6 d. ago Key factors determining Iran’s future: politics, economy, and regional dynamics

A country at a crossroads: Streets that refuse to be silenced Walk through a Tehran market at dusk and you can still smell the saffron and frying flatbread — ordinary life threaded through the extraordinary. But over the last fortnight, those alleys and plazas have pulsed with something else: chants, the clang of rolling shutters […]

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7 d. ago Irishman Wrongfully Detained in Iran Says Locals Live in Fear

Seven Months Behind Bars, a Survivor Returns with a Simple Plea: Watch Iran’s People The man who walked back into Dublin from an ordeal in Iran carries more than a passport and a battered suitcase. He carries a story that smells of diesel and tea, of carpet dust and hospital antiseptic — a story about […]

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8 d. ago Human rights group says Iran protests killed over 500 people

Night Smoke and Morning Fear: Iran’s Unrest Through the Eyes of Streets That Won’t Sleep By the time dawn leaked through the smog and chant-stained night, Tehran’s avenues already felt like a line drawn across two realities. On one side: the familiar rhythm of traffic and tea vendors. On the other: burn marks on asphalt, […]

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1 week ago Trump’s Greenland admission unveils his hidden political agenda

On Thin Ice: Greenland, Power, and the Strange Yearning to Own What You Fear Imagine standing on a battered wooden quay outside Nuuk, the capital’s pastel houses perched like a child’s toy village against mountains that seem to breathe steam. A cold wind lifts the scent of cod and diesel, and far off, a berg […]

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1 week ago Trump oo qaaday go’aan kale oo ka dhan ah Soomaalida Mareykanka

Jan 09(Jowhar)-Xoghayaha Maaliyadda Mareykanka, Scott Bessent, ayaa ku dhawaaqay go’aan saameyn weyn ku yeelanaya dadka ku nool Minnesota, gaar ahaan Soomaalida. Laga bilaabo berrito, qof kasta oo qaata gargaarka dowladda (Public Assistance) looma oggolaan doono inuu lacag dibadda u diro. Xoghayaha ayaa sheegay in tallaabadan looga gol-leeyahay in lagu joojiyo wax uu ugu yeeray “lacagta […]

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1 week ago Somalia: Mogadishu Clerics Lead Protest Against Israeli Interference

Mogadishu, Somalia — Somali religious leaders on Wednesday led a public protest in Mogadishu opposing what they described as Israeli interference and threats to Somalia’s national unity.

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2 w. ago Government backed a peaceful transfer of power in Venezuela, Martin says

When Diplomacy Meets a Raid: Ireland, Venezuela and the New Geography of Uncertainty From an ornate conference room in Beijing to the sun-baked avenues of Caracas, one event has rippled across hemispheres: the dramatic capture, during a military raid, of Venezuela’s president. It is the sort of headline that bends the world’s attention toward questions […]

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2 w. ago Venezuela’s interim government insists it stands united behind Maduro

When a President Was Taken: Caracas Breathes, the World Holds Its Breath There are moments when time stretches thin, when a city pauses mid-breath and the simplest acts—buying bread, spinning a bike wheel, a child sprinting across a plaza—feel like acts of defiance against a larger, roiling uncertainty. That was Caracas this morning: muted, watchful, […]

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2 w. ago Venezuelan vice president to step in as acting president temporarily

The Night Caracas Went Quiet: A Nation Held Between Two Worlds When the lights went out over parts of Caracas, it felt less like a blackout and more like the page turning in a book everyone had been reading for years — one chapter of chaos closed, another chapter of uncertainty forced open. By morning, […]

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2 w. ago Bulgaria Officially Adopts Euro Almost Two Decades After EU Entry

Midnight in Sofia: A Nation Trades Coins for Community At the stroke of midnight, beneath a forehead-numbing skyline and the faint crunch of snow on cobblestones, Sofia shed an old skin. A projection of gleaming euro coins washed over the facade of the Bulgarian National Bank. People in heavy coats cheered. Someone somewhere popped a […]

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2 w. ago National Guard Pulled Back from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland

When the Convoys Left: Cities Exhale, Washington Recalibrates On an ordinary morning in late December, semi-quiet streets in three American cities snapped back into a quieter kind of normal. Armored Humvees and gray National Guard trucks — symbols that had dominated sidewalks and public squares for months — were being loaded, engines idling, then turned […]

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3 w. ago Bulgaria switches to the euro amid public fear and economic uncertainty

On the Brink: Bulgaria’s Leap into the Euro and the Uneasy Calm Along the Danube There is a quiet energy in the air in Sofia this winter — not the celebratory kind you might expect when a country takes another step deeper into Europe, but something more complicated: a mixture of pride, nerves and a […]

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3 w. ago Lukewarm early voter turnout in Myanmar election suggests public apathy

Ink on Fingers, Silence in the Streets: Myanmar’s Election That Felt Like a Postcard From a Country at War When the polling stations opened, the ritual was familiar: the dip of an index finger into indelible ink, the soft shuffle toward a cardboard booth, the hushed murmur of names crossing the ballot. But the scene […]

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3 w. ago Gazan student torn between hope and fear amid ongoing conflict

Last Photos, First Steps: A Student’s Escape from the Ashes of Home The photo is simple: a young woman grinning into a phone camera, three little girls shoulder-to-shoulder, smoke-darkened stones and a cooking pot steaming behind them. It is a collage of ordinary things — a meal, a selfie, a sibling stirring a pot — […]

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3 w. ago Thousands of newly unsealed documents linked to Jeffrey Epstein made public

When the Files Unfurl: A Morning the Internet Couldn’t Look Away From The delivery arrived not by courier but by pixels — a vast, blinking download queue on the U.S. Justice Department’s website that made newsroom Slack channels light up and social feeds tilt for a few breathless hours. At least 8,000 new documents, the […]

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3 w. ago Thousands of Jeffrey Epstein documents newly unsealed and released to the public

A Flood of Files, a Nation Uneasy: Inside the Latest Release of the Epstein Records On a quiet weekday morning, the Department of Justice’s website turned into the most unwanted photo album in recent American memory. Thousands of files — documents, emails, and dozens of video clips — suddenly became public, part of a mandated […]

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last month Newly released Jeffrey Epstein files: top takeaways and revelations

A file cabinet opened, but the light is still dim When the Department of Justice slid a fresh tranche of documents about Jeffrey Epstein across the public table, the world leaned in. The papers — part of a court-ordered release that officials say will continue in weeks to come — promised to answer questions that […]

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