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Japan is currently developing the world’s fastest train, the L0 Series, which is a Japanese maglev train being produced and tested by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). This train is expected to be able to reach speeds of up to 603.5kmh, far surpassing the only commercial maglev train in the world at the moment, China’s Shanghai Maglev, which goes up to 460.2kmh. In contrast, Europe’s fastest trains, the French TGV and the Italian AGV Italo, have top operational speeds of between 306-354kmh. Slashing travel time between Tokyo and Nagoya to mere minutes Usually, a train from Tokyo to…
Viewers around the world have been drawn to Heated Rivalry like moths to a flame. Now, the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics are keeping it burning by choosing the show’s stars, Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, as official torchbearers. The news was announced on Thursday by HBO Max, which owns the streaming rights to Heated Rivalry and will broadcast the Winter Olympics live. The torch relay, which started in Greece on 26 November 2025, is due to conclude on the 6 February, when the opening ceremony begins at Milan’s San Siro Stadium. Details of the exact time and date of…
Speaking after the summit, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen suggested the leaders had learned the lesson this week that standing up to Trump in a “firm” but “non-escalatory” way was an effective strategy that they should continue. EU leaders called the emergency summit in response to Trump’s threat to hit eight European countries with tariffs for objecting to his demand to seize control of Greenland from Denmark. The crisis in the transatlantic relationship has dominated discussions in Brussels and other European capitals, and leaders gathered for dinner Thursday to try to sketch out a strategy for the future. …
Published on 23/01/2026 – 15:00 GMT+1 Now a global competitor, the Russula Group has designed 130 steel factories and industrial waste water treatment plants in 35 countries worldwide. The European steel sector is their next big target. The managers estimate that the European Union is short by roughly 10 million tons of steel each year. They think Europe has now the knowhow to lead the way in the production of clean steel, in both profitable and sustainable ways. “This reindustrialization in the 21st century is absolutely sustainable because the technology we Europeans have developed in recent years is completely environmentally…
The French government, led by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, survived two no-confidence motions tabled in the lower house of parliament on Friday over its decision to pass part of a long-overdue 2026 budget without a vote from MPs. As expected, neither the moderate-left Socialist Party nor the conservative Republicans supported the motions, allowing Lecornu to remain in power and avoid another government collapse. The first motion was submitted by the hard left France Unbowed (LFI), while the second came from the far-right National Rally (RN). A total of 269 MPs voted in favour of the no-confidence motion presented by the…
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…
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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…