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Amnesty calls for global diplomatic action amid unprecedented mass killings to crush dissent

Amnesty International Iran Researcher Raha Bahreini paints a harrowing portrait of a nation under siege by its own government. Amid an internet blackout, reports of systemic, indiscriminate violence h...

6dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Will AI replace human jobs and make universal basic income necessary? Here's what AI leaders have said about UBI.

Universal basic income provides recurring cash payments, no strings attached. Wong Yu Liang AI advances could widen wealth gaps, which has prompted calls for a universal basic income . UBI offers recu...

2dBusiness InsiderTechnology

Iran offers first government-issued death toll from security crackdown on protesters

State television carried statements by the Interior Ministry and the Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs, an official body providing services to families of those killed in wars, saying 3,117 p...

6hEuronewsPoliticsImpact

Ali Khamenei will resist 'to the last drop of blood,' his nephew tells Euronews

Exiled in France since 1986, Mahmoud Moradkhani is a doctor and an opponent of the Iranian regime. The nephew of Iran's ayatollah tells Euronews that the security crackdown will not end the demonstrat...

22hEuronewsPoliticsImpact

WATCH: Pokémon store robbed at gunpoint in Manhattan

Three men robbed a Pokémon store in Manhattan on Wednesday, stealing $1,000 in cash from a register, an unknown amount of merchandise and a cell phone, according to the New York Police Department....

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James Cameron says he left the US and moved to New Zealand for his 'sanity'

James Cameron said he's wanted to move to New Zealand since his first visit in the 1990s. Gareth Cattermole/Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Disney James Cameron, 71, says he long dreamed of moving ...

5hBusiness InsiderEntertainmentImpact

Myanmar junta 'can't last forever': military in 'worse position now' than ever before

Catherine Viette welcomes Kim Aris, son of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who bears witness to the fraught political landscape of Myanmar five years after the 2021 military coup. Mr. Ari...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

How 911 calls actually work, according to a former emergency dispatcher

Ricardo Martinez II spent more than a decade as a 911 dispatcher, handling thousands of emergencies as US 911 centers face a nationwide staffing and funding crisis. Across the country, emergency call ...

6dBusiness InsidersocietyImpact

California's Attorney General is investigating Grok's sexualized deepfakes

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said there was an "avalanche of reports detailing the non-consensual, sexually explicit material that xAI has produced." Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty I...

Jan 14Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

A family therapist shares one major sign it's time to set boundaries with your family, like Brooklyn Beckham

Brooklyn Peltz Beckham attends the 2024 Met Gala. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Brooklyn Peltz Beckham confirmed speculation that he's feuding with his family, on his Instagram story. Peltz Beckham said ...

1dBusiness InsiderEntertainmentImpact

Kurdish granted national language status in Syria

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa issued a decree on Friday declaring Kurdish a "national language", in an apparent gesture of good will towards the minority following clashes in recent days. The decre...

5dFrance 24Politics

America's new sink-or-swim era is here

Tyler Le/BI A few years ago, HR practitioner T. Tara Turk-Haynes hired yoga instructors and meditation gurus to help employees handle burnout at the media company where she worked. She's not doing any...

2dBusiness InsidereconomicsImpact

The 'Godfather of AI' says he's 'very sad' about what his life's work has become

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warned that rapid advances could upend jobs, power, and humanity itself. JORGE UZON/AFP via Getty Images Geoffrey Hinton said he's very sad that the AI he helped create has ...

22hBusiness InsiderTechnologyImpact

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...

Jan 15The VergeTechnologyImpact

Deaths outnumber births in France

Despite an increase in the number of women of childbearing age in France, the number giving birth is at a low. In 2025 there were more deaths than births which has some towns concerned that they are l...

Jan 14France 24world_news

I escaped a cult and was homeless and desperate. Chris Martin gave me a piano, and I became a successful musician.

Jean-Philippe Riopy at his piano Courtesy of Greg Williams At 18, Jean-Philippe Rio-Py escaped a brutal cult that wrecked his childhood. He suffered hardship in his 20s and early 30s, but was determin...

5dBusiness InsiderEntertainmentImpact

The author of 'Sapiens' says AI is about to create 2 crises for every country

Yuval Noah Harari was a speaker at the 2026 World Economic Forum Chris Jung/NurPhoto via Getty Images The author of "Sapiens" Yuval Noah Harari said AI is going to cause two crises for every c...

1dBusiness InsiderTechnologyImpact

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...

Jan 13France 24PoliticsImpact

ICE arrested 2 truck drivers heading to a major Meta data center project

President Donald Trump holds an image showing the scale of Meta's new data center under construction in Louisiana. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images ICE arrested two drivers on Wednesday near a Meta co...

6dBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

Uber and DoorDash delivery workers missed $550 million worth of tips in New York City, a city report estimates

Changes to how customers tip on Uber Eats and DoorDash have led to lower earnings for gig workers, according to a report from New York City. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Uber Eats and DoorDas...

Jan 13Business InsidereconomicsImpact
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