内容摘要：He calls nitinol's flexible properties "one of the craziest things you will ever see".

He calls nitinol's flexible properties "one of the craziest things you will ever see".

Mujica retired from politics in 2020 though he remained a central figure in Uruguay.His political heir, Yamandú Orsi, was

in November 2024 and his group within the Frente Amplio obtained the largest number of parliamentary seats since the country's return to democracy.Last year, Mujica announced he had cancer and references to his age and the inexorable proximity of death became more frequent - but he always accepted the final outcome as something natural, without drama.In the last interview he gave the BBC in November last year, he said: "One knows that death is inevitable. And perhaps it's like the salt of life."

An 11-year-old Colombian boy has been reunited with his family 18 days after he was kidnapped by members of a dissident rebel group.Five armed men wearing balaclavas stormed the boy's home in a rural area of Valle del Cauca province on 3 May and seized him and a domestic employee.

They released the employee soon after but held the boy in a shack at a remote location for almost three weeks until they agreed his freedom in negotiations with Colombia's ombudsman's office, the Red Cross and the Catholic Church.

Rebel groups in Colombia are notorious for forcibly recruiting children but the boy's abduction from his home at gunpoint nevertheless shocked locals.Israel has built about 160 settlements housing some 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war.

The vast majority of the international community considers the settlements illegal under international law - a position supported by an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last year - although Israel disputes this.Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, known as "Pepe", has died at the age of 89.

The ex-guerrilla who governed Uruguay from 2010 to 2015 was known as the world's "poorest president" because of his modest lifestyle.Current President Yamandú Orsi announced his predecessor's death on X, writing: "Thank you for everything you gave us and for your deep love for your people."