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Tens of thousands of Cubans rallied on Friday (16 January) outside the U.S. Embassy in Havana, protesting the killing of 32 Cuban officers in Venezuela and calling for the release of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. The government-organised demonstration followed a U.S. raid in Caracas on 3 January aimed at detaining Maduro to face drug…
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President Rumen Radev has confirmed that Bulgaria will head to a snap election after all major parties declined mandates to form a government, extending the country’s prolonged political deadlock. Radev on Friday (16 January) offered the final mandate to the Alliance for Rights and Freedoms, which refused—marking the third rejection this week. With no bloc…
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Japan and the US have agreed to expand joint defence production and military activity in Japan’s southwest, amid heightened regional tensions with China. The agreement followed talks in Washington between Shinjiro Koizumi and Pete Hegseth, reaffirming the strength of the Japan–US alliance in an increasingly severe security environment. Key developments • Joint production to increase…
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Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada is forging a new strategic partnership with China as part of a wider effort to adapt to a rapidly shifting global trade system, following the first Canadian prime ministerial visit to Beijing since 2017. Carney said technological disruption, the energy transition and weakening multilateral institutions have created a “rupture”…
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A South Korean court on Friday (Jan. 16) sentenced former president Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison, marking the first criminal ruling linked to his failed attempt to impose martial law in December 2024. The Seoul Central District Court found Yoon Suk Yeol guilty of obstructing justice by directing the presidential security service…
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The United States and Taiwan have signed a trade agreement cutting most US tariffs on Taiwanese goods to 15 per cent, in exchange for $250bn in Taiwanese semiconductor investment aimed at strengthening US supply chains. Under the deal, the Donald Trump administration aligns Taiwan’s tariff rate with Japan and South Korea, while waiving levies on…
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Japan and Italy have agreed to deepen cooperation on critical mineral supply chains and elevate bilateral ties, as Tokyo seeks to reduce exposure to geopolitical risks in rare earths. Following talks in Tokyo, Sanae Takaichi said strengthening supply-chain resilience was “of utmost urgency”, confirming plans to launch a new space dialogue and upgrade relations to…
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Former Conservative Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick has become the latest high-profile defector to Reform UK. It comes after Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch announced she had fired him on Thursday (15 January) due to ‘irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect’ from the party in a manner as ‘damaging as possible’…
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Military personnel from France, Germany and other European countries have begun arriving in Greenland as tensions rise over the Arctic island’s security and political future. France has sent 15 soldiers from its mountain infantry unit, while Germany has deployed a 13-person reconnaissance team. Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom are also participating. The deployment follows…
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Moldovan President Maia Sandu has said she would personally support reunification with Romania if the issue were ever put to a referendum, arguing that it is becoming harder for small states to survive as democracies in a more unstable regional and global environment. Speaking in an interview with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart on The…
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