Paris is ready to contribute troops to a "NATO exercise" in Greenland amid threats being made by US President Donald Trump. NATO chief Mark Rutte said he was working to resolve the row behind the sce...
Some 20,000 Ukrainian civilians are in Russian prisons and rights activists say more than 2,000 are female. Some of the women who have managed to get out jail are now speaking out about what they expe...
Today’s episode of Decoder is about X, Grok, and Elon Musk. By now we’re several weeks into one of the worst, most upsetting, and most stupidly irresponsible AI controversies in the short history of g...
Two fuel shipments from Azerbaijan to Armenia in recent months have made groundbreaking changes - not only to the reconciliation process between the countries, but to reshaping the Armenian market by ...
The gunman charged with killing Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe was found guilty January 21 and jailed for life. The shooting more than three years ago forced a reckoning in a country with li...
The gunman charged with killing Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe faces a verdict on Wednesday, more than three years after the daylight assassination stunned the country, prompting scrutiny of...
Low taxes, which are not in line with inflation, are ineffective in reducing alcohol or sugary drink consumption, the World Health Organization warns....
ICE officers have made over 2,500 arrests in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge. Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images The AFL-CIO has endorsed a Minnesota economic blackout on January 23 in response t...
Government offices, the stock market and many schools are closed Monday in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but most businesses are open...
One year into Donald Trump's second term, higher tariffs and sharper threats are straining transatlantic business. German companies in the US are weighing compliance against resistance as uncertainty ...
Abe was serving as a regular lawmaker after leaving the prime minister's job when he was killed in 2022 while campaigning in the western city of Nara....
Prediction market apps are thriving in Trump's second term, with traders betting on migrant deportations to election outcomes. A community of young, mostly male and very online traders are driving the...
Amid a violent crackdown on migrants in the US, claims have been emerging online that thousands are canceling their tickets to the 2026 World Cup. Are fans backing out? And would immigration officers ...
Seeking international legitimacy, Myanmar's ruling military junta claims elections this week are a return to democracy. But it will take more than the junta's word to convince the EU that the polls ar...
The Kurdish people are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without their own country. Many are native to the region where four countries — Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey — meet and share langu...
Senegal’s football team are champions of Africa but fans from the country are banned from going to the US for the World Cup. They aren't the only ones, with Donald Trump's hostility and FIFA's ticket ...
A Ukrainian soldier fires a Javelin anti-tank missile. Dmytro Smolienko via Reuters Connect NATO's secretary general said up to 25,000 Russian soldiers are being killed in Ukraine each month. Mark Rut...
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he met with his Chinese counterpart, Vice-Premier He Lifeng, on Monday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The two men have been the primary...
Article URL: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/why-every-country-should-set-16 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621945 Points: 16 # Comments: 1...
US President Donald Trump's actions during his first year back in office have been "faster and more shocking than we even expected". That's the view of US domestic and foreign policy specialist Laurie...