- How China is reacting to Trump amid tariff threats, TikTok bans The Washington Post
- The early days of the Trump administration, as viewed from China The Economist
- Trump Wants to Whack China With Tariffs. China Has Bigger Concerns. POLITICO
- What do Chinese analysts expect for China-US relations under Trump 2.0? Brookings Institution
- China says it hopes to 'properly manage differences' with the U.S. on trade CNBC
Who got the nod? The complete list of 2025 Oscar nominations
The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were delayed after deadly wildfires raged through the Los Angeles area.
ICC prosecutor seeks warrants for Taliban leaders over persecution of women
Prosecutor Karim Khan says there are reasonable grounds to believe two leaders responsible for 'crime against humanity'.
Trump’s health department cancels meetings and pauses communications
Health and Human Services is expected to be overhauled as Robert F Kennedy Jr waits to take department’s reins
Trump administration appointees are asserting control over the enormous US federal health department after the president’s inauguration this week – pausing public communications and abruptly canceling scientific meetings.
While temporary communications pauses are not entirely abnormal as new administrations find their feet, the orders come at a time of high anxiety for US scientists and public health workers.
Continue reading...ICC prosecutor seeks arrest of Taliban leaders for ‘persecuting Afghan girls and women’
Karim Khan is seeking arrest warrants for the Taliban government's Supreme Leader and chief justice.
UK teen who killed three girls at dance class sentenced to 52 years
Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana will likely spend the rest of his life in jail for murdering three girls.
US judge blocks Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship
Judge rules in favor of states who sued over president’s executive order, which was set to take effect on 19 February
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents’ immigration status.
US district judge John C Coughenour ruled in the case brought by the states of Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon, which argue the 14th amendment and supreme court case law have cemented birthright citizenship.
Continue reading...Almost 40 firms banned from installing UK insulation amid botched jobs outcry
Schemes backed by previous government to improve energy efficiency have left homeowners unable to sell
Almost 40 building companies have been blocked by the government from installing insulation amid a growing outcry over the profusion of botched jobs across the UK.
Ministers also announced that any homes found to have received botched insulation would have the issues put right by the installer responsible at no extra cost to the homeowner.
Continue reading...Government overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticide
Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU
Bee-killing pesticides have been banned for emergency use in the UK for the first time in five years after the government rejected an application from the National Farmers’ Union and British Sugar.
The neonicotinoid pesticide Cruiser SB, which is used on sugar beet, is highly toxic to bees and has the potential to kill off populations of the insect. It is banned in the EU but the UK has provisionally agreed to its emergency use every year since leaving the bloc. It combats a plant disease known as virus yellows by killing the aphid that spreads it.
Continue reading...US President Trump threatens tariffs at 2025 Davos World Economic Forum
Trump repeats familiar grievances and threatens allies like Canada and the European Union with tariffs.
UK teenager jailed for minimum of 52 years for Southport girls’ murders – CNN International
Southport killer Axel Rudakubana jailed for minimum of 52 years for murder of three girls at a dance class in 2024 – as it happened
Rudakubana, 18, sentenced for murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, Bebe King and Elsie Dot Stancombe and attempted murder of 10 others
The legal counsel for the defence and prosecution have entered court.
The prosecution is led by Deanna Heer KC, with her junior Philip Astbury.
Continue reading...Labour MPs ordered to sink landmark climate and environment bill
Exclusive: Supporters of bill say Labour has already insisted on removal of clauses requiring UK to meet targets agreed at Cop and other summits
A landmark bill that would make the UK’s climate and environment targets legally binding seems doomed after government whips ordered Labour MPs to oppose it following a breakdown in negotiations.
Supporters of the climate and nature bill, introduced by the Liberal Democrat MP Roz Savage, say Labour insisted on the removal of clauses that would require the UK to meet the targets it agreed to at Cop and other international summits.
Continue reading...Woman jailed over crash that killed baby outside hospital in Haverfordwest
Bridget Curtis, 71, admitted causing death of eight-month-old Mabli Cariad Hall after losing control of car
A woman has been jailed for four years for causing the death of an eight-month-old baby girl in a crash outside a hospital after losing control of her car while reaching for a handbag.
Bridget Curtis, 71, collided with a pram carrying Mabli Cariad Hall as she was being pushed by her father, Rob Hall, outside Withybush hospital in Haverfordwest, south-west Wales.
Continue reading...Rubio to head to Central America for first trip as top US diplomat as Trump cracks down on migration – CNN
- Rubio to head to Central America for first trip as top US diplomat as Trump cracks down on migration CNN
- A man, a plan, a canal: Rubio's first trip as secretary of state will take him to Panama NBC News
- Rubio to stop in Panama on first overseas trip as secretary of state CBS News
- Rubio Plans to Visit Panama in First Trip as Trump Eyes Canal Bloomberg
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Panama after Donald Trump lashes out at country USA TODAY
Croydon stabbings: man ‘fended off attacker with fire extinguisher’
Suspect, 30, arrested after five people injured at distribution centre on south London industrial estate
A man has described how he fought and fended off a knife-wielding attacker with a fire extinguisher after barricading himself and others inside an office of a warehouse where five people were injured during a mass stabbing.
Police arrested a 30-year-old man after the attack at a warehouse close to a supermarket in Croydon, south London, on Thursday morning.
Continue reading...How do Donald Trump’s pardons compare with other US presidents?
Just hours into his second term, Trump pardons about 1,500 people charged in the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
Advocates ‘deeply worried’ as Trump’s justice department halts new civil rights cases
Call to stop civil rights cases follows order putting staff on federal DEI programs on leave as a prelude to shutting programs down
The Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to halt new cases, further signalling the new administration’s hostility to racial and gender equality since Donald Trump’s return to power.
The decision came amid a blur of frenzied activity across a range of sectors that sent out simultaneous signals of incipient purges and revenge against political opponents, along with a determination to act on radical campaign pledges.
Continue reading...Micheál Martin vows to protect Ireland ‘at moment of real threat’
Fianna Fáil leader officially elected PM a day after chaotic scenes in Dáil, as thoughts turn to future and Trump
Ireland’s newly appointed prime minister, Micheál Martin, has vowed to protect the country “at a moment of real threat” just days after Donald Trump threatened to wipe out its tax advantage and repatriate American jobs.
He was speaking moments as he was officially appointed as prime minister, but 24 hours after chaotic scenes in the Dáil caused the cancellation of his formal appointment.
Continue reading...Davos 2025: Some notable quotes from the World Economic Forum meeting – The Associated Press
- Davos 2025: Some notable quotes from the World Economic Forum meeting The Associated Press
- At the Summit, by Caitlín Doherty Harper's Magazine
- What is the World Economic Forum? What to know about the meeting in Davos, Trump's speech USA TODAY
- 'Magnificent 7,' crypto, Trump coin, AI, Trump, tariffs, Fed, and everything else that will dominate Davos Yahoo Finance
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