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Germany: Unjustly jailed man gets €1.3 million compensation

The Bavarian state is to give over €1 million to a man who spent 13 years in jail on murder charges that were overturned. Prosecutors had previously called for him to pay for board and lodgings in jai...

1hDeutsche WellecrimeImpact

Former Mayor Eric Adams Hijacked 'NYC Token' Concept, Startup Claims

Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams' token is off to a shaky start, with fresh allegations levied against the project....

15hDecryptPolitics

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

Ex-refugee and former Iraqi president takes over UN's refugee agency

Bahram Salih, the new head of the UN's refugee agency says that he knows the pain of being ripped from all one knows. The former Iraqi president has just taken over the UNHCR and headed to Kakuma refu...

1dFrance 24world_newsImpact

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

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...

17hFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Is India fuelling an arms race in Asia or closing a deterrence gap?

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...

16hSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

Photos emerge from Iran’s protests, veiled by government blackout

Iranians across the country have taken to the streets at great risk, facing a violent government crackdown....

14hWashington PostPoliticsImpact

Hundreds of farmers protest outside French parliament

French farmers on Tuesday drove hundreds of tractors to stage a protest outside the National Assembly. Farmer anger in France and other European countries has escalated over a rash of challenges. The ...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Case on whether Myanmar committed genocide against Rohingya opens at UN court

The Gambia filed the case at the International Court of Justice in 2019, arguing a so-called "clearance operation" by Myanmar's military in 2017 violated the 1948 Genocide Convention....

1dEuronewsPoliticsImpact

Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams accused of $2.5 million crypto ‘rug pull’ as his NYC Token crashes

Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams has come under fire after his new cryptocurrency token crashed just hours following its launch on Monday. As reported by CoinDesk , Adams' "NYC Token" hit a $580 million ma...

21hThe VergecryptocurrencyImpact

The world's central bankers are rallying around Fed chair Jerome Powell in his fight with Trump

Powell typically abstains from directly engaging with Trump's personal attacks. Al Drago/Getty Images The world's most senior bankers have rallied around embattled Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell....

1dBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

Protesters say 'unliveable to be a farmer in France today' as they condemn Mercosur deal

French farmers steered some 350 tractors on January 11 toward French Parliament to protest low incomes and an EU trade deal with South America that they fear threatens their livelihoods. They say thei...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Honduras rejects ‘illegal’ recount order of vote won by Trump-backed Nasry Asfura

Honduras electoral authorities rejected on Monday an order by the outgoing president to recount November’s election won by Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura. Asfura, a conservative businessman, was ...

1dSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

Clintons refuse to testify to oversight committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein

Former US president and secretary of state accuse Republican chair of partisanship in handling case of late sex offender...

18hFinancial TimesPoliticsImpact

Powell criminal probe upends Trump's search for a new Fed chair

White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett (left) and former Fed Gov. Kevin Warsh are leading prediction market odds for the likehood of becoming President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Rese...

1dBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

China warns of covert mapping by foreign forces to steal sensitive geodata

China’s top counter-espionage agency has warned that overseas entities are attempting to steal the country’s geographic data through covert mapping operations that threaten national security. Foreign ...

12hSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

New NYC Mayor Mamdani says he holds no crypto, will not buy Adams' memecoin

Less than two weeks into office, Zohran Mamdani said ”no” when questioned whether he held any crypto or planned to invest in a former New York City mayor's memecoin project....

16hCoinTelegraphPoliticsImpact

Counsel seeks death sentence for ex-S. Korean leader Yoon over martial law imposition

A court in South Korea confirms that an independent counsel has demanded a death sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol on rebellion charges in connection with his martial law imposition in Decem...

1dABC NewsPoliticsImpact

Boeing beats Airbus order numbers for the first time this decade

Demand from countries rushing to buy US aircraft to curry favour with Trump administration boosts aviation group...

21hFinancial TimeseconomicsImpact
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