About the only time I find myself using regular Wikipedia these days is if I need to know if someone died since August 2025 when this ZIM dump was created.
Half the world’s 100 largest cities are experiencing high levels of water stress, with 39 of these sitting in regions of “extremely high water stress”, new analysis and mapping has shown.
While cleaning, I found an old Redmi 12 phone that’s still in perfect condition. Anyone know what fun things I could do with it? Thinking about experimenting software wise, repurposing it for other things etc. Any ideas?
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260122122817/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/17/ice-takes-credit-for-some-criminals-that-were-already-in-minnesota-prisons
A Cuban migrant held in solitary confinement at an immigration detention facility in Texas died after guards held him down and he stopped breathing, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday that ruled the death a homicide.
Japan will allocate $6 billion to Ukraine for humanitarian and technical support in 2026, according to a statement by Verkhovna Rada Deputy Speaker Olena Kondratyuk on Facebook.
A major storm system is set to bring “potentially catastrophic” winter weather across the southern U.S. this weekend, bringing snow, freezing rain and ice pellets to a substantial swath of the country.
Israeli occupation authorities have intensified economic measures against the Gaza Strip during the ongoing war, imposing what Palestinian sources describe as “forced arrangements” that have enabled Israel to extract vast sums from Gaza’s economy while deepening humanitarian suffering.
The European Union on Wednesday strongly condemned the Israeli occupation authorities’ raid on the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in East Jerusalem and the subsequent demolition activities, describing the move as a serious attack on the United Nations.
The European Parliament has defeated a mostly rightwing and far-right motion of censure against the commission — for the fourth time since Ursula von der Leyen took office in December 2024.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said on Wednesday that he would reject a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security for the rest of the fiscal year over concerns that it did not sufficiently curb Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.
Over the past years, repeated investigations have shown that at least 14 EU Member States have deployed spyware against journalists, human rights defenders, lawyers, activists, political opponents, and others.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon and her legal team have dropped their appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked the department from requiring colleges to eradicate all race-based curriculum, financial aid and student services or lose federal funding.
The European Union is looking forward to Indian Cooperation and partnership in various sectors as stated by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas.
The head of Thuringia’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Stephan Kramer, warns of data-protection risks from electric cars from China. “The espionage risk posed by Chinese electric cars is real,” he told Handelsblatt. However, what is meant is less traditional espionage and more “data harvesting on a large scale.” How dangerous that is depends heavily on where and by whom the vehicles are used.
I started playing The Sims 4 in 2014 when I was 6, and I still play it often today, almost 12 years later. In the meantime, I also started playing The Sims 3 and The Sims 2, and I actually like them more, but The Sims 4 is still my “comfort game.”