Thailand Launches Airstrikes on Cambodia After Border Clashes Break the Trump-Brokered Ceasefire

The Two Countries Accuse Each Other of Provocations Amid an Escalation of Their Long-Standing Territorial Dispute

Trump-Style Migration Policy

The EU Approves Rules Allowing Rejected Applicants to Be Deported to “Hubs” Outside the Union and Permitting Searches to Speed Up Expulsions

U.S. Gas Prices Are Rising Faster Than Expected

Record Exports and Pipeline Shortages Are Increasing Pressure on the Domestic Market

Trump Jr. Criticizes Europe’s Ukraine Strategy, Calling the “Wait Until Russia Goes Bankrupt” Approach Not a Plan

He Argues That Kyiv Is Corrupt and Suggests Donald Trump May Pull Out of the War

The Supreme Court Allows Texas to Keep Its New District Map

Democrats in Several States Debate Whether They Should Pursue Their Own Redistricting

Hollywood Is Troubled by the Consequences of Netflix’s Purchase of Warner Bros

Unions and Theaters Fear Layoffs and a Shrinking Market for Content Buyers

The EU Fines X €120 Million for Violating Transparency Requirements

U.S. Vice President JD Vance Calls the Decision an Attempt to Punish the Platform for “Refusing Censorship”

Trump’s Strategy Reshapes Washington’s View of Europe’s Place

The New U.S. Course Undermines the Old Partnership Model and Increases Political Pressure on the EU

China Ends the Year With a Trade Surplus Exceeding $1 Trillion for the First Time

Rising Exports to Europe and Southeast Asia Offset the Decline in Shipments to the U.S. and Sustain the Record Surplus

Trump Blames the EU and Migration for Europe’s “Civilizational Disappearance”

A New U.S. Strategy Builds an Ideological Bridge Between MAGA and Europe’s Far Right

The EU Seeks a Way to Fund Ukraine Using Frozen Russian Assets

A New Mechanism Could Bypass the Veto Right and Become a Legal Turning Point for the Union

Speaker Mike Johnson Faces Criticism From Trump Allies

The Republican Party Enters the Election Year With Growing Divisions

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Suspected of Ordering the Killing of Two People From a Sunk Drug Boat

He Is Unlikely to Face Any Consequences

Israel Strikes Gaza After Hamas Attack Reported in Rafah

The New Episode of Violence Once Again Tests the Two-Month Ceasefire

Syria’s Interim President Says Israel Is “Exporting Crises” and Increasing Pressure Through Airstrikes

Sharaa Warns That Revising the 1974 Agreement Leads to Unpredictable Consequences

Amazon Uses the AI Hype to Justify Rising Workloads

Engineers Say the Technology Remains Underdeveloped but Is Used to Tighten Demands on Employees

America’s Billionaires Have Become the Financial Backbone of Trump’s Presidency

Private Donations Substitute for Government Decisions and Deepen Donors’ Influence on Policy

The Rada Removes the Russian Language From Ukraine’s Translation of the European Charter

The Decision Is Largely Symbolic, as the Constitution Guarantees Protection for Any Language Spoken by at Least 40% of Citizens

The Trump Administration Has Suspended the Processing of Nearly 1.5 Million Asylum Applications

A New Tightening of the Rules Has Increased Uncertainty and Fear Among Afghans and Other Asylum Seekers

The Biggest EU Corruption Scandal Since the Santer Era

The Arrests of Mogherini and Sannino Are Turning Into a Political Crisis for von der Leyen

Sweden Detects Russian Submarines in the Baltic Almost Weekly

The Military Expects Their Activity to Intensify After a Possible Ceasefire in Ukraine

Russia and India Announce Expanded Cooperation From Trade to Defense Technologies

New Delhi Maintains Its Course Toward Moscow Despite Criticism and Tariffs From the Trump Administration

The Independent Center Says AI Could Undermine the U.S. Two-Party System

The Organization Is Seeking Districts and Candidates to Elect Independent Lawmakers to Congress for the First Time in Decades

Russia Issues Sovereign Debt in Yuan for the First Time and Raises Nearly $3 Billion

The Deal Deepens Mutual Alignment, Making Moscow More Dependent on Beijing

Megaconstellations of Satellites Could Ruin Up to 40% of Hubble Images and More Than 90% of Frames From New Telescopes

Astronomers Call for International Rules to Preserve Low Orbit as a Shared Space for Science

65 Dead, 270 Missing

Photos From the Hong Kong Tragedy

Cloudflare Suffers Another Major Outage

Numerous Websites Worldwide Are Down for the Second Time in Two Weeks

India Secretly Demands the Preinstallation of an Undeletable Government App on Smartphones

Manufacturers Warn of a Privacy Threat

JavaScript Marks 30 Years—a Language Created in Haste That Outlived All Its Creators

From a Ten-Day Prototype It Grew Into a Technology That Still Dominates the Web

The Jony Ive–OpenAI Project Has Reached the Prototype Stage of an AI Device

Ive and Altman Promise to Present the Finished Product in Less Than Two Years

AI Is Making Holiday Scam Schemes Almost Indistinguishable From the Real Thing

This Season, Experts Are Reporting a Sharp Rise in Phishing, Fake Stores, and Deepfake Advertising