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The funding strategy stretches until 2040 alongside an immediate 100-day operational plan to get the project off the ground. But the prosperity plan will struggle to attract outside investment if the conflict rumbles on, according to the world’s largest money manager, BlackRock, which is advising on the reconstruction plan in a pro-bono capacity. “Think about it. If you’re a pension fund, you’re fiduciary towards your clients, your pensioners. It’s nearly impossible to invest into a war zone,” BlackRock’s vice chairman, Philipp Hildebrand, said Wednesday in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “I think it has to be…
Published on 23/01/2026 – 14:42 GMT+1 The UK said on Friday that Donald Trump was “wrong to diminish” the role of NATO troops in Afghanistan, as a claim by the US president that they did not fight on the front line sparked outrage. In an interview with Fox News aired on Thursday, Trump appeared unaware that 457 British soldiers died during the conflict in Afghanistan following the September 11 attacks on the United States. “They’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan,” Trump told the US outlet, referring to NATO allies. “And they did, they stayed a little back, a…
TOP-THEMEN — Sachsens Regierungschef fordert im Gespräch mit POLITICO einen „Strompreis für die Wirtschaft“. — Trump zeigt sich bei Zöllen und Russland-Sanktionen auf dem G7-Gipfel nicht kooperativ. … Jun 17 11 mins read
Published on 23/01/2026 – 13:21 GMT+1 NATO chief Mark Rutte and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen agreed on Friday that the alliance should boost work on security in the Arctic region, after US President Donald Trump walked back on his threats to seize Greenland. “We’re working together to ensure that the whole of NATO is safe and secure and will build on our cooperation to enhance deterrence and defence in the Arctic,” Rutte wrote in a post on X after meeting Frederiksen in Brussels. Frederiksen, who is set to travel to Greenland to meet its prime minister on Friday, said…
President Donald Trump sued banking giant JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon for $5bn (€4.26bn) on Thursday over allegations that JPMorgan stopped providing banking services to him and his businesses for political reasons after he left office in January 2021. The lawsuit, filed in Miami-Dade County court in Florida, alleges that JPMorgan abruptly closed multiple accounts in February 2021 with just 60 days’ notice and no explanation. By doing so, Trump claims JPMorgan and Dimon cut the president and his businesses off from millions of dollars, disrupted their operations, and forced Trump and the businesses to urgently open bank…
Bally Philp hauls up his baited traps from the waters off Scotland’s Isle of Skye, checking each one methodically. Unlike most of Scotland’s coastline, these waters are protected from industrial fishing methods that have devastated seabeds elsewhere. But Philp, who’s fished for more than three decades, has watched conditions deteriorate nearly everywhere else along the coast. “The inshore archipelagos on the West Coast of Scotland used to be full of fish,” Philp said. “We have no commercial quantities of fish left inshore at all.” While 37 per cent of Scotland’s waters have been designated as marine protected areas, only a…
That maneuver, Article 49.3 of the constitution, allows the government to ram through legislation without a vote but in turn gives opposition lawmakers the opportunity to respond by putting forward a no-confidence vote. Lecornu triggered that measure on Tuesday to pass the part of the budget that concerns raising revenue. He is expected to use it again Friday to pass the final part of the budget concerning government expenditures. Lecornu had been expected to survive, as the political extremes do not have enough lawmakers among themselves to bring down the government. The more centrist Socialists, who have played a kingmaker…
Published on 23/01/2026 – 12:41 GMT+1 South Korea placed overseas travel bans on three people as part of an investigation into alleged drone flights over North Korea that have deepened animosities between the two countries, authorities in Seoul said on Friday. North Korea threatened retaliation earlier this month after accusing South Korea of launching a surveillance drone flight in September and again in January. The South Korean government denied operating any drones during the times specified by North Korea and began probing if civilians sent them. The three civilians put under travel bans include a man with the surname Oh…
The UK has been warned that the collapse of global ecosystems is a direct threat to national security and prosperity. A new report from the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) – which is understood to have involved MI5 and MI6 – found that the world is already experiencing the impacts of biodiversity loss. This includes crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks. However, without “major intervention”, the report warns that these threats will increase with environmental degradation – and they risk bleeding into geopolitical instability, economic insecurity, conflict, migration and increased competition for resources.…
The image-generating feature of Grok went viral just before the end of 2025, particularly due to its ability to undress people. The platform took some steps to restrict the feature on Jan. 9 and again on Jan. 14. The European Commission, in charge of implementing the Digital Services Act covering large platforms like X, as well as the EU’s AI law, is considering which tool to wield. A fresh probe into Grok under the powerful social media regulation is in the works. X has already been fined and is being investigated on several fronts by the Commission. The EU is…