Trump says Greenland ‘essential’ for security: Could he take it by force? | Military News

President Donald Trump has said the United States needs Greenland for its “national security” after naming Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as special envoy to the Danish Arctic island, prompting protests from Copenhagen.... Read more »

From the Andes to Darfur: Colombian mercenaries lured to Sudan’s killing fields

Hundreds of Colombian ex-soldiers have been drawn to Sudan with the promise of bumper Emirati paychecks. What many found instead was death in a faraway war marked by mass killing, rape, famine... Read more »

Ten Policy And Corporate Signals

Mexico kicked off the week with a potential airline mega-merger under antitrust review and a warning sign from the country’s biggest mortgage lender. Colombia’s debt trajectory stayed in focus as fiscal stress... Read more »

Peak season disaster at Alabama USPS facility shows need for rank-and-file control of staffing

Once again United States Postal Service (USPS) workers across the country are being overwhelmed during the peak holiday season. This is the direct product of years of cuts and the so-called “modernization”... Read more »

Sending silence to oblivion | Buenos Aires Times

Tiempos Circulares is the cryptic title of the film and “Nuestra venganza es ser felices” (“Our revenge is to be happy”) the accompanying message but the latter is also slightly meretricious –... Read more »

Why homeownership in California isn’t nearly the financial slam dunk it once was

It’s the benchmark of success, a milestone of responsible adulthood, a time-tested way to amass wealth for you and your progeny. Homeownership, we’re told again and again, is a status that every... Read more »

UPS stumbles into holiday season amid shifting trade rules | Trade War

New York City, United States – Since the recent termination of the nearly decade-old trade rule called “de minimis,” United States consumers and businesses have been exposed to slower shipping, destroyed packages... Read more »

Is Kast caste? | Buenos Aires Times

With third time lucky for Chile’s José Antonio Kast last Sunday, South America’s political map vaguely evokes the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) over five centuries ago with a diagonal line crisscrossing the... Read more »

TCS Opens Google Cloud Gemini Experience Center in São Paulo

This is TCS’ sixth Google Cloud Gemini Experience Center globally and the first such center in Latin America. The GEC will accelerate AI-driven innovation for clients in the region. Tata Consultancy Services... Read more »

Australia: NSW premier, police justify violent arrests in Sydney following Bondi shootings

A major police operation was conducted last Thursday in the middle of Liverpool, a southwestern Sydney working-class centre. It was a graphic example of the kind of repressive conditions being imposed by... Read more »