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Will act accordingly': US threatens action against Haitian council

The United States warned Haiti's Transitional Presidential Council it would act if the council altered government composition, citing threats to security and regional interests.
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2 hours ago

Whoops: Trump Says Peace Is So Destructive For Everyone'

President Trump mistakenly called peace "destructive" while promoting a new Board of Peace for Gaza reconstruction, prompting social media mockery and international pushback.
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3 hours ago

Japan pauses restart of world's largest nuclear power plant one day after it went online

The restart of the world's largest nuclear power plant was suspended in Japan on Thursday just a day after it went online for the first time in about 14 years, with the operator saying it does not know when the problem will be solved. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province had been closed since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, but operations to relaunch it began on Wednesday after it received the final green light from the nuclear regulator.
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TikTok closes deal to divest U.S. operations

Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX will collectively own 45% of TikTok U.S., with ByteDance retaining nearly 20% and affiliates holding about one-third.
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1 day ago

Australian Open live: Osaka apologizes for 'disrespectful' comments, Alcaraz in action

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Third round singles action begins at the Australian Open on Friday with world No. 1s Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka, as well as American star Coco Gauff, highlighting the day session. The evening session will be headlined by Australia's top-ranked Alex de Minaur, who will do battle with American Frances Tiafoe. Also featuring on the program is Alexander Zverev, Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, and Cameron Norrie.
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Guinea-Bissau sets election date following last year's coup

Guinea-Bissau's military government scheduled legislative and presidential elections for December 6 after a November coup that removed President Umaro Sissoco Embalo.
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Barrio 18 gang attacks in Guatemala expose government impotence in the face of organized crime

Guatemala faces limited law enforcement capacity and pervasive corruption as Barrio 18's violent offensive exposes prison and justice-system weaknesses.
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17 hours ago

Campaigning begins in Bangladesh for first election after Hasina's ouster

Bangladesh will hold national elections on February 12, a major democratic test after the 2024 uprising that ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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Bangladesh adamant on playing T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka despite ICC threat

Bangladesh refuses to play T20 World Cup matches in India and will request the ICC relocate its games to Sri Lanka, risking expulsion.
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22 hours ago

Five killed in treacherous' attack on military convoy in Yemen

The attack on Wednesday targeted a convoy carrying Hamdi Shukri, a commander in the pro-government Giants Brigades, Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council said in a statement carried by state-run media. The bombing was a desperate attempt to undermine efforts to stabilise the security situation in the country at a time when tangible progress was being made with the support of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi-backed council said.
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Torrential rains displace thousands in Mozambique as floods wreak havoc

Catastrophic floods in Mozambique have affected over 620,000 people, destroyed more than 72,000 homes, and severely damaged essential infrastructure.
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Campers missing after landslide in northern New Zealand

Landslide struck Beachside Holiday Park at Mount Maunganui, leaving several people, including children, missing while unstable ground and heavy rain hamper rescue efforts.
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14 hours ago

Why are Britain and other countries reluctant to join Trump's Gaza board of peace?

The Independent relies on reader donations to fund on-the-ground journalism covering reproductive rights, climate change, Big Tech, Gaza redevelopment, and related geopolitical controversies.
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10 hours ago

Open the gates': riots, fires and escape attempts as Syrian army takes over IS camp

Syrian government forces seized control of al-Hawl camp and prisons, prompting sudden guard changes and uncertainty for thousands of IS suspects and their families.
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23 hours ago

Australia observes day of mourning for victims of Bondi Beach mass shooting

Memorial services will be held at the Sydney Opera House and Bondi's Chabad House, a Jewish community centre. Most of the 15 victims of the attack were Jewish, including a 10-year-old child. The theme of the memorials is Light will win, and the government will stage light installations in the capital of Canberra and other cities featuring pillars of light for each of the 15 victims.
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Ray Dalio says CEOs concerned with a new rules-based order need to accept that change is here for good | Fortune

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Ray Dalio says CEOs concerned with a new rules-based order need to accept that change is here for good | Fortune

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15 hours ago

Trump Tells Iran We'll Talk' in Speech Touting Obliterated' Nuclear Site

Trump offered to talk with Iran after threatening force, praised strikes that destroyed Iran's enrichment capacity, and unveiled an international Board of Peace.
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9 hours ago

A large Syrian camp for ISIS families faces an uncertain fate after a security handover

Withdrawal of Kurdish SDF from al-Hol camp left tens of thousands of ISIS family members' fates uncertain as Syrian government and U.S. forces reposition detainees.
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13 hours ago

Zelensky at Davos: Trump has exposed Europe's weakness

Europe must become a credible global force capable of deterring aggression, seize frozen Russian assets, strengthen defenses, and secure U.S. support for Ukraine.
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Mapping the 10 countries with the most overseas territories

Countries retain overseas territories—often colonial remnants—for strategic military, economic, environmental, and governance reasons, exemplified by US interest in Greenland for defense.
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14 hours ago

Gaza's Rafah crossing with Egypt to open next week: Palestinian official

The Rafah crossing with Egypt will reopen next week, announced by US-backed Palestinian technocrat Ali Shaath, while Israel retains control amid ceasefire constraints.
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Death toll in Pakistan shopping centre fire rises to at least 60

At least 60 people died in a Karachi shopping centre fire after 30 bodies were found locked inside a mezzanine shop; many others remain missing.
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Two popular Tunisian journalists handed three-year jail terms

Two Tunisian journalists were sentenced to three and a half years for money laundering amid a broader crackdown on dissent.
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17 hours ago

Why Mamdani Should Oppose Kathy Hochul's Protest Ban

Capitalizing on the inaction of the international community, which failed to apply meaningful pressure on Israel to halt its genocidal war in Gaza, the Israeli state has fast-tracked its efforts to carve up the West Bank through land grabs, home demolitions, and the mass expulsion of Palestinians. The purpose of the E1 project has always been clear; as Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said last August, it is intended to "bury the idea of a Palestinian state."
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Jim Chalmers says Canadian PM's stunning' denunciation of Trump is being widely discussed in Australian government

Speaking before the US president's backdown on his threats to take control of Greenland by any means necessary, Carney told assembled leaders it was time to recognise the brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints. Stop invoking rules-based international order as though it still functions as advertised. Call it what it is: a system of intensifying great power rivalry where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as coercion.
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US envoy meets SDF commander, calls for Syria ceasefire to be upheld

Barrack also renewed US backing for an agreement signed on January 18 between the Syrian government and the SDF on integrating the Kurdish-led forces into state institutions, as part of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa's push to unify Syria. Disagreement over how such integration would work had led to recent bouts of conflict between the government and the SDF, which had sought continued autonomy for some Kurdish-majority areas.
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13 hours ago

Trump's Greenland pact will demand allies boost Arctic security: NATO chief

NATO will rapidly strengthen Arctic security under a new US-aligned framework, with contributions from non-Arctic members and a target timeline around early 2026.
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10 hours ago

England fall short as Harry Brook fails to fire in opening ODI defeat by Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka defeated England by 19 runs in the first ODI as spinners triggered an England collapse, extending England's away ODI losing streak to 11.
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19 hours ago

Pakistan: Death toll soars in Karachi mall fire

The deaths from a fire in a mall in Pakistan's Karachi have risen to at least 50 as firefighters recovered more bodies from the debris of the charred building. "We have found 20 to 25 dead bodies, or you call them remains," Deputy Commissioner Javed Nabi Khoso told the media on Wednesday. The Gul Plaza mall in Karachi the country's biggest city caught fire late on Saturday. The blaze raged on for more than 24 hours before it could be doused.
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19 hours ago

Israeli minister approves gun licences for 18 illegal West Bank settlements

According to the UN, more than 1,800 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians about five per day were documented in 2025. Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has approved the issuance of gun licences to Israelis in 18 additional illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, as the right-wing government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushes to expand illegal outposts that undermine prospects for a two-state solution.
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Does the World Economic Forum still matter in a fractured global economy?

The World Economic Forum's role as a symbol of global cooperation is challenged by rising geopolitical tensions, protectionist US policy, and doubts about summit effectiveness.
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16 hours ago

Arrests of drug lords reverberate in Sinaloa: There has been progress, but the security problem remains unresolved'

Transfers of Mexican criminal leaders to the U.S. continue, but violence in Sinaloa persists and escalates despite arrests and extraditions.
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Israel bombs four Syria-Lebanon border crossings; kills 2 in south Lebanon

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemns Israel's air strikes as systematic aggression targeting civilians in southern Lebanon, causing deaths, injuries, and violating ceasefire obligations.
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5 hours ago

Son-in-law of opposition figure Edmundo Gonzalez released in Venezuela

Members of the opposition coalition expressed joy at the news of Tudares Bracho's release. After 380 days of unjust and arbitrary detention having endured more than a year of the inhumane reality of enforced disappearance my husband Rafael Tudares Bracho returned home this morning, Edmundo Gonzalez's daughter, Mariana Gonzalez, wrote on the social media platform X. It has been a stoic and profoundly difficult struggle.
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7 hours ago

Kurds in the Middle East: Struggle for a homeland

Syrian transitional government troops and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had been fighting for weeks in northern Syria. On Tuesday evening, the announcement of a four-day ceasefire restored a measure of calm. SDF fighters were close allies of the international coalition battling the extremist "Islamic State,&quot, or IS, group in Syria and managed to take control of strategically important areas in Syria during 14 years of civil war. Recent clashes with Syrian government troops has pushed them out of these areas.
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Halabja Massacre: Survivors still haunted by chemical war

Some 182,000 Kurds living in Iraqi Kurdistan were killed in 1988 by chemical weapons launched by Saddam Hussein's regime in a series of attacks known as the Anfal campaign. That campaign included chemical attacks on Halabja, a village on the Iraq-Iran border, and other communities. Five thousand people are estimated to have died in Halabja. They were the victims of sarin and VX nerve agents, and mustard gas.
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Sri Lanka vs England: Report, result, highlights as Kusal Mendis top-scores in cricket ODI

England lost the opening ODI in Colombo by 19 runs after late wickets fell, despite strong contributions from Ben Duckett, Joe Root and Jamie Overton.
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10 hours ago

Elon Musk Shades Trump's Newly-Minted Board of Peace: All We Want is a Piece!'

Elon Musk mocked Trump's Board of Peace as a 'Board of Piece', implying territorial grabs; Trump launched the board to pursue enduring Middle East peace.
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21 hours ago

Children cook meals for needy and mourners lay wreaths for Bondi attack victims on national day of mourning

The prime minister said the day was about remembering the 15 victims of the 14 December attack, which he called a stain on our nation. It's an opportunity for us as a nation to wrap our arms around the Jewish community because people were targeted because they were Jewish Australians. Every Jewish Australian felt that very deeply that evening, and ever since as well, he said on Thursday. Today, we share their grief. A grief with no ending, only a beginning.
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NATO confirms more Russians killed in December than in the 10 years of the Afghan war - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

And yes, it is true, the Russians have lost in December 1,000 people dead-not seriously wounded, dead-a day. That's over 30,000 in the month of December. In the 1980s in Afghanistan, the Soviets lost 20,000 in 10 years. Now they (Russia - ed.) lose 30,000 in one month.
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Peru's interim president embroiled in scandal over secret meetings with Chinese businessmen

Peru's interim president, Jose Jeri, has denied lying to the country and claimed he was the victim of a plot to discredit him amid a growing political scandal over his secretive meetings with Chinese businessmen. Jeri, 39, who took office in October after his predecessor Dina Boluarte was forced out, told a congressional oversight committee on Wednesday that he had been the target of a smear campaign designed to destabilise the country ahead of elections in April.
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5 hours ago

US withdraws from the World Health Organisation

The United States is withdrawing from WHO, refusing to pay roughly $260 million in required fees, prompting WHO budget crisis and global concern.
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16 hours ago

Ken Griffin says America has been sent an 'explicit warning' from the bond market that it's time to get the national debt in order | Fortune

Japan's bond-market selloff and rising yields highlight risks of large fiscal stimulus, warning that high yields can undermine bonds' role as portfolio hedges.
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17 hours ago

Venezuelans share their opinions on US interference

Venezuelans express concern and opposition to US interference and US plans for Venezuelan oil after the US abduction of President Nicolas Maduro.
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21 hours ago

If you sleep, settlers will burn your house': fear in the West Bank

Israeli settler violence and resource denial have forced about 450 of Ras Ein al-Auja's 650 Palestinian residents to flee, dismantling their community.
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1 day ago

Trump and Macron: A turbulent transatlantic affair

Trump publicly posted Macron's private message and mocked him, intensifying tensions and prompting France to deploy troops and expand diplomatic presence in Greenland.
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