The September 11 attacks
Investigators: Video points to Saudi involvement in 9/11
A newly released video supports the theory that the government of Saudi Arabia was involved in the attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001, Richard Lambert, the retired FBI agent who led the initial September 11 investigation, told CBS News.
The video was recorded in Washington DC by the Saudi Omar al-Bayoumi in the summer of 1999. He films, among other things, the Washington Monument, talks about the security around the Capitol and at one point mentions "a plan".
al-Bayoumi has been identified by the FBI as a former employee of the Saudi intelligence service. He also has connections to two of the perpetrators.
The video was seized by British police during a search of al-Bayoumi's apartment in Birmingham, where he was doing his doctoral studies at the time.
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The new election in France
Holocaust survivors: Could vote for Le Pen
The threat to French Jews comes from the left, not the right. That's what the well-known Holocaust survivor and "Nazi hunter" Serge Klarsfeld said in an interview this week.
Klarsfeld shocked many when he said that he might consider voting for the far-right National Assembly. The party's founder Jean-Marie Le Pen was convicted several times for anti-Semitic statements, but his daughter Marie Le Pen has changed the party's image.
- National Collection supports Jews and supports Israel. If there is an anti-Jewish party and a pro-Jewish party, I vote for the pro-Jewish party, Klarsfeld said, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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The fight against HIV
Medicines seem to offer full protection against HIV: "I shudder"
A new drug shows signs of fundamentally changing the fight against HIV. The results of a large clinical study in Africa show that two injections per year gave young women complete protection against the virus, writes the New York Times.
- I got chills, says researcher Linda Gail-Bekker to the newspaper.
In the study, which was carried out in South Africa and Uganda, over 2,000 women received injections of the drug lenacapavir. A later check showed that none of them had been infected with HIV. In the control groups, which received two different preventive pills, between one and two percent had become infected.
The results have been published by lenacapavir's manufacturer Gilead and are not yet peer-reviewed.
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Satellites should help understand the composition of space
A Franco-Chinese satellite was launched on Saturday from China and is expected to collect data to better understand the composition of space, reports AFP.
The satellite will look for "gamma-ray bursts", a powerful burst of gamma radiation. They usually occur after explosions of large stars.
Analyzing them can help understand the history and development of the universe, writes AFP.
- Observing them is like "looking back in time", because the light from these objects takes a long time to reach us, says Ore Gottlied, astrophysicist at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Astrophysics in New York.
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