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While parts of Sudan's capital show fragile signs of life, across the country the conflict between the army and a rival paramilitary continues to drive mass displacement, hunger and allegations of atrocities.

As fuel protests bring Ireland to a standstill and UK leaders decry price hikes driven by the Iran war, Europe -- barely recovered from the energy shock of the Ukraine war -- faces another crisis.

The International Monetary Fund expects the Iran war to slow the global economy and raise inflation. NPR's Michel Martin discusses the forecast with Simon Johnson, a former IMF chief economist.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Italian journalist Viviana Mazza {vee-VYAAN-ah MAH-tsah} about President Trump's criticism of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, one of few remaining allies in Europe.

Sudan is entering a fourth year of war marked by famine and massacres

The conflict, which erupted in 2023, has left behind a human toll which is "simply staggering", reports the BBC's Barbara Plett Usher.

Prince Harry made the highly personal comments about being a dad to his children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet at a men's mental health charity event in Melbourne today

The UK is “sleepwalking” into bad deal on Thames Water says a frustrated rival bidder.

Malcolm Offord said during a TV debate that Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar told him their parties should work together to "remove the SNP".

The AI slop was posted on Truth Social in a portrait orientation as a cluster of tastelessness. President Donald Trump shared the image through his official social media account this week, although it has already been deleted, illustrating the ephemeral nature of thought logic and reason rampant in present-day political arenas hijacked by social media […]

A quiet but consequential shift is reshaping the global artificial intelligence competition, and it has little to do with which country builds the most powerful model. Jensen Huang did not mean to describe a geopolitical strategy. But when Nvidia’s chief executive declared, “Your workload is inference, your tokens are your commodity, and that compute is your revenue,” he was articulating, from the supply side, something China had concluded from the other direction. To understand why, start with...

It comes a week after the UK government announced it would block the rapper from entering the country.