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Live: UN rights chief 'horrified' by Iranian crackdown amid reports of hundreds killed

UN ​human rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday he was "horrified" by the violence in Iran as a government crackdown continued. The Human Rights Activists News Agency estimated the death toll at 646 w...

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The world's biggest fast-food chain just landed in NYC. We tried Mixue — and the hype is real.

I visited the Mixue location in Midtown Manhattan's Herald Square. Henry Chandonnet/Business Insider Mixue has opened its first American locations: two in New York, and one in Los Angeles. I visited t...

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BlackRock is now $14 trillion after a record-breaking year. The firm has an ambitious fundraising plan for 2026.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has gone all in on private markets Ben Whitley/PA Images via Getty Images BlackRock hit $14 trillion in assets after bringing in close to $700 billion in net inflows in 2025. ...

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Trump’s tariff policies: Pressuring rivals and alienating allies

During his second term, President Donald Trump used tariffs not only to rebalance trade but to pressure both allies and rivals into aligning with his policies. While this approach has raised tensions,...

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Tech executives bet big on AI. Their workers are being tasked with proving they were right.

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI This post originally appeared in the Business Insider Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider's daily newsletter here . First came efficiency. Then came i...

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Iran: Donald Trump says killings have halted after anti-government protests

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s been told "on good authority" that plans for executions in Iran have stopped. Tehran, on its end, has signaled fast trials and executions ahead in it...

4dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights

Article URL: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/article-article-how-big-tech-shaped-eus-roll-back-digital-rights Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678430 Points: 30 # Comments: ...

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Travellers beware! Rules surrounding carriage of power banks in cabin have just been tightened

After a fire broke out due to a power bank in an overhead compartment on a South Korean Air Busan aircraft in January 2025, airlines are taking action to minimise risks. Germany's Lufthansa is leading...

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'A lot of contradictory information': Syrian and Kurdish forces clash along the Euphrates River

As the Syrian army and Kurdish-led forces trade accusations of breaking a troop withdrawal agreement in the country's north, FRANCE 24 Damascus correspondent Dana Alboz breaks down how the Syrian mili...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

The near death -- and last-minute reprieve -- of a trial for an HIV vaccine

A trial was about to launch for a vaccine that would ward off the HIV virus. It would be an incredible breakthrough. Then it looked as if it would be over before it started. (Image credit: Tommy Trenc...

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Left in the cold: Study finds most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades

Article URL: https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/6011/left-in-the-cold-study-finds-most-renters-shut-out-of-energy-saving-upgrades Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46653653 Points:...

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9 of the best and worst looks from the 'Bridgerton' season 4 world premiere

Yerin Ha and Luke Thompson attend the premire of "Bridgerton" season four in January 2026. Aurore Marechal/Getty Images The "Bridgerton" season four world premiere was held at the Pala...

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JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3

Article URL: https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637165 Points: 5 # Comments: 1...

3dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Netanyahu says the announced start of Gaza ceasefire's next phase is a 'declarative move'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cast the U.S. announcement that the fragile ceasefire in Gaza would advance to its second phase as largely symbolic, raising questions about how its more ...

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Wikipedia turns 25 and shares a glimpse into the lives of its volunteer editors

It's been 25 years since the launch of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001, and it's come a long way from housing just 100 pages to becoming a behemoth of online knowledge with more than 65 million articl...

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X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t

Following the proliferation of the nonconsensual sexual deepfakes on X, the platform has detailed changes to the Grok account's ability to edit images of real people. They match the changes reported o...

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Gaza is entering second phase of Trump's 20-point ceasefire plan, envoy Witkoff says

Under the first phase of the three-phase deal, Hamas released all but one hostage it was holding in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians who were held in Israeli prisons....

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What the NFT Paris cancellation says about the current state of the NFT market

The NFT Paris cancellation offers insight into sponsorship pressure, lower volumes and how the NFT market is reshaping in 2026....

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Iranian on trial in France in case that could help release of French hostages

With the situation tense over in Iran, one of the country's national's is facing justice here in France. Mahdieh Esfandiari, a professional translator, is on trial in Paris, facing accusations of prom...

6dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Astronaut on ISS captures spectacular orbital video of zodiacal light, auroras and the Pleiades

Kimiya Yui released the timelapse footage to celebrate his 300th cumulative day spent orbiting Earth....

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