. A Russian drone attack on a railway facility killed a security guard in Ukraine's Kherson region, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote in a post on Facebook.


Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,357

Al Jazeera

Is the fall of Pokrovsk inevitable? Is Trump losing patience with Putin? Will sanctions against Russian oil giants hurt Putin? Ukraine's top military commander, Oleksandr Syrskii, said the army's situation has "significantly worsened" in parts of the southeastern Zaporizhia region amid fierce fighting with Russian forces. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X that he had received an update from Syrskii, which conveyed that the situation" remains difficult" in the Zaporizhia region, as well as in the direction of the embattled city of Pokrovsk .


Local Path Planning with Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance in Unstructured Environments

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Obstacle avoidance and path planning are essential for guiding unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) through environments that are densely populated with dynamic obstacles. This paper develops a novel approach that combines tangentbased path planning and extrapolation methods to create a new decision-making algorithm for local path planning. In the assumed scenario, a UGV has a prior knowledge of its initial and target points within the dynamic environment. A global path has already been computed, and the robot is provided with waypoints along this path. As the UGV travels between these waypoints, the algorithm aims to avoid collisions with dynamic obstacles. These obstacles follow polynomial trajectories, with their initial positions randomized in the local map and velocities randomized between O and the allowable physical velocity limit of the robot, along with some random accelerations. The developed algorithm is tested in several scenarios where many dynamic obstacles move randomly in the environment. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed local path planning strategy by gradually generating a collision free path which allows the robot to navigate safely between initial and the target locations.