27 h. ago Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

A Quiet Man, an Electric Prize When the news arrived by telephone on a damp morning in Frankfurt, Laszlo Krasznahorkai answered like a man who had spent his life listening closely to the world and only just now heard it speak back. “I’m very happy, I’m calm and very nervous altogether,” he told Swedish broadcaster […]

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4 d. ago Nottingham student killed in attacks posthumously awarded George Medal

Grace’s Last Walk: A Night of Fear, a Moment of Heroism On a warm June night in 2023, two 19‑year‑olds were walking home from a university night out when the ordinary became unthinkable. Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley‑Kumar set off together, the kind of small ritual that stitches student life together: shared laughter, phone torches […]

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4 d. ago Ali H. Warsame urges Puntland parliament to summon security MoU signatories amid conflicting accounts

Garowe (PP News Desk) — Ali Haji Warsame, the former Puntland Minister of Education, has today urged the Puntland Parliament… Sii akhri The post Ali H. Warsame urges Puntland parliament to summon security MoU signatories amid conflicting accounts appeared first on Puntland Post.

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5 d. ago Security Memorandum Signals Rift Between Puntland and Unionist Allies

Garowe (PP Editorial) — The Memorandum of Understanding on Security signed today in Nairobi by representatives from Puntland State and… Sii akhri The post Security Memorandum Signals Rift Between Puntland and Unionist Allies appeared first on Puntland Post.

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6 d. ago UK police to step up questioning of synagogue attack suspects

A day of prayer turned to terror: Inside the Heaton Park synagogue attack It was supposed to be a day of stillness. Yom Kippur — the holiest day in the Jewish calendar — brings a hush that settles over families and communities: fasting, reflection, a folding of ordinary life into something quieter and intenser. In […]

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7 d. ago GMP confirms police gunfire struck victim in Manchester attack

A city in shock: Manchester, a synagogue, and a day that should not have ended in blood On a crisp autumn day in Manchester, a place that usually hums with the ordinary rhythms of northern life — school runs, market stalls, the distant clatter of trams — something terrible ruptured the calm. Families gathered for […]

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8 d. ago Rescuers find no signs of life after Indonesian school collapse

When a School Became a Rubble of Questions: Sidoarjo’s Silent Afternoon The afternoon felt ordinary in Sidoarjo — a town of clogged motorways, steaming street food stalls, and the steady hum of Java life — until a sound that no one expects from a place of learning tore the afternoon apart. Students had gathered for […]

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8 d. ago Israeli navy intercepts 39 humanitarian ships en route to Gaza

The Sea Between: When Boats Became a Global Mirror It was midnight on the Mediterranean when the glow of helmet-mounted night-vision goggles turned the sea into a patchwork of green. Cameras streaming from the decks of civilian boats captured the surreal choreography: people in life jackets, hands raised, clusters of strangers huddled together where hours […]

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8 d. ago Somalia ratifies African charter on rights, welfare of children

Move significant milestone in advancing legal protections for children.

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8 d. ago Renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall dies at 91

A Life That Listened: Remembering Jane Goodall When the Jane Goodall Institute posted the short, solemn note that the primatologist had died “of natural causes” at 91, it felt like a falling branch in a very old forest — sudden, echoing, and full of memory. For many people around the world, Goodall was not only […]

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8 d. ago Taliban imposes internet blackout, leaving millions of Afghans cut off

When the Wires Went Silent: Life, Flight and Fracture in Kabul On an autumn morning at Hamid Karzai International Airport, a young man stood clutching a paper ticket as if it were a passport back to normalcy. He stared at the departure board — a black rectangle, inscrutable and mute. Around him, faces hardened into […]

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9 d. ago New York apartment building suffers partial structural collapse

When a Corner of Home Turns to Dust: Morning Collapse at the Mitchel Houses The sun had barely found its way over the South Bronx when an ordinary morning unraveled into a cloud of dust and stunned silence. At about 8:10 a.m., on a crisp October day, one corner of a 20‑storey NYCHA high‑rise in […]

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1 week ago Taliban internet shutdown plunges Afghanistan into nationwide telecommunications blackout

When the Signal Went Dark: Life and Loss in an Internet-Blackened Afghanistan There is a particular hush that falls over a city when its lifelines are torn out. In Kabul on a cool evening, the marketplaces—usually a kaleidoscope of voices, beeping phones, and the scent of simmering kebabs—felt oddly abandoned. Vendors stood beneath tarps, their […]

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1 week ago UN sanctions against Iran imminent after failed bid to delay

When Diplomacy Paused: The Snapback That Reopened the Door to Confrontation There are moments in international life when the entire globe seems to hold its breath. I felt it in two cities this week: the hushed corridors of the United Nations, where diplomats murmured into phones and scanned scrolling votes, and the winding alleys of […]

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1 week ago UN Reimposes Sanctions on Iran Following Collapse of Nuclear Talks

When the World’s Levers Snap Back: Sanctions, Silence, and the Reverberations in Iran I woke to messages from friends in Tehran who could not yet say whether the city felt different — only that the same traffic choked the same boulevards, that the same vendors hawked the same bitter, sweet saffron and rosewater pastries from […]

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1 week ago Doctors Without Borders halts Gaza City operations amid Israeli military offensive

When hospitals become islands: Gaza City’s medicine sits under siege The hum of generators and the small, precise language of triage have been replaced by a different vocabulary in Gaza City: encircled, suspended, evacuated. Across neighborhoods where clinics once pulsed with the quiet rhythm of life-saving routines, silence — heavy and bureaucratic — has settled […]

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2 w. ago Starmer to outline proposals for UK national digital ID card rollout

A phone in your pocket, a card for your life: Britain’s digital ID debate arrives Picture this: a commuter on a rain-slicked platform in Manchester, thumb hovering over a phone screen. Across town a nursery manager scans an app to confirm a parent’s identity. In a few years, that phone could be the thing that […]

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2 w. ago Ongoing settlements disrupt Palestinian communities, fueling instability and hardship

On a Hill Between Two Futures: Life, Land and the Specter of E1 The morning air tastes of diesel and citrus. Somewhere below the ribbon of road that runs from Jerusalem to the east, a child rides a bicycle past a strip mall, the hum of air-conditioning units undercutting the distant bleat of a goat. […]

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2 w. ago West Bank residents report persistent growth of Israeli settlements

A valley of olives and drones: life at the edge of an expanding settlement The buzz of a drone cuts across a late afternoon sky that ought to be full of birdsong and the scent of crushed olives. Instead there is the metallic tang of fear and the dust of bulldozers. In the West Bank […]

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2 w. ago How Uyghur forced labor can end up in your clothing supply chain

Behind the Price Tag: How a Piece of Cotton from Xinjiang Can End Up on Your Back Walk into a busy Irish high-street store on a drizzly afternoon and you’ll be greeted by neat piles of sweaters and cheerful signs promising “sustainably sourced” cotton. The labels are crisp. The lighting is flattering. The price feels […]

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