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Vance to meet Danish and Greenlandic officials in Washington on Wednesday

U.S. Vice President JD Vance will meet Denmark's foreign minister and his Greenlandic counterpart in Washington on Wednesday to discuss the Arctic island, at the center of a geopolitical storm. (Image...

13hNPR NewsPoliticsImpact

Israel cuts ties with three global bodies after US withdrawal, foreign ministry says

Last week, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum ordering the withdrawal of the United States from 66 international organisations as they "no longer serve American interests," the White House sai...

1dEuronewsPoliticsImpact

What do Greenlanders want amid rising political tensions?

As political tensions and diplomatic maneuvering intensify around Greenland, attention is turning to the voices of Greenlanders themselves and what they want for their future, a question explored by E...

3hFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy in Cyprus as EU presidency begins

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Nicosia, while Ukrainian and US negotiators remain in Paris, looking to iron out more details of Tuesday's "robust" security guarantees agreement. Meanwhile, the fighting con...

Jan 7Deutsche WellePolitics

WeatherTech founder might be the newest US consumer protection official

President Donald Trump made an unconventional pick for his nomination to the Federal Trade Commission: WeatherTech founder and CEO David MacNeil. MacNeil founded the company, which makes weather-resis...

21hThe VergePoliticsImpact

Verizon gets FCC permission to end 60-day phone unlocking rule

Verizon can keep phones locked to its network for longer after the Federal Communications Commission agreed to waive the carrier's 60-day unlocking requirement, as reported by Ars Technica . Following...

1dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Clintons refuse to testify in Epstein probe as Republicans threaten contempt charges

Bill and Hillary Clinton have refused to testify in a Republican-controlled congressional committee's investigation into convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, accusing Republican chair James Comer...

1dFrance 24Politics

Australia: Writers' festival called off amid boycott

The Adelaide Writers' Week retracted an invitation to an Australian-Palestinian author, citing the the Bondi Beach attack. Dozens, including the event's director and the former PM of New Zealand, with...

1dDeutsche Welleculture

US' JD Vance to host Greenland talks amid takeover threats

The foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland are hoping to defuse tensions over the Arctic island in Washington talks. US President Donald Trump has doubled down on threats to seize the autonomous D...

12hDeutsche WellePoliticsImpact

Corsica: Former nationalist leader shot dead at his mother’s funeral

Alain Orsoni, who led the separatist Corsican Movement for Self-Determination before becoming the president of Corsican football club ‍AC Ajaccio, was killed by a long-range shot at his mother's funer...

1dFrance 24crimeImpact

UK digital ID plans will no longer be mandatory

The United Kingdom has walked back plans to make its upcoming digital ID scheme a mandatory requirement for working adults. While the UK government remains "committed to mandatory digital right-to-wor...

2hThe VergePoliticsImpact

Senate passes a bill that would let nonconsensual deepfake victims sue

The Senate passed a bill that could give people who've found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images an...

23hThe VergePoliticsImpact

German Chancellor Merz visits India's tech hub Bengaluru

Merz is due in Bengaluru, often called India's Silicon Valley, after meeting PM Modi in Ahmedabad. The visit comes just weeks ahead of plans to sign a long-awaited free trade agreement between India a...

1dDeutsche WellePolitics

Economic confrontation biggest threat to global stability in 2026, World Economic Forum report says

Geoeconomic confrontation — ranging from sanctions to tariffs — is the top threat, found the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s Global Risks Report on the eve of its annual meeting gathering the world's bus...

11hEuronewseconomicsImpact

'Little appetite for regime change’: Trump offers 'help' for Iran's protesters, but what can he do?

US President Donald Trump told Iranian protesters on Tuesday that “help is on its way” as he weighed options to punish Tehran for its brutal crackdown. As the threat of military action looms, analysts...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

South Korean prosecutors demand death penalty for ex-leader Yoon

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...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Zhipu AI breaks US chip reliance with first major model trained on Huawei stack

Chinese artificial intelligence firm Zhipu AI said its new image generation model was trained on chips from Huawei Technologies, making it the first powerful open-source model to be developed on an en...

8hSouth China Morning PostTechnologyImpact

China, Canada poised to reset trade ties after Trump’s tariffs force rethink

Canada and China appear ready to kick-start trade talks after years of strained relations, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to Beijing this week coinciding with both countries question...

1dSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

UK launches investigation into Musk's Grok amidst global backlash

Grok - the AI chatbot developed my Elon Musk's company - is facing growing international backlash for being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. Malaysia and Indonesia have ...

1dFrance 24TechnologyImpact

Indonesia hails ‘99.9% successful’ free meals scheme amid food safety, oversight concerns

Indonesia’s ambitious free nutritious meals programme has fed more than 55 million people in its first year, a scale-up President Prabowo Subianto has hailed as a major step in tackling childhood maln...

1dSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact
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