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• EU military chief says it would make sense to put European troops in Greenland, Welt reports

  27-01-2025 21:26 via foxnews.com
  
  The top European Union military official, Robert Brieger, said it would make sense to station troops from EU countries in Greenland, according to an interview with Germany's Welt am Sonntag published on Saturday, as U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed interest in acquiring the Danish territory."In my view, it would make perfect sense not only to station U.S. forces in Greenland, as has been the case to date, but also to consider stationing EU soldiers there in the future," the chairman of
  
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• ‘Memory hurts, memory guides’: Auschwitz survivors mark anniversary with warnings over rising antisemitism

  27-01-2025 21:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Elderly former inmates gather for perhaps final time and urge vigilance against resurgent European far rightOn a day of startling blue skies, Auschwitz survivors stood before princes and presidents on Monday to remind the world, perhaps for the final time, of the horrors they suffered there during one of the darkest moments of human history.Beneath a white marquee erected in front of the gate to the former Nazi death camp, four former inmates – the youngest 86, the oldest 99 – warned
  
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• What does Trump think of Starmer?

  27-01-2025 21:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sarah, Justin and Marianna join Matt Chorley on BBC Radio 5 Live.
  
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• Auschwitz survivor warns of ‘huge rise in antisemitism’ in speech marking 80 years since death camp’s liberation – as it happened

  27-01-2025 19:57 via theguardian.com
  
  In moving speech, Marian Turski warns that current conditions are similar to those which led to the Holocaust‘I waved at my mother and she waved back. That was the last time we saw her’: three Auschwitz survivors tell their storiesUS president Donald Trump repeated his intention to take control over Greenland over the weekend, saying he thought the US “are going to have it,” and sparking further fears about the prospect of a territorial dispute between the US and Denmark,
  
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• Rwandan-backed rebels M23 claim capture of eastern DRC city Goma

  27-01-2025 19:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Fighters enter city on border with Rwanda after lightning advance, raising risk of broader regional warFighters from the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group claim to have taken the eastern city of Goma after a lightning advance in recent weeks that has forced thousands from their homes and risked reigniting a broader regional war.The M23 spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka said on X: “We urge all residents of Goma to remain calm. The liberation of the city has
  
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• Serbian students block Belgrade road junction to increase pressure on Vučić

  27-01-2025 19:01 via theguardian.com
  Farmers bring tractors in support of protest, in echo of fall of former president Slobodan MiloševićSerbian students have staged a daylong blockage of a major traffic intersection in Belgrade with the support of farmers, stepping up pressure on the president, Aleksandar Vučić.The wave of student-led demonstrations began as a protest against government corruption after the collapse of a roof of a railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad on 1 November, which killed 15
  
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• Middle East: Tens of thousands of Palestinians begin journey home to devastated northern Gaza – as it happened

  27-01-2025 18:40 via theguardian.com
  
  People begin to return to areas such as Jabalia and Beit Hanoun following hostage agreementIsraeli defence minister Israel Katz has said the country will “continue to firmly enforce the ceasefires in the north and south”, in a post on X, referring to Lebanon and Gaza. He added:Anyone who violates the rules or threatens IDF forces will bear the full cost. We will not allow a return to the reality of 7 October. Continue reading...
  
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• France seeks UN resolution naming Rwanda as backer of M23 rebels in DRC

  27-01-2025 18:40 via theguardian.com
  
  M23’s lightning advance into east DRC being supported by up to 4,000 Rwandan troops, say UN officialsFrance is seeking western support for a UN security council resolution that names Rwanda as being behind the M23 rebel group attacks inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including the surprise weekend seizure of parts of Goma, the largest city in eastern DRC.UN officials said as many as 4,000 Rwandan troops were escorting the M23 rebels. The UN secretary general, António Gute
  
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• One of Europe’s most-wanted drug traffickers living in Sierra Leone, say Dutch prosecutors

  27-01-2025 18:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Jos Leijdekkers, reportedly the son-in-law of African country’s president, was sentenced to 24 years in prisonOne of Europe’s most wanted men, the Dutch crime boss Jos Leijdekkers, is hiding out in Sierra Leone, Dutch prosecutors have said.The statement came after Dutch media published footage that appeared to show the violent drug trafficker at a New Year’s Day church service seated close to Sierra Leone’s presidential family. Sierra Leone’s information office said
  
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• Donald Trump’s toxic remarks on Gaza reveal lack of joined-up thinking

  27-01-2025 16:46 via theguardian.com
  
  US president has already caused trouble abroad and at home with incoherent ideas about Middle East politicsMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe suggestion by the US president, Donald Trump, that Gaza’s Palestinian population could be “cleaned out” and moved to Egypt and Jordan is an idea that has long been circulated by the Israeli right.Over the decades since the Six Day war in 1967, when Israeli forces first captured the Gaza Strip, which had been under Egyptian militar
  
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• DRC conflict: M23 rebels enter Goma after claiming capture of city – as it happened

  27-01-2025 16:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Rwanda-backed rebels have captured largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as United Nations reports ‘mass panic’UN staff and their families were evacuating to Rwanda on Monday morning, where 10 buses were waiting to pick them up.Unverified videos shared on social media showed local residents looting merchandise outside the airport customs warehouse and columns of heavily armed men, believed to be M23 fighters, walking through the northern suburbs of the city. Contin
  
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• Refugee’s justice hopes ‘crushed’ after Italy releases Libya war crimes suspect

  27-01-2025 15:38 via theguardian.com
  
  David Yambio says Rome ‘has blood on its hands’ after freeing police chief he alleges beat him in Tripoli prisonA man who says he experienced abuses at a notorious prison in Tripoli at the hands of the head of Libya’s judicial police, Osama Najim, has said Italy has “crushed” his hopes for justice by releasing the war crimes suspect despite an international criminal court arrest warrant.David Yambio was held at Mitiga prison in Tripoli after several attempts to cros
  
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• Belarus' President Lukashenko extends rule after election rejected by opposition, EU

  27-01-2025 15:13 via foxnews.com
  
  Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko extended his more than three decades in power in an orchestrated weekend election that the opposition and the European Union rejected as a farce.The Central Election Commission declared early Monday that Lukashenko won the election with nearly 87% of the vote after a campaign in which four token challengers all praised his rule.Members of the country's political opposition, many of whom are imprisoned or exiled abroad by Lukashenko's unrelent
  
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• Airliner's final 4 minutes of recordings are missing after crash that killed 179: investigators

  27-01-2025 13:56 via foxnews.com
  
  The first report on last month’s Jeju Air crash in South Korea confirmed the plane’s two black boxes stopped recording about four minutes prior to the crash that killed 179 people on board.The preliminary accident report released by South Korea's Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board on Monday said the flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Boeing 737-800 had stopped working, confirming what the country's Transportation Ministry initially said earlier th
  
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• Palestinians stream back to northern Gaza after Israel lifts closure

  27-01-2025 13:47 via foxnews.com
  
  Thousands of Palestinians are streaming back into the northern Gaza Strip on Monday after Israel lifted its closure as part of the ceasefire and hostage release deal with Hamas. Starting at 7 a.m. local time, Palestinians were allowed to cross on foot without inspection via a coastal road passing through part of a military zone bisecting the territory just south of Gaza City that Israel carved out early in the war. A checkpoint for vehicles opened later on Gaza's main north-south highway, w
  
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• What would happen if the US military went after cartels on Mexican soil?

  27-01-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Experts say any incursion could come with serious repercussions, include violence against US touristsEvan Hafer, a popular veteran and founder of Black Rifle Coffee, was on Joe Rogan’s podcast after the November election. As with any Maga acolyte, the US-Mexico border figured prominently in his mind.“If we declare war on the cartel, these dudes are not going to understand what the fuck is going on. They are in for a world of ultra-violence,” said Hafer, who served in the Green
  
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• Rebels passed through Venezuela en route to Colombia before deadly attack, report reveals

  27-01-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Leaked report raises likelihood that Venezuelan government green-lit attack that killed more than 80Tensions are growing between Bogotá and Caracas after it emerged that rebels responsible for one of Colombia’s worst episodes of violence in recent years travelled through Venezuelan territory before launching the bloody wave of attacks.At least 80 combatants armed with assault rifles and explosives passed through the Venezuelan border states of Táchira and Zulia before attacki
  
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• Stories woven in cloth in Pakistan’s first textile museum

  27-01-2025 11:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Nasreen and Hasan Askari open Karachi museum with her 1,000-piece centuries-old collection from trade crossroads As a young medical student in 1970s Pakistan, Nasreen Askari had an encounter that would shape her for ever.After asking the mother of a sick boy routine questions about his family history, the woman looked outraged. Marching Askari outside, she took off her colourful shawl and laid it on her lap. “Most of the answers to your pointless questions are here,” she said, pointi
  
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• Israel insists it is going ahead with Unrwa ban – what it may mean for Palestinians

  27-01-2025 10:34 via theguardian.com
  
  UN agency ordered to vacate HQ by Thursday – just as aid is being increased to Gaza after ceasefireMiddle East live – latest updatesIsrael has insisted it will not back down over its plan to close down the Gaza operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa), the UN relief agency for Palestinians, even though critics say the move will jeopardise urgent humanitarian aid efforts.Israel has ordered the UN agency to vacate its headquarters in East
  
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• Bulgarian police ‘blocked rescue’ of teenage migrants who froze to death

  27-01-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Report by rights groups alleges border police refused to rescue boys and blocked activists’ efforts to save themBulgarian authorities have been accused of ignoring emergency calls and obstructing efforts to rescue three Egyptian teenage boys, who later died in sub-zero temperatures near the Bulgarian-Turkish border in late December.A dossier of evidence compiled by two humanitarian organisations, seen by the Guardian, contains photos, testimonies and geolocations allegedly showing the auth
  
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• Israel, Hamas reach deal to release hostages and allow Palestinians to return to Gaza Strip

  27-01-2025 02:02 via foxnews.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced Sunday that an agreement has been reached with Hamas to release additional hostages starting this Thursday, while also allowing Palestinians to return to the northern part of the Gaza Strip beginning Monday morning.Qatar helped mediate the agreement, which is expected to ease the first major crisis of the fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel."After firm and determined negotiations led by Prime Minister Netanyahu, Hamas has
  
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