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Tensions remain high in Minnesota as ACLU files lawsuit and Trump threatens Insurrection Act – US politics live | Donald Trump– www.theguardian.com

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Tensions remain high in Minneapolis in the aftermath of the killing of Renee Good by a federal agent. About 3,000 immigration officers are either continuing their operations in Minnesota or are en route to deploy in the state.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Trump administration, accusing federal immigration authorities in Minnesota of racial profiling and unlawful arrests, as Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to the widespread protests against the federal immigration operations.

Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, has urged demonstrators to “speak out loudly, urgently but also peacefully” and made a direct appeal to the president to “turn the temperature down.”

Netherlands and UK Join France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Ireland, and Others to Hike Accommodation Taxes Across Europe This Year, Affecting Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Berlin, Dublin and Other Key Destinations – Travel And Tour World

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Netherlands and UK Join France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Ireland, and Others to Hike Accommodation Taxes Across Europe This Year, Affecting Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Berlin, Dublin and Other Key Destinations  Travel And Tour World
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King Charles doubles down on support for Ukraine at a ‘time of great anguish’– www.mirror.co.uk

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The monarch has ramped up his unwavering support for Ukraine amid the Russian invasion, with emotional comments marking the first anniversary of a historic partnership

King Charles has reiterated the United Kingdom’s commitment to Ukraine, telling the nation “we stand with you” amid the deadly ongoing Russian invasion. The monarch also spoke of his hopes for a lasting peace that safeguards its “security, sovereignty and prosperity”.

Charles’ written comments marked the first anniversary of the 100-Year Partnership between the UK and Ukraine, as the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion approaches at the end of February. Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has travelled to Ukraine, according to reports, for a forum of the centenary partnership, to discuss the details of future cooperation between the two nations.

US Congress members visit Denmark to support Greenland– www.channelnewsasia.com

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The delegation’s visit follows a meeting in Washington on Wednesday at which Danish representatives said Copenhagen and Washington were in “fundamental disagreement” over the future of Greenland.

In Greenland’s capital Nuuk, residents welcomed the show of support.

“(US) Congress would never approve of a military action in Greenland. It’s just one idiot speaking,” a 39-year-old union representative told AFP.

“If he does it, he’ll get impeached or kicked out. If people in Congress want to save their own democracy, they have to step up,” said the union rep, speaking on condition of anonymity.

UN Security Council holds emergency meeting on deadly protests in Iran | Protests News– www.aljazeera.com

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Iranian and US officials traded barbs at UN Security Council meeting on deadly protests in Iran and amid threats of attack by Washington.

The United Nations Security Council has held an emergency meeting to discuss deadly protests in Iran amid threats by United States President Donald Trump to intervene militarily in the country.

Members of the influential 15-member UN body heard from Iran’s deputy UN representative, who warned at the meeting on Thursday that Iranians did not seek a confrontation but would respond to US aggression, and accused Washington of “direct involvement in steering unrest in Iran”.

In their words: Greenlanders talk about Trump’s desire to own their Arctic island– abcnews.go.com

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NUUK, Greenland — U.S. President Donald Trump has turned the Arctic island of Greenland into a geopolitical hotspot with his demands to own it and suggestions that the U.S. could take it by force.

The island is a semiautonomous region of Denmark, and Denmark’s foreign minister said Wednesday after a meeting at the White House that a “fundamental disagreement” remains with Trump over the island.

The crisis is dominating the lives of Greenlanders and “people are not sleeping, children are afraid, and it just fills everything these days. And we can’t really understand it,” Naaja Nathanielsen, a Greenlandic minister said at a meeting with lawmakers in Britain’s Parliament this week.

China’s Xi Jinping and Canada’s Mark Carney seek new chapter in relations– abcnews.go.com

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BEIJING — Faced with new global challenges, the leaders of China and Canada pledged Friday to improve relations between their two nations after years of acrimony.

Xi Jinping told visiting Prime Minister Mark Carney that he is willing to continue working to improve ties, noting that talks have been underway on restoring and restarting cooperation since the two held an initial meeting in October on the sidelines of a regional economic conference in South Korea.

“It can be said that our meeting last year opened a new chapter in turning China–Canada relations toward improvement,” China’s top leader said.

Carney, the first Canadian prime minister to visit China in eight years, said better relations would help improve a global governance system that he described as “under great strain.”

He called for a new relationship “adapted to new global realities” and cooperation in agriculture, energy and finance.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Presents Award To President Trump– wltreport.com

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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, said she presented her medal to President Trump during their meeting in the White House.

Machado previously dedicated her award to Trump.

Canada rushes to open Greenland consulate as Trump eyes takeover | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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Canada is moving to step up its position in the Arctic, announcing plans to open new consulates in Greenland and Anchorage, Alaska, as tensions grow over the strategic region and US President Donald Trump continues floating the idea of taking control of Greenland.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Canada will open a consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, next month. The move had been in the works before Trump’s latest comments, but it now comes as global attention has become focused on the Arctic, reports Bloomberg. Ottawa also plans to open a consulate in Anchorage, though Anand said there’s no timeline yet for when that will happen.

The Brits still have a secret weapon to try on Trump in the war over Greenland– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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British officials went to bed on Monday thinking they had averted a crisis. They woke up in the middle of an even deeper row over Greenland, tiny specks of rock in the Indian Ocean, and whether they should deploy their ultimate Trump card: King Charles.

Once again, President Donald Trump had upended everything with an early-hours Truth Social post.

It was all so different on Monday evening, when Secrets was chatting with sources. Crisis, the Brits believed, had been averted by the rational application of cool heads and a dose of logic.

Beheadings, ISIS Prison Break Follow Syria’s Jihadi Government Crackdown on Kurds– www.breitbart.com

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A torrent of violence, including reported beheadings and a prison break by Islamic State terrorists, erupted in Syria on Monday following the signing of an agreement between the jihadist federal government under President Ahmed al-Sharaa and the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

The SDF and associated Kurdish political arms had enjoyed years of semi-autonomy in the region known as Rojava, or Syrian Kurdistan, during the rule of deposed dictator Bashar Assad. Assad fled to Russia following the collapse of his military in late 2024, leaving the country in the hands of Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an al-Qaeda offshoot.

US Slaps Sweeping Sanctions On Iran Over Protest Crackdown– www.ndtv.com

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The United States on Thursday announced a far-reaching new round of sanctions against Iran, targeting senior security officials, a notorious prison accused of abusing detainees, and a sprawling network of front companies used to launder billions of dollars from oil and petrochemical sales, as protests continue to roil the country.

The coordinated action by the State Department and the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is aimed at what US officials called the “architects” of the Iranian regime’s violent crackdown on peaceful demonstrators and the financial machinery that sustains the government’s repression.

The Physician-Assisted Killing of Kiano Vafaeian and America’s Dangerous Path– www.standingforfreedom.com

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Over the Christmas break some of you might have heard that on December 30, 2025, Kiano Vafaeian was euthanized in Vancouver after being approved by Dr. Ellen Wiebe, a physician who has ended over 400 lives through Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program.

Kiano suffered from diabetes, had lost vision in his left eye, and struggled with depression. His mother, Margaret Marsilla, had successfully stopped his first assisted suicide attempt back in 2022 through a public petition campaign. But this time, she couldn’t save him.

“No compassion. No protection. No effort to save a life, only to end it,” Marsilla wrote.

Despite Canada’s ban on MAID for mental illness until 2027, Dr. Wiebe did find a loophole in the system. Kiano was approved for death — not treatment, not therapy, not help, but death.

While Canada Moves Against the U.S. Over Greenland, We Just Beat Them at Their Own Game– townhall.com

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While the Canadians have reportedly been weighing whether or not to send additional troops to aid in the “defense” of Greenland, they just got wrecked by the U.S. in their national pass time.

Carney calls Canada’s relationship with China more ‘predictable’ than with US under Trump– www.lifesitenews.com

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested on a recent trip that it is easier for his nation to deal with Communist China than to deal with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.

Carney made the comments this past Friday to reporters while in China, where he was in talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing after being asked to share his thoughts on the relationship between Washington and China.

He responded, “With the U.S., our relationship, this is no insight, is much more multifaceted, much deeper, much broader, than it is with China.”

Establishment Republicans Grovel to Danish Leaders over Trump’s Greenland Policies– www.breitbart.com

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Some Republican senators are increasingly voicing opposition to President Trump’s remarks suggesting the United States could take control of Greenland by force, as a bipartisan group of lawmakers prepares to visit Denmark to reassure its leaders that Congress would not support any military action targeting the territory.

As the Hill reported, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) are among several U.S. lawmakers scheduled to travel to Copenhagen on Friday, alongside Democratic colleagues Sens. Chris Coons (D-DE), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Dick Durbin (D-IL), as well as Reps. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), and Sara Jacobs (D-CA). 

Tillis emphasized that he will remind Danish officials that Congress is a coequal branch of government, and said he believes “there [is a] sufficient number of members, whether they speak up or not, that are concerned with this.” Speaking about any use of military force to take Greenland, he stated, “The actual execution of anything that would involve a taking of a sovereign territory that is part of a sovereign nation, I think would be met with pretty substantial opposition in Congress.”

U.S. Navy Seizes Sixth Venezuelan Oil Tanker in Caribbean as Trump Escalates Crackdown– slaynews.com

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The U.S. military has seized another fugitive oil tanker linked to Venezuela in the Caribbean, marking the sixth vessel captured as the Trump administration intensifies its campaign against illicit oil trafficking.

U.S. Southern Command announced Thursday that American forces intercepted the Motor/Tanker Veronica during a pre-dawn operation carried out by Marines and sailors from Joint Task Force Southern Spear.

“In another pre-dawn action, Marines and Sailors from Joint Task Force Southern Spear, in support of the Department of Homeland Security, launched from USS Gerald R. Ford and apprehended Motor/Tanker Veronica without incident,” the command said in a statement.

California governor urges Europe to grow ‘backbone’ and ‘punch’ back at Trump– www.euronews.com

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California’s Governor Gavin Newsom urged Europeans on Tuesday to stop playing nice with US President Donald Trump over Greenland, “develop a backbone” and “punch him in the face.”

In blunt remarks to reporters at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, the prominent Democratic politician called Trump “weak” and said the European Union should “push back very aggressively” against the US leader.

“He’s good at exploiting weaknesses, but he backs down when he’s punched in the face,” Newsom said.

“You can’t play all sides. Enough of the niceties,” he added. “Stop trying to appease him. Fight fire with fire.”

Davos: Ursula von der Leyen says tariffs over Greenland would be a mistake, and promises ‘unflinching’ response from Europe – business live | Business– www.theguardian.com

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Turning to the Greenland crisis, EC president Ursula von der Leyen declares that “tariffs are a mistake, particularly between long-term allies”.

She reminds Davos that the US and Europe reached a trade deal last year.

In a nod to President Trump, as he jets towards Davos, von der Leyen says:

In politics as in business, a deal is a deal.

And when friends shake hands, it must mean something.

Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum – National– globalnews.ca

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Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on the “new world order” and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.

The speech was delivered against a backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions between great powers like Russia, China and the United States, and as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens allies with tariffs and pushes to acquire Greenland from Denmark, a member of the NATO military alliance.

Macron sports Top Gun shades to launch veiled attack on Trump’s Greenland threats saying ‘we’re in world without rules’– www.thesun.co.uk

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FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron has launched a veiled attack on Donald Trump and said that we are now shifting to a world “without rules”.

The European leader blasted his US counterpart’s tariff threats – saying they “don’t make sense” and calling them an attempt to “subordinate” the continent.

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during the annual World Economic Forum in Davos on TuesdayCredit: AP
Macron said we are ‘shifting to a world without rules’Credit: AFP

Donning a pair of aviator shades at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday, Macron took several hidden jabs at Trump in the face of the Greenland row.

After Trump meeting, Slovak PM Fico tells German chancellor that the ‘EU is not taken seriously’ by world leaders– rmx.news

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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said the European Union is “not taken completely seriously” by world leaders because of its “suicidal migration policy” and “nonsense climate goals,” after a phone call on Monday with German Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

According to the government’s press office, cited by the TASR news agency, Fico told Merz that he would send an open letter on Tuesday to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and circulate it to all EU prime ministers and heads of state, in which he would express concerns relayed to him following a meeting with U.S. President Trump at the weekend and offer solutions.

“I have proposed several solutions to the Federal Chancellor, and I hope that he will visit Slovakia soon, as he promised. We have something to talk about,” Fico said. He added that several hundred German companies operate in Slovakia and that the Slovak economy is particularly dependent on German economic development because of the high concentration of car production.