11 h. ago Sydney surfer mauled by shark — third coastal attack in two days

The Morning the Sea Turned Sharp: Sharks, Surfboards and a City on Edge Sunlight slanted across the gentle curve of Manly’s North Steyne as if nothing dark could disturb the ritual: coffee, the ferry’s chug, wetsuits shivering on the sand, boards tucked under arms. By midday, that ordinary rhythm was fractured by an image people […]

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15 h. ago Trump Plans $1 Billion Fee for Membership on Proposed Peace Board

The Billion-Dollar Seat: When Peace Has a Price Tag Imagine a mahogany table, polished to a mirror sheen, its edges lined with flags and names of nations. Above it hangs a plaque: “Board of Peace.” The catch? To keep your chair you must hand over $1 billion. It sounds like a fable, the sort of […]

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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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33 h. ago Why Europe Has Drawn a Strategic Line Across Greenland’s Ice

Smoke on the tarmac: a moment that said everything He jogged like a man trying to outrun an awkward conversation. There was a cigarette pressed between his lips, a half-smile tugging loose as cameras snapped. Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the seasoned Danish foreign minister and onetime prime minister, offered a lighter and a pack across the […]

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59 h. ago EU leader praises ‘fair trade’ as Mercosur pact is finalized

Under the Paraguayan Sun: When Two Blocs Rewrote the Rules of Trade As the late afternoon light draped over Asunción’s Palacio de los López, the atmosphere felt almost ceremonial—warm, humid air carrying the smell of grilled beef from nearby stalls, flags snapping gently in the breeze, and an audience made up of diplomats, ministers, and […]

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63 h. ago Trump threatens tariffs on European countries amid dispute over Greenland

Greenland on the Line: A Tiny Arctic Nation, a Global Storm Imagine waking up to the sound of drums and throat-singing echoing off a fjord carved by ice older than most nations. Now imagine, without warning, being told your homeland is the subject of an international bargaining chip. This is the surreal scene that unfolded […]

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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 Trump threatens tariffs against nations opposing his Greenland purchase plans

The Island No One Thought Could Be Bought Imagine waking to the scent of diesel and coffee in Nuuk, catching sight of a black government van rolling away from the parliament building, and hearing — on a crackling radio, or more likely on a streaming feed — that a distant leader is once again talking […]

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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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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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5 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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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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8 d. ago Israeli police arrest senior Netanyahu aide amid official investigation

A Quiet Arrest, a Loud Question: What Happens When War-Time Secrets Leak into Politics? Early one gray morning in Jerusalem, the city that wears politics like a second skin, police tape fluttered outside a modest house and a sedan with darkened windows pulled up to the gates of the Prime Minister’s office. It was the […]

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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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9 d. 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 France, Britain and Germany denounce deadly crackdown on Iran protesters

Ash and Silence: A Night When the Internet Went Dark There are images that stick in the mind: a bus burning in a grey Tehran dawn, the national flag torn in two and tossed into a gutter, and a whole city reduced to the orange glow of isolated fires. But in much of Iran last […]

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1 week ago Trump administration weighing cash offers to sway Greenlanders’ support

Can You Buy an Island? The Strange, Startling Talk of Paying Greenlanders to Join the United States Imagine standing on a wind-swept bluff above Nuuk, watching ice calve from a glacier and fall into a fjord the color of old pewter. A dog barks somewhere below. A woman hauls a crate of halibut from a […]

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1 week ago Somalia: President Hassan Sheikh Rejects Israeli Recognition Efforts, Reaffirms Somalia’s Sovereignty

Mogadishu — President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has firmly rejected any attempt by Israel or its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to influence or divide Somalia, stating that no foreign-written document can undermine the country’s unity or sovereignty.

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1 week ago Could Trump’s pursuit of Greenland signal the collapse of NATO?

When Maps Turned Into Bargaining Chips: Greenland, Power, and the Fragility of Alliances Imagine waking up in Nuuk to the low, bright sky of an Arctic morning and reading that a distant capital is debating whether your island should belong to someone else. That jolt — the one between the familiar cadence of daily life […]

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1 week ago Possible Israeli Outpost in Northern Somalia Leaves Ethiopia Strategically Diminished

Addis Ababa (PP Editorial) — Two years ago, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, was criticised for signing a controversial maritime Memorandum… Sii akhri

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