Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and heads of foreign delegations arrive for a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, on September 3, 2025.
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With everything going on in the Middle East, Ukraine, the United States, and elsewhere, you could be forgiven for not thinking much about North Korea lately. But while we’ve all been looking away, the “hermit kingdom” and its Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un are emerging from the G-Zero world in their strongest geostrategic position in decades. [...]
As governments and businesses accelerate AI adoption, concerns around energy and water demand are intensifying. Microsoft leaders Melanie Nakagawa and Juan Lavista Ferres highlight new research showing that advancements in AI models, datacenter operations, and hardware could improve energy efficiency by 8–20x.
The findings suggest that, at scale, AI systems can become significantly more efficient than previously understood—enabling continued growth while reducing the resources required to support it and reinforcing a more sustainable path for AI expansion.
Giorgia Meloni at the G7 Agriculture and Fisheries meeting in Siracusa, Italy, on September 21, 2024.
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Elections on Giorgia’s mindItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is reportedly considering early elections, as her popularity dips amid a rising challenge from the far right. Italy must vote by the end of 2027, but Meloni is reportedly eyeing an April date. Meloni, a sharp-tongued right-wing populist, won in 2022 on promises to tighten [...]
In this episode of GZERO Europe, Carl Bildt examines the political consequences of Brexit 10 years after UK voters chose to leave the European Union. [...]
The United Nations is warning sexual violence is being used as a “weapon of war” in Sudan against civilians. There’s been a litany of accusations of heinous crimes leveled against the two main fighting groups in Sudan’s civil war – and this report is just the latest. Cases of sexual violence occurred across both conflict and displacement routes – [...]
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