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Digital life
fromWIRED
15 hours ago

Rednote Draws a Line Between China and the World

Rednote users are experiencing automatic account conversions from the Chinese to the international version, raising concerns about content availability and platform identity.
Business
from24/7 Wall St.
23 hours ago

2026 Is the Year to Pick Your Emerging-Market ETF Carefully

Emerging-market equities have surged, with performance varying significantly among major ETFs due to differing strategies and index constructions.
#china-economy
fromAbove the Law
2 days ago

The $150 Train Ride That Explains Everything Wrong With The World Cup Economy - Above the Law

New Jersey Transit estimates it will cost roughly $48 million to safely move tens of thousands of fans to and from matches. At the same time, FIFA stands to generate approximately $11 billion from the tournament.
Alternative transportation
Washington DC
fromwww.dw.com
3 days ago

India news: India-US near trade deal in Washington

Washington and New Delhi are close to finalizing a trade deal, with negotiations ongoing and most issues resolved.
Europe politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 days ago

Who will shape the global agenda the left or far right?

Left-leaning leaders in Barcelona and far-right figures in Milan represent opposing political perspectives on democracy and regulation in Europe.
fromwww.dw.com
4 days ago

South Korea, India agree to boost trade and defense ties

The level of economic cooperation between South Korea and India is still very low. Going forward, we will expand that space and make the relationship between South Korea and India completely different from what it is now.
World news
History
fromwww.aljazeera.com
5 days ago

Slavery reparations are just, but who exactly owes whom?

Some African elites benefited from the slave trade, complicating the narrative of reparations in the context of historical injustices.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 days ago

How China is gaining from Iran war by showing it is different from US

Beijing is strategically positioning itself amid the US-Israel war on Iran, advocating for peace while maintaining economic ties with key nations.
#economic-growth
fromwww.dw.com
2 days ago

Taiwan blames pressure from China for nixed Africa trip

The actual reason was intense pressure exerted by Chinese authorities, including economic coercion. Using coercive means to force a third country to change its sovereign decisions not only undermines aviation safety and violates relevant international norms and practices, it also constitutes a blatant interference in another country's internal affairs.
World politics
Right-wing politics
fromwww.dw.com
2 weeks ago

Why have US-South Africa relations soured?

Cyril Ramaphosa criticized global right-wing forces, particularly Trump, amid deteriorating South Africa-US relations and a shift towards BRICS countries.
Silicon Valley
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks ago

U.S. and China control 90% of AI data centres - the Global South is building a different kind of AI - Silicon Canals

Frugal AI movements in the Global South aim to reclaim sovereignty by developing independent, low-cost AI systems for critical services.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

Minerals for aid: Are new US health deals exploiting' African countries?

In late 2025, the United States shocked the world by suspending global health aid, leading experts to predict 700,000 additional deaths annually, primarily among children. This prompted the US to propose unusual bilateral health agreements with developing countries, which have drawn criticism for being exploitative.
Public health
fromwww.aljazeera.com
5 days ago

Does the world need new leaders? Varsha Gandikota & Naledi Pandor

Naledi Pandor emphasizes that the Global South has the potential to unite and provide a counterbalance to the US, which currently holds significant power in the international order. She believes that solidarity among nations in the Global South is crucial for achieving this goal.
World politics
World politics
fromwww.dw.com
5 days ago

Spain, Brazil, Mexico vow to boost Cuba aid amid US threats

Spain, Brazil, and Mexico are increasing aid to Cuba, citing a humanitarian crisis caused by the US blockade.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

White Girls and the Global South

Spring offers a variety of art books to rejuvenate reading habits, featuring diverse themes and historical insights.
World politics
fromThe Cipher Brief
1 week ago

Is the Trump-Xi Summit the Key to Resolving Global Conflicts?

The upcoming summit between Trump and Xi Jinping presents an opportunity for U.S.-China cooperation to address global conflicts and economic issues.
fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

A Pillar of the Economics Establishment Admits That It Was Wrong

The World Bank's recent report argues that government intervention, when done right, can actually be an essential ingredient of economic success, reversing decades of opposition to industrial policy.
World politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

More poverty, less travel and fewer jobs: what the world would be like with oil at $200

Fatih Birol, president of the International Energy Agency, warned that the war in Iran is the greatest threat to energy security in history, with analysts describing the situation as an Armageddon.
World news
Left-wing politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

What can the left do against technocapitalism?

Technofeudalism has intensified neoliberal policies, threatening job precarity through platforms and AI while tech oligarchs support authoritarian movements, requiring democratic reform, worker protection, and technological sovereignty.
#us-foreign-policy
World politics
fromThe Cipher Brief
3 weeks ago

Taking a Stand on Adversaries' Influence in the Western Hemisphere

The US operation on January 3rd aimed to counteract adversarial influence in Latin America, particularly against Venezuela and Cuba.
World politics
fromThe Cipher Brief
3 weeks ago

Taking a Stand on Adversaries' Influence in the Western Hemisphere

The US operation on January 3rd aimed to counteract adversarial influence in Latin America, particularly against Venezuela and Cuba.
Women in technology
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Three women, three countries and a global crisis

Funding cuts by major Western donors devastate humanitarian services in Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Colombia, disproportionately harming women and girls in crisis regions.
Canada news
fromFortune
1 month ago

Economist Eswar Prasad warns a 'motley group' of middle powers can't stop the 'doom loop' threatening the global economy | Fortune

The rules-based international order faces rupture as great powers weaponize economic integration, tariffs, and supply chains, forcing middle powers to form strategic alliances or risk marginalization.
US politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

The once-in-a-decade' chance to transform the UK's footprint on the world

Robust, publicly funded journalism supports on-the-ground reporting, while the UK can reform trade policy to address global supply-chain human rights and environmental risks.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief

The global economy must be transformed to value environmental health, human wellbeing, sustainability and equity rather than GDP as the sole measure of progress.
Privacy professionals
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

The global south is being surveilled into compliance and Silicon Valley calls it development - Silicon Canals

Technology companies extract valuable personal data from Global South populations through development-framed digital infrastructure projects, concentrating data ownership and control in private corporations while host countries receive limited access.
Online Community Development
fromNature
1 month ago

Going 'beyond GDP' should not mean sidelining the SDGs

The UN's High-Level Expert Group will recommend development progress measures beyond GDP, with SDG specialists urging new frameworks to build on existing indicator work rather than start anew.
Miscellaneous
fromPrx
2 months ago

The World

Marco Rubio received a standing ovation at Munich; Denmark updated conscription; Americas' last prison island became a tourist bioreserve; Winter Olympics update featured Sarah Spain.
#ghana
World politics
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

How Africa gets shortchanged in trade with Europe

Ghana's export surpluses from goods like gold and cocoa mask challenges in local industries, particularly poultry farming due to cheaper imports.
World politics
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

The unequal flow of goods between Africa and Europe

Ghana's export surpluses from goods like gold and cocoa mask challenges for local industries, particularly poultry farming due to cheaper imports.
World politics
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

How Africa gets shortchanged in trade with Europe

Ghana's export surpluses from goods like gold and cocoa mask challenges in local industries, particularly poultry farming due to cheaper imports.
World politics
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

The unequal flow of goods between Africa and Europe

Ghana's export surpluses from goods like gold and cocoa mask challenges for local industries, particularly poultry farming due to cheaper imports.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Latin America: In the Shadow of the US | Ep 2 Wars

The 1980s bring revolutionary wars, CIA-backed conflict and the violent birth of a new democratic era. Episode 2: Wars begins with Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution, which promised egalitarian transformation through literacy crusades. But civil war erupted as United States President Ronald Reagan's administration covertly backed the Contra rebels, plunging the nation into turmoil and suffering. Panama transitioned from Omar Torrijos's diplomatic triumphs over the Panama Canal to Manuel Noriega's sinister collaboration with both the CIA and drug cartels.
US politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Has BRICS given up on challenging Western economic dominance?

Jim O'Neill, the economist who coined the term BRIC' 25 years ago, argues that the group is losing its relevance. At its peak, the BRICS coalition of economies Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa was seen as a serious attempt to move away from the United States dollar and the domination of Western economic institutions like the World Bank, Group of Seven (G7), and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
World news
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

They want to colonise us': Brazil's Lula warns of foreign interference

Brazilian President Lula criticizes US colonial approaches in Latin America and its interventions in countries like Cuba and Venezuela.
World news
fromFortune
2 months ago

BRICS could become a new pillar of global governance-if its rapid growth doesn't erode its newfound clout | Fortune

BRICS' rapid expansion risks internal incohesion and failure to reform global governance despite its vast population, resources, and strategic potential.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Kluth: Race is the elephant in the room of US foreign policy

White genocide' Carl is a right-wing firebrand who played a minor role in the first Trump administration and has more recently gained, depending on your vantage, kudos or notoriety for his theory that Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart, as his book's subtitle puts it. He believes, for example, that a White genocide is underway and endorses the Great Replacement Theory (according to which elites in America and Europe are intentionally encouraging immigration to replace indigenous whites).
US politics
Business
fromHarvard Business Review
1 month ago

Rethinking Strategy in a Hyperpolitical World

Corporate decisions face intense public scrutiny for political implications, resulting in boycotts, revenue loss, reputational damage, and executive terminations, yet political engagement remains unavoidable for businesses.
#brics-geopolitics
World politics
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

US-Israel war with Iran shows fault lines in BRICS alliance

Iran urges BRICS to intervene in US-Israel conflict, but internal divisions among members limit the bloc's ability to forge consensus or take collective action.
World politics
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

US-Israel war with Iran shows fault lines in BRICS alliance

Iran urges BRICS to intervene in US-Israel conflict, but internal divisions among members limit the bloc's ability to forge consensus or take collective action.
US politics
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

I've Covered Migration and Borders for Years. This Is What I've Learned.

U.S. imperialism escalated under Trump, combining foreign military aggression with domestic repression and deportation of migrants and refugees.
World politics
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Iran war exposes BRICS fault lines

Iran urges BRICS to intervene in US-Israel conflict, but internal divisions among member states limit the bloc's ability to forge consensus on Middle East issues.
fromThe Globe and Mail
2 months ago

Business Brief: Heralding the age of Western decline

U.S. President Donald Trump, with his lust for Greenland and hectoring of Europe, thinks the world is at his mercy,and thatthe U.S. is invincible. He's right on the first point. But he discovered this week that he's wrong about the second one. In Davos at the World Economic Forum, Trump climbed down on his Greenland threats after his actions caused chaos in the markets.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Brazil's Lula says Trump is attempting to create a new UN'

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has accused his United States counterpart Donald Trump of wanting to create a new UN, days after the US president launched his new Board of Peace initiative in Switzerland. Instead of fixing the United Nations, what's happening? President Trump is proposing to create a new UN where only he is the owner, Lula said in a speech on Friday.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Brazil does not want a new Cold War', says President Lula

I want to tell the US President Donald Trump that we don't want a new Cold War. We don't want interference in any other country; we want all countries to be treated equally, Lula told a news conference at the end of his three-day trip to India on Sunday.
World news
World news
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

German development policy: Partners in the Global South

Investing in school meals and climate-adapted agriculture in Sierra Leone strengthens food security, education, local incomes, and economic resilience amid shifting global power dynamics.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The world order we're leaving behind may be replaced by no order at all

The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, inspired a wave of enthusiastic nodding among the cosmopolitan crowd gathered in Davos last month when he took to the podium and proclaimed that the world order underwritten by the United States, which prevailed in the west throughout the postwar era, was over. The organizing principle that emerged from the ashes of the second world war, that interdependence would promote world peace by knitting nations' interests together in a drive for common security and prosperity, no longer works.
World news
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Even the Davos elites have woken up, but they need more than just speeches to survive the end of the old order | Nesrine Malik

The rules-based international order has been collapsing, driven by structural, normative, and ideological breakdowns and pragmatic violations by powerful states to preserve their interests.
World politics
fromFlowingData
1 month ago

Map of countries aligning with China

Countries are shifting their UN voting patterns away from the US toward China, with geopolitical alignment moving closer to Beijing than at any point this century.
World politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Latin America seeks its own voice in a turbulent world

Seven Latin American heads of state convened in Panama at CAF's 2026 forum, turning a trade-focused meeting into a politically charged regional multilateral summit.
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

Report From the Progressive International's Nuestra Summit

"Don't go!" more than one voice could be heard shouting in the packed Teatro Colón on January 24. The plea was in response to Colombian senator María José Pizarro Rodríguez's declaration that Colombia's President Gustavo Petro would be traveling to the White House on February 3 "in an act of courage." While the popular Pacto Histórico senator was mostly met with cheers and chants of the Chilean protest song, " El pueblo unido jamás será vencido,"
World politics
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Why are many Western leaders visiting China?

Western leaders are increasingly engaging with China for business opportunities and global cooperation, partly driven by US tariff policies and the need for alternative partnerships.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Does the World Economic Forum still matter in a fractured global economy?

Davos's role as a hub for global cooperation is questioned amid rising geopolitical tensions, protectionism, and debates over effectiveness and responsibility for crises.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

What role is China playing in global geopolitical transformations?

China's official discourse centres on the idea of peaceful rise, the commitment to non-interference in internal affairs, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, and economic partnerships based on mutual benefit. Beijing insists that relations with Washington should not slide into conflict, calling for a system of global governance built on cooperation rather than confrontation. Yet the geopolitical landscape reveals a wide gap between this discourse and reality. Donald Trump's return to the White House has brought back rhetorical escalation and increased geopolitical pressure.
World politics
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