Cuba confirmed talks with the Trump administration for the first time. A three-month fuel blockade and 64% blackouts forced the acknowledgment Havana spent months denying.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisSpotify fills playlists with ghost artists, runs algorithmic payola, and pays musicians fractions of a cent. The alternatives sound better and pay five times more.
News & Analysis Tech & AI PolicyRussia has struck Ukraine's energy infrastructure more than 250 times since October 2025, damaging every thermal power plant in the country. Western aid and continuous repairs are all that stand between the Ukraine power grid and total collapse.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisChina's National People's Congress passed an ethnic unity law mandating Mandarin-only instruction from preschool and requiring parents to teach children to love the Communist Party. It codifies what was already being enforced.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisEkrem Imamoglu, Erdogan's main electoral rival, faces corruption charges widely denounced as political. The Imamoglu trial is the sharpest test yet of Turkish democracy, and of what NATO tolerates in its members.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisAn audit found that cost-cutting during construction of a concrete barrier at Muan International Airport contributed directly to the severity of the crash that killed 179 people.
News & Analysis Physics & EngineeringMojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of the late Ali Khamenei, is now Iran's supreme leader, appointed mid-war, after a contested succession backed by the IRGC. Here is what his background reveals about what comes next.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisOil crossed $100 per barrel this week for the first time since 2022. The oil price shock from the Iran war is cascading through global supply chains, central bank calculations, and geopolitical alignments simultaneously.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisOne week into the US-Israeli campaign against Iran, Europe insists it is not a party to the conflict. Alliance structures, energy exposure, and Iranian warnings suggest the distinction is harder to hold than it looks.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisThe IRGC was created to serve the revolution, not the nation. Four decades later, it has become a state within a state , economically powerful, ideologically entrenched, and the central target in the current military conflict.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisAustralia, Indonesia, France, and the UK are restricting teenagers' access to social media. The concern is real, but the laws face enforcement problems that no country has solved yet.
Digital Privacy News & AnalysisPakistan spent weeks warming up to Trump. Then the US-Israeli campaign against Iran began. Now Islamabad faces a dilemma it did not choose, with no clean option in sight.
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