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Could a former IDF chief break Benjamin Netanyahu’s grip on power in Israel?

Israel is heading to the polls on October 27 and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing perhaps the toughest political battle of his career.

He's…

14 hours ago

Can we ever fully trust AI agents?

As more incidents emerge of AI agents going rogue during testing, can we fully trust them?

In the latest hack, Australia revealed OpenAI agents hacked…

1 week ago

Australia's 'barking mad' bet on nuclear submarines

The multi-billion dollar AUKUS defence deal between the US, UK and Australia is one of the most significant in our modern history.

The three countries…

2 weeks ago

Ratko Mladić: the war criminal who became a martyr for Bosnian Serbs

To most of the world, former Bosnian Serb military general Ratko Mladić was a brutal war criminal whose actions during the Bosnian War killed thousan…

3 weeks ago

Inside the booming ‘shadow fleet’ industry keeping rogue states afloat

It’s the middle of the night in April 2023 in the East China Sea.

A North Korean-linked oil tanker sailing under another country’s flag suddenly goes …

4 weeks ago

The music that made Dolly Parton a global icon

It was 1967, and country musician Porter Wagoner was introducing a guest on his weekly TV show.

The camera cuts to a woman with big, blonde beehive, w…

1 month ago

How Ukraine is bringing the war home to Russia

In recent weeks, Ukrainian drones have targeted large warehouses across Russia, destroying millions of dollars of merchandise stored inside them.

Thes…

1 month ago

How Timor-Leste is fighting back against Asia’s scamming gangs

🔁 Rerun: originally published 12/12/25. We're revisiting this episode as we take a quick break but we'll be back next week with a new instalment of T…

1 month, 1 week ago

Loonies and bins: Britain's long love affair with novelty politics

It's pretty grim when your main political opponent is a man with a bin for a head.

That's the situation that's faced Nigel Farage in the Clacton byele…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

The soviet origins of shadow libraries

Balázs Bödö's first interaction with a shadow library was when, as a young professor at university in Budapest, he was faced with a dilemma: what sho…

1 month, 3 weeks ago