Canadian PM Trudeau announces plan to resign
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau announced he is suspending parliament and will resign from office.
Why has Justin Trudeau resigned – and what’s next for Canada?
After spats with allies, pressure from Donald Trump and falling poll numbers, Trudeau has decided to call it quits.
Three Israelis killed in shooting attack in occupied West Bank
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinian communities in West Bank should look like Gaza's 'Jabalia'.
Azerbaijan president ramps up pressure on Putin over deadly plane crash – POLITICO Europe
Who might replace Trudeau as Liberal Party leader?
Cabinet ministers, a former central banker and a one-time provincial premier are all reportedly eyeing the top job.
Biden bans offshore drilling across vast area of US
The ban covering most of America's coastline comes two weeks before Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony.
Middle East crisis: Israeli forces ‘fired on World Food Programme convoy in Gaza’ – as it happened
Statement from UN agency ‘strongly condemns horrifying incident’ on Sunday which it says risked lives of staff
- ‘This is basically a civil war’: West Bank in fear after shooting of journalist
- Social order in Gaza will collapse if Israel ends cooperation with UN aid agency, official says
Turkey’s foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, has told a news conference that it was “only a matter of time” before Syrian Kurdish fighters - seen by the west as essential in the fight against Islamic State jihadists - will be wiped out.
Speaking in a joint press conference with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi, he told journalists:
Conditions in Syria have changed. We believe it’s only a matter of time before PKK/YPG is eliminated.
Continue reading...Japanese Woman Who Was the World’s Oldest Person at 116 Has Died – Medpage Today
- Japanese Woman Who Was the World's Oldest Person at 116 Has Died Medpage Today
- Tomiko Itooka of Japan, World’s Oldest Person, Dies at 116 The New York Times
- The world's oldest woman who died aged 116 and her successor shared their very different longevity secrets — from bananas to God Business Insider
- World’s oldest person, Tomiko Itooka, dies in Japan aged 116 The Guardian
- World’s oldest person Tomiko Itooka dies; Brazilian nun now world’s oldest person AOL
Macron says Ukraine needs to be ‘realistic’ on territorial issues – POLITICO Europe
- Macron says Ukraine needs to be ‘realistic’ on territorial issues POLITICO Europe
- Ukraine needs 'realistic' stance on territorial issues, Macron says Reuters
- EU must not be 'weak and defeatist' to gain Trump's respect: Macron Euronews
- Macron urges 'realistic' expectations from Ukraine on territory The Caledonian-Record
- Macron Urges ‘Realistic’ Expectations From Ukraine on Territory Kyiv Post
Three Israelis killed in Palestinian shooting attack in West Bank – BBC.com
- Three Israelis killed in Palestinian shooting attack in West Bank BBC.com
- Violence surges in West Bank as three Israelis killed and reprisals reported CNN
- Katz: Deadly West Bank terror attack was ‘act of war’ that will be answered in kind The Times of Israel
- Manhunt underway after three Israelis are killed in West Bank shooting The Washington Post
- 3 killed in West Bank 'shooting spree' including Israeli police officer: reports Fox News
Austrian far right gets mandate to try to lead a government for the first time since World War II – The Associated Press
- Austrian far right gets mandate to try to lead a government for the first time since World War II The Associated Press
- Far Right Gets Chance to Form Government in Austria The Wall Street Journal
- Austria Coalition Talks Collapse, Raising Prospects for Far-Right Freedom Party The New York Times
- Far-right Herbert Kickl gets his chance to form government in Austria POLITICO Europe
- Austrian president tasks far-right leader with forming government Reuters
Watch: Iranian woman grabs cleric’s turban and wraps it round her head after hijab comments – Yahoo! Voices
Pressure Grows on Canada’s Trudeau to Resign – The Wall Street Journal
- Pressure Grows on Canada’s Trudeau to Resign The Wall Street Journal
- Embattled Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau says he will resign after new party leader chosen CNN
- Trump’s trolling and tariffs sped up Trudeau’s demise — how will Canada handle him now? NBC News
- Who will replace Justin Trudeau? The Associated Press
- Justin Trudeau to Resign, and U.S. Reports First Bird Flu Death The New York Times
South Korea: Yoon Suk Yeol defiant as arrest deadline passes – BBC.com
- South Korea: Yoon Suk Yeol defiant as arrest deadline passes BBC.com
- South Korean anti-corruption agency asks police to arrest impeached President Yoon ABC News
- What to know about the siege outside South Korea’s presidential compound The Associated Press
- How ‘Stop the Steal’ Became a Protest Slogan in South Korea The New York Times
- Strength of South Korea democracy tested as president defies arrest The Washington Post
Chinese Vessel Cuts Taiwan Internet Cable in Apparent Sabotage – The Wall Street Journal
- Chinese Vessel Cuts Taiwan Internet Cable in Apparent Sabotage The Wall Street Journal
- Taiwan believes China is behind damage to one of its crucial undersea cables Yahoo! Voices
- Taiwan asks South Korea for help over Chinese ship after subsea cable damaged Financial Times
- Taiwan suspects China of latest attack on undersea cables POLITICO Europe
- Chinese Freighter Suspected of Severing Telecom Cable off Taiwan The Maritime Executive
Danish king changes coat of arms amid row with Trump over Greenland
Design shows intent to keep control of Faroe Islands and Greenland – which Trump says he would like the US to buy
The Danish king has shocked some historians by changing the royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland and the Faroe Islands – in what has also been seen as a rebuke to Donald Trump.
Less than a year since succeeding his mother, Queen Margrethe, after she stood down on New Year’s Eve 2023, King Frederik has made a clear statement of intent to keep the autonomous Danish territory and former colony within the kingdom of Denmark.
Continue reading...Danish king changes coat of arms amid row with Trump over Greenland – The Guardian
- Danish king changes coat of arms amid row with Trump over Greenland The Guardian
- Denmark's King Sends Greenland Message to Donald Trump Newsweek
- Denmark changes coat of arms after Trump offers to buy Greenland The Telegraph
- Danish king changes royal coat of arms in apparent rebuke of Trump over Greenland row The Independent
- Trump Border Czar Eyes Third-Party Nations to Send Migrants The Daily Beast
Austria’s far-right Freedom party tasked with forming coalition government
Austrian president asks anti-migration, pro-Kremlin FPÖ to begin negotiations with conservative ÖVP
Austria’s president has tasked the anti-migration, pro-Kremlin Freedom party (FPÖ) with holding talks to form a ruling coalition, potentially paving the way for the far right to lead the government for the first time since the second world war.
After meeting the FPÖ leader, Herbert Kickl, at the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Alexander van der Bellen said the party, which narrowly won the most votes in September’s general election, could begin negotiations with the conservative Austrian People’s party (ÖVP) on forming a governing alliance.
Continue reading...Two men charged after young woman allegedly shot and killed in Brisbane
The pair each face one count of murder after Chloe Mason was found dying in the street in Caboolture on 22 December
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Queensland police have arrested and charged two suspects wanted for an alleged murder after a woman was chased and fatally shot in a Brisbane suburban street.
A 29-year-old Marsden man, Codye Thomson, and a 32-year-old Caboolture man, Kaine Thomson-Gleeson, were arrested without incident in Logan on Monday.
Continue reading...Nigeria’s military launch offensive on new rebel group
Nigeria’s military has launched an offensive against a new rebel group said to be affiliated with ISIL.