World at Large

27/10/2025

The hope is that it will help with worker retention, promote economic opportunities domestically, and encourage cultural unity across the Caribbean.

The hope is that it will help worker retention, promote economic opportunities domestically, and encourage cultural unity across the Caribbean.

24/10/2025

The virtual system promises huge benefit for farmers, consumers, and wildlife, as more cows can graze on nutritious grass and fewer have to sit in the feedlot.

Once the cow gets too close to the virtual boundary line the collar plays a sharp auditory signal that the cows do not like.

23/10/2025

"In July of 1950, the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the US Army massacred around 400 innocent South Korean refugees... it would take 50 years for the survivors to be told that it was 'terribly regrettable' and, conveniently, that no one was to blame."

In July of 1950, the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the US Army massacred around 400 innocent South Korean refugees as part of the worst wartime targeting of civilians, in my opinion, our army ever committed post WWII.

21/10/2025

3 of the 5 largest economies in the Eurozone are currently carrying national debts at 100% or more of GDP. When extended to the 10 largest economies, that trend climbs in parity to 6.

20/10/2025

More than 100 civilians have been killed in Gaza, news outlets and rights groups report, as the weekend saw dozens of ceasefire violations ring out with deadly violence across the Strip.

Dozens of civilians have been killed, news outlets and rights group reports, as the weekend saw dozens of ceasefire violations ring out with deadly violence across the Gaza Strip.

17/10/2025

The Trump regime has taken the prospects of regime change in Venezuela explored during his first term and turned them into the prospects for war in the South American country.

This month, the Trump Administration ordered to cease diplomatic dialogue with Caracas, but that was hardly the starting pistol to whatever it is Washington has planned for its hemispheric neighbor.

15/10/2025

It must nevertheless be one of the world’s great centers of the artform—a uniquely Korean form of it, at least.

While many different tree species are exhibited in the museum, it's clear that she has a real fondness for the pine, particularly the Japanese black pine Pinus thunbergii, or gomsol (곰솔) in Korean.

10/10/2025

The attempt to effect regime change is not a new concept against South American countries; in the past, the Trump and Biden administrations have acted vigorously to achieve this goal.

There has been no further in-depth evidence provided to demonstrate the 11 crew members were, in fact, engaged as part of narcoterrorism, or what narcoterrorism means.

09/10/2025

The research had notable strongpoints, including a control for the "healthy user bias," a phenomenon in nutrition science that many studies fail to account for.

07/10/2025

Netanyahu's penchant for unilaterally inserting obviously impossible conditions and terms, and getting American and other negotiators to accept them, is on show again—just as it was in 1996 regarding Area C.

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03/10/2025

The rats have had a devastating effect on their delicately balanced ecosystems on certain islands in the Marshalls.

Certain parts of the Marshall Islands have been widely affected by invasive rats on their delicately balanced ecosystems. Bikar Atoll, one of the smallest atolls in the country, is located 360 miles (580 kilometers) north of the capital, Majuro.

30/09/2025

"It's so difficult to make any sense of a people or a nation from the capital city, and this is why I often choose to skip them. The city is too influenced by the wider world; too influenced by the wealth sequestered by the Exchequer to carry a resemblance of the nation's heart."

Independent conflict review and modern journalism on travel, environment, health, science, economics, and politics. Founded by the author Andrew Corbley.