South Korean prosecutors called on Tuesday for the death penalty to be handed down to former president Yoon Suk Yeol for his December 2024 declaration of martial law, which plunged the country into ch...
Comments come before potential first three-way meeting with US officials since full-scale invasion in 2022...
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/ireland_wants_to_give_police/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46705715 Points: 7 # Comments: 0...
As US President Donald Trump’s tariff increases have roiled global markets and strained America’s alliances in recent months, China has been pursuing the opposite strategy: keeping import duties low a...
Australia’s former prime minister and a prominent China scholar, Kevin Rudd, will step down as ambassador to the United States a year ahead of schedule, a move some analysts say underscores a fundamen...
In 2025, India approved a number of major defence packages, together worth US$30 billion. Such rapid procurement approvals are relatively rare by Indian standards. However, what they signal to the reg...
The US military's renewed focus on the Arctic is exposing the types of weapons it needs for the region. US Air Force photo by Senior Airman Nicholas Paczkowski The US doesn't have the weapons and tech...
How oil-rich Venezuela fell from 1970s stable democracy to a crisis that led to the January 2026 US raid on Caracas....
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/america-polymarket-disaster/685662/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46689143 Points: 8 # Comments: 1...
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/health/milhoan-vaccines-optional-polio.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745998 Points: 20 # Comments: 4...
Donald Trump plans to boost US military spending to $1.5 trillion in 2027. His plan to pay for it does not add up....
Moldova plans to introduce its first crypto law in 2026, aligning with the EU’s MiCA framework while warning citizens about digital asset risks....
The draft provision would treat tokens as “non-ancillary” assets, exempt from SEC securities rules, if they were in an ETF by 2026....
Article URL: https://dogdogfish.com/blog/2026/01/14/banning-things-for-other-people/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46631192 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...
Crypto majors are very green with Bitcoin making a new another 2-month high; BTC +2% at $96,7500; ETH +2% at $3,360, SOL even at $145; XRP -1% to $2.11. DCR (+30%), DASH (+10%), ICP (+10%) and ZEC (+7...
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/01/20/doge-employees-social-security-information-court-filing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698723 Points: 49 # Comments: 2...
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/danish-pension-fund-divest-its-us-treasuries-2026-01-20/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692594 Points: 49 # Comments: 13...
Article URL: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2026/01/18/2501750/nuclear-elements-detected-west-philippine-sea Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46677436 Points: 12 # Comments: 1...
Article URL: https://vechron.com/2026/01/whistleblower-drops-largest-ever-ice-leak-to-unmask-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46657729 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
The target of the botched 2024 attack was Lithuanian company TVC Solutions and mobile radio stations the firm manufactures for Ukrainian armed forces, according to prosecutors....