10 h. ago Rescuers recover bodies from Karachi mall after devastating fire

When a Mall Became a Furnace: The Night Karachi Lost Part of Itself There are images that clamp onto the mind: a sky bruised orange, shop signs sagging like wounded teeth, a rain of molten metal pattering onto the street. That was Karachi on Saturday night — the historic heart of this vast, humming city […]

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24 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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28 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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32 h. ago Prince Harry Decries Newspaper’s Conduct as ‘Deeply Troubling’

A courtroom, a king’s son, and a decades-long shadow over Britain’s tabloids The morning air outside London’s High Court carried that peculiar mix of damp fog and cigarette smoke that clings to the Strand — a milieu where gossip and gravitas have collided for generations. Black cabs threaded past with patient precision; a few tourists […]

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48 h. ago Ukraine says it held substantive security talks with United States officials

When the lights go out: a winter of strikes, talks and the hum of generators There is a brittle quiet to winter nights in southeastern Ukraine, the kind that sharpens every sound—the scrape of boots on ice, the tinny clink of kettle on a gas stove, the shuffle of people moving from room to room […]

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3 d. 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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4 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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5 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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6 d. ago UN: More than 100 Palestinian children killed in Gaza since ceasefire

Gaza’s Ceasefire That Didn’t Stop the Bombs: Children at the Center of an Unfinished Reckoning The wind that slips through the broken windows of Jabalia carries a dozen small sounds at once—the distant hum of generators, the clink of a teacup, a dog’s bark, and the muffled sob of a mother who has learned to […]

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8 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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9 d. ago United States announces sweeping strikes targeting Islamic State in Syria

Under the Pale Stones of Palmyra: After the Strike, the Desert Keeps Its Secrets Palmyra is a place that does not forgive haste. Rubble here holds generations, and the wind carries the dust of empires. On a raw morning this week, with the sun scraping the horizon like a coin, the U.S. and its allies […]

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1 week 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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1 week 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 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 Power restored in Berlin after city’s longest blackout since World War II

When Berlin Went Dark: Five Frigid Days of Candles, Generators and Questions On a cold morning in late winter, streets that usually hum with trams and the steady breath of a capital were unseasonably quiet. Shops that open at seven were shuttered. Apartment blocks in Zehlendorf and beyond remained black, their faces blank against a […]

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2 w. ago Switzerland Identifies All Victims of New Year’s Ski Resort Blaze

When Celebration Turned to Mourning: The Night the Alps Stood Still There are certain images that steal your breath: the sharp line of the Alps under a winter moon, the glow of a resort alive with New Year’s cheer, and then a sudden, bewildering darkness where laughter used to be. That is the image the […]

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