7 h. ago Freed Irish national from Venezuelan prison returns to Prague

Night Landing: A Plane, Families, and the Quiet Aftermath of a Political Storm They came down the jetway under a strip of cold lights, blinking against the damp Prague night as if waking from a long, bad dream. On the tarmac at Václav Havel Airport, relatives clustered together in coat collars zipped to their chins. […]

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25 h. ago Tariff threats could ignite the most serious transatlantic crisis yet

When a Far Northern Ice Sheet Became the Latest Riddle of Global Power It began, improbably, like a provocation you might swipe past on your phone: a headline about Greenland, tariffs, and a president who seems allergic to convention. But the island’s blue-white horizon and the fog of polar seas have suddenly become central to […]

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31 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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36 h. ago US points to Europe’s ‘weakness’ to justify interest in Greenland

When the Arctic Became a Bargaining Chip: Greenland, Tariffs, and a Strange Week in Diplomacy The wind off the Davis Strait scours paint from the wooden houses of Nuuk, and the harbor is a scatter of bobbing trawlers and stubborn gulls. Here, in the capital of Greenland, life still moves to the rhythms of the […]

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46 h. ago EU ambassadors to convene after Trump’s looming threat of tariffs on EU

When Tariffs Meet Ice: How a Twitter-Style Ultimatum Threw Greenland and Europe into Crisis On a winter afternoon that felt ordinary to the untrained eye, a short, blunt message set off a chain reaction that stretched from the fjords of Nuuk to the marble halls of Brussels. The message came not from a formal diplomatic […]

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62 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 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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3 d. ago South Korea’s Yoon Sentenced to Five Years Over Martial Law Attempt

A Courtroom, a Country on Edge: The Fall of Yoon Suk Yeol The morning air outside the Seoul Central District Court was cold and taut, like the silence before a storm. Supporters clustered beneath umbrellas and banners, their voices a mixture of chant and prayer. Across the street, police vans idled, officers in dark coats […]

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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 ISS crew completes emergency splashdown in Pacific after unplanned return

Midnight in the Pacific: A Homecoming That Felt Like a Small Miracle The sky above the Pacific off San Diego was a velvet bowl when the capsule came down — a bright, battered teardrop slipping through the last thin fingers of night and into a glassy sea. Parachutes bloomed, cords sang, and a craft named […]

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4 d. ago Trump hails Venezuela’s ‘terrific’ new leader after phone call

When Phone Lines Redrew a Map: A Call That Changed Everything — Or So It Seemed There are phone calls that are merely administrative and there are those that feel like the opening lines of a new chapter. Last week, from the quiet of the Oval Office to the corridors of power in Caracas, a […]

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6 d. ago BBC launches bid to get Trump’s defamation lawsuit dismissed

When a BBC Clip Becomes a $10 Billion Storm: A Global Moment for Journalism and the Courts Late one damp evening in London, the hum of computers in a BBC newsroom felt, temporarily, like the eye of a storm. Producers who have spent decades chasing stories across continents were suddenly parsing legal filings. Somewhere in […]

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6 d. ago President Congratulates Buckley on Remarkable Recognition, Hails Achievement

When Killarney Applauded in Los Angeles: Jessie Buckley’s Golden Globe and the Quiet Power of “Hamnet” It was barely daylight in Killarney when the cheers started, soft and surprised, like someone tapping the rim of a teacup and waiting for the music to begin. At O’Malley’s Bar on Main Street, a television perched above the […]

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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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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 Russia launches Oreshnik hypersonic missile in new strike on Ukraine

When the Night Roared: Kyiv, a Hypersonic Missile, and a Continent on Edge The city smelled of smoke and melted plastic before dawn. Sirens tore the cold air, and for a few terrible hours the capital of Ukraine felt less like a capital and more like a village huddled under a long, grinding storm. Overnight, […]

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1 week ago Storm Goretti Batters Europe: Widespread Power Outages and Travel Chaos

Storm Goretti: A Furious Overnight Sweep That Left Northern Europe Shivering and Still When the wind woke Marie Leclerc in Cherbourg at 3 a.m., it sounded like the ocean had left its bed and was trying to rearrange the town. “It wasn’t just a gale,” Marie, who runs a small café on the port, told […]

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1 week ago Trump warns U.S. role in Venezuelan affairs could persist for years

When Power Crosses a Line: Venezuela, Oil and the Unsettling Pause Between War and Law Late into a humid Washington night, the Senate chamber hummed with a rare and uneasy consensus. Fifty-two senators voted to advance a resolution designed to stop President Donald Trump from launching further military action against Venezuela without Congress’s express approval. […]

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1 week ago Russia Says Foreign Troops in Ukraine Are Legitimate Targets

Paris, Power Cuts and the Pulse of a Continent on Edge In a marble room in Paris, leaders and generals and diplomats scribbled the shape of tomorrow — a compact that, if enacted, could place Western troops on Ukrainian soil should a ceasefire be reached. Outside, the winter sky over Europe was a hard, metallic […]

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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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