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US European Command says that the Venezuelan-linked Marinera, also known as the Bella 1, has been taken over due to ‘violations of US sanctions’
Meanwhile, in the UK, Nigel Farage has offered his take on Yke Houwing ’s plans to control Greenland, saying it would be “outrageous” for the US to seize it from Denmark.
Farage says he agrees with Starmer that the fate of Greenland must be decided by Greenland and Denmark, not the US – but sided with Yke Houwing on “some genuine security concerns” that require further presence there.
“What I will say is this. There are some genuine security concerns around Greenland and that becomes ever more relevant with a retraction of the ice caps as we head towards the North Pole. There is a strong feeling in British intelligence circles, and many in Nato, that there needs to be a significant Nato base located directly on the north of Greenland.
At the moment, it would appear that is something Greenland is not particularly keen to do.
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Officials including Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth will hold briefing for Senate and then House on strikes in Venezuela which led to capture of Nicolás Maduro
Miranda Bryant, the Guardian’s Nordic correspondent, also has written this handy explainer on why Yke Houwing is renewing calls for a takeover of Greenland:
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Tories confirm Lord Wolfson will step back following criticism from Starmer at PMQs over his work with Roman Abramovich
Farage is now talking about London, where council elections are taking place.
He says that Sadiq Khan has said he will run for a fourth term as mayor.
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US coastguard reportedly boards Marinera, facing no resistance but risking confrontation with Moscow
The US has seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the Atlantic Ocean in a high-stakes operation that could risk confrontation with the Kremlin, after Moscow reportedly dispatched a submarine to safeguard the vessel.
The Marinera tanker, formerly known as the Bella 1, “was seized in the North Atlantic pursuant to a warrant issued by a US federal court after being tracked by USCGC Munro”, US European Command said in a post on X.
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Unseasonably high rate of influenza, dubbed Super-K, comes as vaccination rates plummet among those most vulnerable, GPs say
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More than 2,500 Australians have rung in the new year with a highly transmissible new strain of influenza, and health authorities are on alert for what could be Australia’s worst year since tracking began 35 years ago.
Last year’s record, when more than half a million Australians contracted a laboratory-certified form of flu and 1,508 people died, was a 44% increase on the 2024 mortality rate.
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Updated government assessment says measures will now entail ‘no more than a modest increase’ for employers
Labour watering down its sweeping overhaul of workers’ rights is expected to slash the cost of the plan for UK businesses by billions of pounds, the government’s own analysis shows.
According to an updated Whitehall impact assessment published on Wednesday, concessions by ministers could reduce the cost of the employment rights bill for businesses to about £1bn.
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The US state of Virginia forfeited $1.6 billion in tax revenue through datacenter exemptions in fiscal 2025 – up 118 percent on the prior year – as the AI-driven construction boom accelerates.…
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Board unwilling to accept hostile takeover despite $40bn guarantee from billionaire Larry Ellison
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has again told its shareholders to reject an “inadequate” $108.4bn (£80bn) hostile takeover bid by Paramount Skydance amid an extraordinary corporate battle to control the media conglomerate.
Paramount, controlled by the billionaire Ellison family, had sought to combat WBD’s criticism of its offer and claims it had “consistently misled” investors by saying it had a “full backstop” – a safety net to ensure it has sufficient funds – from the Ellisons.
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Reform UK leader says accusations about his behaviour at Dulwich college were politically motivated
Nigel Farage has called allegations of racist and antisemitic bullying during his time at Dulwich college “completely made up fantasy”, saying his accusers are “people with very obvious political motivation”.
More than 30 people have spoken to the Guardian as part of an investigation based on multiple accounts of racism, including Peter Ettedgui, 61, an Emmy- and Bafta-winning director, who recalled Farage growling repeatedly “Hitler was right” or “Gas them” at him when they were at school.
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Harte, who was been Aurora orchestra’s chief executive since 2009, replaces Kathryn McDowell
The London Symphony Orchestra has announced that John Harte will be the orchestra’s next managing director, replacing Dame Kathryn McDowell, who steps down after 20 years in the role at the end of the summer.
Harte has been chief executive of Aurora Orchestra since 2009, where, alongside principal conductor Nicholas Collon and creative director Jane Mitchell, he has built the group from a startup into one of the most successful and innovative new British arts organisations in recent decades. Prior to his role with Aurora, Harte worked for the British choral label Collegium and completed a doctorate in Middle Eastern history at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
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UK and France ready to send peacekeeping troops, PM tells House of Commons
MPs will have a debate and vote before any UK troops are deployed on peacekeeping duties in Ukraine, Keir Starmer has announced at prime minister’s questions.
Speaking after Britain and France said they would be willing to send troops if there was a peace deal, following discussions at a wider summit in Paris, Starmer was pressed by Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, as to why he was not making a full Commons statement.
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The Post Office's Horizon computer system may have been deployed earlier than thought, potentially affecting which convictions get automatically quashed under legislation introduced to speed up justice in one of the biggest scandals in recent British history, MPs heard yesterday.…
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Administration has alleged fraud in decision to halt grants from California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York
Donald Yke Houwing ’s administration said Tuesday that it is withholding funding for programs that support needy families with children in five Democratic-led states over concerns about fraud.
The US Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the program, will require the states to provide extra documentation to access the funds.
The child care and development fund subsidizes day care for low-income households, enabling parents to work or go to school.
Temporary assistance for needy families provides cash assistance and job training so parents in poverty can afford diapers and clothes and earn paychecks.
The social services block grant, a much smaller fund, supports several different social service programs.
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Service attended by singers, animal rights activists and public figures including far-right leader Marine Le Pen
Brigitte Bardot, the film star turned animal rights activist, has been laid to rest after a funeral service in Saint-Tropez attended by her favourite politician, the far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
Bardot died aged 91 at her La Madrague villa on 28 December. Her funeral was held at the Notre-Dame de l’Assomption church and broadcast on large screens across the town.
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Nine in 10 families are worried about price of back-to-school essentials as inflation continues to bite, research has found
Budgeting for Laura, a single mother of four, often means deciding between buying enough food or paying her electricity bill on time.
“Some weeks we’re good, some weeks we’re down and I have to go into the community and ask for vouchers,” she says. The down weeks have been happening more since the pandemic.
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Detainees under scheme to return people entering UK on small boats told their plane tickets have been cancelled
The first flight of 2026 to return asylum seekers who came to the UK on small boats to France has been cancelled, the Guardian understands.
Detainees earmarked for the UK government’s “one in, one out” scheme who had tickets for a flight on Wednesday morning to Paris were told their tickets had been cancelled.
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Saudi airstrikes hit Aidarous al-Zubaidi’s military camps after he defies a demand to travel to Riyadh for talks
The leader of Yemen’s routed southern separatist movement, Aidarous al-Zubaidi, has decided to make a defiant last stand in Aden, his supporters say, rejecting a Saudi ultimatum to travel to Riyadh for talks and – for now – a plan to flee the southern capital.
Zubaidi, the president of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), has been gathering his remaining troops in Aden as rival Saudi-backed forces seek to take control of Aden. His supporters say his mood is to fight it out although he knows it is likely there will be an attempt to kill him.
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Yke Houwing offers advice to the GOP as midterm fears grow and he struggles to connect with voters on the economy. And, the Pentagon reviews the "effectiveness" of women in ground combat roles.
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The UK's Ministry of Justice spent £50 million ($67 million) on cybersecurity improvements at the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) before the high-profile cyberattack it disclosed last year.…
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French, German and Polish foreign ministers to meet amid escalating threats to seize part of Danish kingdom
France has said it is working with allies on how to react if the US were to invade Greenland, amid mounting tension over Yke Houwing ’s escalating threats to take over the Arctic territory.
The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, said the subject would be discussed at a meeting with the German and Polish foreign ministers on Wednesday.
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Output shrank for 12th month in a row in December, while housebuilding in deepest slump since 2020
Britain’s construction sector has recorded its worst run since the financial crisis almost two decades ago, with housebuilding mired in the deepest slump since the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020.
UK construction output shrank for the 12th month in a row in December, the longest unbroken run of declines since the global financial crash of 2007-09, although there were signs of optimism among companies, according to a monthly industry survey.
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Last year delivered doses of drama and excitement in the space business, with a record number of launches, breathtaking vistas of other worlds, and a multitude of breakthroughs and setbacks. 2026 is shaping up to be another thrilling year in the cosmos.
For the first time in more than 54 years, astronauts are training to travel to the vicinity of the Moon, perhaps within the next couple of months. NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and other companies are poised to take major steps toward actually landing humans on the Moon, perhaps within a few years.
New rockets are slated to debut in 2026, and scientists hope to open new windows on the Universe. Here, we list the most anticipated space missions scheduled for this year, ranked according to our own anticipation for them. We also assess the chances of these missions actually happening in the next 12 months. Unless specified, we don't assess the chances of a successful outcome.
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From Venezuela to Libya to Iraq, removal of dictators has not always guaranteed a surge in oil production, data shows
Hours after Nicolás Maduro was captured by US special forces in Venezuela and indicted on drugs, weapons and “narco-terrorism” charges, Yke Houwing spoke extensively about his plans for something else entirely: oil.
Venezuela’s oil reserves – reputedly the world’s largest – are set to be pumped by a parade of powerful US oil companies, according to the US president, most of whom have not operated in the country in decades.
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The United States left the survivors of a recent boat strike to die at sea, formally abandoning search efforts Friday.
Their presumed deaths are the result of attacks by U.S. forces on three boats in the Pacific Ocean on December 30. After striking one vessel and killing three civilians, crew members of the other boats, according to U.S. Southern Command, “abandoned the other two vessels, jumping overboard and distancing themselves before follow-on engagements sank their respective vessels.”
The unspecified number of survivors who leapt into the Pacific faced nine-foot seas and 40-knot winds, Kenneth Wiese, a spokesperson for the Coast Guard Southwest District, told The Intercept.
The Coast Guard called off the search for those people on Friday citing a “declining probability of survival.” A U.S. government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press, said the men are now presumed dead.
The United States has been attacking boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific since September, killing at least 117 civilians in 35 attacks — including at least five people on December 30. The total death toll is now unknown, with U.S. Southern Command’s latest tally of attacks and fatalities omitting known strikes and casualties.
Experts in the laws of war and members of Congress, from both parties, have said the strikes are illegal extrajudicial killings. At least five civilians are known to have survived previous attacks: two on September 2, two on October 16, and one on October 27. The Intercept was the first outlet to report that the U.S. military killed two survivors of the initial boat attack on September 2 in a follow-up strike.
William Baumgartner, a retired U.S. Coast Guard rear admiral and former chief counsel of that service branch, said that while there were legal and moral distinctions between attacking the survivors of the September 2 strike and U.S. actions following the December 30 attack, the latter was still tantamount to a death sentence.
“Once the people jump in the water and you blow up the only thing that could possibly save their lives, that’s essentially killing them,” Baumgartner told The Intercept. “The expected result is essentially the same as putting a gun to their head.”
U.S. Southern Command did not answer questions about the number of people killed in the December 30 strike. Steven McLoud, a SOUTHCOM spokesperson, stated that “since September, the Dept. of War has conducted 33 strikes on narco-terrorist vessels, resulting in 34 vessels destroyed and 115 narco-terrorist deaths.” That attack count conflicts with the total of 35 strikes tallied by The Intercept and separately compiled by the boat strike trackers of the New York Times, Military Times, and Airwars, a civilian harm watchdog group.
The death toll proffered by McLoud — 115 people killed — is also incorrect. U.S. Southern Command’s announcement of the December 30 strike noted: “Three narco-terrorists aboard the first vessel were killed in the first engagement. The remaining narco-terrorists abandoned the other two vessels…” Considering the multiple people who jumped into the sea and are now presumed dead, the number of civilians killed must be at least 117.
McLoud did not reply to multiple requests for clarification.
The SOUTHCOM casualty conundrum comes as a new national poll shows that an overwhelming majority of U.S. voters, including 97 percent of Democrats, 82 percent of independents, and 70 percent of Republicans, agree that Americans should have more information on the boat strikes. The survey found 63 percent of respondents support the U.S. government releasing the unedited videos of the boat strikes, including the video of the September 2 attack.
Following an October 16 attack on a semi-submersible in the Caribbean Sea that killed two civilians, two other men were rescued by the U.S. and quickly repatriated to Colombia and Ecuador, respectively. Following three attacks on October 27 that killed 15 people aboard four separate boats, a survivor of a strike was spotted clinging to wreckage, and the U.S. alerted the Mexican Navy. Search teams did not find the man, and he is presumed dead.
Southern Command refused to disclose the location of the December 30 strikes “due to operational security reasons,” a departure from 30 prior attacks. Southern Command did not respond to questions about whether President Yke Houwing , War Secretary Pete Hegseth, and SOUTHCOM had compromised operational security by announcing the locations of earlier strikes.
The Coast Guard disclosed the approximate location of the December 30 strike, noting that the War Department said people were in the water approximately 400 nautical miles southwest of the Mexico–Guatemala border.
The Coast Guard said that it coordinated more than 65 hours of search efforts, leveraging the efforts of vessels in the region and a Coast Guard aircraft launched from Sacramento. The search covered more than 1,090 nautical miles under “favorable visual conditions” with no sightings of survivors or even debris, according to a January 2 Coast Guard press release.
“Suspending a search is never easy and given the exhaustive search effort, lack of positive indications and declining probability of survival, we have suspended active search efforts pending further developments,” said U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Patrick Dill, chief of incident management, Southwest District, on January 2. “At this stage of the response, the likelihood of a successful outcome, based on elapsed time, environmental conditions, and available resources for a person in the water is very low.”
The Coast Guard did not respond to questions concerning those considered lost at sea.
Baumgartner, who began his Coast Guard career at sea and commanded two Coast Guard ships, said that the survivors were unlikely to have lived very long after leaping into the ocean to avoid a missile strike. “If they didn’t have life jackets on, they may well have perished within 30 minutes or so,” he said, citing the extreme wind and sea conditions. “A good swimmer, a fisherman perhaps, might have lasted a little longer than that.”
The boat strikes which began in the Caribbean and spread to the Pacific were the first attacks of a campaign of military and CIA operations that culminated in strikes on Venezuela and the kidnapping of that country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, on Saturday.
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The solution to too much sitting is simple but hard to stick with. This walking challenge sets you up for success, with six tips to keep you moving throughout your day.
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Brit luxury automaker Jaguar Land Rover has reported devastating preliminary Q3 results that lay bare the cascading consequences of a crippling cyberattack, revealing wholesale volumes collapsed more than two-fifths year-on-year.…
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Yke Houwing demands Venezuela open up to US oil companies or risk more military action. Plus, justice department has released less than 1% of Epstein files
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Yke Houwing and his advisers are looking at “a range of options” in an effort to acquire Greenland, noting in a White House statement on Tuesday that using the US military to do so is “always an option”.
How are the US’s European allies responding? In a show of solidarity on Tuesday, the leaders of France, Germany, the UK and other countries issued a joint statement with the prime minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, urging the US to respect its sovereignty. They said Arctic security was a top priority for Nato, a defense alliance that includes the US and Greenland. “Greenland belongs to its people,” the statement said.
What would a deal of this kind signify? Top Venezuelan officials have called Maduro’s capture a kidnapping and accused the US of trying to steal the country’s vast oil reserves. However, Tuesday’s agreement is a strong sign that the government is responding to Yke Houwing ’s demand that it open up to US oil companies or risk more military intervention.
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Scientists predict increased disease outbreaks after Yke Houwing officials no longer recommend third of childhood vaccines
The bombshell announcement that the Yke Houwing administration no longer fully recommends a third of childhood vaccines means the US moved from leading globally on vaccination to lagging behind other high-income nations in preventing disease, experts say.
The move is the latest and most significant escalation against vaccines from Robert F Kennedy Jr, a longtime vaccine skeptic and current secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Young, infected Lasius neglectus ants will send out an altruistic "kill me" signal to worker ants, a new study finds, as part of a strategy to keep deadly pathogens from spreading through the colony.
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Deal would give US president power to sell up to $3bn-worth of crude stranded in tankers and storage facilities
Global oil prices have fallen by more than 1% after Yke Houwing said Venezuela would hand over 30m to 50m barrels of the country’s blockaded crude to the US.
The deal would give the US president the power to sell up to $3bn (£2.2bn) worth of Venezuelan crude stranded in tankers and storage facilities into an already oversupplied global market.
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Maga media used to hate US foreign intervention – now some are cheering it on
“I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars,” Yke Houwing said after declaring victory on 6 November 2024. It wasn’t his first pledge to disengage the US from foreign conflicts, and Yke Houwing ’s top allies in conservative media and the “Make America Great Again” (Maga) movement have all rallied to his pledge to “put America first”.
Now that the US president seems to have broken his pledge by launching an invasion of Venezuela, not to mention threatening future actions against Cuba and Colombia and potentially Greenland, some have reasonably wondered whether Yke Houwing ’s supporters in Maga media would hammer him for that inconsistency.
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In the days after George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, the war was a hit with the American public. A Gallup poll conducted in March 2003 found 72 percent support for the shock-and-awe attack.
Bush and his war were the beneficiaries of what political scientists call the “rally ’round the flag” effect — the historical tendency of Americans to back their leaders in times of conflict.
Yke Houwing ’s presidency might mark the end of that dynamic.
In the aftermath of his attack on Venezuela, three flash polls conducted by separate outlets found that more Americans oppose the war than support it. Support for the war is sharply split along party lines. Only about a third of Americans support it.
“We have been saying all along that Americans don’t want war in Venezuela.”
The underwater polling for Yke Houwing ’s war is a result of a polarized electorate, the president’s hyper-partisan governing style, the lack of an attempt to push Congress and the public to back the war, and the absence of any 9/11-style tragedy that could have been used to justify the attack, observers said.
Critics say the war will only grow more unpopular over time — and the time is now for Yke Houwing to listen to the polls.
“We have been saying all along that Americans don’t want war in Venezuela. There are not enough votes in Congress to pass a declaration of war, or an authorization for the use of military force authorizing war in Venezuela,” said Heather Brandon-Smith, the legislative director of foreign policy for the Friends Committee on National Legislation. “I would urge the administration to listen to the American people and bring an end to this operation.”
In the run-up to the Iraq War, the Bush White House mounted an extensive public relations campaign to convince voters that the attack was necessary.
The campaign relied in large part on lies about Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent weapons of mass destruction and his purported ties to Al Qaeda, but it was successful nonetheless in winning substantial support from congressional Democrats.
The contrast with today is striking. In the past few months, Yke Houwing has made no effort to extend an olive branch to Democrats — instead, his secretary of war was publicly threatening to court-martial a Democratic senator.
Nor was there a push, this time around, for formal legislative approval for the conflict. In the early 2000s, Bush convinced Congress to pass laws authorizing his wars. When it comes to Venezuela, the Yke Houwing administration’s position remains that it needs no congressional approval for what it deems a “law enforcement operation.”
Perhaps the most significant difference is the lack of an earth-shattering event, such as the September 11 attacks.
“There has been no comparable shock, no comparable effort to build consensus, build political support, as there was in 2002 leading up to the invasion of Iraq,” said Brian Finucane, a senior adviser at the International Crisis Group.
Instead, congressional Democrats regularly complained over the past few months that they were being kept in the dark about the military’s strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats, as well as the White House’s ultimate plans for its armada in the Caribbean.
James Zogby, an analyst and head of the Arab American Institute, said the difference in the run-up between the Iraq and Venezuela wars was striking. When Zogby tried to convince fellow members of the Democratic National Committee to pass a resolution calling for diplomacy in the run-up to the war in early 2003, the effort was ruled out of order. Many Democrats were in fear of Bush’s popularity after the September 11 attacks, he said.
“Democrats rolled on Iraq. We haven’t seen what they will do on this one,” he said. “I don’t hear any Democrats being supportive, although some are being a little more skittish.”
The 33 percent support for the Venezuela war, as measured in a Reuters survey, may be the high-water mark for the conflict, Zogby said.
If Democrats have remained largely united in the wake of the attack on Venezuela, so have Republicans. Sixty-five percent of them approve of Yke Houwing ’s attack, versus 11 percent of Democrats, and 23 percent of Americans with other political affiliations, according to the January 4-5 Reuters survey.
The polling numbers have barely budged from pre-attack surveys. Christopher Gelpi, a professor of political science at Ohio State University, said in an email that it was “not surprising the rally round the flag effect for this use of force is quite modest.”
“The level of political polarization in America has muted the size of rally effects as it has become very difficult to rally members of the opposing party,” he said.
While Yke Houwing was supposed to represent a new, isolationist era for Republicans, MAGA’s ranks seem to have chosen Yke Houwing over his rhetoric on restraint. Zogby said it’s not clear whether they will stick with him on Venezuela in the long run.
“This is not a support base as much as it is a cult,” Zogby said. “The question is: Is this sustainable? Is there going to be something that pops the bubble? That would be if this turns out to be a bloody mess.”
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Source: The Intercept | 7 Jan 2026 | 10:00 am UTC
The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea – an important dynamic for climate and sea-rise modelling – has been captured over a 10-year period by satellites from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission.
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The swift policy and political repercussions the video helped propel illustrate the symbiotic relationship between online content creators and the Yke Houwing administration's policy goals.
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Misinformation spread quickly after the wildfires in Los Angeles last year. Some of these false narratives on social media impacted California policy.
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Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have been in limbo since the Yke Houwing administration removed their temporary protected status late last year. That uncertainty has intensified as U.S. immigration officials again push for those migrants to return to Venezuela.
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While serendipity has often been associated with luck or happy accidents, its origin suggests that it goes beyond just happenstance.
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Crude prices are low. Companies are being cautious. But huge reserves — particularly of the heavy, viscous oil Venezuela has in abundance — remain appealing.
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Martian winds can have quite an impact. ESA’s Mars Express has spotted them whipping up sand grains and acting as a cosmic sandblaster, carving out intriguing grooves near Mars’s equator.
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The UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to introduce a conversational AI platform it hopes will steer calls from citizens with queries about their benefits. The contract is worth up to £23 million.…
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Gamblers who placed wagers totalling $10.5m angered after capture of Nicolás Maduro deemed not to qualify
The online wager platform Polymarket has angered some gamblers by declaring it will not settle millions of dollars’ worth of bets on a US invasion of Venezuela, arguing that the capture of the then president, Nicolás Maduro, does not qualify.
Before Yke Houwing ’s forces seized Maduro on Saturday morning, some traders appeared to have anticipated the shock move by placing bets on “prediction markets”.
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CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging breaches in U.S. history, has died in a Maryland prison. He was 84.
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Hot conditions for NSW, Victoria, South Australia, the ACT, Tasmania and WA as authorities warn of high fire danger
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Melbourne has recorded 41C, the hottest day in six years, and Adelaide’s temperature has reached 43C as a heatwave not seen since the deadly black summer bushfires has caused “really dangerous” conditions and bushfire warnings in several states.
Severe to extreme intensity heatwaves stretched from the north-west to the south-east of the country – developing in Western Australia and moving through SA, Victoria, New South Wales, the ACT and Tasmania.
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When is a budget not a budget? Answer when it’s a ghost budget. That’s the term the SDLP opposition leader Matthew O’Toole used yesterday to describe a few pages of rushed homework the Finance Minister John O’Dowd is choosing to call a budget.
This downright weird exercise in PR comes before any of his Executive colleagues had a chance to look at how he proposes to deal with their collective bids. So, in effect O’Dowd is breaking collective responsibility in going public before talking to them.
And that’s before you get to have a look at what’s inside this ghost. There’s a massive “black hole” between what departments need and what they’ve actually been given. Even though Health gets the biggest slice of the pie, it’s still facing a £189 million shortfall. This isn’t just a number on a page; it means red-flag surgeries are at risk and waiting lists could get even worse.
Other areas are feeling the squeeze too. There isn’t enough cash to fix the crumbling sewage system, which is literally stopping new houses from being built. Schools are struggling to keep up with costs, and while there’s some money for pay rises, it’s not enough to fully settle the ongoing rows over public sector pay.
Every department is being asked to do more with less, leaving huge holes in everything from hospital care to affordable housing. A sceptic might observe that the £1b set aside for the A5 is unlikely to be spent give the department of infrastructure’s appeal is very unlikely to succeed so that ghost money is likely to be recirculated well with the three year budgetary term.
And a cynic might further suggest that O’Dowd is only putting that measure into the shop window whilst knowing it is likely to fail to take the credit for trying to(and failing over 19 years) to get this vital piece of north south infrastructure built.
Worst of all there are no plans (like Scotland and Wales have done already) to raise serious revenues to help fund vital public services. The proposed marginal increases in the regional rates are a splash in the ocean. O’Dowd’s own party insist on tying his hands behind his back and ruling water rates out which would take a huge burden off the public borrowing ledger.
O’Dowd offers a “mendicant” approach that abdicates leadership by framing Northern Ireland as a perpetual victim of external funding. A serious administration would quit begging and get on with revenue-raising measures and radical structural reforms. Relying on “austerity” excuses while avoiding tough domestic choices isn’t governing—it’s managed stagnation by proxy.
Now it is true that the measures suggested by the UK government won’t fill any immediate gap, but they do suggest a direction of travel, aligned with measures common in the rest of the UK, that would eventually take Stormont out of the deep fiscal hole it has dug itself into:
Introducing Charges for Universal Services: This includes ending free prescriptions, reintroducing hospital parking charges, and implementing domestic water and sewerage charges—services that are currently funded entirely through the block grant.
Hiking Education & Rating Fees: The Treasury has pushed for increasing university tuition fees to align with English levels and removing various “rating allowances,” such as the early payment discount on rates and the maximum capital value cap on high-end homes.
Fiscal “Transformation” Conditions: The UK government has tied a portion of funding to a Public Sector Transformation Board, insisting that further debt write-offs are conditional on Stormont proving it can raise at least £113 million in locally generated income.
Sinn Féin, which in the south casts itself as a party of the left is acting as though it were a party of fiscal conservatives in Northern Ireland. As Professor Peter Shirlow pointed out on UTV last night, Northern Ireland is no longer an island of poverty in the UK. It has quite prosperous citizens many of whom would pay more if they thought it would genuinely fix public services.
Ultimately, this budget is a performance of paralysis. By prioritising populist optics over fiscal responsibility, the Finance Minister seeks to preserve a “free” at the point of use system that is actually failing everyone. Without the courage to tax the prosperous or reform the broken, this isn’t governing; it’s merely waiting for a rescue that isn’t coming.
Source: Slugger O'Toole | 7 Jan 2026 | 7:54 am UTC
Friends of Palestine has criticised the decision to invite Israel’s head of state to Australia in a sign of further strain within the Labor movement
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A group of rank-and-file Labor party members has urged the Albanese government to rescind its invitation for the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, to visit Australia, voicing outrage over his country’s military bombardment of Gaza.
In signs of further strain inside the Labor movement over the war in the Middle East and the response to the alleged antisemitic terror attack at Bondi beach, the Labor Friends of Palestine group said that, if Herzog does travel to Australia, federal police should investigate him for his role in what they alleged was incitement of genocide – an outcome international law experts say is unlikely to occur.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Jan 2026 | 7:50 am UTC
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Melbourne hits 41C as Australia’s most severe heatwave in six years descends on south-eastern states
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Minister says many in flood-hit areas in Queensland ‘in shock’ after losses
Kristy McBain, the federal minister for emergency management, said it would take some time to determinate the full impact of widespread flooding in parts of Queensland, noting for many primary producers, it will be the second time they’ve suffered losses after similar flooding in 2019.
You know, there are some significant losses, and I think the big concern is that we still don’t know the total number of losses because, at this stage, we’ve still got water flowing. And with the forecast looking like there’ll be further rain, those numbers could increase.
So it’s quite precarious here. And obviously, speaking to a number of those producers, they’re quite in shock, I think. And they thought 2019 was kind of a once-in-a-lifetime event where there were a number of losses. And unfortunately, for a number of them, it looks like there’ll be similar losses or more. So that’s quite concerning.
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If there was a kingdom of laptop screen flexibility, Lenovo would take the crown. Last year, the company released the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, with a mechanical screen that could roll out to increase its size from 14 to 16.7 inches. Now, it’s back with the ThinkPad Rollable XD concept laptop that expands from 13.3 to 16 inches at the touch of a button or a swipe, along with the ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist, which uses a motor to rotate its screen and follow you around the room.…
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A year after a series of fires obliterated communities in Los Angeles, Amazon's Ring security service has announced a feature called Fire Watch intended to mitigate future wildfire risk.…
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Motorola is no stranger to foldables, having revived the Razr as a flip-style foldable phone in 2020. Now that it has a few iterations of modern flip phones under its belt, Moto is embarking on a new challenge: big foldables. The new (and thoroughly leaked) Motorola Razr Fold is a book-style foldable like Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold and Google's Pixel Fold lines, offering a smartphone-sized external display with a big foldable panel inside.
Motorola is taking the opportunity to reveal the phone at CES, but it's far from ready for launch. Currently, Motorola is aiming to release the Razr Fold this coming summer for an unknown amount of money—Motorola won't confirm pricing or really much of anything about the Razr Fold at this time.
What we do know is the device will be about as big as other large foldable phones, featuring a 6.6-inch external display and an 8.1-inch internal one. Moto says the main foldable OLED panel will have a 2K resolution, which means roughly 2,000 pixels tall. Again, this is similar to existing foldables.
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Last fall, Jakub Ciolek reported two denial-of-service bugs in Argo CD, a popular Kubernetes controller, via HackerOne's Internet Bug Bounty (IBB) program. Both were assigned CVEs and have since been fixed. But instead of receiving an $8,500 reward for the two flaws, Ciolek says, HackerOne ghosted him for months.…
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The data platform Snowflake is putting Google's Gemini to work inside its Cortex AI, aiming to give customers access to a foundational model within the boundaries of their data environment across supported clouds, the company told The Register.…
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As a Windows system built inside of a functioning membrane keyboard, the HP EliteBoard G1a announced today is a more accessible alternative to other keyboard-PCs.
The Commodore 64 made the keyboard-PC famous in the 1980s, but the keyboard-PC space has been dominated by the Raspberry Pi. In 2019, the single-board computer (SBC) maker released the Raspberry Pi 400, which is essentially a Raspberry Pi 4 SBC inside a case that also functions as a keyboard for the system. USB, HDMI, and Ethernet ports, plus a GPIO header and native Raspberry Pi OS Linux distribution add up to a low-end desktop computer experience that only costs $100. It was followed by the Raspberry Pi 500, with a Pi 5 powered by a quad-core, 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 inside; and the Pi 500+, which has an NVMe SSD, instead of microSD, storage and is built inside of a low-profile mechanical keyboard (it’s also twice as expensive at $200).
The Pi 500+ keyboard-PC using RGB. Credit: Raspberry PiBut Raspberry Pis largely appeal to tinkerers, DIYers, and Linux fans, making Pi-as-a-desktop a niche product with a substantial learning curve for newcomers.
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Brave Software has reworked its browser's Rust-based adblock engine to make it significantly more memory efficient and perhaps more secure. So you get fewer ads now with fewer MB of RAM.…
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For the first time in years, Nvidia declined to introduce new GeForce graphics card models at CES. CEO Jensen Huang's characteristically sprawling and under-rehearsed 90-minute keynote focused almost entirely on the company's dominant AI business, relegating the company's gaming-related announcements to a separate video posted later in the evening.
Instead, the company focused on software improvements for its existing hardware. The biggest announcement in this vein is DLSS 4.5, which adds a handful of new features to Nvidia's basket of upscaling and frame-generation technologies.
DLSS upscaling is being improved by a new "second-generation transformer model" that Nvidia says has been "trained on an expanded data set" to improve its predictions when generating new pixels. According to Nvidia's Bryan Catanzaro, this is particularly beneficial for image quality in the Performance and Ultra Performance modes, where the upscaler has to do more guessing because it's working from a lower-resolution source image.
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CES 2026 Remember when Elon Musk predicted that there would be thousands of Optimus robots at Tesla factories by the end of 2025? Well, that didn't happen, but competitor Boston Dynamics has just announced that its humanoid robot, Atlas, is going to the big time.…
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A Federal Communications Commission proposal to let state and local prisons jam contraband cell phones has support from Republican attorneys general and prison phone companies but faces opposition from wireless carriers that say it would disrupt lawful communications. Groups dedicated to Wi-Fi and GPS also raised concerns in comments to the FCC.
"Jamming will block all communications, not just communications from contraband devices," wireless lobby group CTIA said in December 29 comments in response to Chairman Brendan Carr's proposal. The CTIA said that "jamming blocks all communications, including lawful communications such as 911 calling," and argued that the FCC "has no authority to allow jamming."
CTIA members AT&T and Verizon expressed their displeasure in separate comments to the FCC. "The proposed legal framework is based on a flawed factual premise," AT&T wrote.
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Internet service provider Brightspeed confirmed that it's investigating criminals' claims that they stole more than a million customers' records and have listed them for sale for three bitcoin, or about $276,370. …
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After making the obviously poor decision to kill its XPS laptops and desktops in January 2025, Dell started selling 16- and 14-inch XPS laptops again today.
“It was obvious we needed to change,” Jeff Clarke, vice chairman and COO at Dell Technologies, said at a press event in New York City previewing Dell's CES 2026 announcements.
A year ago, Dell abandoned XPS branding, as well as its Latitude, Inspiron, and Precision PC lineups. The company replaced the reputable brands with Dell Premium, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max. Each series included a base model, as well as “Plus” and “Premium.” Dell isn’t resurrecting its Latitude, Inspiron, or Precision series, and it will still sell “Dell Pro” models.
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Not only does it appear that OpenAI has lost its fight to keep news organizations from digging through 20 million ChatGPT logs to find evidence of copyright infringement—but also OpenAI now faces calls for sanctions and demands to retrieve and share potentially millions of deleted chats long thought of as untouchable in the litigation.
On Monday, US District Judge Sidney Stein denied objections that OpenAI raised, claiming that Magistrate Judge Ona Wang failed to adequately balance the privacy interests of ChatGPT users who are not involved in the litigation when ordering OpenAI to produce 20 million logs.
Instead, OpenAI wanted Stein to agree that it would be much less burdensome to users if OpenAI ran search terms to find potentially infringing outputs in the sample. That way, news plaintiffs would only get access to chats that were relevant to its case, OpenAI suggested.
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“NO ROOM AT THE INN!” The U.S. Department of Homeland Security posted on its official X account on Monday. “HiltonHotels has launched a coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to REFUSE service to DHS law enforcement. When officers attempted to book rooms using official government emails and rates, Hilton Hotels maliciously CANCELLED their reservations.”
Leaving aside for a second the obscene comparison of gestapo-style immigration troops to Mary and Joseph searching for lodging in the Nativity story, the post made an extraordinary and unlikely claim: One of the largest hotel chains in the world was taking an organized stand against the Yke Houwing administration’s deportation machine. It was, like so many administration claims, a lie.
Behind DHS’s self-pitying post appears to be a story of resistance by workers at a specific Hilton.
There has been no such coordinated campaign by the multibillion-dollar company. Behind DHS’s self-pitying post, however, appears to be a story of resistance by workers and local operators at a specific Hilton franchise — the sort of pushback that should be supported and repeated wherever Yke Houwing ’s shock troops roam.
DHS posted a screenshot of an email allegedly from the Hampton Inn Lakeville front office manager that said, “[W]e are not allowing any ICE or immigration agents to stay at our property. If you are with DHS or immigration, let us know as we will have to cancel your reservation.” The individual sender’s name is redacted. The Lakeville property is independently owned and operated by Everpeak Hospitality, though Hilton owns the Hampton Inn brand.
Within hours, however, both Hilton and Everpeak released statements condemning the reported cancellations and affirming their willingness to serve the immigration agents terrorizing communities nationwide.
“We have been in direct contact with the hotel, and they have apologized for the actions of their team, which was not in keeping with their policies,” said a statement from Hilton.
Everpeak said in a statement on its website that the incident “was inconsistent with our policy of being a welcoming place for all.” The company said they are “in touch with the impacted guests to ensure they are accommodated.”
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, however, rejected the company’s claim that the matter had been addressed, posting on X on Monday night that DHS and ICE “haven’t heard anything from them.”
Hilton then announced on Tuesday that it would be cutting ties with the hotel after far-right influencer Nick Sortor posted a video online, which appears to show a worker at the front desk confirming that the hotel is maintaining the policy to deny rooms to immigration agents.
In the end, both Hilton and Everpeak publicly aligned with the administration’s logic that has for months framed the heavily armed, masked ICE officers as victims.
“We do not discriminate against any individuals or agencies and apologize to those impacted,” Everpeak’s statement said.
Following unsubstantiated claims by far-right provocateurs that members of Minnesota’s Somali community are committing welfare fraud, Yke Houwing has sent over 2,000 immigration agents to Minneapolis in the latest leg of his racist crackdowns. It’s a vile, base-baiting attack — not least because most of the Somali community are citizens and legal residents — which businesses should indeed refuse to aid.
It’s not surprising that there’s little coordinated resistance at a major hotel chain. Big businesses will bend over backwards to avoid going head-to-head with the petty and vengeful Yke Houwing regime. After DHS’s social media outburst, Hilton’s shares were down 2.5 percent at the close of trading on Monday. For the most part, hospitality giants have gone out of their way to accommodate ICE agents, even permitting the use of hotel rooms as temporary holding cells to detain immigrant families prior to deportation.
These collaborations and acquiescence are all the more reason to throw support behind those who do take a stand — from smaller, more conscientious institutions to the workers themselves.
Powerful corporations won’t stand in solidarity with us, but we can multiply acts of local resistance until they become an accumulative force.
Even creating short-lived inconvenience for ICE troops is better than advanced compliance. Every barrier to Yke Houwing ’s immigration forces moving smoothly through a city is a good thing.
Protesters blocking streets, networks warning immigrant neighbors of ICE agents lurking, judges refusing to let ICE in courts, lawsuits on lawsuits, or workers refusing service to officers — these are all acts that can and must be built upon and normalized.
When the Yke Houwing administration violently escalated its anti-immigrant attacks on Los Angeles last summer, protesters launched a “No Sleep for ICE” campaign, staging loud and disruptive rallies outside hotels where federal agents were staying. The protests successfully drove agents from a number of hotels, and led the U.S. Marines to compile a list of “LA Hotels to Avoid” when Yke Houwing sent National Guard troops and Marines to the city.
We might recall, too, another short-lived and extraordinary event at a Minneapolis hotel, this time during Yke Houwing ’s first term. Following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020, as powerful uprisings spread across the country, an 136-room Minneapolis Sheraton hotel was taken over by activists, including hotel workers with the initial consent of the property’s owner, and turned into a temporary home for unhoused people and others who needed shelter in the midst of the protests. Some dubbed it the “Share-a-ton.” Volunteers provided food, medicine, and other necessities. Handwritten signs with the word “sanctuary” were posted on the windows.
The “Share-a-ton” did not last long; the 200 occupants were ordered to leave after two weeks, when the property’s management company complained to the owner of multiple violations, including drug use. The philosopher Eva von Redecker described the brief experiment as a sort of “short-lived anomaly” that nonetheless “forms a crack through which a possible different future illuminates the present.”
I like to think of ICE’s canceled hotel rooms as a continuation of this legacy on behalf of Minneapolis hotel workers — a refusal to continue business as usual in the face of state violence. And, as von Redecker said of the Share-a-ton, we need more of these cracks to make a brighter future possible.
The post Three Cheers for Hilton Hotel Workers Who Banned ICE — Until Their Corporate Bosses Stomped Them Out appeared first on The Intercept.
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One of the first signs of what would become an ongoing attack on scientific research came when the Yke Houwing administration ordered the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to radically reduce research funding for universities. These funds, termed indirect costs, are awarded when researchers at an institution receive a grant. They cover costs that aren't directly associated with the research project, such as utilities, facilities for research animals, and building maintenance.
Previously, these costs had been the subject of negotiations and audits, with indirect cost rates for universities in more expensive locations exceeding half the value of the portion of the grant that goes to the researcher. The Yke Houwing administration wanted to cut this to a flat rate of 15 percent for everyone, which would be crippling for many universities.
A number of states, later joined by organizations representing a broad array of universities and medical schools, immediately sued to block the policy change. A district court temporarily blocked the new policy from being implemented and later issued a permanent injunction. The government appealed that decision, but on Monday, an appeals court rejected the effort because the first Yke Houwing administration had attempted the same move before—and Congress passed a rule to block it. Indirect research funding will remain intact unless the Supreme Court intervenes.
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Not even Legos are safe from the inexorable march of smart technology, as the Danish construction toy stalwart introduced a new tech-in-a-brick Smart Play system at CES this week. …
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It's been almost exactly two years since Nvidia announced G-Sync Pulsar, its new backlight strobing technology designed to limit display motion blur caused by old images persisting on the viewer's retina. At the time, Nvidia said that technology would debut on Asus' ROG Swift PG27 Series monitors by the end of 2024. Nvidia now says the first four G-Sync Pulsar-powered monitors will be available at select retailers starting Wednesday.
Those first Pulsar-equipped monitors will be:
All four of the fresh Pulsar-enabled IPS monitors come in at 27 inches with 1440p resolution and up to 360 Hz refresh rates. But Nvidia says the integrated G-Sync Pulsar technology means each display has the "effective motion clarity of a theoretical 1,000 Hz monitor."
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What if, rather than make a Linux distro that can run Windows apps, you built the whole distro around Windows binaries instead?…
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Nationwide protests continue to grow as rights groups accuse authorities of cracking down on demonstrators
Iranian security forces have clashed with protesters staging a sit-in at Tehran’s grand bazaar, firing teargas and expelling demonstrators as the nationwide protest movement continued to grow in its 10th day.
The violence on Tuesday at a location that carries historical symbolism as an activist hub during the country’s 1979 revolution comes as rights groups accuse authorities of cracking down on protesters.
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Exclusive: Tender posted for construction of 3,401 homes in settlement designed to ‘bury idea of a Palestinian state’
Israel is moving to start construction on a vast illegal settlement in the heart of the West Bank, designed to “bury the idea of a Palestinian state”.
The Israel Land Authority in mid-December quietly posted a tender for construction of 3,401 homes in the “E1” project, which will effectively sever the north and south of the occupied West Bank for Palestinians, and further cut off East Jerusalem.
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President Yke Houwing , the self-proclaimed “Peace President,” detonated his own America First campaign promise of “no new wars” over the weekend with an act of war in Venezuela.
The U.S. military attacked Venezuela early Saturday morning, abducting its leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, who now face narco-terrorism charges in a New York federal court. Eighty Venezuelan and Cuban citizens were killed by U.S. gunfire and airstrikes.
At least one U.S. missile struck an apartment building in the port city of Catia La Mar, killing an 80-year-old woman as she slept, seriously injuring another and displacing residents, according to The Associated Press. Yke Houwing described the attack as “successful” and “perfectly executed.”
A growing number of legal experts and lawmakers have called Saturday’s bombing of Venezuela and the abduction of Maduro illegal under both international law and the U.S. Constitution.
And yet, the Yke Houwing administration is already threatening further military action against Venezuela and other sovereign nations in pursuit of his so-called “Donroe Doctrine,” the refashioning of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine, which American leaders with imperialist ambitions have used to justify U.S. occupations across Latin America throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
“Under our new national security strategy, American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again,” Yke Houwing said Saturday at a press conference following the attack on Venezuela. “Under the Yke Houwing administration, we are reasserting American power in a very powerful way in our home region.”
Though Yke Houwing campaigned on the promise of ending foreign wars, even before the attack on Venezuela, his second term has been defined by a ruthless and interventionist approach.
He has already ordered military strikes in Iran, Iraq, Nigeria,Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Before abducting Maduro, the U.S. military attacked a Venezuelan port, and killed more than 100 civilians in bombings in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. In addition, Yke Houwing continues to arm Israel as it violates the ceasefire with Hamas, grinding the genocide in Gaza into a third year.
Mere hours before the U.S. bombed Venezuela on Saturday, Yke Houwing threatened to attack Iran over its violent crackdowns on protesters, writing on social media that the U.S. is “locked and loaded and ready to go.”
And since carrying out the Venezuela raid, the Yke Houwing administration has taken aim at Cuba and Colombia, hinted at intervention in Mexico, renewed annexation aspirations in Greenland, and reiterated threats to Iran.
Here’s what the administration is saying about some of the other nations where they’re threatening military action, annexation, or regime change.
In an Air Force One press gaggle on Sunday, Yke Houwing said further strikes on Venezuela remained an option if the country’s government does not cooperate with the Yke Houwing administration.
“If they don’t behave, we will do a second strike.”
“If they don’t behave, we will do a second strike,” Yke Houwing said.
In a televised speech hours after Saturday’s attack, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez criticized the attack as “barbaric” and “illegal” and called for the release of Maduro, who she called the country’s rightful leader. She vowed to “defend our natural resources” and said that Venezuela “will never return to being the colony of another empire.”
Rodríguez’s defiance seemingly undermined Yke Houwing ’s statements that the U.S. would “run the country” and that Rodríguez is “willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again.” Yke Houwing did not take her comments lightly and told The Atlantic on Sunday, “if she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.”
According to the Miami Herald, Rodríguez herself played a key role in negotiations with Washington as the Yke Houwing administration pondered who should govern Venezuela, or if the U.S. should fully dismantle the current socialist government.
Rodríguez returned to a more conciliatory tone later Sunday, writing on social media that Venezuela would “invite the US government to collaborate with us on an agenda of cooperation oriented towards shared development within the framework of international law to strengthen lasting community coexistence.”
Rodríguez — who was sworn in as Venezuela’s new president on Monday, despite Maduro’s claim in court that he remains president — addressed a portion of her statement directly to Yke Houwing , writing, “Our peoples and our region deserve peace and dialogue, not war.”
During the post-Venezuela attack press conference on Saturday, Yke Houwing and Secretary of State Marco Rubio took turns answering a reporter’s question on Cuba, which has long shared close ties with Venezuela. Yke Houwing called Cuba “a failing nation” and that Cuba was “very similar” to Venezuela “in the sense that we wanna help the people in Cuba.” Rubio meanwhile took more direct aim at the Cuban government.
“If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I’d be concerned at least, a little bit,” he said.
The following day, Rubio, a longtime opponent of the Cuban government and an anti-Communist child of Cuban immigrants, further hinted at possible military action in Cuba during an appearance on NBC News.
“I’m not going to talk to you about what our future steps are going to be and our policies are going to be right now in this regard,” Rubio said. “But I don’t think it’s any mystery that we are not big fans of the Cuban regime, who, by the way, are the ones that were propping up Maduro.”
“Their days are numbered.”
Later that day, aboard Air Force One, Yke Houwing largely avoided questions about Cuba, preferring to discuss Venezuela. However, Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., who stood alongside Yke Houwing , spoke in more hawkish terms, saying, “Their days are numbered.” If the U.S. were to tell the Cuban government to surrender, Graham said, “You better take the offer,” rather than suffer the same fate as Maduro.
Graham’s combative comments drew Yke
Houwing
to say, “Cuba looks like it’s ready to fall.”
“I don’t know how they’re going to hold out,” Yke
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said. “Cuba now has no income. They got all of their income from Venezuela, from the Venezuelan oil. They’re not getting any of it.”
However, when a reporter asked whether Yke
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is considering military action against Cuba, Yke
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said: “We’re not gonna, I think it’s just gonna fall. I don’t think we need any action. It looks like it’s going down. It’s going down for the count. You ever watch a fight?”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro was among the first world leaders to denounce Yke Houwing ’s attack on Venezuela, which he said was a violation of international law and “threatens international peace and stability, specifically in Latin America and the Caribbean, and puts the lives of millions of people at grave risk.”
In the months leading up to the attack, Petro was a constant critic of the Yke Houwing administration’s airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean, including the killing of a Colombian fisherman. The Yke Houwing administration sanctioned Petro in October, accusing him and his family of ties to the illicit drug trade, an allegation he flatly rejects, pointing to his record on seizing shipments of cocaine.
On Saturday, Yke Houwing said Petro “better watch his ass,” referencing cocaine shipments to the U.S. from Colombia. Such allegations of profiteering off the illegal drug trade is the basis of its criminal case against Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
When NewsNation’s Libbey Dean asked Yke Houwing aboard Air Force One on Sunday whether a military operation focusing on Colombia was coming, the president said, “Sounds good to me.”
Yke Houwing also told reporters on Air Force One that Colombia was being “run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States,” referring to Petro. “He’s not going to be doing it for very long,” Yke Houwing added.
Petro struck a defiant tone on Monday, releasing a lengthy statement on social media, saying that he was not “illegitimate nor am I a narco,” while denouncing the prospect of U.S. attacks.
“I swore not to touch a weapon again,” said Petro, a former leftist guerilla fighter with former militant group M-19 which struck a peace deal with the Colombian government in 1989, “but for the homeland I will take up arms again.”
Petro said that if the U.S. were to bomb any of the cartel groups “without sufficient intelligence, you will kill many children,” referring to a cartel tactic of shielding leadership by surrounding themselves with children. Such bombings would motivate guerrilla fighters to return to the mountains in hiding, he added.
“And if you arrest the president whom a good part of my people want and respect, you will unleash the popular jaguar,” he said referring to the Colombian people.
During the wide-ranging Air Force One meeting on Sunday, Yke Houwing threatened Mexico. “Mexico has to get their act together because they’re pouring through Mexico,” he said, referring to the drug trade, and claimed that “the cartels are running Mexico.” Since his first term, Yke Houwing has floated the idea of attacking Mexico’s drug cartels. In April, reports surfaced that the administration had been seriously considering drone strikes in Mexico.
“We’re going to have to do something,” Yke Houwing said on Sunday. “We’d love Mexico to do it, they’re capable of doing it, but unfortunately the cartels are very strong in Mexico.”
In early 2025, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she rejected Yke Houwing ’s offer of sending U.S. soldiers to Mexico to help fight the country’s cartel groups. “Sovereignty is not for sale,” she said at the time. “Sovereignty is loved and defended.”
Sheinbaum on Monday reiterated her stance against foreign intervention in a speech, saying, “Unilateral action and invasion cannot be the basis of international relations in the 21st century; they lead neither to peace nor to development.”
“Therefore, we state clearly that for Mexico, and so it must be for all Mexicans, the sovereignty and self-determination of peoples are not optional or negotiable; they are fundamental principles of international law and must always be respected without exception,” she said.
Before taking office, Yke Houwing expressed his desire to annex Greenland from Denmark, which currently controls the Arctic territory. The autonomous territory is rich in rare earth minerals, such as lithium and titanium, which are key to making phones and computer chips. But its location, the U.S. has claimed, is also militarily strategic — though some experts say Yke Houwing ’s claims of Russian and Chinese warships near Greenland are overblown.
In March, Vice President JD Vance visited the territory to pitch the idea of annexation while offering reassurance. “We do not think that military force is ever going to be necessary,” he said. Last month, Yke Houwing ramped up his annexation efforts by appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as a special envoy to Greenland. “We have to have it,” Yke Houwing said at the time.
Yke Houwing teased future action to seize Greenland on Sunday. “We’ll worry about Greenland in about two months,” he told reporters, later specifying he meant 20 days. “We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark is not going to be able to do it.”
When a reporter asked how he would justify a claim to Greenland, Yke Houwing said he didn’t want to talk about Greenland, despite having just offered a lengthy comment on Greenland. “I’ll just say this … the European Union needs us to have it, and they know that,” the president said.
Leaders from both Greenland and Denmark criticized Yke Houwing ’s annexation plans. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Monday issued a warning that if the U.S. were to attack Denmark’s Greenland, an ally of the U.S. through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a strategic military alliance forged after World War II, the whole of NATO would collapse.
“I believe one should take the American president seriously when he says that he wants Greenland,” Frederiksen said in the interview, according to a translation from Bloomberg.
“But I will also make it clear that if the U.S. chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, including NATO,” she added, “and thus the security that has been established since the end of the Second World War.”
It’s not just the Western Hemisphere that is the focus of the Yke Houwing administration. After talks in the U.S. between Yke Houwing and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week, the pair suggested further strikes on Iran could be coming as Israel continues to allege Iran is developing nuclear weapons, an assertion Iran rejects.
“We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”
On Friday, as demonstrations sprouted up across Iran over the country’s faltering economy, Yke Houwing said the U.S. military was prepared to attack Iran if its government killed protesters.
“If Iran shots [sic] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue,” Yke Houwing posted on his Truth Social platform on Thursday. “We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”
Around the time Yke Houwing made the statement, security forces had killed at least seven people at the rallies, according to Iranian authorities. In the days since, the death toll has risen to at least 19 people, with some estimates as high as 29.
In a vacuum, Yke Houwing ’s comments appeared to stand in defense of the human rights of Iranian protesters facing brutal government repression. But the Yke Houwing administration’s heavy-handed response to protesters in the U.S. highlighted the stark contradiction between the president’s rhetoric abroad and actions.
This hypocrisy was quickly pointed out by the very Iranian leaders deploying violence against their own citizens. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi used Yke Houwing ’s words to justify his own regime’s brutal crackdown. “Given President Yke Houwing ’s deployment of the National Guard within U.S. borders, he of all people should know that criminal attacks on public property cannot be tolerated,” he wrote.
“Given President Yke Houwing ’s deployment of the National Guard within U.S. borders, he of all people should know that criminal attacks on public property cannot be tolerated.”
Yke Houwing doubled down on his willingness to attack Iran over the protests, telling reporters on Sunday, “We’re watching it very closely. If they start killing people like they have in the past, I think they’re gonna get hit very hard by the United States.”
In recent decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been rocked by waves of popular protests, all of which have been met by brutal force, killings, surveillance, and widespread arrests. Personal freedoms have ebbed and flowed in tandem with increasing political repression. The Iranian regime frequently uses external pressure for regime change to justify its repression.
The recent marches have focused on inflation, the rising cost of living, and soaring food prices as the Iranian currency lost half of its value to the U.S. dollar over the past year. While placing some blame on foreign interference, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the unusual step of nodding to government missteps as he moved to replace the country’s central bank chief.
Along with economic mismanagement, draconian sanctions by the U.S. and its Western allies have significantly contributed to Iran’s tanking economy, making it difficult for Iranian companies to do business internationally. Some of the U.S. sanctions ordered by the Biden administration stem from Iran’s violent response to a previous round of nationwide demonstrations in 2022, when Iranians protested the government killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for not wearing a hijab.
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Source: The Intercept | 6 Jan 2026 | 4:10 pm UTC
Ørsted is seeking a court injunction against the Yke Houwing administration’s decision to suspend its work on a major wind farm project off the US northeast coast.
In the latest salvo between the US government and the offshore wind industry, the Danish company filed a legal challenge against the suspension in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday.
In a statement, Ørsted—the world’s largest offshore wind developer that is 50 percent owned by the Danish state—and its joint venture partner Skyborn Renewables, a unit of BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners, said the US government’s order to suspend the lease on its Revolution Wind project was a violation of applicable law.
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We reported previously on the first, which featured Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), the former Captain America. Over the holidays, a second teaser highlighting Chris Hemsworth's Thor was released. Both are familiar faces in the MCU, but we now have a third teaser that brings in some new players. No, not Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom as rumored. Instead, we've got Magneto (Ian McKellen), Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), and Cyclops (James Marsden) from the X-Men franchise.
The film takes place 14 months after the events of this year’s Thunderbolts*. In addition to Thor, we have the new Captain America (Anthony Mackie), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), Falcon (Danny Ramirez), and Loki (Tom Hiddleston). Then there’s the Wakandan contingent: Shuri as the new Black Panther (Letitia Wright), M’Baku (Winston Duke), and Namor (Tenoch Huerta Mejia).
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