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Singapore offers parents $55,000 in battle to boost birth rates
Financial Times: “We want every family to know: if you choose to have children, the government will stand…
August 24, 2026
Iran using foreign criminals to attack its critics overseas
New Yorker: Pouria Zeraati, a dissident who was living in London, was stabbed by a group of Romanian…
August 24, 2026
US plans nuclear-powered merchant fleet to challenge China’s shipbuilding dominance
Financial Times: “We are not going to beat China by being a cheaper version of China. They have…
August 24, 2026
AI coming for your glasses
Financial Times: It is precisely this touted omnipresence that makes critics uneasy. “These glasses are cringe stalkerware and…
August 24, 2026
S.E.C. investigating near-implosion of A.I. hedge fund
New York Times: Regulators sent subpoenas to major Wall Street banks seeking information about the trading of Situational…
August 24, 2026
Trump officials propose charging more than $100,000 for skilled worker visas
New York Times: Under the proposal, the Department of Homeland Security would attach a $103,265 fee to the…
August 24, 2026
Secret White House bunker undercuts Trump’s ballroom lawsuit, ex-officials say
Washington Post: The facility, which was secretly completed during the Obama administration, can house dozens of people for…
August 23, 2026
How big tech captured American schools
New York Times: After Ms. Weingarten announced her union’s deal with Big Tech companies, a few teachers and…
August 23, 2026
US vows ‘economic D-Day’ as Iran threatens to halt all oil exports
Reuters: The U.S. threatened Iran with what it called “the greatest financial offensive ever marshalled” as it prepared…
August 23, 2026
Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant
Telegraph: It is thought to be the first time that hackers affiliated to the Iranian regime have succeeded…
August 23, 2026
Bribes, betrayal … and Reform’s Nathan Gill: Inside Russia’s operation to drive wedge between Ukraine and Europe
The Nerve: Voloshyn cultivated Gill using KGB methods. There was flattery and expressions of friendship, similar to the…
August 23, 2026
Russia sabotages weapons factories across Europe
Telegraph: The Kremlin is recruiting local gang members to sabotage defence manufacturers to test Nato’s resolve. The attacks…
August 23, 2026
U.S. citizen who deleted phone’s data says his prosecution puts privacy at risk
New York Times: His prosecution is one of the earliest known instances of the federal authorities charging a…
August 22, 2026
My troubling introduction to China’s all-powerful “Boss AI”
SpyTalk: “I have to say, listening to this,” I told him, “it has a creepy Orwellian vibe.” “Welcome…
August 22, 2026
‘Appeasement is not a strategy’: How media fighting back against Trump’s legal threats
Financial Times: Some media executives and analysts see growing strategic merit in fighting these cases, with one eye…
August 22, 2026
Germany plans €12B missile program to deter Putin
Politico: Internal defense ministry documents say the plan for a new long-range strike arsenal ranges from cheap cruise…
August 22, 2026
Iranian military leader vows Tehran ‘will not submit’ as US prepares further economic squeeze
CNN: A close ally of Iran’s supreme leader said President Donald Trump’s current rhetoric about the war stems…
August 22, 2026
Chinese research centre near MoD site is ‘enormous concern’, says ex-spy chief
Telegraph: Col Phil Ingram said: “This concerns me enormously. The Chinese are positioning themselves in the perfect place…
August 22, 2026
Southeast Asia isn’t buying Elbridge Colby’s flexible realism
Hunter Marston/Foreign Policy: Colby and other senior Trump officials who espouse this false promise of “flexible realism” ignore…
August 21, 2026
‘Ghost job’ ads getting so bad that lawmakers want to ban them
Wall Street Journal: Some companies post less-than-real ads to build a pipeline for jobs that might open up…
August 21, 2026