Author: Justin M. Larson

If President Trump follows through, some of Iran’s biggest trading partners, including China and India, could be hit hard. Source link

“That’s roughly a girl or a boy killed here every day during a ceasefire,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told reporters in Geneva.“These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones,” he said, speaking from Gaza City. “They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re killed from [remote-controlled] quadcopters.” Mr. Elder pointed out that more children have also died of hypothermia in the last few days, as harsh winter conditions expose the most vulnerable Gazans. Sheer cold kills six children“We’ve now gone to six children who died of hypothermia just this winter,” he said. “I wish I…

Denmark does not want to sell its territory. But for a real estate mogul turned president, the world’s largest island may be irresistible. Source link

New research into the health effects of spaceflight has shown astronauts’ brains change position and shape over time.Following spaceflight, the brain shifts “upward and backward within the skull”, with sensory and motor regions showing the largest shifts, the study found. “There are also regional, nonlinear lateral deformations that differ between the superior and inferior portions of the brain,” the research, published on Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reported.The researchers looked at MRI scans from 26 astronauts prior and after their time in space.It then compared the results with the scans of 24 civilian participants…

That’s according to UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, briefing journalists in New York on Thursday.Citing the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, Mr. Dujarric said humanitarian teams are continuing to support the most vulnerable families in Gaza “despite impediments” and the cumulative impact of two years of conflict between Israeli forces and Hamas militants.“Over the past days, one of our partners distributed 7,000 dignity kits, more than 5,600 dignified family hygiene kits and 1.3 million bars of soap to some 200,000 people,” he said, stressing that assistance is reaching communities in both the north and south of the devastated Strip.Just trying to…

Organizers said her presence was not “culturally sensitive” after a mass shooting that targeted Jewish Australians. Nearly 200 other writers withdrew in protest. Source link

Reza Pahlavi, living in exile in the United States, has long marketed himself as a future leader of Iran. His father’s repressive legacy casts a long shadow. Source link

Holy moly. Look at these phones. The floor is just littered with SIM cards. We’re in Myanmar. Only weeks after rebel fighters took control of a cyberscam center near the border with Thailand. For years, Chinese criminals have used ordinary office spaces like this in the middle of the jungle to target Americans in elaborate online fraud. OK, here we are, the nerve center of this multibillion-dollar industry that is scamming people all across the world. More than 3,000 people from dozens of countries were once employed here, joining an industry that has proliferated during Myanmar’s civil war. There’s just…

The Iranian authorities have imposed an information blackout as they try to quell protests, but eyewitness testimony and videos conveying the deadly toll have made their way out. Source link

Companies that already have operations in the country stand to benefit, but those that have profited from a standoff between Caracas and Washington could lose out. Source link

The scammers at a vast office park in Myanmar wielded deepfake technology, doctored videos and pinpoint conversational ploys that differed by the ages and nationalities of their victims. Source link

Briefing correspondents in New York, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric reported that ongoing rainstorms are damaging and destroying fragile shelters, leaving large numbers of displaced people exposed to the cold.“To help address immense shelter needs, during the past week our partners delivered supplies to 28,000 families, including 1,600 tents, 16,000 tarpaulins and 27,000 blankets,” Mr. Dujarric said. Half the population in needDespite these efforts, at least 1.1 million people still urgently need assistance as weather conditions continue to deteriorate.A new storm on Friday once again battered makeshift tents, leaving thousands without protection. UN teams and partners are conducting assessments and supporting the most…

Animals that researchers call “supersucklers” come back for their mother’s milk even after they can hunt, mate and fend for themselves. Source link

Times journalists got a rare look inside one of the compounds where the online fraud industry makes its billions. Inspirational slogans (“Keep going”) were just the start. Source link

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) gives a press statement on the sidelines of his visit to the Bosch company. This is the last stop on his trip to India.Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday said the embattled Iranian regime appears to be finished as mass protests continue across the country. Speaking to reporters during his visit to India, Merz renewed calls for Iranian authorities to end their violence against demonstrators, adding that he hopes for a peaceful end to the escalating crisis. “If a regime can only keep itself in power by force,…

TOPSHOT – US President Donald Trump (L) and China’s President Xi Jinping arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base, located next to the Gimhae International Airport in Busan on October 30, 2025.Andrew Caballero-reynolds | Afp | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump’s threat of 25% tariffs on countries doing business with Iran has raised the risk of derailing Washington’s fragile trade deal with Beijing — Tehran’s largest trading partner. Trump said Monday night stateside that the U.S. will start charging a 25% tariff on imports from countries that do business with Iran. The order is “effective immediately,” he said in a…

Nawal Al-Maghafi,Senior international investigations correspondentandSheida Kiran,BBC Eye Investigations’Do you recognise your passport? Now look what will happen to it’, says unseen woman in a videoFlames lick around the edges of Omar’s passport. “It’s burning well,” an unseen woman says in Russian in the video.Omar, a 26-year-old Syrian construction worker, had been deployed for about nine months on the front line of Russia’s war in Ukraine when the clip arrived on his phone.He knew the woman’s voice. It was Polina Alexandrovna Azarnykh, who he says had helped him sign up to fight for Russia, promising lucrative work and Russian citizenship. But…

A turbine blade is lifted onto a rack near tower sections at the Revolution Wind project assembly site at State Pier in New London, Connecticut, US, on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesShares of Danish renewables giant Orsted rose nearly 6% on Tuesday morning, shortly after a U.S. judge cleared the company to resume work on its nearly finished Revolution Wind project.The ruling is a legal setback for the pro-fossil fuel Trump administration, which moved to block the $5 billion Revolution Wind project.The White House halted five major offshore wind developments at the end of last year,…

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado will meet President Donald Trump on Thursday, the White House has confirmed.The visit comes just weeks after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was seized in Caracas by US forces. But Trump declined to endorse Machado, whose movement claimed victory in 2024’s widely contested elections, as its new leader. The US instead backed Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro’s former vice-president.Machado said last week she hoped to thank Trump personally for the action against Maduro and would like to give the Nobel Prize to him. Trump called it “a great honour”, but the Nobel…

A high-stakes appeal by far-right French politician Marine Le Pen starts on Tuesday against a ruling that banned her from running for public office for five years.Le Pen, 57, was found guilty last year of embezzling EU funds and if the ban is upheld she will not be able to stand in the 2027 presidential election. She insists she has not committed “the slightest irregularity”. Ahead of the appeal, the president of her National Rally party, Jordan Bardella, said barring her from the election would be “deeply worrying for democracy”. Bardella said he would not stand for president next year…

Investors are piling into a European defense spending “mega-trend,” turbo-charged by a mix of EU, national and private capital funding that’s set to run well into the next decade. As several of Europe’s leading defense stocks surged to near-20% returns in the opening week of 2026, investors now see the sector as a long-term bet, shaped both by current tensions over Venezuela and Greenland , and longer-term concerns over the continent’s defense capabilities and the future of NATO . Raphaël Thuin, head of capital markets strategies at Tikehau Capital , said multiple factors — including the ongoing threat from Russia,…

The global hedge fund industry delivered a 12.6% annual return last year across all strategy types, its biggest since the Global Financial Crisis.The returns were driven mainly by stock-picking strategies that bet long and short on equity markets, as well as macro managers that use stocks, bonds, commodities, and currencies to trade big-picture macroeconomic themes.Both these strategies were up more than 17% for the year, according to new data published by industry tracker Hedge Fund Research (HFR).HFR numbers also showed comprehensive gains across a range of strategies and asset classes, with many in double-digit territory.Its main Fund Weighted Composite Index…

State media, embracing the gaming phrase “kill line,” is asserting China’s political superiority over the United States, deflecting focus on China’s own economic challenges. Source link

The nearly 14-year civil war prevented Syrians from traveling freely to many parts of their own country. After the conflict ended a year ago, a group of outdoor enthusiasts began exploring newly accessible areas, fueled by a sense of adventure and hope. Source link