a french peacekeeper is killed in southern lebanon, one day into a fragile ceasefire. / the breakthrough prize names laureates whose work has already turned three incurable diseases into treatable ones.
a french peacekeeper is killed in southern lebanon, one day into a fragile ceasefire.
staff sergeant florian montorio, of the 17th parachute engineer regiment, was clearing an isolated road in ghandouriyeh when small-arms fire hit his unifil disposal team on april 18. macron and unifil attribute the ambush to hezbollah, which denies it. a wounded corporal would die in paris four days later.
read the source at Al Jazeera ↗the breakthrough prize names laureates whose work has already turned three incurable diseases into treatable ones.
announced in los angeles on april 18, the 2026 breakthrough prize honors gene therapies for inherited blindness, sickle cell disease, and beta-thalassemia. six prizes of three million dollars each were awarded across life sciences, physics, and mathematics, bringing the program's fifteen-year total above 340 million.
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