A moment shaping the map: News pulse 2026-08-27 · Yonhap: The Korea AeroSpace Administration says that the Nuri will launch 15 satellites, a record, into space from the Naro Space Center in South Korea's Goheung County on October 7. A perspective from Honolulu.
A moment shaping the map: News pulse 2026-09-13 · DW: Swedes vote to elect all 349 seats of the Riksdag. Incumbent prime minister Ulf Kristersson, who seeks to lead the Moderates to a second consecutive government while including the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats in his cabinet, is being challenged by the former prime minister and SAP leader Magdalena Andersson. Preliminary results indicate that the Red-Greens and the Centre Party are projected to have a combined total of 175 seats, while the four Tidö parties are projected to have a total of 174 seats. A perspective from San Francisco.
A moment shaping the map: World brief 2026-09-11: The Seoul Central District Court acquits former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol on charges that he appointed his defense minister, Lee Jong-sup, as ambassador to Australia to obstruct an investigation into a South Korean marine's drowning during the 2023 floods. A perspective from Miami.
A moment shaping the map: World brief 2026-09-12: May el-Toukhy's film Woman Unknown wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in Italy, while Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love and Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's NAZA win the competition's Grand Jury Prize and Special Jury Prize, respectively. A perspective from Vancouver.
A moment shaping the map: News pulse 2026-08-18 · IGIHE: Four people are killed and 16 others are injured when a passenger bus crashes due to a brake failure in Kirehe District, Eastern Province, Rwanda. A perspective from Lisbon.
A moment shaping the map: World brief 2026-09-14: Indonesia extends the search for eight people, including five journalists, after their speedboat disappeared in the Sunda Strait during a reporting mission on Anak Krakatoa's eruption a week prior. Police await test results to identify a body found on Enggano Island. A perspective from Lisbon.
A moment shaping the map: News pulse 2026-09-09 · AP: The Metropolitan Police launch a criminal investigation into Reform UK over allegations that it broke foreign funding laws in the United Kingdom, following an investigation by Channel 4 News. A perspective from Dublin.
A moment shaping the map: News pulse 2026-08-30 · NBC News: Two people are killed and nine injured during a mass shooting at a gathering in Trenton, New Jersey, United States. A perspective from Reykjavík.
News pulse 2026-08-24 · BBC News: British prime minister Andy Burnham, during a visit to Kyiv, confirms that he has approved supplying Ukraine with the classified blueprints to produce Storm Shadow cruise missiles despite Russian threats against such a move, which will give Ukrainian forces the ability to strike key targets deep inside Russian territory.
World brief 2026-09-10: The European Central Bank raises its three key interest rates by 0.25 percentage points, lifting the deposit rate to 2.50%, as higher energy prices linked to the Iran war increase inflation pressures across the eurozone.
World brief 2026-09-10: Sri Lanka's Supreme Court overturns a 2019 presidential pardon granted to Buddhist monk Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara and orders him to serve the remainder of his six-year prison sentence for criminally intimidating human rights activist Sandya Eknelygoda.
News pulse 2026-08-27 · Yonhap: The Korea AeroSpace Administration says that the Nuri will launch 15 satellites, a record, into space from the Naro Space Center in South Korea's Goheung County on October 7.
News pulse 2026-08-17 · CNA: A city official reports that at least 500 people have been hospitalized for severe diarrhea, with nearly 150 testing positive for cholera, in Yangon, Myanmar.
News pulse 2026-09-08 · Scientific American: OpenAI says that it has solved the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem, with the announcement raising questions about plagiarism.
News pulse 2026-09-07 · Reuters: The Philippine Sandiganbayan appellate court issues an arrest warrant for Leyte's 1st district representative and former House speaker Martin Romualdez after the Office of the Ombudsman filed charges of plunder against him for the alleged ₱7.44 billion (US$118.62 million) worth of kickbacks he received from flood control, infrastructure, and other government projects.
News pulse 2026-09-03 · Daily Post Nigeria: Five people are killed and several other residents are abducted during a bandit attack in Kebbe, Sokoto State, Nigeria.
News pulse 2026-08-20 · France 24: Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi says the integration of Kurdish military, security, and administrative institutions into the Syrian state is complete following an agreement reached with president Ahmed al-Sharaa in January.
News pulse 2026-08-16 · Airline Geeks: The Federal Government of Somalia announces that Somali Airlines will resume flights beginning next month, ending a 35-year pause after the country entered a civil war in 1991.
News pulse 2026-09-15 · BBC News: A drone crosses from Belarusian airspace into Lithuania before being shot down by a NATO fighter jet over the village of Pratkūnai, Kaišiadorys District Municipality, near Kruonis Pumped Storage Plant, two days after an unidentified object flew over Lithuanian airspace from Belarus to Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
News pulse 2026-08-31 · ABC News: A jury in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, finds former Crips gang leader Duane Davis guilty of first-degree murder for orchestrating the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur during a drive-by shooting in Paradise in 1996.
News pulse 2026-09-09 · AP: The Metropolitan Police launch a criminal investigation into Reform UK over allegations that it broke foreign funding laws in the United Kingdom, following an investigation by Channel 4 News.
News pulse 2026-08-22 · Holy See: Pope Leo XIV makes a half-day papal visit to San Marino, including meeting with the Captains Regent, the local religious community, and visiting the Basilica of Saint Marinus.
News pulse 2026-08-19 · UOL: Twenty-three people are killed and five others are injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on the BR-373 near Ipiranga, Paraná, Brazil.