Israeli negotiators due in Qatar for Gaza truce talks

How does wealth manage to persuade the poor to use their political freedom to keep it in power? By asking this insightful question in 1952, Welsh Labour’s Aneurin Bevan put his finger on liberal democracy’s greatest paradox. In the age of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, JD Vance and their Big… Read Details ⇢

A Washington Post cartoonist announced that she had quit the paper this week because it rejected her cartoon of Amazon founder and Post owner Jeff Bezos groveling to President-elect Trump. Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes wrote on her Substack page Friday that she was resigning from the outlet, accusing it… Read Details ⇢

Tomiko Itooka died on December 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo prefecture, in central Japan. Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died at the age of 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said… Read Details ⇢

The Dell New Year sale ends this weekend so there’s not a lot of time left to score one of the manufacturer’s best laptop deals to kick-start your 2025 with some excellent new tech. A range of options are available right now, including cheap entry-level devices, great value high-end performance… Read Details ⇢

2024 was not only the year of an unprecedented political crisis in France, triggered by the dissolution of the Assemblée Nationale, and marked by the paralysis of the country, the fragmentation of the political landscape and the extreme polarization of opinions. It also confirmed the near-total disappearance of environmental issues… Read Details ⇢

A Durham, North Carolina, man has turned his life around after receiving grave medical news.  Derek Barnett, 55, was diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease 10 years ago, according to a report from SWNS. At his heaviest, Barnett weighed 240 pounds and was a size 38. CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT… Read Details ⇢

A December 26 press statement by the Israeli army attempted to justify a war crime. It unabashedly admitted that the military incinerated five Palestinian journalists in a clearly marked press vehicle outside al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip. The five victims were Ibrahim Sheikh Ali, Faisal… Read Details ⇢

You may need to delete your existing Twitch account to create a new one, or if you’re simply done with the streaming platform. Fortunately, deleting your Twitch account is pretty straightforward – just be sure that’s definitely what you want to do. Twitch lets users disable their account temporarily or… Read Details ⇢

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot (right) and his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock (left) meet Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (center) in Damascus on January 3, 2025. ABDULMONAM EASSA FOR LE MONDE Thirteen years after severing diplomatic relations with Bashar al-Assad’s regime in response to its bloody suppression of the popular uprising… Read Details ⇢