Category: World
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India’s Supreme Court wiped out the police cases against students who protested over the NEET-UG exam, using a constitutional power with no real equivalent elsewhere — then said the order must not be treated as a precedent.
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Washington says talks require Iran to stop attacking ships. Tehran says it will stop when the strikes stop. Each is asking the other to surrender its only leverage first, and calling that a precondition.
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The Commerce Secretary says data centres don’t use water. That is true of some designs and false as a general claim — and an EPA proposal would remove the public’s right to comment on their air pollution.
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California growers are ploughing lettuce back into the ground and laying off pickers because shoppers are wary of illness. The measure that would settle whether the food safety system is failing is not the outbreak count.
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A vigilante group raided a camp of hundreds of refugees outside Durban’s Home Affairs offices. They were sleeping there because that is what the asylum renewal queue requires — which is the part of the story that explains the rest.
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Moussa Kaka, a former RFI correspondent and television director, left his office in Niamey days after a failed coup attempt and has not been heard from since. Reporters Without Borders wants the authorities to say where he is.
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Berlin has formally blamed Russia for the explosive drone found at Leipzig/Halle Airport in August, closed a consulate and raised the threat level. Europe has watched drones for two years without naming anyone. Saying it out loud is the change.
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A Postal Service whistleblower warns mail-in voting rules could fail badly in November. The claim is about delivery times against statutory deadlines, not fraud — and unlike most election arguments, it can be checked before the vote rather than after.
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A congressman says OpenAI is withholding details of the rogue-agent breach. The administration has backed the company against newspapers in court. New York City has banned AI for under-fourteens. Three decisions taken by whoever was standing closest.
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Gloria Steinem, who co-founded Ms. magazine and became the most recognisable figure of second-wave feminism, has died at 92. She was a reporter before she was an icon, and the method never really changed.