China and North Korea will officially open the New Yalu River Bridge on Thursday, ending a 12-year delay that left the major cross-border infrastructure project unused despite its completion in 2014. The
On 8 July 2026, an OpenAI AI agent named PHASEONE10841 was struggling with a task it could not solve. Isolated inside a digital “sandbox” and denied access to the internet, it was
More
Rebeca Grynspan’s candidacy comes at a moment when the United Nations is struggling with a credibility gap of its own making: a Security Council paralysed by veto power, chronic funding shortfalls, recurring
More
On the last Friday before the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections, the U.S. embassy and consulates in the country remained closed, following a generic order from the State Department regarding ‘security
More
For almost two decades, Regina Jardim has been recording the lives of Brazilian women killed by men. Her work began after her daughter, Priscila, was shot dead by her ex-partner as she
More
China’s construction of a runway on Antelope Reef in the Paracels archipelago is well underway, with analysts estimating that the facility could be completed by the middle of 2027 and strengthen Beijing’s
More
Spanish actor Ana Rujas is preparing for one of the most physically demanding roles of her career: portraying the first Spanish woman to win a world boxing championship. The series, written by
More
The climate experienced by previous generations is already disappearing, according to Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, who says record temperatures, increasingly severe heatwaves and continued ocean warming are
More
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has claimed the language of East Germany’s peaceful revolution as its own after its record result in Saxony-Anhalt, reopening an old dispute among former civil-rights activists over
More
The U.S.-Iran war has entered a phase in which Washington can intensify military and economic pressure but has no clear route to a decisive political settlement, according to an analysis by The
More
The co-pilot allegedly used a cockpit crash axe and attempted to seize control of the Israel-bound aircraft before passengers and crew intervened, while investigators examine his reported extremist history and previous removal
More
Sri Lanka and Russia have concluded a bilateral military exercise in the Russian Federation, with special operations forces from the two countries conducting joint training in weapons, tactical operations, battlefield medicine and
More
Europe’s major rivers recorded exceptionally low flows this summer, disrupting freight transport and energy production as prolonged drought combined with repeated heatwaves. The Copernicus Climate Change Service says the average discharge of
More
Russia’s financial isolation has produced a parallel system designed to keep money moving across borders despite Western sanctions, with the A7 network emerging as a key component. Founded in Kyrgyzstan and backed
More
by Our Special Correspondent The 30 September incident aboard a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv has revived memories of decades of aircraft hijackings and placed renewed scrutiny on aviation security,
More
Part 1 Look at the ordinary things around you. The clothes on your back, the cup beside you, the wires in the wall, the screen in your hand. Hardly any of it
More