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Ukraine: Zelenskyy declares energy emergency in cold snap

Ukraine's president declared an emergency in the energy sector amid freezing weather and Russian strikes on infrastructure. Meanwhile, Donald Trump blamed Kyiv for the lack of peace talk progress. Fol...

Jan 15Deutsche WellePoliticsImpact

China’s top general ousted in corruption investigation

China placed its most senior military officer and another top general under investigation for suspected “serious” disciplinary violations, extending a corruption push that has hollowed out the leaders...

5hSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

Pakistan arrests rights lawyer, husband over 'cyber terrorism', family says

Pakistani rights lawyer Imaan Mazari-Hazir and her husband were arrested, according to her mother, politician and former minister Shireen Mazari. A judge ordered the couple's arrest in a cyber terrori...

3dDeutsche WellePolitics

Abu Dhabi hosts Russia-Ukraine peace talks, with territorial issues a priority

Peace talks on ending Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine are to continue on Saturday in Abu Dhabi, between the US, Ukraine and Russia....

2dEuronewsPoliticsImpact

US college athlete body urges CFTC pause college sports prediction markets

The NCAA wants the CFTC to tighten rules on college sport prediction markets, including age and advertising restrictions and anti-harassment measures....

Jan 16CoinTelegraphSports

Ex-Corsican nationalist leader Alain Orsoni shot dead at mother's funeral

Former Corsican nationalist leader Alain Orsoni, who also served as the president of soccer club AC Ajaccio, was shot dead in Corsica on January 11 during his mother’s funeral. He was 71. Alain Orsoni...

Jan 13France 24crimeImpact

Trump's Greenland tariffs: What you need to know

Donald Trump's pursuit of Greenland now extends to new tariffs on countries considered NATO allies. But what would such tariffs mean for the European countries affected, how have they been received, a...

Jan 18Deutsche WellePoliticsImpact

Hungary sets parliamentary election date

Hungary’s president announced on Tuesday that the next parliamentary election will be held on April 12th. Although the official campaign begins in a month, the race is already shaping up to be the mos...

Jan 14France 24PoliticsImpact

US unveils national defence strategy to counter China in Indo-Pacific

New plan prioritises security in the region and a renewed focus on the western hemisphere...

2dFinancial TimesPoliticsImpact

Victim of Iranian crackdown buried in hidden grave, family says

Iranian official media on Wednesday said 3,117 people were killed during protests which first erupted in late December and which activists say were suppressed with a deadly crackdown. here are many ve...

4dFrance 24world_newsImpact

US visa freeze begins for 26 African countries

In tonight's edition, the US puts a pause on the processing of permanent residency visas for applicants from 75 countries, including 26 African ones. Also, Nigerian police walk back on earlier denials...

4dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Aftermath challenges daily life in Syria

The withdrawal of the Kurdish-led SDF from northeastern Syria represents the most significant shift in control in the country since the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, according to reports fro...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen takes the stand in high-stakes appeals trial

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s political future hangs in the balance as she faces an appeals trial in Paris, a case that could derail her party’s ambitions to radically reshape France with an...

6dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

International Bar Association ‘will speak out’ if US sanctions Hong Kong judges

The new head of the International Bar Association (IBA) has said that the organisation will speak out if unjustified and illegal sanctions are imposed on legal professionals in Hong Kong. The remarks ...

5dSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

Trump "does not appear to give regard to US softpower" as he addresses economic leaders

US President Donald Trump gave a long-awaited speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on the US economy, while addressing Greenland, NATO and lambasting US allies. He said he does not want to use ...

4dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

UK PM, others outraged at Trump's comments downplaying NATO role in Afghanistan war

Prince Harry and the British Prime Minister slammed President Donald Trump after he falsely claimed that NATO allies were "a little off the front lines" in Afghanistan....

2dABC NewsPoliticsImpact

Trump stirs talk of "New World Order" as leaders signal shifting global alliances

After taking offense at Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s more assertive stance toward Washington, Trump withdrew an invitation for him to join his Board of Peace, an organization chaired by Trump...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Japan’s 1-party era faces ‘unprecedented’ threat from new centrist alliance

Japan is entering one of its most unpredictable election cycles in decades after the surprise formation of a new centrist political alliance that could redefine the balance of power and potentially re...

5dSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

Alex Pretti, the man shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis

The parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, who was shot dead by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, issued a written statement decrying top Trump administration officials who suggested the...

22hFrance 24crimeImpact

UK approves new Chinese ‘mega embassy’ in London despite security concerns

The UK goverenment on Tuesday approved a 20,000-square-metre plot of land, known as Royal Mint Court, for China's new embassy in London. The decision has stoked heated controversy, mostly over nationa...

5dFrance 24PoliticsImpact
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