3+ hour, 33+ min ago   (351+ words) The polls from Swedish public broadcaster SVT project Andersson’s four-party group winning a majority, paving the way for her to return to office pending coalition talks. Kristersson has led Sweden since 2022 with a three-party center-right coalition. It relies on outside…...

9+ hour, 36+ min ago   (349+ words) ISTANBUL — Turkish authorities cracked down on LGBTQ+ groups and individuals early Sunday morning, detaining dozens of members, breaking into association offices and raiding popular hangouts. In an escalation of the Turkish government’s decade-long hostility toward LGBTQ+ groups, particularly in the…...

17+ hour, 20+ min ago   (1016+ words) Earlier this month, as I was reporting a column about the unceremonious deportation to the U.K. of the immigrant-hating, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, the world got word that a true political giant, Gloria Steinem, had died. Ten years ago, Yiannopoulos made…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (498+ words) KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda’s King Oyo Nyimba, who was once the world’s youngest monarch, was buried Saturday amid an acrimonious succession dispute that has rocked the royal family and gripped the nation. The traditional monarch, who ascended the throne of Uganda’s…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1012+ words) DUBLIN — President Trump said Saturday that a unified Ireland would be “fantastic” as he waded into a complex and politically charged subject during a weekend visit to a tournament at his Irish golf course. At a meeting with Irish Prime…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1061+ words) Leaders of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence platforms said it’s time to slow the development pace of their most advanced — and most lucrative — models, citing escalating risks of the technology. Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei issued a lengthy blog post…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (465+ words) WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security drew backlash over an AI-generated social media post featuring a Sikh man facing off against a character made to look like Optimus Prime from the movie “Transformers.” The agency later deleted the image. Posted…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (295+ words) Last month tied July 2023 as the hottest month recorded worldwide, with temperatures 1.65C above preindustrial levels, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said Thursday. August 2026 was the first month since November 2025 to exceed 1.5C of global warming. Western Europe just completed…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (115+ words) Los Angeles Times ALGIERS, Algeria — Algeria announced Thursday that it’s severing diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates, in a Foreign Ministry statement reported by state media. The media reports gave no single or specific reason for the decision but…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (435+ words) Those and the constant of Americans at war in the Middle East. And there we are. For all his condemnations of Bush for starting the Iraq war on a lie, about Iraq’s nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, so did Trump…...