29 h. ago Vice President Harris to Join EU Ministers Over US Tariff Threats

Tension in Brussels: When Tariffs Become a Diplomatic Shockwave The marble corridors of the EU finance ministry in Brussels usually hum with routine — budget briefs, tax harmonisation, sleepy debates about value-added rates. This morning, they hummed with something else: the electricity of a crisis that arrived not through a leaked cable or overnight memo, […]

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3 d. ago Mayor says strikes have slashed Kyiv’s electricity supply by half

When the lights go out: Kyiv’s winter under siege The city felt smaller, a little more fragile, as night fell. Windows that once glowed with the yellow comfort of kettles and televisions now offered only the dim bluish reflections of phone screens. In one ninth-floor apartment on the left bank, a mother pressed a row […]

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3 d. ago European Forces Land in Greenland Preparing for Joint Military Exercises

Midnight at Nuuk Airport: A Cold Welcome for Hot Politics The plane from Copenhagen touched down under a pale Arctic sky and disgorged a small, deliberate procession of soldiers into the chill. They moved past electronic billboards advertising Greenlandic smoked fish and a poster of a local drum dancer, their uniforms a strange, foreign cadence […]

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8 d. ago Nationwide protests follow fatal shooting of woman by ICE agent

“Say Her Name”: A City Shivers, then Roars — Minneapolis and the Rising Outcry Over ICE The air in Minneapolis felt like a held breath — thin, cold, and electric. Snow crusted the sidewalks and flattened the city’s usual colors into a muted palette of gray and brick. But when the crowd reached Powderhorn Park, […]

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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 Berlin’s Electricity Restored After Longest Blackout Since World War II

When Berlin Went Dark: A City’s Cold Night of Fire, Silence and Resilience It felt, for a while, like a chapter from a different century: a stretch of Berlin’s modern boulevards swallowed by night, traffic lights unlit, tram rails glinting under a thin dusting of frost, shop windows black. The smell of burning lingered on […]

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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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1 week ago Media watchdog condemns Israel’s Gaza reporting ban, urges restored access

Locked Out: How Journalists Are Battling for a Right to Witness in Gaza On a grey morning in Jerusalem, a small group of foreign correspondents sat hunched over lukewarm coffee, scrolling through a government filing that felt like a last straw. The Israeli cabinet had told the Supreme Court it would continue to forbid independent, […]

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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 Arab Parliament welcomes direct municipal elections in Somalia

The Arab Parliament has welcomed the holding of direct municipal elections in Somalia, considered to be the first in the country since 1969.

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3 w. ago AU Commission Chair Congratulates Somali Citizens on Mogadishu Municipal Elections

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has congratulated the people of Somalia following the successful conduct of municipal elections in Mogadishu on 25 December 2025.

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3 w. ago Somalia: Mogadishu holds first direct election in over five decades

Amid opposition boycotts, people in Mogadishu vote in the city’s first direct local polls since 1969.

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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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3 w. ago Somalia: At Least 11 Soldiers Arrested in Crackdown on Armed Personnel Ahead of Elections

Mogadishu, Somalia — Somali authorities have arrested at least 11 soldiers in Mogadishu for illegally carrying weapons, as part of heightened security measures ahead of the Banadir Regional Council elections scheduled for December 25.

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4 w. ago Somali Political Leaders Conclude Kismayo Summit with Warning to Federal Government

Kismayo, Somalia — Somali political leaders from Puntland, Jubbaland, and opposition groups concluded a high-level political summit in Kismayo with a strong call on President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to convene national political stakeholders and agree on a timely, transparent election process.

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4 w. ago 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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