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Article URL: https://text.tchncs.de/afoqfda99f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745424 Points: 19 # Comments: 0...
Behind the crisis caused by Donald Trumpâs threats is a much bigger change: the waning of US hegemony and the coming of a multi-polar age...
The US is no longer predictable nor bound by any fundamental principles of action...
Benin's parliamentary elections and Uganda's general elections, both held in January, marked the beginning of a busy and decisive year at ballot boxes across the African continent....
Article URL: https://disconnect.blog/escaping-the-trap-of-us-tech-dependence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659194 Points: 9 # Comments: 0...
As the EU's share of the global market slips, the Mercosur deal could unlock access to critical raw materials. It's also indicative of a wider EU economic pivot....
The U.S. seized another tanker in the Caribbean Thursday morning....
Tehranâs Grand Bazaar, whose shopkeepers helped bring Islamist clerics to power in 1979, once again became a hotspot for anti-regime rallies...
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; SAUL LOEB/Getty Images; Tom Williams/Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over whether Trump can fire Fed board member Lisa Cook. The ora...
Elite business forum draws record attendance but US presidentâs foreign policy fuels tension and walkouts...
United Nations leads condemnation of Israeli demolition of headquarters of UN agency for Palestinian refugees....
Donald Trump's speech at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos covered topics such as Greenland, windmills, NATO, and shifting global power. These were the moments that mattered most and ...
Brian Armstrong, chief executive officer of Coinbase Global Inc., speaks to members of the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. | Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty...
Article URL: https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/what-is-trump-even-doing-at-this Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666916 Points: 5 # Comments: 0...
Scars of a crackdown, which have brought anti-regime demonstrations to an end for now, are visible across Iranâs capital...
Donald Trump has renewed global focus on Greenland and the Arctic. Who controls this polar region, and why are power, security and resources at stake?...
Germany is cutting its development aid budget. But as development policy is also part of national security, alongside diplomacy and defense, these budget cuts may cause problems....
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633378 Points: 47 # Comments: 12...
The latest rifts in the transatlantic relationship show that Europe's security can no longer rest on the assumption of US reliability, writes Dr Hans-Dieter Lucas, former German ambassador to NATO, in...