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Turkey teeters between Atatürk's democratic legacy and Erdoğan's authoritarian grip. As the lira collapses and dissent is silenced, ordinary Turks whisper a troubling question: will there even be another election? A journey through a nation caught between fading hope and deepening repression reveals a country at war with itself.
In January 1968, a US Air Force B-52 carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed onto the ice near Thule Air Base in Greenland. The accident scattered radioactive contamination across miles of Arctic landscape and exposed a decade of secret American nuclear flights over Danish territory, violating Copenhagen's nuclear weapons ban and sparking a diplomatic crisis with lasting consequences.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni signed a landmark joint action protocol in Rome, signaling a strategic shift in EU politics. Frustrated with France over trade and defense disputes, Berlin is building a new partnership with Rome centered on security, industry, and transatlantic relations.
A faded hand stencil in the Liang Metanduno cave on Muna Island, Indonesia, has been dated to at least 67,800 years ago, making it the oldest known cave art in the world. The discovery, published in Nature, pushes back the timeline of human artistic expression by more than 16,000 years.
Four years after invading Ukraine, Russia faces a catastrophic reckoning. With 1.2 million military casualties, an economy sliding into stagnation, collapsing oil revenues and a NATO alliance that is larger and stronger than ever, Moscow has achieved the opposite of every strategic goal it set out to accomplish.
Born to a clergyman in 1848, Edward Henry Harriman left school at fourteen, conquered Wall Street, and built a railroad empire stretching from the Missouri River to the Pacific. His war with J.P. Morgan over the Northern Pacific Railroad triggered America's first stock market panic and reshaped modern finance.