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Planet Earth has just lived through its third-warmest year on record, EU scientists said on Wednesday.Last year was also the hottest on record for Antarctica, another alarm bell that climate change is even catching up with the remote, ice-covered continent that for decades appeared sheltered from it. Read more: Why Antarctica could hold key to our futureFor the planet as a whole, 2025 came in as the third-hottest on record, according to new data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).The heat made extreme weather more dangerous, including the intensity of Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean and monsoon…
The companies that turn oil into gasoline and diesel are likely to benefit more, right away, than the businesses that pump oil out of the ground. Source link
“Blood Money: Lethal Eden” taps into a rising anxiety in China by simulating the experiences of people trafficked for the scam industry. Source link
President Trump has left himself plenty of room for maximal intervention. But there are a host of potential wild cards, each with risks for the president. Source link
Hundreds of families are hoping their loved ones will be freed by the Venezuelan government, which has said little about who would be released or when. Source link
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan and President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea played along to BTS and “KPop Demon Hunters,” in a display meant to show warming ties. Source link
Louis Vuitton officially opened a new flagship in downtown Beijing on Jan. 13, 2026.CNBC | Evelyn ChengThis report is from this week’s CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter, which brings you insights and analysis on what’s driving the world’s second-largest economy. You can subscribe here.The big storyFor the last few weeks, a new row of luxury stores in downtown Beijing has started to shake up a long-muted consumer scene.The anticipation grew as Tuesday night approached. Crowds of young people screamed as they caught glimpses of celebrities climbing the stairways inside the translucent, bubble-shaped exterior of Louis Vuitton’s newest store. I could see others lingering…
BBCUkraine’s “Invincibility Trains” run their diesel engines to provide relief and boost moraleAt a suburban Kyiv railway station, two carriages painted in the blue and white livery of Ukrainian Railways sit on the main platform, their diesel engines running as snow steadily falls. The train is not going anywhere but it is providing a vital service for dozens of people who have been left without power and basics like running water or heating.These are Ukraine’s “Invincibility Trains”, designed to boost public morale and provide some comfort as a bitter winter coincides with intensifying Russian attacks.In one of the carriages, Alina…
Britain is “firmly on track” to meet its clean power targets for 2030, according to the government following a record offshore wind auction.It has awarded contracts to supply 8.4 gigawatts (GW) of new offshore wind power – enough to power 12 million homes. The auction is part of efforts to ease the country away from volatile and polluting natural gas, but the strike price of £90.91 represents an increase of 11% on contracts agreed last year.The target of a clean power grid by 2030 requires at least 43GW of operational offshore wind but the price increase will stoke political debate…
Katya AdlerEurope editor, reporting from Nuuk, GreenlandWatch: What message do Greenlanders want to send to Trump?It’s crunch time. The US Vice President, JD Vance, is hosting the Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers, as well as their US counterpart, Marco Rubio, in the White House on Wednesday.The focus of the talks: the future of the world’s biggest island, Greenland.There is a large digital news ticker tape running above the snow-covered shopping mall in the island’s capital, Nuuk. You don’t have to speak Greenlandic to understand the words “Trump”, “Greenland” and “sovereignty” that appear over and over again, in stark red letters.Donald…
Donald Trump is the only world leader capable of stopping Vladimir Putin from threatening Europe, according to Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki.In an interview with Radio 4’s Today programme he said the Russian leader was not to be trusted, but that Europe needed to do everything it could to support President Trump in his efforts to end the war in Ukraine.President Nawrocki was already well-known as a firm supporter of Donald Trump even before he landed in Britain for meetings with PM Sir Keir Starmer and others. Now, he says that with Vladimir Putin’s Russia threatening his country as well as…
U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance meet Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner (not pictured) and Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe (not pictured) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington D.C., June 27, 2025. Ken Cedeno | ReutersThe Trump administration is poised for crunch talks with Greenlandic and Danish officials on Wednesday, amid the U.S. president’s ongoing push to take control of Greenland.Greenland Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt and her Danish counterpart, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, are expected to convene at the White House for talks with…
This report is from this week’s CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.The dispatchIn the world of U.K. quoted companies, investment trusts are frequently disparaged as a sleepy backwater, a dull corner of the market offering little excitement.That is despite the fact that, with a combined stock market valuation of around £265 billion ($357 billion), U.K. investment trusts are the world’s biggest market in closed end funds, as they are known in the U.S.But there is no debate at present; the sector is currently very newsy because of one individual, the U.S. activist investor Boaz Weinstein, founder and chief investment officer of the hedge…
The railway authorities said there were almost 200 people on the train when the accident happened in Nakhon Ratchasima province, northeast of Bangkok. Dozens were injured. Source link
Its security forces have brutally defended the Islamic Republic, but the protests show that many Iranians consider it stagnant and ideologically hollow. Source link
The prime minister is seeking new markets for Canadian goods and to mend relations with China after years of deep acrimony between the two nations. Source link
Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s president, arrives for a hearing at the Constitutional Court of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSouth Korea’s special prosecutor has requested the death penalty for former President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law declaration in 2024. The request came as Yoon’s trial wrapped up late Tuesday. The court is expected to deliver its ruling on Feb. 19. Yoon has been charged with leading an insurrection, a crime that is not shielded by presidential immunity and carries the maximum penalty of death. If carried out,…
QINGDAO, CHINA – JANUARY 13, 2026 – The cargo ship is loading and unloading foreign trade containers at Qingdao Port in Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China on January 13, 2026. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesChina’s exports growth in December sharply beat expectations, catapulting the annual trade surplus to a record high, while imports rose at their fastest pace in three months. Exports surged 6.6% in U.S. dollar terms last month from a year earlier, Chinese customs data showed Wednesday, topping analysts’ median estimate for a 3% growth and accelerating from a 5.9% jump in November.Imports rose 5.7% in…
China banned the burning of coal for heat around Beijing, but natural gas subsidies have run out, leaving many villagers vulnerable in dangerously cold weather. Source link
China’s surplus reached $1.19 trillion, a 20 percent increase from 2024, according to data released by the country’s General Administration of Customs. Source link
They were the first U.S. citizens released after the U.S. military captured Nicolás Maduro and flew him to the United States to stand trial on drug and other charges. Source link
From his internet platform, he became a tenacious watchdog fighting financial regulators for minority shareholders and exposing shady business dealings. Source link
Osanbashi in Yokohama on December 10, 2022.Yuichi Yamazaki | Afp | Getty ImagesJapan’s Nikkei 225 index was set to hit another record Wednesday, amid broader gains expected in Asia markets as the region looked past geopolitical concerns.The Japanese index gained over 3% to hit a record high Tuesday on expectations that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi could call for a snap election likely in February. This election, if called, will be Takaichi’s first time facing Japan’s voters in an election. Futures for the Nikkei 225 pointed to a stronger open, with the futures contract in Chicago at 54,045, and its counterpart…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NASA plans to return humans to deep space next month, targeting a Feb. 6 launch for Artemis II, a 10-day crewed mission that will carry astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.”We are going — again,” NASA said Tuesday in a post on X, saying the mission is set to depart no earlier than Feb. 6.The first available launch period will run from Jan. 31 to Feb. 14, with launch opportunities on Feb. 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11.If the launch is scrubbed, additional launch periods…
