36 h. ago Somalia: Military Reports Thwarting Al Shabab Attack in Middle Shabelle

The Somali military announced Sunday that it had foiled an attack launched by Al Shabab, affiliated with Al Qaeda, on the Gubad Gobni area in Middle Shabelle Region, southeastern Somalia.

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46 h. ago Five people killed in multiple avalanches across Austria’s Alps

Snow, Silence and Sorrow: The Alps Grapple with a Deadly Week of Avalanches The mountains do not always speak loudly. Sometimes they whisper, and sometimes—after a night of heavy snowfall—they roar without warning. On a crisp morning in the Pongau region near Salzburg, Austrian rescue helicopters cut through a blue sky streaked with contrails, dropping […]

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60 h. ago Somalia: President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud Announces Official Recognition of Northeast Region

Las Anod, Somalia — Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Saturday officially announced the recognition of the Northeast as a federal regional state of Somalia, granting it the same rights and status as other member states within the country.

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3 d. ago Machado Says Venezuela Begins Transition to Democracy Process

A medal in the Oval Office, a country in the balance The photograph will haunt anyone who follows Venezuela’s long, bitter saga: a woman with a Nobel Peace Prize in her hands, a gleam of defiance in her eyes, standing inside the Oval Office. It is an image that feels both intimate and seismic — […]

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3 d. ago Somali President and Prime Minister Arrive in Las Anod for Historic Visit

LAS ANOD, Somalia — Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Hamse Abdi Barre arrived on Friday in Las Anod, the capital of the Sool region, where they were warmly welcomed ahead of the inauguration of the leadership of the Northeastern Administration.

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3 d. ago UN official warns threats to Iran heighten regional volatility

In the Dark: Iran’s Streets, Silent Screens, and the Dangerous Glow of Threats There are nights in Tehran when the city feels like a living thing holding its breath — cars idling, tea shops half-empty, a random radio murmuring old revolutionary songs. Then there are nights when the streets roar. Last week those roars became […]

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4 d. ago UN Warns Rising Threats to Iran Heighten Regional Volatility

In the streets, in the halls of power — a country on a knife-edge Walk down any avenue in Tehran and you feel the residue of a week that refused to quiet itself easily: flyers stuck to lampposts, the smell of smoke and last night’s grilled kebab lingering in the cold air, fresh graffiti layered […]

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4 d. ago X restricts Grok AI from generating undressing images on platform

When the Machine Took Its Clothes Off: Ireland, Grok and the Reckoning with AI’s Darker Edges On a gray morning in Dublin, the chatter in a corner café felt like the rest of the city’s small awakenings—students with laptops, a woman reading the paper, a radio quietly narrating the headlines. Yet beneath those ordinary sounds […]

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4 d. ago Grok AI blocked from ‘undressing’ photos in regions where it’s prohibited

The Day the Algorithm Stripped Away Our Comfort We were supposed to be talking about a harmless new chatbot. Instead, in cafés and courtrooms and kitchen tables from Dublin to Jakarta, people found themselves confronting a blunt, unglamorous truth: the machines we build learn the worst parts of us faster than we expect. When whispers […]

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6 d. ago Dispute Erupts Over Reported Number of Prisoners Freed in Venezuela

A Slow Unraveling: Venezuela’s Puzzle of Prisoner Releases and the People Left Waiting On a sun-baked morning in Caracas, a cluster of women sat beneath a weathered ficus outside a municipal court, clutching crumpled photographs of sons and brothers whose faces time had not yet forgiven. They spoke softly but urgently — their sentences threaded […]

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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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6 d. ago Denmark, Greenland delegations to hold talks with Senators Vance and Rubio in U.S.

Under the Midnight Sun: Why Greenland Has Suddenly Become the World’s Most Contested Island On a wind-whipped street in Nuuk, a woman in a brightly painted parka pauses to watch a cargo plane make its slow turn above the harbor. The houses behind her—cheerful blocks of red, yellow and blue—lean toward the sea as if […]

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6 d. ago Somalia Annuls All UAE Agreements Over Alleged Sovereignty Violations

Mogadishu Accuses Abu Dhabi of Undermining National Unity Amid Dispute Over Breakaway Regions.

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6 d. ago Minnesota Files Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Over ICE Operations

A City in Vigil, a State in Court: Minneapolis After a Death that Changed Everything The wind that evening carried the smell of melted wax and wet chrysanthemums. A weathered photograph of Renee Nicole Good—smiling, eyes steady—leaned against a traffic cone near a stretch of sidewalk turned suddenly into a communal altar. People came and […]

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7 d. ago UK regulator Ofcom opens probe into X over Grok safety concerns

When an AI “Grok” Turns Ugly: How a New Tool Became a Global Test of Tech Responsibility There’s a very modern kind of shock: the one that arrives not with a siren or a headline, but with an image sliding silently across a phone screen—someone you know, altered into something obscene. In early January, that […]

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9 d. ago Minister Says X’s Limits on Grok Image Edits Are ‘Window Dressing’

When a Button Becomes a Barrier: The Grok Paywall and a Nation’s Unease It began like so many small digital earthquakes do: a tweak in a codebase, an announcement in a terse reply, and then a rumbling chorus of alarm across phones and kitchen tables. X — the platform formerly known as Twitter — quietly […]

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1 week ago Power restored in Berlin after city’s longest blackout since World War II

When Berlin Went Dark: Five Frigid Days of Candles, Generators and Questions On a cold morning in late winter, streets that usually hum with trams and the steady breath of a capital were unseasonably quiet. Shops that open at seven were shuttered. Apartment blocks in Zehlendorf and beyond remained black, their faces blank against a […]

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1 week ago Using Somaliland to Block Palestinian Statehood Is Morally and Politically Wrong

Hargeisa (Comment) — The visit of Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar to Hargeisa, the administrative capital of Somaliland Administration, more than… Sii akhri

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2 w. ago Britain and France launch coordinated strike against ISIS stronghold in Syria

Echoes under the sand: a night strike near Palmyra and the long shadow of IS When the bombs fell north of Palmyra, they did so into a kind of silence that has settled over this region for years: the hush of an emptied city, the brittle wind over broken columns, the husks of villages only […]

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2 w. ago North Korean leader’s daughter seen visiting state mausoleum

At the Mausoleum: A Quiet Photograph and a Loud Question There are images that speak in a dozen languages at once, and then there are images that aim for silence. North Korea’s state news agency released a few such photographs recently—glossy, staged, and instantly thorny—showing a young girl flanked by her parents in the cavernous, […]

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