Photos: Global stories of 2025 in pictures
A powerful visual timeline showcasing the pivotal events that reshaped our global landscape throughout the year....
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A powerful visual timeline showcasing the pivotal events that reshaped our global landscape throughout the year....
Article URL: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16262732 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46473214 Points: 8 # Comments: 0...
The European Commission called Grok's AI-generated child images "illegal" and "disgusting" as countries start cracking down on Elon Musk's chatbot....
Article URL: https://boingboing.net/2026/01/06/x-faces-global-investigations-as-grok-generates-deepfake-porn-of-women-and-minors.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545962 Points...
Some celebrities like Mark Ruffalo, Wanda Sykes and Natasha Lyonne donned anti-ICE pins at the Golden Globes on January 11 in tribute to Renee Good, who was shot and killed in her car by an Immigratio...
Anti-government protests continue in Iran for a 14th consecutive night. However, only a limited number of images and videos have filtered through to global audiences as the regime cracks down on phone...
Kazakhstan's President Tokayev signed a law banning LGBTQ+ propaganda, sparking criticism for its vague language and potential misuse against the community....
X's Grok chatbot hasn't stopped accepting users' requests to strip down women and, in some cases, apparent minors to AI-generated bikinis. According to some reports, the flood of AI-generated images i...
A battle over land use is unfolding in the East African country of Tanzania. Evictions from ancestral land to accommodate tourism projects has already driven some Maasai to the brink....
đź“‹ Key Facts âś“ Bari Weiss, editor-in-chief of CBS News, censored a 60 Minutes segment about men deported to an El Salvador prison. âś“ The...
Mass movements have ousted leaders and disrupted governments worldwide. Bloomberg Economics examines what countries may face unrest in 2026...
Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Inside Edition Ex-producer Joshua Bernstein says he was illegally fired from "Inside Edition" while on leave after a medical episode. He said managers made or ign...
Christmas came early for some shoppers at an H-E-B supermarket in Texas. The store offered everyone in line free groceries after a computer glitch shut down the registers....
Southeast Asia has become “ground zero” for the global online scamming industry, according to the UN, costing victims billions of US dollars each year. Scam operations are run by Chinese crime syndica...
Elon Musk’s AI Grok has been fiercely criticised in recent days, after the chatbot began generating sexualised images of women and girls, flooding the app with explicit content. Some of the images inv...
President Emmanuel Macron says France will vote against the European Union's trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur, after farmers rolled into Paris on tractors in a show of anger against the pa...
As Iran's nationwide protests increase the pressure on Iran’s civilian government and its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Dr. Ammar Maleki, Director/Founder o...
Federal and local officials offered conflicting accounts of the incident that left one person dead...
Though 2025 saw flagrant human rights abuses across the globe, the year also brought many positive developments....
Indonesia has temporarily suspended access to Grok. NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images Indonesia and Malaysia have suspended access to Grok after it was used to create sexualized AI images. Indonesia'...