Global explores the events, ideas, and shifts shaping life beyond U.S. borders. From geopolitics and economics to culture, technology, and human stories, this beat connects international developments to the forces influencing our shared future.
Last year, Czechia’s digital-ID app crashed during a parliamentary election. On Thursday, the government asked 40,000 people to log in at the same time to see if the problem is fixed. Czech authorities are inviting eDoklady users to simultaneously access the country’s digital identification app in a coordinated load test designed to recreate the traffic surge that…
India has enrolled 53,449 people in artificial intelligence job training through one of its flagship skills programs. The government has also acknowledged something more significant: it has not conducted a specific assessment of how much demand exists for those AI skills, or how large the country’s shortage of trained workers actually is. The disclosure came…
Nearly half of Saudi Arabia’s internet users now use artificial intelligence. But only 17.3% use it for work-related tasks. That gap may tell us more about where AI adoption actually stands than the headline number does. Saudi Arabia’s Communications, Space and Technology Commission reported that AI-tool use reached 45.2% of internet users in 2025, more than double…
SSC News Desk Days after international outlets became the only journalists reporting on the killing of protesters in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, the government issued rules requiring foreign media to get permission before reporting anywhere outside three cities. Governments do not ban coverage of events that did not happen. On August 3, Pakistan’s Ministry of Information issued what it…
The accounting shift could finance infrastructure, housing and business investment. Whether it strengthens the economy depends on what the government buys with the money. Bryson Davis | Social Storytellers Collective Britain’s Treasury is examining how to borrow billions more without abandoning the government’s existing fiscal rules. Chancellor John Healey said there was scope for faster and greater investment,…
Nigeria approved military salary increases of up to 80 percent this year, with the largest gains directed at lower-ranking personnel — the soldiers most likely to desert, most likely to defect, and most likely to be recruited by the armed groups they are being paid to fight. The annual military wage bill rises from 660 billion naira to 924 billion naira as…
When your oldest allies start comparing you to North Korea in official communications, the soft power era is over. Part of Structural Reality — examining the systems that shape access, opportunity, and everyday life for Black and Brown communities. NEWS DESK | SOCIAL STORYTELLERS COLLECTIVE The United States has spent decades positioning itself as the…
Today, Spain and Argentina will play the 2026 FIFA World Cup final, and Adidas will dress both of them. Nike, which sponsors 12 of the 48 teams in this tournament — one more than Adidas’s 14, and nearly double what it had in 2022 — will not have a single kit on the pitch when…
Victoria Vesovski, writing for Moneywise, reported this week that Zara’s “Flowy Wide Leg Pant” — a $45.90 palazzo-style trouser currently going viral on TikTok — has earned a second, less marketable name: the death pants. The moniker is hyperbolic. The injuries are not. Across social media, wearers have documented fractured knees, broken wrists, forearm gashes, and at least one escalator…
Thirty-one African nations spend more annually on debt repayment than on healthcare. Twenty-five spend more on debt than on education. Education budgets across the continent have declined from 3.9% of GDP in 2008 to 2.9% in 2023, according to research compiled by Premium Times, the Africa Health Foundation, and the Atlantic Council in 2026. The…