India Tech Hub Karnataka Bans Under-16s From Social Apps
India’s technology capital enacted restrictions Friday barring anyone under 16 from using social media platforms, an ironic move for a city that hosts Microsoft, Amazon and Google while serving as Meta’s single largest global market by user count. Karnataka’s chief minister, Siddaramaiah, who uses one name, announced the measure in his annual budget address but […]
Nepal Counts Votes After Gen Z-Driven Push For Change
Roughly six in ten eligible Nepalis cast ballots Thursday in an election shaped by last September’s youth uprising, which left at least 77 people dead and forced the resignation of a prime minister who is now seeking to reclaim power through the same democratic process that protesters said had failed them. Acting Chief Election Commissioner […]
Singapore Plans Record-Breaking 60-Story Public Housing
Singapore will squeeze 50 percent more apartments into its next generation of public housing towers by pushing residential blocks beyond 60 stories, exploiting relaxed aviation rules to address land scarcity in one of the world’s most densely populated countries. A project at Pearl’s Hill in the Outram district will rise more than 10 stories higher […]
War Paralyzes WHO Emergency Hub Operations In Dubai
Urgent medical supplies worth $26 million sit trapped in or bound for Dubai as fighting across the Middle East has shut down the World Health Organization’s main distribution center for global health emergencies, cutting off aid to dozens of countries battling disease outbreaks and humanitarian crises. More than 50 emergency requests from 25 nations cannot […]
Trump Insists On Hand-Picking Iran’s Next Leadership
President Donald Trump asserted Thursday that he must approve Iran’s choice of a new supreme leader, an ambition that appears divorced from the reality of how Tehran’s clerical establishment operates and the geopolitical constraints Washington faces despite its military advantage. Trump told Axios he found Mojtaba Khamenei—son of the supreme leader killed Saturday in an […]
Social Security Revamp Anchors China’s Pro-Natalist Push
China’s population has contracted for three consecutive years, and projections show 400 million people will be over 60 by 2035—a figure approaching the combined populations of the United States and Italy—driving Beijing to commit an estimated 180 billion yuan this year to policies aimed at reversing the decline. The government outlined plans Thursday to construct […]
Pentagon Boss Warns Iran: Harm Americans, We Track You Down
The United States will pursue anyone who kills or threatens American lives regardless of location, the Pentagon’s chief said Monday, issuing a stark warning as fighting with Iran entered its third day following the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in weekend airstrikes. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told a news conference in Washington […]
Middle East Violence Batters Yen, Euro Over Fuel Concerns
Central banks in Europe and Japan confronted the possibility Tuesday that widening conflict across the Middle East could force them to reconsider interest rate plans as energy import costs threaten to reignite inflation pressures they had only recently begun to contain. European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane told the Financial Times that a prolonged […]
Dangote Industrial Expansion Eyes Steel, Energy, Ports
Nigeria faces a shortage of up to 50 million jobs by the end of the decade, a deficit that has prompted one of Africa’s wealthiest industrialists to accelerate plans for investments in steel manufacturing, power generation and port infrastructure as private capital races to fill gaps left by sluggish government action. Aliko Dangote, whose conglomerate […]
Americans Told To Flee More Than Dozen MidEast Nations Now
Americans seeking to flee Middle Eastern countries face shrinking exit options as airlines cancel flights and the State Department issues urgent departure orders for more than a dozen nations caught in escalating violence that has killed hundreds since Saturday. Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Mora Namdar posted on X that US citizens in […]
Japan: Volcano Islands Rocked By 6.0-Magnitude Tremor
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Japan’s Volcano Islands on Monday afternoon, shaking an area roughly 1,250 kilometers south of Tokyo where the only permanent residents are military personnel stationed on Iwo Jima. The United States Geological Survey measured the tremor at 12:55 pm local time. No damage, injuries or tsunami warnings were reported in the […]
Power Dynamics Tilt As Larijani Claims Broker Role In Iran
Ali Larijani has emerged as Iran’s most visible security official in the hours following airstrikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, announcing a temporary leadership council while simultaneously managing the country’s military response and its faltering nuclear negotiations with Washington. The veteran politician, who holds the position of secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security […]