04-03 00:01 · AI,技术,HackerNews,AI
Tailscale's new macOS home
Tailscale should feel nearly invisible when it's connecting you and all your devices together. But on some MacBooks, for a time, it could be a little too invisible. We have two fixes for it: one small and slightly quirky, and another really useful one, available now on macOS.
The small, quirky fix might soon become a thing of the past for the vast majority of Tailscale users on Macs. I wanted to document it here: to help other developers, to mark this moment in time, and quietly crow about our windowed macOS interface now being generally available.
So here's the issue we had with Tailscale's icon slipping into darkness, its little work-around, and then our greater solution.
At its debut on macOS, Tailscale was a command-line tool and a menu bar utility. Some MacBooks, starting with 2021 MacBook Pro models, have a notch in the top-middle of their display. And depending on how many other apps with menu bar icons are running, the Tailscale app’s icon can be hidden inside that notch.
Apple, a company that traditionally favors simple functionality over dense settings, does not offer users, or developers, a path out of the darkness. If there are more menu bar icons then there is space to the right side of the notch, the menu bar items simply disappear into the notch-y ether. If you don’t see it, you can’t click it. There is no notification to the user, no overflow section, no options to rearrange the menu bar items.
As of this writing, Apple has some indirect work-arounds, like pushing more of its own system icons into a revamped Control Center, and offering a somewhat inelegant “Scale to fit below camera” option. Third-party menu-bar-managing apps like ICE and Bartender can help, but they add complications and overhead.
“We don’t have any control over where things get rendered in the menu bar,” said one Tailscale engineer, who asked to go nameless so as to share their honest opinion. “You just say, ‘I want to be a menu bar app.’ They shove it up there, and that’s it, you end up where you end up.”
Given this there-or-not-there behavior, Tailscale developers received a number of bug reports from users when, after the notched MacBooks' debut, their Tailscale icons fell into the middle-screen distance. "They were like, 'Actually, I can't find my Tailscale. It's gone. It didn't start," the engineer said. "We're like, 'No, it's there, it's just hiding behind the notch.' But we kind of got sick of that."
Mac menu bar icons may not know they are trapped inside the no-pixel phantom zone, but they can report that something is blocking them. Using data from occlusionState
, the Tailscale app can see that its icon is in mid-bar limbo.
And while it cannot move, it can speak. Specifically, a pop-up message can say:
This affable warning is not perfect, by any means. The notch warning can be inadvertently triggered by other display quirks, like opening and closing the MacBook lid, moving between monitors, or some combination of the two. But it helped triage the "Where are my Tailscale settings?" issue for a while.
Apple could certainly make some changes to prevent this being an issue at all. The system could prevent menu bar icons from rendering in the notch area at all. An overflow mechanism could stack the icons that would otherwise drop into a negative notch zone. Or developers could be given more information and tools about icons' notch-itive states.
In the meantime, here’s a look at the Swift code that let our app know it should chirp a bit when hidden. It should be unnecessary with the new windowed app—unless you enable the “Hide Dock icon” option in the windowed client options, in which case it might still call out its hidden nature.
self.visibilityObserver = NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(
forName: NSWindow.didChangeOcclusionStateNotification,
object: statusItemButton.window,
queue: .main
) { [weak self] _ in
guard let self, statusItem.isVisible else { return }
isIconOccluded = statusItem.button?.window?.occlusionState.contains(.visible) == false
}
As we noted at its September beta release, a windowed version of Tailscale’s macOS app doesn’t replace the menu bar app, but runs alongside it. It can be pulled up from the Dock or a Spotlight search, and makes a lot of Tailscale data and features more accessible.
The windowed interface, enabled by default starting with version 1.96.2 of our macOS client, offers:
- A searchable list of tailnet devices and their connection status
- Easily ping, copy IP addresses, and send files through Taildrop to devices
- Easy access to exit nodes, searchable and with one recommended based on latency, performance, and location
- A red dot on the Dock icon to note critical errors
- A “mini player” that shrinks Tailscale down to the bare minimum
- A product tour of all these things upon installing/updating
Let us know what you think of the new interface so we can make it better. We’re working on a comparable UI for Windows devices. And we’re always looking for ways to bring a little bi
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04-03 00:01 · AI,技术,HackerNews,大模型,AI
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04-03 00:01 · 中东,局势,AlJazeera,中东
US president says Washington is ‘getting very close’ to achieving goals as he promises to bomb Iran into ‘Stone Ages’.
Washington, DC – When the White House announced that Donald Trump would be making a speech to the nation about the war on Iran, it was expected that the United States president would make a major announcement.
But in his remarks late on Wednesday, which lasted less than 20 minutes, Trump only repeated the same statements he has been circulating for weeks.
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Some analysts had expected Trump to announce either an end to the war or an escalation in the conflict, such as ground operations inside Iran, but the US president only gave the public and the media more of the same rhetoric.
Here are the key takeaways from the address:
More of the same
In his brief remarks, the US president made four familiar points: The war is necessary; it has already been won; it must continue; and it will wrap up soon – all arguments he has been making daily.
The US president did not provide details on how the war would actually end or what kind of deal he is seeking with Iran.
“We are gonna finish the job. We are getting very close,” Trump said.
Trump said on March 11 that the war would end “soon”.
“I don’t think that the speech had any point, and I failed to grasp what he was trying to do and convey. It was really a repetition of everything that he had said in the past,” Sina Azodi, assistant professor of Middle East Politics at George Washington University, told Al Jazeera.
Other analysts echoed that assessment.
“I did not detect anything new. Essentially, it was a summary of all of the tweets he has issued over the last 30 days, almost in chronological order,” Trita Parsi, executive vice president at the Quincy Institute, told Al Jazeera.
“But precisely because it does not appear to have anything new in it, it reveals that he really does not have a plan.”
Making a case to US public
While the speech did not include any major announcement, it provided Trump with a chance to make his case to a US public that is weary of foreign conflicts after the protracted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Trump’s main point was that Iran was going to acquire nuclear weapons and use them, so the US and Israel had to act.
But Trump himself had repeatedly said that the US strikes on Iran’s facilities in June 2025 had obliterated the country’s nuclear programme.
Even before last year’s war, Trump’s own intelligence chief, Tulsi Gabbard, told lawmakers that “Iran is not building a nuclear weapon”.
Iran has repeatedly denied seeking a nuclear weapon, while Israel is widely believed to possess an undeclared nuclear arsenal.
Trump also suggested on Wednesday that the conflict was about settling scores with Iran after decades of rivalry between Washington and Tehran.
“This fanatical regime has been chanting, ‘Death to America. Death to Israel’ for 47 years. Their proxies were behind the murder of 241 Americans in the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, the slaughter of hundreds of our service members with roadside bombs,” Trump said.
“They were involved in the attack on the USS Cole, and they carried out the countless other heinous acts, including the just horrible, bloody atrocities of October 7 in Israel.”
The USS Cole bombing in 2000 was carried out by al-Qaeda operatives with no known links to Iran.
There also has been no evidence linking Iran directly to Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel, which was followed by a US-backed war on Gaza that leading rights experts say amounts to genocide.
Public opinion polls have suggested that a strong majority of people in the US oppose the conflict. On Wednesday, Trump tried to amplify the same talking points that have failed to rally the public around the war over the past month.
Parsi noted that the war is losing popularity in Trump’s own Republican base.
A recent YouGov poll suggested that only 28 percent of respondents, including 61 percent of Republicans, support the war.
In a previous YouGov survey released on March 2, 76 percent of Republican respondents said they support the war.
“They’re losing patience,” Parsi said of Trump’s supporters. “They’re paying the price at the gas station, at the grocery store, and it’s going to get much, much worse if this continues.”
Still, some Trump allies were happy with Wednesday’s speech.
“PERFECT SPEECH,” pro-Israel commentator Mark Levin wrote on X.
No mention of talks
Since the start of last week, Trump has been saying the US is negotiating with Iran, suggesting that a deal may be imminent.
Less than 24 hours before his address on Wednesday, Trump wrote in a social media post that “Iran’s New Regime President” asked the US for a ceasefire, suggesting that negotiations may be ongoing.
Iranians were quick to deny the claim. They have previously dismissed Trump’s assertion
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04-03 00:01 · 中东,局势,AlJazeera,中东
A military operation would pose chemical, logistical, and tactical hurdles, experts say.
United States President Donald Trump is reportedly considering dispatching US special forces to Iran to seize the country’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium in what experts say would be a complicated and risky military operation.
Ensuring that Iran has no nuclear weapons, nor the capacity to produce any using enriched uranium, has been one of the US’s main stated demands during talks with Iranian officials over the past year. It was also the central justification Washington used when it bombed Iranian nuclear facilities during Iran’s 12-day war with Israel last year and for starting the ongoing conflict in February, despite being in active talks with Iran at the time.
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Iran maintains that its nuclear programme is for civilian energy purposes only, despite having enriched uranium far beyond the threshold required for that. Iranian officials have stated they are open to discussing reducing the level of enrichment in past negotiations, but have refused to dismantle Iran’s nuclear programme entirely, a matter of national sovereignty, they say.
In 2015, the former Obama administration negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran and other nations. Under that, Iran agreed not to enrich uranium to high levels and to be subjected to frequent inspections. However, Trump withdrew the US from this agreement during his first term as president.
Here is what we know about Iran’s uranium.
What enriched uranium does Iran have, and where is it?
Currently, Iran is believed to have about 440 kilograms (970 pounds) of uranium enriched to 60 percent – the level at which it becomes much faster to get to the 90 percent threshold needed to produce a nuclear weapon. That amount is enough, theoretically, to produce more than 10 nuclear warheads, International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi told Al Jazeera in early March.
At the time, Grossi said almost half of the 60-percent-enriched uranium was probably still being stored in the tunnel complex at Iran’s Isfahan nuclear facility. An unknown quantity is also believed to be stored at the Natanz facility. These two underground nuclear sites, along with a third at Fordow, were destroyed or badly damaged in US-Israeli air strikes in the 12-day war last year and have been targeted during the current conflict.
Even if the US knows where the enriched uranium is, a military ground operation to extract it would face significant chemical, logistical, and tactical hurdles, however, experts say.
How would US forces access the uranium?
With great difficulty, military experts told Al Jazeera.
Isfahan, where about half of the enriched uranium is believed to be stored, is more than 480 kilometres (about 300 miles) inland, hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest US naval ships.
That means that US forces, possibly alongside Israeli troops, would need to be transported over a very long distance through an active warzone. They would also have to bring in heavy equipment, including excavators, as tunnel entrances are believed to be buried under rubble following US-Israeli aerial attacks.
Once there, ground forces would have to secure a substantial perimeter around the site and then hold that territory for as long as the operation to dig the nuclear material out from the underground facilities may take.
“To send advanced units to the cordon the area, to start an excavation project, the duration of which is impossible to quantify, all the while remaining safe from what would be nearly constant fire from Iran, this is risky and not feasible,” said Jason Campbell, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute. “I don’t see any senior planning military officer pursuing this,” Campbell, who was also a former senior US defence official in the Obama and Trump administrations, added.
If US forces did manage to extract the uranium, what would they do with it?
Cheryl Rofer, a former radiochemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, estimates that the uranium is most likely being stored in the form of hexafluoride gas. This gas is difficult to handle and reacts with water to produce extremely toxic and corrosive chemicals.
The uranium hexafluoride must be stored in small, separated canisters to prevent neutrons from multiplying out of control and causing an intense radiation burst. This means that the cylinders would have to be kept at a distance from each other and that any damage to them as a result of an air strike or an accident during hurried transport could trigger the release of toxic chemicals, posing a radiological hazard to nearby personnel, explained Francois Diaz-Maurin, editor for nuclear affairs at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in an article earlier this month.
There is also the option of destroying th
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04-03 00:01 · 中东,局势,AlJazeera,中东
US State Department accuses Iran of attacking civilian sites as Trump shares footage of destruction of Iranian bridge.
The United States has reiterated that Washington is open to diplomacy with Tehran as the US-Israel war on Iran drags on – and as US President Donald Trump renews his threats to destroy the country’s civilian infrastructure.
US State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott told Al Jazeera in a TV interview on Thursday that Trump pursued talks with Iran before the war, but accused Iran of continuing to pursue a nuclear weapon.
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“The president is always open to diplomacy, but he’s also been clear we will see his objectives be fulfilled here,” Pigott said.
Trump addressed the nation about Iran late on Wednesday, echoing his past statements that the US is winning the war. But he did not provide details on how the conflict would end. Trump also did not present any plans to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, whose closure by Tehran has sent energy prices soaring.
The US and Israel launched the war against Iran on February 28, days after a round of negotiations in Geneva that Omani mediators and Iranian officials described as positive.
Last year, Israel also attacked Iran amid ongoing nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran. That war saw the US bomb Iran’s three main nuclear facilities in an operation that the White House dubbed “Midnight Hammer”.
“The president always prefers diplomacy,” Pigott said.
“That’s why the argument and ‘the how we got here’ was so important from the president’s speech yesterday, describing how he pursued diplomacy before Operation Midnight Hammer.”
Pigott added that after the June 2025 attack, “the door for diplomacy was opened yet again, and yet we saw the Iranian regime continue in that pursuit of a nuclear weapon”.
Iran denies seeking a nuclear weapon, while Israel is widely believed to possess an undeclared nuclear arsenal.
Before last year’s war, Trump’s own intelligence chief, Tulsi Gabbard, told lawmakers that “Iran is not building a nuclear weapon”.
Trump has repeatedly said that the US strikes on Iran’s facilities obliterated the country’s nuclear programme.
Gabbard also said earlier this month that there “have been no efforts” by Iran to rebuild its enrichment capacity after the US strikes.
However, Tehran has insisted on its right to enrich uranium domestically. It has also ruled out negotiations over its missile programme and support for non-state actors hostile to Israel, including Hezbollah and Hamas.
Pigott stressed on Thursday that the US is involved in diplomatic efforts in the Middle East as it pursues its stated goal of destroying Iran’s military capabilities.
“Rest assured that we see diplomatic engagement at the highest levels of this administration, across this administration, with our partners in the region, with the parties involved here, to pursue our interests, to work with them and to see what can happen here,” he said.
The US State Department spokesperson accused Iran of targeting “civilians and civilian infrastructure” across the region, which he said underscores the “intolerable threat of that Iranian regime having a nuclear weapon”.
Iran has retaliated against the US and Israeli assault with missile and drone attacks across the region, targeting US assets as well as energy facilities and civilian sites, including hotels and airports.
Pigott’s comment on Thursday came moments after Trump shared footage of a US attack targeting a major civilian bridge in Iran, warning of similar strikes in the future.
“IT IS TIME FOR IRAN TO MAKE A DEAL BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, AND THERE IS NOTHING LEFT OF WHAT STILL COULD BECOME A GREAT COUNTRY,” Trump wrote in a social media post.
In his speech on Wednesday, Trump also threatened to destroy Iran’s power plants, and earlier this week, he said the US could also obliterate the country’s water desalination stations.
Attacking civilian sites amounts to collective punishment and is prohibited under international law, legal experts say.
Barbara Slavin, a distinguished fellow at the Stimson Center, told Al Jazeera on Thursday that Trump is “scrambling” and trying to escalate the war before ending it.
“I think that Donald Trump is looking for a way to end the war without it being an abject failure. And so he is clutching at various straws at this time,” Slavin said.
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04-03 00:01 · 中东,局势,AlJazeera,中东
UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper accused Iran of blockading the waterway ‘to hold the global economy hostage’.
The United Kingdom has gathered foreign ministers from 40 countries to discuss options to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route that has been choked off by the United States and Israel’s war against Iran.
UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said Iran’s “recklessness” in blockading the waterway was “hitting our global economic security” as she chaired the virtual meeting on Thursday.
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“We have seen Iran hijack an international shipping route to hold the global economy hostage,” Cooper said in opening remarks broadcast to the media before the rest of the meeting took place behind closed doors.
Iran’s retaliatory attacks on commercial ships, and the threat of more, have halted nearly all traffic in the strait that connects the Gulf to the rest of the globe’s oceans, shutting a critical path for the world’s flow of oil and sending petroleum prices soaring.
The US is not among the countries attending the meeting, which comes after US President Donald Trump stated that securing the waterway is not his country’s job.
Trump has also disparaged the US’s European allies for failing to support the war and renewed his threats to pull the US out of NATO.
The countries participating in Thursday’s summit, including the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan, and the United Arab Emirates, have signed a statement demanding that Iran stop its attempts to block the strait and pledging to “contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage” through the waterway.
The meeting is considered a first step, to be followed by “working-level meetings” of officials to hammer out details.
“On the plus side, this is a broad coalition. It’s not just Western, it’s not just NATO. It involves countries [like] the UK, France, the Scandinavian countries, Baltic countries, but it also involves Bahrain, it involves the UAE, it involves Panama, it involves Nigeria,” said Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands, reporting from London.
“At the heart of it, though, there is a capabilities question. What can they do? How much naval capacity can any of these countries offer?”
Not by force
No country appears willing to try and open the strait by force while fighting rages, and Iran can target vessels with antiship missiles, drones, attack craft and mines.
According to Challands, the British prime minister has been “very explicit” about nonmilitary solutions.
“Keir Starmer has no interest in getting involved in this war. Most of the countries gathered [have] no interest in getting involved in the war,” he said.
Following the meeting, Challands said that British military planners from the British Ministry of Defence will meet next week “with many of the same players that have gathered here today” to discuss how to ensure security for shipping after the war has ended.
Starmer said Wednesday that resuming shipping “will not be easy,” and will require “a united front of military strength and diplomatic activity” alongside partnership with the maritime industry.
The coalition is, in part, an attempt to demonstrate to the Trump administration that Europe is stepping up to do more for its own security, especially as the US president threatens to leave NATO.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that it is not feasible to launch a military operation to force open the strait.
“This was never the option we have supported because it is unrealistic,” he said.
“It would take forever,” Macron said, and expose those crossing the strait to “coastal threats”, particularly from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has “significant resources as well as ballistic missiles”.
Macron has suggested the best way to ensure the strait’s opening is by talking directly to Iran.
There have been 23 direct attacks on commercial vessels in the Gulf since joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran ignited the war on February 28, and 11 crew members have been killed, according to Lloyd’s List Intelligence, a shipping data firm.
Iran has said that “non-hostile” ships may transit the Strait of Hormuz and the waterway is only closed to vessels of enemy countries and their allies.
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04-03 00:01 · 中东,局势,AlJazeera,中东
About 20 percent of global oil and gas passes through the Gulf waterway.
As Iran’s de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz continues, Britain is hosting virtual talks with about 40 countries to discuss strategies to reopen the waterway, through which 20 percent of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies are shipped from Gulf producers in peacetime.
Iran, whose territorial waters extend into the strait, has blocked it to shipping since the United States and Israel launched the war on Iran with strikes on Tehran on February 28.
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Its blockade has sent global oil prices soaring above $100 per barrel – a jump of roughly 40 percent from before the war – forcing countries, particularly in Asia, to ration fuel and cut industrial production. On Thursday, Malaysia ordered all civil servants to work from home in a bid to conserve energy.
The US is not taking part in these talks, after Trump said this week that it was not its responsibility to reopen the strait. He told European countries to “go get your own oil“.
What is on the United Kingdom’s meeting agenda? Who is attending? Here’s what we know:
Who is attending?
UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper is chairing a video conference meeting of more than 40 countries, which began at midday [11:00 GMT] on Thursday.
In a news conference on Wednesday, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said those countries which recently signed a statement saying they were ready “to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz” would take part in this week’s talks.
France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia and the United Arab Emirates are among them.
European nations had initially refused to get involved in reopening the Strait of Hormuz, fearing they would be dragged into the war.
But as the war continues and oil and gas prices spike globally, EU nations have decided to join the UK’s coalition to reopen the strait, an EU official told the Reuters news agency.
The US is not included.
In a post on Truth Social earlier this week, the US president took aim at allies, “like the United Kingdom”, which, he said, have “refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran”, telling them to either buy US fuel or get involved in the rapidly escalating war.
“You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil!” he said.
What’s on the meeting’s agenda?
On Wednesday, ahead of the talks, Starmer said countries would “assess all viable diplomatic and political measures that we can take to restore freedom of navigation, guarantee the safety of trapped ships and seafarers and resume the movement of vital commodities”.
“Following that meeting, we will also convene our military planners to look at how we can marshal our capabilities and make the strait accessible and safe after the fighting has stopped,” Starmer added.
Any plan to reopen the strait will also include ensuring the maritime waterway is free of landmines, as well as a second phase to involve protecting tankers as they cross the area, the UK government said.
Christopher Featherstone, associate lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of York, told Al Jazeera that a crucial component of this summit is to signal that other nations, besides the US, are committed to acting diplomatically to get things back to normal.
“Starmer is clearly trying to signal commitment to the US-UK relationship to Trump, showing the UK can lead some European allies,” he said.
“However, he is also signalling to Iran and the rest of the world that these nations are not acquiescing to Trump’s demands either,” Featherstone added.
Can the coalition actually make a difference?
Speaking to the media on Wednesday, Starmer acknowledged that reopening the strait “will not be easy”.
“I do have to level with people on this,” the British prime minister said.
Since the war began, Iran has demanded international recognition of its right to exercise authority over the Strait of Hormuz as one of its five conditions for calling a ceasefire.
It has allowed only a handful of vessels from countries it deems “friendly” to pass through the strait since early March – mostly those flying flags of India, Pakistan, Malaysia and China. Other nations are also scrambling to strike deals with Iran to secure safe passage for their vessels.
Last week, Iranian media reported that the country’s parliament is seeking to pass legislation to collect tolls from ships transiting the strait.
According to media reports, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has already begun operating a “toll booth” system to control vessel t
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04-03 00:01 · 中东,局势,AlJazeera,中东
Members of Hassan’s La France Insoumise party condemn detention as part of effort to ‘intimidate’ Palestine supporters.
European Parliament member Rima Hassan has been detained in France on suspicion of “apology for terrorism”, French media outlets are reporting, in a move members of her left-wing La France Insoumise (LFI) party say aims to silence Palestine supporters.
Le Parisien newspaper reported on Thursday that Hassan was detained in relation to an investigation into a social media post that referenced Kozo Okamoto, who took part in a deadly attack at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport in 1972.
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Hassan had deleted the post on X, Le Parisien said.
Jean-Luc Melenchon, the founder of LFI, said in a social media post on Thursday that Hassan’s detention related to a retweet from last month. “So there is no longer parliamentary immunity in France. Intolerable,” he wrote on X.
Le Parisien and the AFP news agency also reported that a small amount of “synthetic drugs” was found on Hassan when she was taken into police custody.
Hassan and her lawyer did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Reuters news agency on her detention.
Hassan, a French-Palestinian lawyer and activist, was elected to the European Parliament in 2024.
The 33-year-old has been a prominent critic of Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and she took part in a Gaza-bound flotilla that was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters in October 2025.
Her Palestine advocacy has drawn the ire of pro-Israel groups and figures in France and other countries.
Last week, Hassan said she was denied entry to Canada, where she was expected to take part in meetings and speaking engagements, in what she described as an act of censorship.
In late March, Matthias Renault, a French politician with the far-right Rassemblement national (National Rally) party, said he alerted the chief prosecutor in Paris about Hassan’s X post that referenced Okamoto.
Renault welcomed Hassan’s detention on Thursday, writing on social media: “Finally the beginning of the end of impunity for the LFI MP!”.
But lawmakers and officials from Hassan’s party condemned her detention.
“The French police and justice system are being used to intimidate those who support the Palestinian people,” said Sophia Chikirou, an LFI MP in the French National Assembly, the lower house of parliament.
Mathilde Panot, an MP who heads the LFI delegation in the National Assembly, said that in President Emmanuel Macron’s France, “the criminalisation of political opponents has reached a new level”.
“This relentless attack, trampling on the most fundamental rights, must end immediately,” Panot wrote on X.
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04-03 00:01 · 中东,局势,AlJazeera,中东
Bondi came under fire for what critics called politically motivated prosecutions and her handling of the Epstein files.
United States President Donald Trump has announced that Pam Bondi is out as US attorney general, in his second major cabinet-level shake-up in less than a month.
Trump confirmed the decision in a post on Truth Social on Thursday, after a slate of media reports suggested he was considering removing Bondi from the top law enforcement role. Several cited his discontent over Bondi’s handling of investigative files related to financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will temporarily replace Bondi in an interim capacity, he said.
“Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year,” Trump wrote.
The US president also praised Bondi for leading the Department of Justice during a period when violent crime decreased in the US, part of a wider downward trend in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trump did not mention his reasoning for the decision, instead writing, “We love Pam.” He added that she would be “transitioning to a much-needed and important new job in the private sector”.
In a statement, Bondi said she would be transitioning the office to Blanche over the next month, adding she was moving to “an important private sector role I am thrilled about, and where I will continue fighting for President Trump and this Administration”.
“I remain eternally grateful for the trust that President Trump placed in me to Make America Safe Again,” she said.
Bondi’s dismissal comes shortly after Trump abruptly fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who oversaw the agency amid a mass deportation campaign that led to the killing of two US citizens.
The US media has reported that Trump was considering nominating Lee Zeldin, the current administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, to take over the Department of Justice.
Trump has not confirmed the plan. Any nomination would require Senate confirmation.
Questions over ‘politicalistation’
Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, had been a longtime supporter of Trump and closely aligned with the president’s agenda as the country’s top law enforcement official.
That led to concerns over the independence of the Department of Justice, particularly as top prosecutors under Bondi’s command announced investigations and criminal charges against Trump’s political opponents.
In one case, last September, Trump addressed a social media post directly to Bondi, appearing to call on her to take action against three critics: Senator Adam Schiff, New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI director James Comey.
“We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility,” Trump wrote in the post to Bondi. “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!”
Indictments against James and Comey were delivered in the subsequent weeks, although separate grand juries later moved not to indict the pair.
Critics and legal groups, including the American Bar Association, have warned that such actions have chipped away at the Justice Department’s tradition of independence, leading to politically motivated prosecutions.
More recent investigations into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the governor of Minnesota, a Democrat – as well as a pressure campaign against state election officials ahead of the midterm vote in November – have fuelled these allegations.
In a lawsuit filed in March, two former FBI agents accused Bondi of “political retribution”, saying they were fired for their role in previously investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
Handling of Epstein files
Bondi has also come under fire for her handling of the Epstein files, the contents of which have roiled governments and institutions across the world.
Shortly after being confirmed by the Senate, Bondi repeatedly vowed to review all documents related to Epstein, including a so-called “client list” of the powerful figures in his social circle. She told Fox News in February 2025 that the list was “sitting on my desk right now to review”.
She further pledged to release a tranche of previously withheld documents.
However, the tone of Bondi and several other top officials in the agency changed dramatically in the following months, culminating in an unsigned department memo released in July that said investigators found “no incriminating ‘client list'” as well as no credible evidence “that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals”.
It also said investigators found no evidence “that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties”.
Trump, a former friend of Epstein’s who repeatedly appeared in the files, also urged reporters to drop the matter. Nevertheless, the president eventually signed a bill passed by Congress that compelled the Department of Justice to release all related files.
Under Bondi, the Department of Justice has since released millions of files, but lawmakers have charged that the documents still appear incomplete.
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