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  • Countries in Africa, Asia, and parts of Latin America are experiencing intensified acts of terrorism, with notable instability in regions like Sudan and Mali, while the threat remains high in major European economies.
  • Electricity prices in Germany have surged to nearly four times the cost in Hungary, as a report from the International Energy Agency indicates significant disparities in energy costs across Europe.
  • As inflation continues to erode purchasing power in various countries, forecasts suggest severe drops in consumer purchasing capacity by the end of 2025, impacting economies worldwide.
  • Japan's new ultra-nationalist Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is taking a proactive stance toward regional security issues, signaling a potential military intervention in the Taiwan Strait that has drawn China’s ire.
  • China is preparing a fresh stimulus package to address its long-standing housing crisis, coinciding with Japan's planned fiscal stimulus, highlighting increased governmental efforts to boost their economies amid global financial pressures.

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  • Visualizing The Impact Of Terrorism Around The World an hour ago by Tyler Durden

    Visualizing The Impact Of Terrorism Around The World According to the Global Guardian Terror Index 2026, countries in Africa, Asia and some in Latin America and the Middle East are being heavily affected by acts of terrorism. However, as Statista's Katharina Buchholz details below, in major economies in Europe, the terror threat also continued to be high. You will find more infographics at Statista Within Africa and Asia, unstable countries like Sudan, Mali, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo were classified as extremely impacted by terror, as were the usual suspects like Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, the extreme classification was also applied to Nigeria, India,

  • Germans Pay 4 Times More For Electricity Than Hungarians In Capital Cities 2 hours ago by Tyler Durden

    Germans Pay 4 Times More For Electricity Than Hungarians In Capital Cities Via Remix News, A report out of the International Energy Agency reveals that the Hungarian capital of Budapest had the lowest electricity prices in the EU in October. Meanwhile, the German capital of Berlin ranked as having the most expensive rate in Europe. German households paid more than four times higher electricity prices on average than Hungarian households in the second half of 2024, reports Magyar Nemzet, based on the IEA study.  In one section of its report, the agency noted the importance of investments in renewables and efforts to make electricity affordable,

  • Inflation Watch: Countries Losing The Most Purchasing Power In 2025 3 hours ago by Tyler Durden

    Inflation Watch: Countries Losing The Most Purchasing Power In 2025 Imagine earning $100 in January, only to have it buy less than $80 worth of goods or services by December. That’s how fast inflation is eating away at purchasing power in some countries. This graphic, created by Visual Capitalist's Jenna Ross in partnership with Plasma, highlights countries with the highest inflation rates and what $100 could be worth by the end of 2025. It’s part of our Money 2.0 series, where we highlight how finance is evolving into its next era.  THE DECLINING VALUE OF $100 DUE TO INFLATION Some countries are facing high inflation

  • Netanyahu Visits Israeli Troops Inside Southern Syria In Provocative First 3 hours ago by Tyler Durden

    Netanyahu Visits Israeli Troops Inside Southern Syria In Provocative First Via Middle East Eye Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Israeli soldiers in occupied Syria on Wednesday, where the faces of the troops were blurred out in photos and videos to protect them from the risk of legal action over allegations of involvement in war crimes. Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, Eyal Zamir, the Israeli military chief of staff, and several other security officials toured military positions in the buffer zone area unilaterally seized by Israel in December.  PM Benjamin Netanyahu meets Israeli soldiers, whose faces are blurred, in an Israeli military outpost in

  • Putin In Military Fatigues Announces Another Key Ukrainian City Captured 4 hours ago by Tyler Durden

    Putin In Military Fatigues Announces Another Key Ukrainian City Captured Kupiansk, an important rail junction in the northeastern Kharkiv region, has been taken by Russia's military on Thursday, in another example of Moscow forces steadily, even if slowly, gobbling up territory along the front lines. President Putin was all business, showing up in military fatigues as commander-in-chief for a televised briefing from the defense ministry. Without doubt these optics were crafted to signal strength to the West, at a moment the Trump White House is floating a new 28-point peace plan. Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov informed Putin, "Units of


The Guardian

  • Keir Starmer defends trip to South Africa for G20 summit as budget looms 14 hours ago by Kiran Stacey, Patrick Wintour and Rachel Savage
    Keir Starmer, G20, South Africa, Politics, Budget 2025, Labour, UK news, World news, Africa, Ukraine, UK cost of living crisis, Donald Trump

    PM says he aims to secure investment to help deal with cost of living and shore up support for Ukraine Keir Starmer has defended his decision to travel to South Africa for the G20 summit days before the budget and despite the planned absence of Donald Trump. The prime minister will arrive in South Africa on Friday morning for two days of summit discussions and bilateral talks on topics including sustainability and economic growth. Continue reading...

  • US in talks to attend G20 summit after initial boycott, South Africa says 18 hours ago by Rachel Savage in Johannesburg
    G20, South Africa, Trump administration, Africa, Donald Trump, Cyril Ramaphosa, US politics, US foreign policy, US news, World news

    Cyril Ramaphosa says US has had ‘change of mind’ but does not confirm Trump’s attendance in Johannesburg The US has changed its mind about attending the G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa’s president has said, without confirming whether Donald Trump, who had said the US would boycott the event, now wanted to come. Trump has claimed that South Africa racially discriminates against the minority white Afrikaner community, which led the country during the apartheid regime that ended in 1994. Continue reading...

  • Biafran separatist leader sentenced to life on terrorism charges by Nigerian court 19 hours ago by Eromo Egbejule West African correspondent
    Nigeria, Africa, World news

    Judge says Nnamdi Kanu used his Indigenous People of Biafra group to incite attacks on security officials and civilians The Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has been sentenced to life in prison on terrorism-related charges by a court in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Judge James Omotosho said prosecutors had shown that Kanu, who also holds British citizenship, had used his Indigenous People of Biafra group (Ipob) to incite attacks on security officials and civilians in south-east Nigeria and during anti-police protests in Lagos. Continue reading...

  • New drug could be a breakthrough in treatment for killer TB, trial suggests 2 days ago by Kat Lay, Global health correspondent
    Global health, Global development, Tuberculosis, Society, Health, World Health Organization, World news, South Africa, Africa, Infectious diseases, Science, Medical research

    Sorfequiline shows stronger action than existing treatments against illness that killed 1.23 million last year A new treatment for tuberculosis could boost cure rates and shorten the time needed to treat the disease by months, trial results suggest. Globally, an estimated 10.7 million people fell ill with TB last year and 1.23 million died from it. Continue reading...

  • The rainforest the world forgot: the Congo basin is the second largest on Earth, so why is it being neglected? 3 days ago by Tam Patachako
    Global development, Deforestation, Amazon rainforest, Congo-Brazzaville, Trees and forests, Africa, Endangered habitats, Conservation, World news, Wildlife, Environment, Climate crisis

    It is one of the world’s most vital carbon sinks, but this tropical rainforest is losing out when it comes to climate policy and funding In October 2023, leaders, scientists and policymakers from three of the world’s great rainforest regions – the Amazon, the Congo, and the Borneo-Mekong basins – assembled in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo. They were there to discuss one urgent question: how to save the planet’s last great tropical forests from accelerating destruction. For those present, the question was existential. But to their dismay, almost no one noticed. “There was very little acknowledgment that this was


South China Morning Post

  • Gunmen kidnap students from Nigerian Catholic school, second attack in a week an hour ago by Agence France-Presse

    Armed gangs have abducted an unknown number of pupils from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, police and a government official said on Friday, in the second such incident in less than a week. The school kidnappings and an attack on a church earlier in the week come weeks after US President Donald Trump threatened military action over what he described as the targeted killings of Nigeria’s Christians, a narrative rejected by the Nigerian government. The Niger state government said it had...

  • 11 hurt as grizzly bear attacks students, teachers on Canadian walking trail 3 hours ago by Associated Press

    A grizzly bear attacked a group of schoolchildren and teachers on a walking trail in British Columbia, Canada, injuring 11 people, two of them critically. The attack happened on Thursday afternoon in Bella Coola, 700km (435 miles) northwest of Vancouver. The Nuxalk Nation said the “aggressive bear” remained on the loose on Thursday evening and police and conservation officers were on the scene. “Officers are armed. Remain indoors and off the highway,” the First Nation said in a social media...

  • Multilateralism isn’t dead, despite a Trumpian year 3 hours ago by David Dodwell

    As South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa convenes the Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg, two things are likely to be on many minds: the empty chair and the spirit of ubuntu. Wikipedia defines the ubuntu philosophy as encompassing “the interdependence of humans on one another and the acknowledgement of one’s responsibility to their fellow humans and the world around them”. For the purposes of South Africa’s hosting of the G20 summit, that Zulu term means multilateralism – anathema to US...

  • Singapore minister’s apology, China’s tourists cancel Japan trips: 7 highlights 8 hours ago by SCMP

    We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. 491,000 Japan-bound air tickets cancelled as China warns people to avoid travel Chinese airlines have recorded about 491,000 cancellations of tickets to Japan since Saturday – roughly 32 per cent of their total bookings to the...

  • ‘Punishable by death’: Trump suggests ‘seditious’ Democrats should be executed 11 hours ago by Associated Press

    US President Donald Trump on Thursday accused half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH” after the lawmakers - all veterans of the armed services and intelligence community - called on US military members to uphold the Constitution and defy “illegal orders”. The 90-second video was first posted early Tuesday from Senator Elissa Slotkin’s X account. In it, the six lawmakers - Slotkin, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, and representatives Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Maggie...


New York Times

  • The A.I. Boom Has Found Another Gear. Why Can’t People Shake Their Worries? 10 hours ago by Cade Metz
    Computers and the Internet, Artificial Intelligence, Start-ups, Company Reports, Data Centers, Computer Chips, Innovation, Cloud Computing, Alphabet Inc, Anthropic AI LLC, CoreWeave, Google Inc, Meta Platforms Inc, OpenAI Labs, NVIDIA Corporation, Microsoft Corp, Altman, Samuel H, Huang, Jen-Hsun

    It is a time of superlatives in the tech industry, with historic profits, stock prices and deal prices. It’s enough to make some people very nervous.

  • Anxiety Over A.I. Spending Returns to Global Markets an hour ago by River Akira Davis
    Stocks and Bonds, International Trade and World Market, Japan, South Korea, Artificial Intelligence, NVIDIA Corporation, East Asia

    A sharp reversal in Asian and European stocks, after a rally fueled by Nvidia’s strong earnings, underscores how fears of an A.I. bubble are driving broad market swings.

  • Congressional Republicans Begin to Look Beyond Trump 14 hours ago by Carl Hulse
    United States Politics and Government, Midterm Elections (2026), Elections, House of Representatives, Democratic Party, House of Representatives, Republican Party, Senate, Cramer, Kevin, Greene, Marjorie Taylor (1974- ), Massie, Thomas H, Thune, John R, Trump, Donald J

    Election defeats earlier this month and the approach of 2026 have G.O.P. lawmakers cautiously asserting themselves.

  • Trump and Mamdani Are Meeting for the First Time. Will They Play Nice? 7 hours ago by Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays
    Mamdani, Zohran, Trump, Donald J, Federal-State Relations (US), Federal Aid (US), Federal Actions in US Cities, New York City, Republican Party, Democratic Party

    Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will go to the White House on Friday. The stakes are high for the city.

  • After Syria’s 14-Year Civil War, a Search for Victims Leads to Mass Graves 2 hours ago by Raja Abdulrahim
    Cemeteries, War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, War and Armed Conflicts, Missing Persons, Torture, Human Rights and Human Rights Violations, Syria

    More than 100,000 people disappeared during the 13-year civil war. To bring closure to some of their families, the new government faces the challenging task of exhuming remains from scores of burial sites.


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