Mon 12 January 2026: Every few years, a familiar anxiety resurfaces in British public discourse: that sharia law is establishing a parallel legal system and threatening the sovereignty of English law. Those fears were reignited following Donald Trump’s recent speech to the UN, where he claimed that London wants “to go to sharia law”. Such claims ignore two […]
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Sun 11 January 2026: The Norwegian Nobel Institute said the Peace Prize cannot be transferred, following remarks by Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who suggested she might give her 2025 award to US President Donald Trump. “The facts are clear and well established. Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, […]
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Sun 11 January 2026: Thousands of Irish farmers have taken to the streets to protest against a trade agreement between the European Union and the South American bloc Mercosur, a day after a majority of EU member states gave provisional approval to the long-negotiated accord. In the central town of Athlone, tractors streamed onto roads on Saturday […]
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Sun 11 January 2026: Indonesia has become the first country in the world to block Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot over the risk of fake, AI-generated pornographic content. The country’s communication and digital affairs minister said on Saturday that “the practice of non-consensual sexual deepfakes” is a “serious violation of human rights, dignity, and the security […]
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Sat 10 January 2026: The world’s richest 1% have already exhausted their entire carbon budget for 2026 just 10 days into the year, according to a new analysis by Oxfam. The British-based charity says the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by this group in that short period equals their total annual allowance if global warming […]
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Sat 10 January 2026: US President Donald Trump said Friday that “a lot of money is going to be made,” after huddling with more than one dozen oil executives at the White House to discuss investment in Venezuela. “It was a great meeting we had today with the biggest companies anywhere in the world,” Trump […]
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Fri 09 January 2026: US President Donald Trump has been preparing a military operation in Colombia, President Gustavo Petro told Spanish daily El Pais in an interview published Friday. “Trump told me in a phone call that he was thinking of doing bad things in Colombia. The message was that they were already preparing, planning […]
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Fri 09 January 2026: Mexico’s daily murder rate has fallen nearly 40% from where it was when Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum took office, government officials said on Thursday, citing preliminary statistics. The daily homicide average in December 2025 was 52.4, down from 86.9 in September 2024, the month before Sheinbaum took office. “It is the lowest number […]
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Fri 09 January 2026: Russia on Thursday slammed a plan for European peacekeepers to be deployed to Ukraine as “dangerous” and dubbed Kyiv and its allies an “axis of war”, dousing hopes the plan could be a step towards ending the almost four-year-war. US President Donald Trump has been pushing the warring sides to strike a deal to halt the […]
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Fri 09 January 2026: US President Donald Trump said on Friday he cancelled a second wave of attacks on Venezuela after it began releasing “large numbers” of political prisoners this week. “Venezuela is releasing large numbers of political prisoners as a sign of “Seeking Peace.”… Because of this cooperation, I have cancelled the previously expected […]
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