Bangladesh on Wednesday said that there was no security situation that justified India recalling the family members of its diplomats from Dhaka. This comes after New Delhi cited precautionary safety concerns amid rising extremist activity ahead of the country’s general elections.Bangladesh’s foreign affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain said that there was “no reason” for such a move and maintained that foreign diplomats and their families were not facing any threat in the country. Addressing a media briefing at the foreign ministry, Hossain said, “There is no situation here that would indicate danger (for Indian diplomats).”
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The U.S. Supreme Court has the opportunity to stifle Virginia Democrats’ tyrannical bid to restrict their constituents’ Second Amendment rights. The question is: Will they?
While much of the country was focused on the latest immigration-related news out of Minnesota on Monday, Virginia Senate Democrats quietly advanced an amended bill that would effectively criminalize hundreds of thousands of gun owners across the commonwealth. SB 749 seeks to outlaw the importation, sale, manufacturing, purchase, or transfer of an “assault firearm,” which the measure redefines as a “semi-automatic center-fire rifle or pistol with a fixed magazine capacity in excess of 10 rounds.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a stark warning to Tehran’s leadership, vowing that any attack on Israel would be met with “a force that Iran has never seen before”. The declaration comes as tensions in the Middle East reach a dangerous new peak, fuelled by a volatile mix of nationwide protests in the Islamic fundamentalist republic, the arrival of a massive US aircraft carrier strike group, and bellicose rhetoric from Washington.
The prospect of World War 3 has shifted from a distant anxiety to an immediate geopolitical concern. Military experts warn that a major war in the Middle East could ignite a global conflagration by drawing in world powers through alliance commitments.
Lawmakers in German state elect new governor to counter far-right rise ABC News
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Trump Hikes South Korea Tariffs, Praises U.S.-Japan Alliance 조선일보
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Melinda Rose Cook, a healthcare worker at VCU Health, has uploaded several videos that have since been deleted and urged healthcare workers to harm ICE agents who are also patients.
In one video, she urged nurses to inject patients with Succinylcholine, which is a drug used for brief paralysis. In another clip, she suggested people should expose agents to poison ivy, and in another clip, she suggested people should date them, and put laxatives in their drink to “get them sick.”
Now, I am no legal expert, but I don’t think nurses poisoning their patients willfully is what you would call legal. However, I can confirm this is evil, to say the very least.
Who Comes After Zhang Youxia? Inside Xi Jinping’s Military Purge and Power Consolidation Vision Times
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According to Jasmine Crockett, she would never want to “upset Latinos.” She said this because she implies the majority of people who have broken federal immigration laws are of a certain race and ethnicity. Or, in other words, she correlates illegal immigration with the Hispanic community, which proves just how racist she truly is. Nonetheless, that was not even the worst thing she said.
Crockett, who claimed to “know history,” in the same breath, said ICE is akin to when “slave patrols were going out and dragging and disappearing people based on color.”
There are so many things wrong with what she said.
OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday (Jan 27) said he spoke to US President Donald Trump on Monday but denied he had retracted comments last week that irritated the US President.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that during the call, Carney “was very aggressively walking back” some of the remarks he made during a speech in Davos in which he urged nations to accept the end of a rules-based global order.
Carney – citing US tariffs on key Canadian imports – is pushing to diversify trade away from the United States, which takes around 70 per cent of all Canadian exports.
Xi Jinping reaffirms China’s commitment to UN-centred world order The Sun Malaysia
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While keeping pressure on those whom the Trump administration dubs “narcotraffickers” without providing evidence, US officials also are working to normalise ties with Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodriguez.
Nonetheless, Rubio will make clear in his testimony that she has little choice but to comply with Trump’s demands.
“Rodriguez is well aware of the fate of Maduro; it is our belief that her own self-interest aligns with advancing our key objectives,” Rubio will say, noting that they include opening Venezuela’s energy sector to US companies, providing preferential access to production, using oil revenue to purchase American goods, and ending subsidised oil exports to Cuba.
The Trump administration’s response to the weekslong insurrection in Minneapolis showed left-wing leaders across the country one thing: Riots work.
Weeks of left-wing rioting and obstruction of federal immigration enforcement operations have resulted in the federal government apparently giving major concessions to Minnesota Democrats, and now, Democrats in other states and cities are emboldened to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from doing their job.
As his first executive order after taking office on Jan. 1, Sean Ryan, Democrat mayor of Buffalo, New York, decided on Monday to prohibit “the use of City of Buffalo personnel or resources for federal civil immigration enforcement.”
Big Tech social media companies could face Big Tobacco moment as landmark trial begins baltimoresun.com
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Trump says US will ‘no longer help Iraq’ if it picks Maliki as PM BBC
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The emerging Age of AI has a tricky PR problem that may turn into a nasty political one. Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella recently warned that AI could lose its “social permission” to consume massive amounts of electricity unless it delivers clear, real-world gains across society, including healthcare, education, government efficiency, and business performance.
That stark warning should be front-of-mind for techno-optimists. Too much of the public sees AI as extractive rather than beneficial, associating it with job threats, wealth concentration, and rising energy demand. Even worse, the message is getting through to at least some lawmakers.
For average wage earners in Russia, it’s a big payday. For criminals seeking to escape the harsh conditions and abuse in prison, it’s a chance at freedom. For immigrants hoping for a better life, it’s a simplified path to citizenship.
All they have to do is sign a contract to fight in Ukraine.
As Russia seeks to replenish its forces in nearly four years of war — and avoid an unpopular nationwide mobilization — it’s pulling out all the stops to find new troops to send into the battlefield.
FBI Director Kash Patel announced an investigation into encrypted Signal group chats used by Minnesota residents to share information about federal immigration enforcement — agent locations, vehicle license plates, activity near schools. Patel expressed concern that such activities could “put law enforcement in harm’s way,” and said investigators would determine if residents violated federal statutes, reports NBC News. — Read the rest
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Xi urges Finland to uphold global order, boost ties Latest news from Azerbaijan
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The e-commerce giant has been cutting costs while pouring resources into building data centers to compete in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.
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Starmer and Burnham’s by-election bust-up: A tale of rogues, crowns, and daggers Revolutionary Communist Party
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China and Russia agree to deepen military ties amid US strategy shift MillenniumPost
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California took in millions for 94,000 dead people’s phone and internet service, bombshell FCC report finds New York Post
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A senior Russian politician has sparked fresh World War Three fears after claiming Europe is effectively “defenceless” against Moscow’s latest hypersonic weapons. The warning was posted on Telegram by Aleksey Aleksandrovich Zhuravlyov, a hardline nationalist MP and chairman of the Rodina party, who shared a German media report about a recent Russian missile strike in Ukraine.
Zhuravlyov referenced an article published by Berliner Zeitung reporting on the alleged deployment of Russia’s so-called “Oreshnik” hypersonic missile during strikes on Ukraine’s Lviv region. He claimed the attack had sent shockwaves through political and military circles across Europe. In his commentary, the Kremlin ally alleged the strike was a “clear signal” to the EU and NATO, insisting that Russia had demonstrated its ability to hit targets in “Western capitals” and at NATO military bases.
Federal investigators raided an election office in Fulton County, Ga., Wednesday in a case related to the 2020 vote, a Justice Department official told The Post.
FBI officers are acting on a search warrant, but no more details were immediately available.
Former Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis charged President Trump and more than a dozen of his allies and supporters in August 2023 with racketeering and other crimes related to attempts to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden in the state.
Europeans cannot replace the US nuclear umbrella, at least for the time being, but when it comes to conventional defence the situation is different, European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius told Euronews on Wednesday.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Monday that the European Union should “keep on dreaming” of becoming independent from the US, its largest ally, in matters of security and defence.
Kubilius told Euronews that if Rutte’s comments refer to nuclear defence only and if Rutte meant that “the Europeans should stop dreaming about the possibility to defend themselves without American nuclear umbrella – I agree with him”.
As Generals Fall, Xi Jinping’s Anti-Corruption Campaign Is Eating Itself Foreign Policy
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Abbas amends Palestinian election law to bar Hamas from polls The New Arab
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Turkey Plans ‘Safe Zone’ At Iran Border to Prevent Refugee Influx greekcitytimes.com
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President Donald Trump is not a man of nuance, and so as a result, many fall into the trap of concluding he can’t see the big picture. The most common mistaken assumption about him is that people think he’s reactionary, when the opposite is true. You don’t get the peace agreements he’s gotten, the concessions he’s won on his tariff strategy, or so many other things he’s accomplished if you wing it.
Consider all of this and how uncharacteristically quiet the president has been on the anti-ICE movement in Minneapolis in recent weeks. While he hasn’t avoided the topic, he hasn’t allowed it to dominate his narrative and the media coverage of the White House.
More importantly, while there has been a good deal of noise coming out of Minneapolis, and even more confusion by design coming from the Minnesota governor, Democrat politicians, and the left, in the wake of the Michael Pretti shooting, the very measured response coming from the White House may have been overlooked.