- Report: Israel thinks Trump will back IDF strike on Iran nuke program or order US hit The Times of Israel
- Iran 2025: Nuclear crisis awaits Trump Axios
- Transition 2025: What Will Donald Trump Do About Iran? Council on Foreign Relations
- Report to Congress on Iran USNI News
- A Weakened Iran Prepares to Face Trump 2.0 The Wall Street Journal
Pakistan search for positives after South Africa complete Test series sweep
South Africa seal 10-wicket win in the second Test to win the series 2-0 despite Pakistan's late fightback in Cape Town.
Difficult to trust the resource nationalism of Niger’s military government
Indigenisation efforts led by leaders more concerned with self-preservation than national progress often spell disaster.
What a non-handshake tells us about Syria’s new ruler – POLITICO Europe
- What a non-handshake tells us about Syria’s new ruler POLITICO Europe
- Middle East latest: Germany and France seek a ‘new beginning’ with Syria The Associated Press
- European foreign ministers meet with Syria’s interim leader The Washington Post
- French and German foreign ministers meet Syria’s new leaders in first high-level EU visit since Assad’s toppling CNN
- Syria after Assad: Paris and Berlin have no ethical lessons to offer Damascus Middle East Eye
Reports of optimism about Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal
US secretary of state says he is confident agreement can be reached in renewed push before Donald Trump takes office
Israel and Hamas appear to be edging closer towards a ceasefire and hostage release deal that could bring the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip to an end amid reports of optimism among decision makers.
The latest round of negotiations intended to broker a lasting truce in the 15-month-old conflict resumed in Qatar on Sunday. Hamas said on Monday that it had given mediators a list of 34 Israeli captives seized during the group’s attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, which triggered the war, who could be freed as part of the “first phase of a prisoner exchange deal”.
Continue reading...Elon Musk Cusses Out Student Who Called Him a Fake News Machine – The Daily Beast
Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial over alleged Gaddafi election funding – BBC.com
- Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial over alleged Gaddafi election funding BBC.com
- Trial Starts for Nicolas Sarkozy in Libya Election Case The New York Times
- Nicolas Sarkozy: The legal cases faced by the former French president Reuters
- 'Gaddafi couldn't have done this alone': Seized documents reveal extensive deals with US, UK, France FRANCE 24 English
- Sarkozy stands trial over ‘suitcases stuffed with millions from Gaddafi’ The Telegraph
US top doctor wants cancer warning on alcohol: What does the science say?
The text-only warning of cancer risks would be the first change to alcohol warning labels in the last 35 years.
Turkiye says Kurdish-led armed groups in Syria will be ‘eliminated’
FM Hakan Fidan says only 'a matter of time before YPG is eliminated' in Syria, urges West to cease supporting group.
Charlie Hebdo: Magazine releases special issue decade after attack – BBC.com
- Charlie Hebdo: Magazine releases special issue decade after attack BBC.com
- France commemorates victims of Charlie Hebdo attacks 10 years on Reuters.com
- French minister warns of ‘threat from within’ on Charlie Hebdo attack anniversary The Guardian
- How the Left betrayed Charlie Hebdo They put piety over progress UnHerd
- A decade after ‘Charlie Hebdo’ killings, we are still failing blasphemers Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
Charlie Hebdo marks decade since gun attack with special issue
The French satirical magazine wants to show its cause is still kicking, writes the BBC's Hugh Schofield.
China’s yuan hits 16-month low amid fears over Trump tariffs
CSI 300 blue-chip stock index also trades weakly, hitting its lowest point since September
China’s currency hit a 16-month low on Monday, despite efforts by the central bank and stock exchanges to soothe investor worries about impending US tariffs under a Donald Trump presidency.
The tightly controlled yuan reached 7.3301 per US dollar, its weakest level since September 2023. It has routinely hit multi-month lows since Trump won the US election, promising massive tariffs on Chinese imports.
Continue reading...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