2 h. ago Podcast: Is Donald Trump Still a Contender for a Nobel Prize?

A Nobel of Two Worlds: Democracy in Caracas and Diplomacy in Washington When the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize announcement flashed across global newsfeeds, the reaction was immediate and uneven — jubilation in parts of Caracas, raised eyebrows in capitals from Oslo to Washington, and a hard, reflective silence in living rooms where exile communities gather […]

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22 h. ago Venezuelan Opposition Leader Named Winner of Nobel Peace Prize

A Quiet Morning, A Loud Prize: Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado Wins Nobel Peace Prize When the Norwegian Nobel Committee rose in Oslo and announced the name—Maria Corina Machado—the news did not land like a headline so much as a tremor across cities, barrios and border crossings. For many Venezuelans, it felt like a tilted beam […]

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30 h. ago New peace agreement offers rare optimism after two brutal years of war

Dawn After the Long Night: What the First Phase Ceasefire in Gaza Feels Like There are mornings that arrive like a miracle because you have stopped expecting them. This is one of those mornings. Streets that only weeks ago echoed with sirens and the metallic thrum of drones now fill with something else: the hollow, […]

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33 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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48 h. ago Israel and Hamas Reach Agreement on Initial Phase of Gaza Peace Plan

When Silence Arrives: A Fragile Ceasefire and the Weight of Two Years On a warm evening that tasted faintly of smoke and fireworks, neighborhoods separated by razor wire and decades of distrust breathed — cautiously — the same word: ceasefire. In Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, families gathered beneath string lights and billboards that have become […]

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56 h. ago Trump: Israel and Hamas Reach Agreement on First Phase of Peace Plan

After Two Years of Smoke and Silence, a Tentative Breath of Hope When the sun slipped behind the flattened skyline of southern Gaza, a hush fell over Al-Mawasi that felt less like relief and more like the cautious quiet before someone exhales and listens for a sound. Families clustered around battery-powered radios; teenagers scrolled illuminated […]

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67 h. ago Somali Family Builds Memorial for Traditional Leader Killed in US Drone Strike Near Badhan

Boosaaso (PP News Desk) — The family of Omar Abdullahi Abdi, who was killed in a US drone strike on… Sii akhri The post Somali Family Builds Memorial for Traditional Leader Killed in US Drone Strike Near Badhan appeared first on Puntland Post.

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3 d. ago Three scientists receive Nobel Prize in Physics for landmark discovery

A quiet thunder in the lab: how three physicists nudged the world toward a quantum tomorrow On a gray morning in Stockholm, where the Baltic water glints like brushed steel, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced what felt like both the end of a long experiment and the opening of a new chapter: John […]

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3 d. ago United States, Qatar and Turkey Join Third Day of Gaza Peace Talks

In the Sinai Heat, a Fragile Thread of Diplomacy Sharm El-Sheikh has always been a city of contrasts—a glittering Red Sea resort where coral gardens lure divers and palm-fringed promenades hum with tourists. This week the neon and the lull of waves have been swallowed by armored cars and the clipped footsteps of emissaries. Here, […]

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3 d. ago New French prime minister steps down hours after cabinet announced

The Day French Politics Tilted: A Cabinet Named, a Prime Minister Gone It began like a political movie with an abrupt, breathless cut: a freshly minted cabinet unveiled after weeks of talks, ministers posed for photographs under palace lights — and then, within hours, the man who assembled it had handed in his resignation. For […]

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3 d. ago Oct. 7 anniversary commemorated as negotiations seek to end Gaza war

Two Years On: Memory, Mourning and a Fragile Push for Peace On a cool autumn morning, families drift toward the scorched stretch of Israel’s southern desert where the Nova music festival once pulsed with light and laughter. Two years to the day after militants swept across the Gaza fence on 7 October 2023, that same […]

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4 d. ago Hamas and Israel begin talks in Egypt over Trump’s peace plan

In the shadow of Sharm El‑Sheikh: secret talks, fragile hope and Gaza’s long shadow The air in Sharm El‑Sheikh felt surreal — too blue, too warm for what was happening behind closed doors. Luxury hotels along the Red Sea were cordoned off, diplomats moved like careful pieces on a chessboard, and the chatter in the […]

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5 d. ago Syria names members of inaugural parliament following Assad’s rule

In the hush of a great library, a nation casts a curious ballot The National Library in Damascus — once the Assad National Library, its marble facade a familiar silhouette against the old city skyline — felt like a living, breathing archive of a past that the country is still arguing over. On a late […]

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5 d. ago Populist leader Andrej Babis clinches victory in Czech election

After the Cheers: What Andrej Babiš’s Win Means for the Czech Republic — and for Europe On a cool Prague evening, the crowd outside the Forum Karlín swelled like a sea of navy caps. “Strong Czechia” baseball hats bobbed in the lights, a deliberately familiar echo of international populist branding. Inside, billionaire-turned-politician Andrej Babiš stepped […]

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1 week ago Trump unveils Gaza peace plan, Netanyahu publicly endorses it

Beyond the podium: a White House peace pitch and the voices it could not quiet It was a sharp, staged moment on the White House lawn—a photograph meant to show resolve: U.S. President Donald Trump standing shoulder to shoulder with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, each smiling into lenses while the world watched for a […]

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1 week ago French court begins new trial over Air France Flight AF447 crash, 16 years later

A Sea of Names: The AF447 Tragedy Reopens in a Paris Courtroom There is a peculiar hush that settles over a courtroom when grief takes legal form. On a recent morning in Paris, that hush filled a tall, light-filled chamber as families rose in unison, standing shoulder to shoulder while a judge read aloud the […]

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2 w. ago Palestinian leader to address United Nations amid renewed peace efforts

When a leader speaks from afar: Mahmoud Abbas, the UN, and the precarious fate of Palestine There is an odd intimacy to virtual diplomacy. In a cavernous General Assembly hall where world leaders usually stride the carpet and journalists crowd the aisles, an 89‑year‑old statesman sat in a small room somewhere between Ramallah and the […]

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2 w. ago Tories demand probe into Labour leader Keir Starmer’s chief of staff

A Storm in Westminster: Why One Chief of Staff’s Past Is Rattling British Politics There are moments in politics that feel small—an old invoice dug up, a phrase taken out of context—and then there are moments that stretch outward, tugging at the threads that hold public trust together. The latest uproar centers on Morgan McSweeney, […]

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2 w. ago Zelensky: No Security Guarantees, But Weapons and Allied Backing

At the United Nations, a Wartime President Warns the World: “Weapons and Friends” On a cool autumn morning in New York, the General Assembly chamber felt oddly small for the magnitude of the conversation inside it. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, stood again before the world — his fourth address as a wartime leader — and […]

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2 w. ago World Health Organization: Tylenol and Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism

The Little White Pill That Became a Global Story On a rainy afternoon in a small Dublin pharmacy, a young woman named Aoife cradled a blister pack of paracetamol and looked at the label as if it might tell her the future. “I was two months pregnant,” she told me, voice low and steady. “I’d […]

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