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L’AMT di Genova oggi sciopera. L’Azienda Municipalizzata dei Trasporti assicura il servizio essenziale solo in alcune fasce orarie del mattino e della sera. In attesa di un dimenticato sciopero nazionale per il caro vita e altre faccende legate a una ‘guerra mondiale a pezzi’ che ci coinvolge. Ciò è quanto testualmente affermato dall’Avvocatura dello Stato, ci ricorda Gianni Alioti (cofondatore di The Weapon Watch – Osservatorio sulle armi nei porti europei e mediterranei) già sindacalista della Cisl. Quest’ultimo sembra da tempo un sindacato fantasma accodatosi all’ombra del potere attuale. Quando i sindacati d’epoca dicevano ‘Uniti si Vince’ sapevano quello che sarebbe accaduto dopo. Se…

La principessa del Galles presso il Royal Marsden nel centro di Londra La principessa Kate Middleton è tornata nell'ospedale oncologico Royal Marsden di Londra, dove era stata curata per un tumore, per una visita a sorpresa ai pazienti ricoverati e per ringraziare il personale per le cure ricevute. Lo rivelano i media britannici, spiegando che Kate ha incontrato alti dirigenti del Royal Marsden e ha elogiato le "incredibili" cure oncologiche ricevute. La principessa del Galles, che a gennaio 2025 ha annunciato di essere in remissione, si è anche seduta a parlare con alcuni pazienti. Come riporta 'The Independent', Kate ha descritto un padre affetto da un tumore al cervello come una "fonte…

Ieri sera, 12 settembre, abbiamo assisto a una vera e propria forza della natura alla Plenitude Arena di Parigi. Celine Dion è tornata sul palco per la prima volta dal vivo dopo sei anni, se si esclude l’apparizione il 26 luglio 2024 a sorpresa alla fine della cerimonia di apertura delle Olimpiadi a Parigi con il brano di Édith Piaf “Hymne à l’amour”. Un miracolo vero e proprio per la grande artista che nel dicembre 2022 ha dichiarato di aver ricevuto la diagnosi di una malattia neurologica autoimmune progressiva, la sindrome da persona rigida, e così ha cancellato tutti i tour. Dunque quello a cui abbiamo assistito è stato un evento speciale, il primo dei 16 concerti tra questo fine…

Il principale mandante della rapina nell’abitazione dell’ex giocatore del Psg Gianluigi Donnarumma e della sua compagna, sequestrati nel luglio 2023 nel loro appartamento parigino, è stato condannato venerdì dal tribunale di Parigi a nove anni di carcere. La procura aveva chiesto una pena di dieci anni per Ilyas Kherbouch, detto ‘Ganito‘, 21 anni, accusato di aver organizzato l’operazione dalla sua cella. Il giovane era diventato noto dopo la sua clamorosa evasione dal carcere di Villepinte, nella periferia di Parigi, nel marzo scorso, prima di essere nuovamente arrestato 13 giorni dopo. Il suo nome compare in numerosi procedimenti legati a sequestri di persona. Considerato dall’accusa come…

Vertice con Meloni a inizio settimana. Gli aiuti selettivi appesi al dato Istat sul deficit. Ipotesi coperture dalla vendita di gas. I prezzi di gasolio e verde salgono ancora nonostante gli sconti sulle accise

Jimmie Akesson guida il Partito Popolare Svedese nell'assalto alle elezioni.

Chiuso l’oleodotto chiave, Riad nella morsa delle milizie filo-iraniane Si infiamma la crisi nel Golfo, dove Riad è stata costretta a chiudere provvisoriamente l’oleodotto chiave Est-Ovest dopo un attacco con droni provenienti dall’Iraq, terreno franco per milizie filo-Teheran Si infiamma la crisi nel Golfo, dove Riad è stata costretta a chiudere provvisoriamente l’oleodotto chiave Est-Ovest dopo un attacco con droni provenienti dall’Iraq, terreno franco per milizie filo-Teheran che fanno parte dell’Asse della resistenza iraniana. Come gli Houthi nello Yemen. Il raid, che ha causato alcuni feriti e danni ancora in fase di valutazione, non è stato rivendicato. Ma Donald Trump, volato in…

Trump scuote l’Irlanda: «Mi piacerebbe vederla unita» Il presidente americano riaccende il dibattito su un tema sensibile e controverso. Secco no dei protestanti unionisti. Il premier britannico Burnham: un referendum non è in agenda «Mi piacerebbe vedere l’Irlanda unita». Il weekend di Donald Trump nell’Isola di smeraldo inizia col botto: il presidente americano, parlando con i giornalisti dopo aver incontrato il premier Micheal Martin, tocca infatti un tema estremamente delicato e tuttora controverso, che lo mette subito in rotta di collisione non solo con gli unionisti dell’Irlanda del nord, ma anche con il premier britannico. Poche settimane fa Andy Burnham aveva infatti dichiarato che…

Il vero rischio della longevità? Una crisi dei conti pubblici A Longevity 21, il mondo delle assicurazioni e delle pensioni si interroga sugli effetti economici di una possibile rivoluzione anti-aging. Sullo sfondo, il rischio di nuove pressioni su pensioni e debito pubblico Se la medicina riuscisse davvero a rallentare l’invecchiamento umano, il primo problema potrebbe non essere sanitario, ma finanziario. Chiedilo al Sole È una delle riflessioni più provocatorie emerse da Longevity 21, la conferenza internazionale dedicata ai rischi di longevità e mortalità tenutasi questa settimana all’Università La Sapienza di Roma in collaborazione con la Bayes Business School della City University di…

Treno deragliato in Francia, la polizia privilegia la pista del sabotaggio Un oggetto metallico posato sui binari ha causato il deragliamento di un treno ad alta velocità nel nord della Francia, con numerosi feriti e una donna in gravi condizioni La polizia francese privilegia la pista del sabotaggio nel grave incidente ferroviario di venerdì sera, quando un treno con con 180 passeggeri - fra Caen e Rouen, nel nord - è deragliato. I feriti sono stati 44, una donna è in gravi condizioni. Chiedilo al Sole Ipotesi atto premeditato L’ipotesi di un atto premeditato per causare l’incidente era emersa già subito dopo l’incidente. Da ieri sera, una foto di un lungo pezzo di binario sezionato e…

Ucraina, Cremlino: «Impossibile incontro Putin Zelensky a margine G20 Miami» Il presidente ucraino insiste sulla necessità di dialogo con Mosca e sollecita aiuti europei e americani per rafforzare la difesa contro gli attacchi russi Il Cremlino considera come impossibile un incontro fra Vladimir Putin e Volodymir Zelensky a Miami, a margine del G20 a dicembre, come aveva proposto il Presidente ucraino. In una dichiarazione all’Afp da Nuova Delhi, Dmitry Peskov ha liquidato la proposta come “impossibile” e ribadito che un tale incontro può tenersi solo a Mosca. Chiedilo al Sole Zelensky: la guerra deve arrivare in casa della Russia “La guerra deve arrivare in casa della Russia. È…

Live Guerra, ultime notizie. Soldato israeliano spara a palestinese disarmato in Cisgiordania L’Iraq ha ordinato la chiusura del valico di frontiera di Shalamcheh, tra Iraq e Iran Sintesi per punti 12 settembre 2026 Iran, udite due esplosioni al largo dell’isola di Qeshm Due esplosioni provenienti dal mare sono state udite al largo dell’isola di Qeshm, nel golfo di Hormuz. Lo riferiscono i media iraniani. 12 settembre 2026 Arabia Saudita: allerte per Khamis Mushait e Abha La Protezione civile dell’Arabia Saudita ha emesso allerte per il governatorato di Khamis Mushait e per la città di Abha, nella provincia di Asir, “per avvertire di un potenziale pericolo”. L’allerta consiglia alla…

Anthropic, il numero uno Amodei: «Dobbiamo rallentare, ecco i miei timori» Nuovo allarme: «Possibili danni catastrofici». Musk: «Dario Amodei ha ragione». OpenAI conferma un altro incidente Mentre emergono nuovi incidenti e attacchi generati autonomamente dall’intelligenza artificiale, i vertici di Anthoripic prendono posizione sulla crescita dell’allarme sicurezza. «Dobbiamo rallentare il ritmo con cui miglioriamo le capacità dei modelli di IA. I progressi sembreranno comunque rapidi e dovremo fare un uso saggio del tempo che guadagneremo», scrive il numero uno di Anthropic, Dario Amodei, in un lungo post in cui invita a seguire un approccio ponderato contro i possibili rischi legati…

Oracle, il miliardario Ellison ferma il piano per incassare 7,5 miliardi Il presidente del gruppo, che possiede circa il 40% delle azioni Oracle, rinuncia per il momento a vendere 50 milioni di titoli Il miliardario Larry Ellison ferma il progetto per adare all’incasso di quasi 7,5 miliardi di dollari mentre la controllata Oracle ha aumentato l’entità dei tagli al personale previsti, trovandosi ad affrontare una crisi di liquidità legata allo sviluppo di data center su larga scala per progetti di intelligenza artificiale. Chiedilo al Sole Il programma fermato da Ellison L’azienda ha reso noto un nuovo programma di negoziazione di azioni per il presidente Larry Ellison, che possiede circa il…

Telco europee contro Musk: alleanza per i servizi satellitari DT, Orange, Telefónica e Vodafone in pista nella gara Ue per le frequenze Quattro big delle telecomunicazioni europee contro il gigante satellitare di Elon Musk. Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Vodafone e Telefónica starebbero trattando per creare un consorzio che partecipi alla gara europea per le frequenze satellitari e costruisca una propria offerta direct-to-mobile: collegamenti fra satelliti e normali smartphone, senza antenne dedicate. Un tentativo di aprire un fronte europeo in un mercato dove Starlink, la rete satellitare di SpaceX che fa capo a Elon Musk, parte con parecchi chilometri – e satelliti – di vantaggio. Chiedilo al…

La corsa del greggio sostiene il comparto oil, a Milano sale Eni In rialzo anche le big europee. Sul Ftse Mib debole Saipem, ma Banca Akros consiglia di accumulare le azioni (Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) - La corsa delle quotazioni del greggio sostiene i titoli petroliferi: a Piazza Affari guadagna terreno Eni e sono ben impostate anche la spagnola Repsol e la francese TotalEnergies, oltre che le britanniche Bp e Shell. Nel settore, tuttavia, a Milano sono in ribasso Tenaris e Saipem. Quest'ultime avevano fatto bene la vigilia salendo dello 0,7%, dopo l'annuncio dell'aggiudicazione di un nuovo contratto in Turchia per i servizi di Commissioning della Floating Production Unit Osman Gazi…

- Published In September 2025, Gerald Bourguet felt he was finally living his dream life: he and his wife had bought a house with a pool, they had just welcomed a baby boy, and he was writing about professional men's basketball as his full-time job. But all of that changed after he made a series of online posts critical of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk hours after he was fatally shot on 10 September, while speaking on the campus of Utah Valley University. In the posts, Bourguet described Kirk as an "evil man" and suggested he had dedicated his life to hateful causes. He also criticised Kirk's supporters saying they had not been vocal about school shootings. "I had seen the way…

- Published Theirs is a story straight out of a Bollywood film. Two Indian-born women in their 40s, adopted as babies by different families and raised near each other in the Netherlands, have now discovered they are biological sisters. Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen, born in the early 1980s, were adopted from two different orphanages in the western Indian city of Mumbai within months of their birth. When they first met in their early teens at an event hosted by the adoption agency their parents had used, they were struck by the uncanny similarities in their appearance and mannerisms. Meena, now 43, remembers the day clearly. "All the adopted children were brought together to hang out and…

- Published When another world leader meets US President Donald Trump the only certainty about what might happen is the uncertainty about what might happen. This was exactly the case ahead of President Trump's two-day visit to Ireland. Nobody could have predicted that by the end of the first day, the main global headline would be his desire to see a unified Ireland. As the shockwaves of his remarks rippled through this island and Great Britain, it was unclear whether this represented a new US administration policy, or an off-the-cuff remark from a president who likes to take questions from reporters, and likes to give answers. Former Republican Congressman Mick Mulvaney was Trump's special…

- Published An Afghan woman living in Texas with legal US permanent residency has been deported from the country in the first-ever use of a secretive court. Nazira Haji Zada, 47, chose to leave the US rather than continue to argue her case before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and her lawyers. The Alien Terrorist Removal Court was created in 1996, but had never heard a case before the proceedings in July. It is meant for non-US citizens facing terrorism-related charges when the evidence is confidential and related to national security. Lawyers for Haji Zada argued that the case violated her right to due process under the US…

- Published The head of AI company Anthropic has called for the pace of development of artificial intelligence models to slow down and to be closely monitored. In an essay, Dario Amodei said developing AI was not in question, but the risks associated with it were "serious" and companies and governments must be given time to address them. The bosses of two rival AI firms, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk, have both said they agree with Amodei. There have been growing concerns recently about the technology's potential risks. An AI researcher who left Anthropic this week told the BBC that "if we don't slow down at the current rate of progress, there is a strong chance that we could all die…

- Published Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska has said her family's flat has been destroyed in a Russian aerial strike on the Black Sea port of Odesa. "This is what the 'Russian world' looks like. A direct hit by a Kalibr cruise missile," she wrote on social media, showing a photo of a burning multi-storey residential building. "The only thing that survived was a Roland Garros... towel," the 26-year-old added, posting an image of a famous clay orange towel from Paris's Grand Slam tournament hanging from the wreckage. Odesa regional head Oleh Kiper said 37 people were injured, including a baby, and two missing in the missile and drone attack on Odesa and nearby Chornomorsk on Friday…

- Published At least 16 elderly residents have died in a fire at a nursing home in Chile, according to authorities. Ten others were evacuated after a blaze broke out at El Edén home in /idt2/d9cfcc9a-2842-463f-a4d8-4dd007ef9547, around 640km (400 miles) south of the capital Santiago, on Friday evening. Jorge Granada, a prosecutor leading the case, said it was not clear at this stage what caused the incident. Chile's President José Antonio Kast said he had ordered a review into the condition of nursing homes across the country. "We will fully collaborate with the justice system to clarify what happened, determine where failures may have existed in oversight or prevention, identify what…

- Published Bulgaria is investigating the cause of an overnight fire at an ammunition storage site run by a private defence company. Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev said the authorities "are not ruling out outside interference" in the incident in central Bulgaria. No-one was injured in the blaze that triggered a series of explosions. EMCO company, whose weapons are used by Ukraine against invading Russian forces, said the fire at its site was sabotage and that human error was "completely ruled out". It did not say who might be responsible. The latest incident follows last month's fire and blasts at another EMCO ammunition warehouse in the area. In a statement, EMCO said the storage…

Céline Dion fans prepare for comeback concert in Paris Céline Dion greeted fans today as she left her hotel, hours before she kicked off her comeback concert in Paris. The Canadian singer returns to the stage on Saturday for her first full concert in six years, to open a sell-out Paris residency after a battle with a rare neurological disorder put a pause in her career. Some fans arrived as early as 06:00 to get a spot in front of LeRoyal Monceau hotel to catch a glimpse of the star before she left. She is one of the best-selling music artists of all time and is due to perform a series of 26 concerts over the next eight months. Read more: Céline Dion announces comeback shows: 'I'm so ready…

- Published The Philippine Coast Guard says it has recovered 41 bodies from the wreckage of a ferry that caught fire this week, bringing the total death toll to 76. More than 130 people were on board the MV June Aster when the blaze erupted on Wednesday as it neared its destination at the tourist hotspot of Coron, after departing from Manila. The coast guard said on Saturday the number of survivors remained 43, with many receiving treatment in hospital, but 13 people remain unaccounted for. Recovery of bodies had been hampered due to toxic fumes and lingering heat, which meant authorities were unable to board until Friday. Geronimo Tuvilla, an official for the Philippine Coast Guard, said…

- Published Officials in northern France are investigating whether the derailment of a passenger train on Friday evening was the result of a malicious act. "At this stage, the leading theory is that a piece of rail was present on one of the tracks, potentially causing the derailment. The reason for its presence is unknown," prosecutor Sébastien Gallois said on Saturday. Local media say 186 passengers were on board the train that was operating between Rouen and Caen in Normandy. Forty-four people were treated for injuries, including an 18-year-old woman who was airlifted to hospital in a critical condition. "The train's 'black box' has been seized. Several interviews are scheduled, and a…

- Published Champagne lovers may find themselves getting tipsy more quickly after French producers have been given the go-ahead to raise the alcohol content in a bottle of bubbly for the first time following this summer's record heatwave. Winemakers can temporarily produce champagne with an alcohol content of up to 15% - above the 13% cap, industry officials have said. The extreme heat and drought produced grapes with exceptionally higher sugar levels. Yeast converts sugar into alcohol during fermentation. France's Champagne region also saw its earliest-ever harvest due to the weather, something that could become the norm "in 10 to 15 years" because of climate change, according to the…

- Published Saudi Arabia has closed a critical oil pipeline after it was attacked by drones launched from Iraq, as conflict in the Middle East widens. Iraq said it had fired a military commander and launched an investigation after admitting the drone attack on its neighbour's East-West pipeline had originated in one of its provinces bordering Iran. Saudi Arabia has previously accused Iran-backed militia in Iraq of targeting its oil facilities. The 1,200km (745 mile) pipeline has helped Saudi Arabia - the world's largest crude oil exporter - bypass the Strait of Hormuz. The incident comes amid a major advance by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, putting more pressure on global oil…

- Published For Ndaikech Ali, who has been traversing the streets of the Kenyan capital eking out a living as a tuk-tuk driver for the past nine years, Nairobi's traffic - not xenophobia - has been his biggest concern. During his time in the East African nation, the Burundian says he has always found Kenyans to be friendly and welcoming - that is until last week, when the president ordered a crackdown on foreigners working as traders or operating small-scale businesses. "Now they have turned against us," he told the BBC at the Burundian embassy in Nairobi where many have been queuing this week for documents to allow them to travel back home. "The threats are many… even from children," he…

Altman: IPO unlikely this year CEO Sam Altman said he did not think OpenAI would go public this year as widely expected, and separately called for increased safety evaluations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he didn’t think the company’s highly anticipated IPO would happen this year, in an interview released Saturday. “Now would be an ill-advised moment to go public,” he said. “I would say not 2026,” Altman added. Altman made the comments in a Fortune interview after the company confidentially filed paperwork over the summer for an IPO, which fueled speculation of a market debut this year. The comments come as autonomous hacks and cybersecurity incidents by OpenAI programs continue to come to…

Republicans fear they have a North Carolina problem GOP Senate nominee Michael Whatley has consistently trailed Democrat Roy Cooper — and some in the party aren’t sure he can turn things around in time for November. DALLAS — Republicans are increasingly worried that North Carolina’s Senate race is slipping out of contention. For months, they had argued that a post-Labor Day infusion of cash could jolt new energy into the largely stagnant but critical Senate race. But as Republican nominee Michael Whatley struggles to meaningfully close the gap against Democrat Roy Cooper in the polls, some in the party fear they’re running out of time. Republicans’ concerns were apparent in side…

Convention puts GOP’s reality on display: Midterm policy agenda is skimpy Even President Donald Trump’s promise of $5,000 checks underscores the intraparty divides that have left this Congress unable to reliably legislate. DALLAS — Republicans used their midterm convention this week to ask voters to preserve their congressional majorities and let them “finish the job.” But with few consensus legislative goals, it’s far from clear what job they want to finish. The two-day convention here centered on painting Democrats as an increasingly socialist party that American voters cannot trust with power while highlighting the GOP’s one major victory on Capitol Hill under President Donald Trump’s…

Republicans aren’t convinced Dallas changed the midterms 'No harm done, but also doesn't change much of anything,' said one Republican strategist. DALLAS – Republicans breathed a sigh of relief that the GOP midterm convention didn’t go poorly. But many aren’t convinced it will help in November. On flights out of Dallas Friday morning, Republicans were grateful that the novel concept of a two-day midterm convention went smoothly. But they had lingering questions about its impact in the upcoming midterms and even some worries that President Donald Trump’s request that voters picture him on the ballot will hurt swing district Republicans who need Democratic or independent votes. “It went…

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence launched a cyberattack against an online service months before a July hack against startup Hugging Face, the company confirmed Friday, a revelation that could ramp up calls for safety regulations across the industry. The latest disclosure revealed OpenAI models still in testing accessed an online service for coders called RubyGems in order to create reports and fill out spreadsheets. The site’s controllers reportedly froze new account registrations as they handled the fallout. Despite OpenAI not giving the programs full access to the internet, The AI agents circumvented controls meant to prevent them from accessing the open internet. The Wall Street Journal…

Why AfD Appeals to So Many Germans The far-right party surges in a regional election. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party received 43.8 percent of the vote in the regional election of the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt last weekend, putting it in position to potentially lead the next state government. That would mark a historical event, as no far-right party has led a state government since World War II; it also marks a constitutional challenge to postwar Germany’s commitment to liberal democracy. What exactly was the AfD’s policy program for the state? Is identity politics more central to its appeal than material policies? And what can progressives learn from the AfD’s…

Who Wears the BRICS Crown? India and China compete to shape the bloc’s agenda moving forward. Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at what to expect at this year’s BRICS leaders’ summit, the legacy of 9/11 a quarter century later, and the Houthis’ lightning offensive on the Red Sea coast. Vying for Influence In a world long dictated by U.S. hegemony, who leads the other side? That is the issue defining this weekend’s BRICS summit, as the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and other member countries gather in New Delhi to discuss what a counterweight to Washington’s influence should look like. Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at what to expect…

My university education was excellent. Yet nothing was more enlightening than the nearly seven years I spent living in West Berlin in the 1980s. To improve my German, I tried all sorts of things: from sitting through half-understood theater performances to spending evenings with anyone willing to put up with my stumbling conversation. None of them compared hearing the news. Berlin was still divided by a wall that always looked incongruously small when you bumped up to it. With a U.S. passport, I could take the train behind the Iron Curtain for the price of dinner. Back in my West Berlin apartment, I practiced German by listening to the news from both East and West, toggling between them…

Discarding an Old Map and Seeing Africa With Fresh Eyes The continent offers solutions to some of the West’s most vexing problems. Since the advent of social media a couple of decades ago, hardly a week has gone by when I haven’t noted, often with a smirk or a shrug, some poster’s belated discovery of a long-known fact: The most commonly used cartographical representations of the world drastically understate the size of southern land masses, especially Africa, giving it an appearance far short of its true dimensions. Now, even the United Nations seems to have caught up. With one notable holdout, the United States, a recent vote by that body to recommend that future mapmakers correct this…

A War Reporter’s Antidote to Nihilism In a new book, Sally Hayden considers how journalists can puncture the detachment of the privileged. European society was historically divided into a general hierarchy known as the three estates: the clergy, the nobility, and the hoi polloi—that is, everyone else. Working along those lines, the Parliament of the United Kingdom classifies its members in a similar system: the Lords Spiritual, the Lords Temporal, and the Commons. It was during a sitting of the House of Commons that Edmund Burke, a member of Parliament in the late 18th century, apparently identified a new type of estate. “Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the…

Don’t Blame Ukraine for High Gas Prices Kyiv’s energy war on Russia may hurt on the margins, but the real culprit is Trump’s war on Iran. In recent interviews, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has blamed Ukraine for higher energy prices, saying that its drone and missile strikes on Russian refineries are the main reason U.S. drivers are paying record prices at the pump. But the rapidly metastasizing war in the Middle East has made clear exactly where the true and fundamental cause of higher energy prices lies. And it isn’t in Kyiv. In recent interviews, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has blamed Ukraine for higher energy prices, saying that its drone and missile strikes on Russian…

Twenty-five years on, it’s still hard to grasp the significance of 9/11 because it remains a moving target. The repercussions rippling out of that terrible day never seem to stop—or even slow down. The era of 9/11 began with one misbegotten U.S. war of choice in the Middle East, in Iraq. We are marking its 25th anniversary with another misbegotten U.S. war of choice in the Middle East, in Iran. In between, we’re not quite sure what we have learned, other than Americans never seem to get regime change right, whether we send in troops or not. And Washington still finds itself mired in a region that successive presidents have said they want to distance themselves from. Twenty-five years on…

Featured in this article Not every standing desk is worth the investment, but the ones that are can change the entire rhythm of your workday. Switching between sitting and standing not only encourages movement and better posture, but it also breaks up the long, sluggish stretches of time that come with desk work. Our team has been testing desks at home for years, putting each one through several weeks of daily use. Mostly, that means standard desk work, but also tasks like building Lego sets and wrapping holiday gifts. These are the models that stand out. They’re durable, comfortable, and practical (some even come with techy upgrades), and they make it easy enough to make standing a small…

Rockstar Games’ best-selling Grand Theft Auto series wasn’t often accused of political sensitivity during its legendary run from the late 1990s through the early 2010s. In fact, parents and activists denounced the franchise for exposing children to a seedy world of sex, violence, crude humor, and wanton crime. Elon Musk even claimed that he couldn’t get into the last installment, GTA V, because he was mortified to play as a character who shoots police officers. But times (and moral panics) change. In the 13 years that fans have waited for Grand Theft Auto VI—finally out on November 19—the American right-wing grievance machine has drifted from fears of impressionable kids turning to a life…

Featured in this article If you have an iPhone, AirPods, and an Apple Watch, congrats! You have the holy trinity of Apple products. But keeping all these gadgets powered up can be annoying, since they all have individual cables and proprietary charging solutions. Why deal with all that hassle when the best 3-in-1 Apple charging stations can accommodate everything? Our Best Wireless Chargers guide has a few recommendations, but many more great docking systems exist for Apple devices. After years of testing 3-in-1 Apple charging stations, these are my favorites. If you want one you can take on a trip, check out my new Best Apple 3-in-1 Travel Chargers guide. Be sure to read our other Apple…

Editor’s note: After more than a decade, this is the last WIRED Security News This Week. “The roundup,” as we call it internally, started as a way to ensure that our readers knew about the latest key cybersecurity and privacy news even if we didn’t write about it ourselves. It was a simple way to highlight our own work and the wealth of other great journalism and research published in this realm every week. Over the years, the roundup has developed a devoted following, and some editions have even become viral hits—which is honestly weird, but the cybersecurity community is great and weird, so it feels right. Rest assured that something new and exciting is coming in the roundup’s place, so…

There aren’t many differences between what you’d need for a good office chair versus a good gaming chair, but for some reason, they’re often marketed differently. And that’s usually what separates them: marketing. When Branch released variations of the WIRED-favorite Ergonomic Chair Pro in collaboration with Sega, I was stoked to try it from a gamer perspective for our buying guide rather than from an office warrior POV. It checks every box: It has the comfortable ergonomics you'd expect from an adjustable office chair, with the subtle, pleasing designs inspired by one of gaming's most revered companies. Looks Good This Sega collaboration comes in three aesthetically pleasing designs that…

Mathematician and author Steven Strogatz starts to cry when he talks about the artificial-intelligence-driven breakthroughs in his field over the past week. “The science is thrilling,” the Cornell University professor says, “but there's a lot of human unpleasantness going with it.” On Tuesday, OpenAI said it had used tens of thousands of agents to solve a 90-year-old math problem, which had a $1 million prize attached. The solution—which still needs to be independently verified—builds on a strategy developed by Spanish mathematicians Diego Córdoba and Luis Martínez-Zoroa. The announcement was marred by claims from another mathematician, Tristan Buckmaster, who says that OpenAI rushed ahead…

This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Friday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit against the city of Jackson, Mississippi, which alleged the city knowingly let residents drink lead-contaminated water. The lawsuit, first filed in 2022, says the contamination violated Jacksonians’ constitutional right to bodily integrity. Donald Trump–appointed judge Kurt Engelhardt disagreed. “The Constitution does not provide redress for every governmental wrongdoing,” Engelhardt said. “Defendants’ actions allegedly deprived Plaintiffs of clean water and guileless information. These deprivations, while grievous…

Join War on the Rocks and gain access to content trusted by policymakers, military leaders, and strategic thinkers worldwide. On the first night of the evacuation of Kabul, Aug. 15, 2021, a young mother found me in the crowd at Hamid Karzai International Airport. She had marked me, correctly, as someone who spoke her language. By the end of the night, she was pressing the body of her dead child into my chest and telling me, “You did this.” I have spent five years with that sentence. In a way, she was wrong about me. I had done nothing to her son. But the decisions that delivered her to that night were made an ocean away, and their consequences needed a human face. Mine was the nearest one…

As China’s President Xi Jinping prepares to travel to Washington, D.C. on September 24, his approach will reflect not only the specific items on his agenda, but also broader geopolitical transformations currently underway. These revolutions-in-progress create both enormous opportunities for China and hazards for it, and the international community, to navigate. Reinforcing advances currently underway in “big data,” artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous systems, and robotics are rapidly transforming both economic and military dynamics, with radical implications for political systems and the global balance of power. Latin America and the rest of the developing world will be a battleground…

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan August 31-September 1 marked a quarter century since the organization’s founding. Its anniversary motto, “Together for Sustainable Peace, Development and Prosperity,” hinted at ambitions considerably grander than the institution’s record. The SCO now encompasses ten member states, including China, India, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, and four Central Asian republics – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan – representing nearly half of humanity and a substantial share of global economic activity. Yet headlines emerging from Bishkek often highlighted the organization’s internal dynamics and differing national…

With his surprise decision to scale back the recent Ulchi Freedom Shield military exercise on the Korean Peninsula, U.S. President Donald Trump clearly signaled his intent to rekindle dialogue with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. However, rather than receiving praise for the goodwill measure, the effort drew rebuke from the North Korean government, which reiterated its position that it has no interest in renewing engagement as long as the United States holds onto denuclearization as a policy objective. This exchange has renewed debates over long-standing denuclearization policies, particularly as Trump continues his overtures toward the Kim regime in hopes of a possible meeting on the…

India faces one of the most challenging security environments in the world, confronting not one but two adversarial neighbors: Pakistan and China. While New Delhi retains the conventional military upper hand over Islamabad, in Beijing it confronts a militarily and economically superior power that has repeatedly used force to alter the status quo along their disputed border. Since the 1962 border war, India and China have faced a series of military confrontations, including the 2017 Doklam standoff and the deadly Galwan Valley clashes in 2020. More recently, Beijing reportedly provided Islamabad with critical intelligence support during the 2025 India-Pakistan conflict, raising the…

Much has been made of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement (MJDA) – a collective security agreement signed by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye in early August – in news and analysis recently. Some have likened this to the Russia-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). Others have called this a signal of the end of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the birth of a new regional order. Though, perhaps reports of NATO’s death are greatly exaggerated. And with the benefit of a longer historical lens, we can see how prognostications that MJDA will remake the region’s security are fairly off the mark. More than anything, MJDA resembles the failed and somewhat…

Learning Chinese Sign Language is a bewildering experience. To begin with, Chinese Sign Language (CSL) is in itself best understood as an umbrella term rather than a well-defined language. You have Signed Chinese, shoushi hanyu, which is one-to-one transcriptions of the written standard Chinese into signs, replete with interpuncation such as signed question marks. Then there is Natural Sign Language, ziran shouyu, the language that is actually spoken between native deaf signers in China. It has syntax and grammar markedly different from Chinese, makes extensive use of abbreviations and, like all natural sign languages, incorporates facial expressions. Besides these, there are yet other…

When the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, was formed in 1967, the five founding states intended to produce a front against the spread of communism. The venture has since grown to include a total of 11 countries, producing a remarkable set of unforeseen consequences, from becoming the fifth-largest economy in the world to reinforcing peace across a swath of diverse and developing countries. Instead of pursuing Cold War initiatives, the bloc has become increasingly integrated, tied together through manufacturing supply chains, trade infrastructure, and shared financial institutions like the Chiang Mai Initiative. ASEAN now produces over $4 trillion in GDP and has a population of…

Sri Lankan investigators arrested Namal Rajapaksa on September 4 over allegations that he received 100 million Sri Lankan rupees (about $800,000 per 2014-15 exchange rates) in bribes linked to an aircraft procurement deal involving SriLankan Airlines in 2012-13. The arrest shows that investigators have moved beyond airline officials and business intermediaries to a member of Sri Lanka’s most powerful political family. The reaction to the arrest was interesting. The United National Party (UNP), which led the 2015-19 Yahapalanaya (good governance) government under which several investigations against Rajapaksa began, joined the Rajapaksa family-led Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) in…

The Program Redesign the IMF Needs and The International Monetary Fund’s guidelines for program design are more salient than ever, given widespread debt distress in developing countries. As the Fund undertakes its first major evaluation since 2019, it should focus on three features of its lending, all of which need to be reformed. NEW YORK—The International Monetary Fund is conducting a Review of Program Design and Conditionality, its first major evaluation since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. With so many countries suffering from macroeconomic imbalances and debt distress that are severely weakening their development prospects, the IMF guidelines for program design, while always…

AI Could Make Governments Slower Governments are increasingly turning to AI tools to process vast amounts of information and make public services more efficient. But because human attention is finite, making machines more capable could simply create new bottlenecks wherever oversight is necessary. ABU DHABI—AI-generated writing has become ubiquitous since ChatGPT’s release in 2022, and institutions are struggling to keep up. Nowhere is the pressure more evident than in the courts. In the United States, the share of federal lawsuits filed without a lawyer rose from an 11% average in 2005–22 to 16.8% in 2025, with researchers linking the surge to the advent of AI. The same study found that…

Why Do So Few Women Work in India? and India’s female labor force participation rate has long lagged behind that of peer economies like Bangladesh, not because of social norms, but because of weak demand for labor. That is ultimately good news, because it is a problem that can be solved with common-sense regulatory reforms and public investment. NEW DELHI—India’s female labor force participation rate (LFPR) stands at 35%, which is well below that of peers like Bangladesh (42%) and the Philippines (50%). Though it has risen substantially from 21% in 2017–18, a closer examination reveals that over 70% of the increase came from the agriculture and subsistence sectors, with significant levels…

Global Development’s Missing Ingredient Gordon Whitman Facing a democracy deficit worldwide, millions of vulnerable people lack avenues through which they can collectively negotiate their interests. Faith-based institutions committed to human dignity and pluralism can play an instrumental role in building the infrastructure required for grassroots organizing at scale. WASHINGTON, DC—In his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV presents two possible futures for humanity: top-down, technocratic rule, symbolized by the Tower of Babel, and bottom-up reconstruction, much like Nehemiah organized exiles to rebuild Jerusalem in the face of fierce opposition. In a world increasingly…

China’s External Surplus Makes a “Mandarin Accord” Inevitable As with the Plaza Accord in 1985, when the United States and its major trading partners agreed to coordinate policies to weaken the US dollar, an agreement to address global imbalances emanating from China has become increasingly necessary. Given China’s undervalued currency, the situation simply cannot be sustained indefinitely. LONDON—In keeping with the adage that history never repeats itself but often rhymes, I suspect that we could soon see developments in international macroeconomic policy for which there are clear precedents. As with the Plaza Accord in 1985, when the United States and four of its major trading partners…

War and Climate , , and The closure of the Strait of Hormuz showed how quickly a regional conflict can throw global energy markets into chaos. By pushing governments toward coal and biofuels, the war could accelerate deforestation and undermine climate negotiations, with environmental consequences that will linger long after the fighting ends. RIO DE JANEIRO—Six months into the Iran war, the standoff in the Strait of Hormuz continues to rattle the global economy. Traders and governments are watching for signs of escalation, while households and companies are paying more for fuel and fearing energy shortages. But the war is also taking a deeper, albeit less visible, environmental toll…

The enduring legacy of 9/11, with former Defense Secretary Mark Esper Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper reflects on 25 years since 9/11, the lessons of America’s forever wars, and the biggest threats to US national security today This week marks 25 years since 9/11—the deadliest terror attack the world has ever seen and a defining moment in American history. The attacks transformed US politics and national security. The war on terror became the organizing principle of American foreign policy. Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper joins Ian Bremmer on the GZERO World Podcast to reflect on the day that forever changed how Americans thought about national security, and how the United States…

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1. Cuba è il fallimento degli Stati Uniti d’America. Fallimento in più sensi, perfino opposti. Tutti derivanti dal clamoroso ossimoro che il più grande fra i Padri fondatori, Thomas Jefferson, propose marchio della repubblica: impero per la libertà. Duecentocinquant’anni dopo, i suoi eredi ancora provano a trarre dalla triade originaria un’identità condivisa. Impossibile. Qualsiasi angolo tu scelga – repubblica, impero, libertà – uno dei due residui sarà inconiugabile col primo.