Category: World
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The 73rd Miss World was held in Nha Trang with 111 entrants and eleven withdrawals. Why a Vietnamese coastal province wanted it says more than the result does.
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Federal authorities want to check state voter rolls against federal citizenship records. Whether that removes ineligible registrations or eligible voters comes down to three procedural details, not to the stated purpose.
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A Europe-based US Army unit has been told to stop specialising in drone warfare, a few hundred miles from the war that has redefined it. There is a defensible doctrine behind that — and a familiar way it goes wrong.
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The USDA is moving about half its Washington staff to regional hubs. It tried a smaller version of this in 2019, and most of the affected specialists resigned rather than move.
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Twelve people were sentenced to death in Egypt for drug trafficking, in one paragraph of wire copy. The treaty Egypt has signed limits capital punishment to the most serious crimes — and the body that interprets it says drug offences are not among them.
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Gloria Steinem died on 2 September at 92. She founded a magazine on the premise that a market existed for addressing women as political subjects, and was proved right — and the criticisms of her work are part of the record too.
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Illegal mining under Johannesburg is now cracking roads from below. The debate merges two separate problems: the syndicates that run the trade, and the people who are its cheapest input.
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Zimbabwe is clearing street traders from the pavements again. The traders return faster than the enforcement budget lasts — which is what happens when a country tries to police a labour market rather than replace it.
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The president called the confrontation with Iran “small potatoes” a day before strikes killed five in Kermanshah. Whether an operation counts as hostilities is not just a figure of speech — it is the legal hinge the War Powers Resolution turns on.
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This year’s Ig Nobels went to work on sweet-stealing and on what counts as a kiss. The prizes are routinely reported as a joke at the researchers’ expense. One past winner went on to take a Nobel in physics.