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Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, offered the proposal at a Davos ceremony to inaugurate the president’s “Board of Peace.” Source link
Jennifer McKiernan,Political reporterandJoshua Nevett,Political reporterEPADanish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Sir Keir Starmer meet at ChequersDanish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has thanked Sir Keir Starmer for his “strong support” over US President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland, as the pair met in the UK.Frederiksen said it was important to know “Europeans stand together” and “don’t get divided” during what she described as “a difficult time for us”.Trump caused jitters across the western world when he ramped up calls for the US to take control of Greenland, a Danish territory in the Arctic.But the US president has now abandoned talk…
The UK just got much closer to banning under-16s from social media. So, how long could it take for a ban to come into force?On Thursday night, the House of Lords voted for a social media ban for under-16s added into a piece of legislation called the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. The amendment could drastically speed up the implementation of a social media ban here in the UK. If it is also passed by the House of Commons it will become law.Read more: What UK social media ban on children could look like – as government considers actionWithout amendment,…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Apple and Google just made one of the most important artificial intelligence (AI) announcements of the year. Under a new multi-year collaboration, Apple will base the next generation of its Apple Foundation Models on Google’s Gemini models and cloud technology.The companies confirmed the partnership in a joint statement, signaling a major shift in how Apple plans to deliver AI features across the iPhone, iPad and Mac. The deal comes as Apple faces growing pressure to catch up in AI, especially after delaying a long-promised overhaul of Siri. Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy ReportGet…
“The Board of Peace has been set up pursuant to a plan that was submitted to the Security Council that has been voted upon and accepted,” said Srinivasan Muralidhar, Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and in Israel. “As a Commission of Inquiry, we see our task as investigating into violations of human rights. And that task we understand to be the mandate that the UN has given us.”The Commission of Inquiry – one of the Human Rights Council’s top investigative mechanisms – was set up by the forum’s 47 Member States in…
The EU needs “clarity” on Donald Trump’s intentions after he cancelled his planned levies against eight countries over their stance on Greenland, a senior lawmaker has told CNBC.EU lawmakers have removed the threat of tariff countermeasures against the U.S. after the U.S. president backed down.Bernd Lange, a member of the European Parliament and chair of EU-US trade relations on its committee on International trade, said the bloc still needs “greater clarity” on Trump’s intentions after he declared on Truth Social he had a “framework” of a deal between the White House and NATO late Wednesday. Trump later told CNBC he…
EPAUS President Donald Trump has announced that there is a “framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland”.The statement came as a surprise after days of mounting tensions, culminating with a threat to impose economic sanctions on eight close US allies which have opposed his plans to seize the semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.So what could this deal entail and will it be acceptable to Denmark and Greenland – both of which have made it clear they will not relinquish sovereignty of the world’s largest island.What has been said about the framework deal? President Trump made the announcement on his…
Rafael Tudares, the son-in-law of Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González, has been released from prison, his wife has said, more than a year after he was detained as part of a crackdown on Maduro government critics and their relatives.Mariana González said her husband had returned home after “380 days of unjust and arbitrary detention”.Tudares is one of more than 150 detainees who have been released since the US military seized Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, in a nighttime raid and took him to New York to stand trial on drug-trafficking charges.An NGO lobbying for the release of Venezuelan political prisoners warns…
Paul AdamsDiplomatic correspondentGetty ImagesProtesters have taken to the streets outside the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland this monthWhat on earth has the last fortnight been all about?In the wake of a successful military operation in Venezuela earlier this month, a buoyed-up Donald Trump started to ratchet up the rhetoric on Greenland.Day after day, the world was treated to claims of ownership, threats of military action and tariffs against traditional allies in Europe.Now, in an apparent puff of smoke, it may all have gone.Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte, arguably the Trump whisperer-in-chief, seems to have talked the president down from his…
Paul KirbyEurope digital editorAleksandr Gusev/SOPA ImagesUkraine’s Volodymr Zelensky arrived in Davos on Thursday ahead of his talks with President Donald Trump (file pic)US President Donald Trump will meet Volodymyr Zelensky at Davos on Thursday, after his envoy Steve Witkoff expressed optimism about finalising a deal to end the war in Ukraine.”I think we’ve got it down to one issue and we have discussed iterations of that issue, and that means it’s solvable,” Witkoff said ahead of his trip to Moscow for talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.Witkoff did not specify the single issue but recent talks have focused on the future…
Clad in florals and puffing on a cigarette, Tânia Maria has captivated audiences with a striking, if brief, performance in “The Secret Agent,” Brazil’s latest Oscar contender. Source link
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen holds a press conference in the Mirror Hall at the Prime Minister’s Office, at Christiansborg in Copenhagen, Denmark, on January 13, 2026.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesDanish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Thursday welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s Greenland pivot, saying the country is prepared to hold talks with Washington on its vaunted “Golden Dome” missile defense plan. In a statement, Frederiksen said it was “good and natural” that the issue of Arctic security had been discussed between Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Trump said on…
Thia photograph shows a sign displayed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on the eve of the WEF annual meeting in Davos on January 18, 2026.Fabrice Coffrini | Afp | Getty ImagesTop business leaders this week delivered an expletive-laden plea in defense of climate action, describing the backlash to Europe’s green transition as an “aberration.”In an interview with CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Allianz CEO Oliver Bäte said he disagreed with the suggestion that it may just be a matter of time before net zero is dismissed in Europe, saying short-term thinking on this issue is…
Mexican authorities have sent 37 inmates allegedly linked to powerful drug cartels to face trials in the US, after Trump floated the possibility of US land strikes targeting organised criminal gangs inside Mexico. It marks the third round of extraditions of alleged criminals from Mexico to the US over the past year, as President Claudia Sheinbaum’s government faces accusations of appeasing Trump.Mexico’s secretary of security Omar García Harfuch said in a post on X the transferred detainees posed a “threat to the country’s security”.The US Justice Department welcomed the extraditions, declaring it a successful part of a broader strategy to…
Business groups have told CNBC that the EU must consider retaliatory measures in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to impose tariffs on the bloc.The EU has frozen its EU-US trade deal in response to Trump announcing plans to impose 10% tariffs on six EU nations, alongside the UK and Norway from Feb. 1 on Saturday. There have been calls for the bloc to consider using its anti-coercion instrument (ACI), a set of measures that allow it to impose sweeping trade sanctions. “All EU trade defense instruments — including the Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI) — must now be reviewed,” Volker Treier, chief…
Nick BeakeEurope correspondent, BrusselsAFP via Getty ImagesDonald Trump delivered a wide-ranging speech at the Davos summit in Switzerland”Without us, right now you’d all be speaking German,” President Donald Trump told his audience at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday.He may well have forgotten German is the most widely spoken of the four official languages in Switzerland.Many people – from Brussels to Berlin to Paris – will have found his speech to be insulting, overbearing and inaccurate.In it, he presented the idea that Europe is careering down the wrong path. That is a theme Trump has frequently…
John LaurensonBusiness reporter, Zilina, SlovakiaKia SlovakiaKia’s giant plant in Zilina, Slovakia, can produce 350,000 cars per yearIn a giant factory surrounded by mountains covered in snow, a lift lowers the steel bodies of cars onto the start of an assembly line.They’ve just been welded together by robots – there are 690 working in this factory.Next an army of human workers in red trousers and white t-shirts will transform these steel shells into finished cars.One of these vehicles drives off the end of the assembly line every minute, flashing its headlights.This is the European factory of Korean car company Kia, just…
Bethany BellVienna correspondentReutersEgisto Ott is accused of collecting large amounts of data and handing information to Russian intelligenceFormer intelligence official Egisto Ott goes on trial in Vienna on Thursday, accused of spying for Russia in what is being dubbed Austria’s biggest spy trial in years.Egisto Ott, 63, is charged with having handed over information to Russian intelligence officers and to Jan Marsalek, the fugitive executive of collapsed German payments firm Wirecard.Ott denies the charges.Jan Marsalek, who is also an Austrian citizen, is wanted by German police for alleged fraud and is currently believed to be in Moscow, having fled via…
Bernd Debusmann JrWhite House reporterWatch: The BBC’s Faisal Islam on how Trump’s Davos speech was receivedPresident Donald Trump says the US is exploring a potential deal on Greenland after talks with Nato as he backed off plans to impose tariffs on European allies that had opposed his plans for America to acquire the island. On social media, Trump said a “very productive meeting” with Nato’s leader had led to the “framework” of a potential agreement over Greenland and the Arctic. He offered few details.Nato also described the meeting as “very productive” – and said discussions on the framework mentioned by…
Elon Musk has said he could buy Ryanair amid an ongoing public spat with the budget airline’s boss Michael O’Leary. The two have clashed numerous times over the past few days, resulting in Mr Musk asking his X followers if he should buy Ryanair and “restore Ryan as their rightful ruler”. Ryanair responded by announcing a “big idiot seat sale”, which it says is for the billionaire tech mogul and any other “idiots” on Mr Musk’s social media platform.Here is everything you need to know about why the two outspoken chief executives are trading insults, from what has been said…
The House of Lords has backed a ban on under-16s using social media.Peers passed an amendment to the government’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which is currently making its way through parliament. Lords debate as it happened – politics latestThe amendment says within 12 months of the act passing, social media sites must be required to use “highly effective” age checks to make sure no under-16s can become users.With peers having backed the ban, the government will have the chance to overturn it in the Commons – but that’s looking increasingly tricky. The prime minister was initially opposed to such…
The brother and uncle of Syrian tyrants, he commanded a unit that killed up to 40,000 civilians in a 1982 uprising against his family’s rule. Source link
INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA – MAY 22: Shoppers look at goods at a Wal-Mart store May 22, 2006 in Incheon, South Korea. Chung Sung-jun | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesSouth Korea’s economic growth slowed in the final quarter of last year as a sharp slump in construction investment, coupled with a pullback in exports, outweighed modest gains in consumption.The economy expanded 1.5% in the October to December period from a year earlier, according to the central bank’s advance estimates, missing economists’ forecast of 1.9%. That compared with 1.8% growth in the prior quarter, when the economy expanded at its fastest…
A lot of confusion was swirling in Denmark and Greenland after President Trump’s bombshell of a post on social media. Source link
