- Greece on high alert as multiple earthquakes shake island of Santorini CBS News
- Experts concerned by intensifying seismic activity Kathimerini English Edition
- Greece sends rescue teams to Santorini amid fears of big earthquake The Guardian
- Greece's tourism jewel Santorini on alert after seismic activity Reuters.com
- Warning as Greece’s top tourist island issues seismic activity alert The Independent
Netanyahu heads for Trump talks in US amid uncertainty over Gaza truce
Negotiations on second phase of ceasefire likely to be put back until after two leaders meet on Tuesday
Benjamin Netanyahu has flown to Washington for Donald Trump’s first meeting with a foreign leader since his return to office.
The pair are due to meet on Tuesday, amid widespread uncertainty about the parameters of the encounter.
Continue reading...UK to become first country to criminalise AI child abuse tools
UK will make it a crime to possess, create or distribute AI tools that generate sexual content targeting children.
Serbian Farmers Protect Protesters With Tractors – Newser
- Serbian Farmers Protect Protesters With Tractors Newser
- ‘We’ve proved that change is possible’ – but Serbia protesters unsure of next move The Guardian
- How a train station tragedy is threatening to bring down a hardline European president CNN
- Serbia's students lead Danube bridge blockades as protest draws tens of thousands calling for change Yahoo! Voices
- Serbian cabbies rally to bring home Belgrade students fighting against corruption The Associated Press
Fury in Mexico over Trump’s ‘slanderous’ claim of cartel links
President Sheinbaum and politicians across the spectrum condemn accusation, which follows imposition of US tariffs
Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has hit back at Donald Trump’s “slanderous” claim that her government had joined forces with drug bosses, amid anger and incredulity at the US president’s attack on the leaders of Latin America’s second biggest economy.
Trump made the claim on Saturday as he announced 25% tariffs against Mexico that the US said were a response to illegal immigration and the “intolerable alliance” between drug trafficking organisations and Mexico’s government, which had allegedly offered safe haven to “dangerous cartels”.
Continue reading...Ahmed al-Shara, Syria’s New Interim President, Travels to Saudi Arabia – The New York Times
- Ahmed al-Shara, Syria’s New Interim President, Travels to Saudi Arabia The New York Times
- Syria's new government is trying to rebuild. First it must keep the lights on NPR
- Syria’s Interim President in Saudi Arabia on First Foreign Trip Bloomberg
- Syria's president visits Saudi Arabia on Sunday, first trip abroad after Assad's fall Reuters.com
- Syrian leader visits Saudi Arabia, in a shift away from Iran Semafor
Israel destroys buildings in West Bank’s Jenin after killing elderly man
Explosions heard throughout Jenin, part of Israeli military operation in the city and its adjacent refugee camp.
‘Reform is a challenge’: Eluned Morgan hits south Wales valleys in constant campaign mode
The Labour first minister talks to people in Blackwood, as Reform and Plaid snap at her heels
The next Welsh parliament elections are more than a year away but the first minister, Eluned Morgan, appeared to be on the campaign trail already as she swept through the town of Blackwood in the south Wales valleys.
Within half an hour, she had spoken to dozens of people, asking what they wanted of her government, acknowledging where things needed to be improved, challenging voters who she felt were not being fair on her party.
Continue reading...Wall Street Journal editorial calls Trump tariffs ‘dumbest trade war in history’
Some US business leaders reacted neutrally, while JP Morgan CEO says tariff threats can be used effectively
US business leaders are offering a mixed reaction to the steep trade tariffs that Donald Trump’s administration has imposed on Canada, Mexico and China, as the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal called it “the dumbest trade war in history”.
Donald Trump hit Canada and Mexico with a 25% tariff on imports, and China with 10%, on Saturday in a move that launched a new era of trade wars between the US and three of its largest trading partners. The tariffs against Canada tax oil and energy products at 10%.
Continue reading...Trump warns Americans that tariffs may cause ‘pain’– US politics live
US president says measures against Mexico, Canada and China will ‘all be worth the price’
After Donald Trump’s return to the White House, Volkswagen, Germany’s largest carmaker, said that tariffs would have a “harmful economic impact” on American consumers, as well as the international automotive industry.
German automakers say the tariffs will cause inflation for consumers.
Continue reading...Top Democrats warn Trump tariffs will ‘hit Americans in their wallets’
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer leads charge against president’s tax plans on neighbors and allies
Top Democrats have slammed Donald Trump’s plans to impose serious tariffs on America’s neighbors and allies, warning that they will hit working families and small businesses hard.
Chuck Schumer, the minority leader in the US senate, led the charge by saying the president’s threatened tariffs would likely “hit Americans in their wallets”. “It would be nice if Donald Trump could start focusing on getting the prices down instead of making them go up.”
Continue reading...Canada’s brewing disquiet
The frontrunners in the Liberals’ leadership race cannot offer the change the party needs to tackle Trump and elections.
Why was Luka Doncic traded to the Lakers?
The Mavs trade of superstar Luka Doncic has the whole NBA asking why Dallas made the bombshell, three-team exchange.
‘I don’t know how he survived’, says freed Israeli hostage’s niece
The niece of freed Israeli hostage Gadi Moses said he mostly ate bread and olives and did math to distract himself during captivity.
Burger flipper turned committed vegan launches animal welfare charity
Andy Shovel, who worked at McDonald’s and co-founded THIS™, says A Bit Weird aims to ‘disarm people through fun’
Andy Shovel’s career to date has been, you might say, a journey. A little over a decade ago he was working on the chicken station in a branch of McDonald’s. He then set up a burger delivery business in west London, which he and a co-founder would go on to sell for seven figures.
A celebratory holiday in the Maldives and a period of research later, in 2019 they launched THIS™, the range of meat-alternative packaged foods, which boomed from zero to more than £20m of revenue, becoming the UK’s fastest-growing food brand in 2023.
Continue reading...How have Canada, China and Mexico responded to Trump’s tariffs?
The US president's new tariffs prompt retaliation and spark concerns over global trade disruptions and inflation.
Fire chiefs warn UK is not prepared for climate crisis impacts
National Fire Chiefs Council says ability of firefighters to respond is at risk as it calls for urgent preventive action
The UK is not prepared for the impact of climate breakdown, fire chiefs have warned, as they called on the government to take urgent action to protect communities.
The National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) said the ability of fire services to tackle weather-related emergencies was at risk, despite often being the primary frontline response to major weather events including flooding, fires caused by heatwaves, and storm-related emergencies, all of which are becoming more common.
Continue reading...Syria’s President al-Sharaa meets Saudi Arabia’s MBS in first foreign trip
Syria's leader is in Saudi Arabia to garner support for his transitional government.
Salman Rushdie set to testify as attempted murder trial gets under way
Hadi Matar, 26, accused of stabbing author 10 times in case likely to draw world’s media to tiny upstate New York town
A man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie as he was being introduced at a literary lecture in New York state in 2022 is going on trial this week in a case likely to create global headlines.
The trial could upend life in the tiny upstate New York village of Mayville, whose population of less than 1,500 is not accustomed to finding itself at the center of a media circus covering the attempted assassination of one of the world’s most famous writers.
Continue reading...Zelensky says there have been over 1,400 Russian airstrikes this week – Yahoo! Voices
- Zelensky says there have been over 1,400 Russian airstrikes this week Yahoo! Voices
- Ukraine war briefing: Russian barrage hits Ukrainian residential and energy sites, killing at least 15 The Guardian
- Ukraine Says at Least 18 Civilians Are Killed in Strikes The New York Times
- Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,074 Al Jazeera English
- Friday, January 31. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information From Ukraine Forbes