BEIJING: China called on Washington and Moscow on Tuesday (Jan 28) to “further reduce” their nuclear arsenals as a precondition for its participation in potential disarmament talks called for by US President Donald Trump. Trump said in a video address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week that “we’d like to see denuclearisation”, and reiterated his desire for three-way talks with Russia and China. The day after Trump’s Davos address, Russia said it wanted to resume bilateral nuclear disarmament talks “as soon as possible”, and that “the ball is in the Americans’ court”. The former Cold War rivals…
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Israel’s 15-month war on Gaza, as well as severe restrictions it imposed on the flow of humanitarian aid and Israeli forces’ attacks on health facilities and targeting of healthcare workers, have led to “life-threatening danger” for pregnant women and babies, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a new report. Despite the ongoing ceasefire, the precarious conditions under which women in Gaza are giving birth are unlikely to improve, the group noted in the report published on Tuesday, as Israeli legislation targeting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and taking effect this week is expected…
The January song remained the same for quarterback Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, as Buffalo once again entered the playoffs with Super Bowl expectations only to suffer a loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Following the 32-29 defeat at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium in Sunday’s AFC Championship Game, Allen spoke openly about his feelings of disappointment. “It’s not fun,” Allen said about the loss, as shared by Alaina Getzenberg of ESPN. “But to be the champs, you’ve got to beat the champs, and we didn’t do it tonight. …You can either get it done or you can’t. And we didn’t get…
Millions of Europeans will go to the polls this year in a test of the right-wing movements that surged in 2024’s historic elections — and of the liberal order that so many disgruntled Europeans turned against.Voters in Germany, Austria, France and the Netherlands have shown the potency of this new populist wave. What’s behind their dramatic shift? We asked them. In more than two dozen interviews across the continent, Europeans who voted for far-right parties talked about casting their ballots in fury, in frustration, in protest, but perhaps most of all in a bid to bring change to a system…
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Coal power plants contribute to global warmingWalaiporn Sangkeaw Current policies of governments around the world are likely to result in Earth warming by anywhere between 1.9 and 3.7°C by 2100, with potentially more to come in the 22nd century. “Every year we keep emitting CO2 after 2100 results in higher and higher global temperatures,” says Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at Stripe, a California-based software company that invests in carbon-removal technology. His conclusions are based on a review of more than a dozen studies published in the past five years looking at the implications of current policies. According to these…
Some Australians were in no mood to celebrate the country’s national day on Sunday because they had long seen it as a reminder of colonial oppression. A few protesters took that antipathy a step further — by vandalizing statues to British settlers and an English king.The damage done in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra was a fresh sign that Australia Day, which commemorates when a British fleet sailed into Sydney Harbor to start a penal colony in the late 18th century, remains divisive.Even as some Australians mark the holiday with barbecues and pool parties, critics note that it set in motion…
For more than six years, Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud computing company, provided technical support to deliver TikTok videos to tens of millions of Americans.But over the weekend, Amazon faced a dilemma. A new law was taking effect banning TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, in the United States. Tech companies were barred from distributing and updating it or they would face financial penalties. At the same time, President-elect Donald J. Trump was telling tech companies he planned to pause enforcement of the law with an executive order.Just hours before the ban took effect, Amazon appeared to…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldThe US withdrawal from the Paris climate accord for a second time under President Donald Trump will have a “huge impact” on efforts to curb global warming, the incoming head of the UN COP30 climate summit has warned.André Corrêa do Lago, the experienced Brazilian diplomat and climate negotiator appointed this week, told the Financial Times that the exit of the US could also allow nations such as China, India and Brazil to take a bigger role in the world’s most…
Credit: Fibonacci Blue via Wikimedia Commons On his first day in office, President Donald Trump created the Department of Government Efficiency and ordered federal agencies to create teams to work with DOGE leader Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world. “That’s a big one,” Trump said when he signed the order. Trump said Musk would get an office for about 20 staffers. Trump’s order came the same day as multiple groups filed at least three lawsuits over DOGE. The language in the executive order renames the United States Digital Service to the United States DOGE Service. It will be…