Berlin power outage exposes vulnerabilities in German infrastructure
The German capital just experienced its longest blackout since the end of World War II and authorities say it was caused deliberately — by an arson attack.
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Medics describe overwhelmed hospitals as demonstrations enter second week
Helen Sullivan,BBC Newsand Soroush Negahdari & Roja Asadi,BBC News Persian Reuters Burning vehicles were pictured in Tehran on Friday night As protests in Iran entered their second week and Iranian authorities issued coordinated warnings to protesters, a doctor and medic at two hospitals told the BBC their facilities were overwhelmed with injuries. One doctor said […]
Continue ReadingNorth Korea accuses South Korea of violating airspace with drone
01/10/2026, 07:1901/10/2026, 07:19 The supposedly South Korean drone was shot down by the North Korean military.Image: keystone Pyongyang has accused South Korea of violating North Korea’s sovereignty with a drone flight. A surveillance drone is said to have taken off from the South Korean city of Incheon on January 4th and used a camera to […]
Continue ReadingGreenlanders unnerved as Arctic island finds itself in geopolitical storm
Katya AdlerNuuk, Greenland ‘We just want to be left alone’: Greenlanders on US President Trump’s takeover threats US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Danish officials next week to discuss the fate of Greenland – a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark that President Donald Trump says he needs for national security. The vast island finds […]
Continue ReadingThe island at the centre of the world is in danger – The Irish Times
Back in 2017, in the early days of Leo Varadkar’s period as taoiseach, he was fond of referring to Ireland as “an island at the centre of the world”. It was a phrase that reflected both Varadkar’s facility for a catchy soundbite but also Ireland’s good fortune in the second half of the 2010s, as […]
Continue ReadingMusk says X outcry is ‘excuse for censorship’
Elon Musk has said that critics of his social media site X are looking for “any excuse for censorship”, amid reports that X’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok was creating non-consensual sexualised images of people, including children. Ofcom says it is conducting an urgent assessment of X in response, which has been backed by Technology […]
Continue ReadingTrump says US needs to ‘own’ Greenland to prevent Russia and China from taking it
President Donald Trump says the US needs to “own” Greenland to prevent Russia and China from doing so. “Countries have to have ownership and you defend ownership, you don’t defend leases and we’ll have to defend Greenland,” Trump told reporters on Friday. We will do it “the easy way” or “the hard way”, Trump said […]
Continue ReadingTrump’s Venezuela oil meeting starts with few concrete promises
US President Donald Trump met with oil executives in Washington on Friday, as he pushed for major investments in Venezuela. But no major financial commitments were immediately forthcoming from the meeting, with the head of ExxonMobil warning the South American country was currently “un-investable”. Trump has said he expects big oil companies to direct “at […]
Continue ReadingBacklash in UK against Elon Musk’s Grok AI explained
The UK government says X limiting Grok AI image edits to users who pay a monthly fee is “insulting” to victims of misogyny and sexual violence. It follows backlash after Elon Musk’s AI engine digitally changed images of people by undressing them – something it says it now can only do for those who pay […]
Continue ReadingWhy are there huge protests going on in Iran?
Anti-government protests have continued in Iran for the 13th day in a row. The protests, which began in Tehran on 28 December, were sparked by the collapse of the Iranian currency. BBC diplomatic correspondent Caroline Hawley explains what’s behind the protests. More on this story.
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