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Published on 12/01/2026 – 11:30 GMT+1 US President Donald Trump returned to office vowing to be a peace president worthy of a Nobel Prize. And despite the critics, his actions show he really does want peace. A piece of Venezuela. Perhaps a piece of Cuba. And now he is officially coming for the whole of Greenland. Trump claims the Arctic is crawling with Chinese ships. He mocked Denmark for defending the island with just “one more dog sled”. The reality? Greenland already hosts a massive US space base, and Denmark was recently running massive NATO exercises in the icy environment.…
“I have become the target of personal revenge by Donald Tusk and his circle,” Ziobro wrote, warning that members of the government would face “severe consequences.” He claimed the proceedings against him amounted to retaliation against the opposition. Polish government minister Tomasz Siemoniak slammed Ziobro. “Refuge in Hungary is a downright perfect summary of Ziobro’s career. The former Minister of Justice fleeing like a coward from the Polish justice system. Total downfall,” he commented on X. Ziobro was stripped of immunity in November last year, amid an escalating confrontation between Tusk’s government and the opposition Law and Justice. Several former Law…
Published on 12/01/2026 – 10:39 GMT+1 The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, is set to push for fresh sanctions on Iran after a crackdown that has reportedly claimed hundreds of lives since protests began nearly two weeks ago. “I am prepared to propose additional sanctions in response to the regime’s brutal repression of protesters,” Kallas told the German daily Welt and POLITICO, adding that these would complement the wide range of sanctions already in place against Iran. Kallas’s initiative comes as Iran’s death toll continues to rise following demonstrations that erupted on 28 December over the collapse of…
By Euronews Published on 12/01/2026 – 10:48 GMT+1 Germany said Sunday it was ready to assume greater responsibilities in the Arctic after US President Donald Trump threatened to seize Greenland “one way or the other”, sparking a diplomatic crisis between Washington and its European allies. German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Berlin would increase its Arctic commitments while rejecting Trump’s threats against the mineral-rich Danish territory. “Security in the arctic is becoming more and more important and is part of our common interest in NATO,” Wadephul said at a joint news conference with Iceland’s foreign minister in Reykjavik. “If the American…
By Euronews, AP Published on 12/01/2026 – 9:43 GMT+1 Malaysia and Indonesia blocked Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images. The countries are the first to ban the generative AI tool, reflecting a growing global concern that it can produce realistic images, sound, and text, while existing safeguards fail to prevent their abuse. The Grok chatbot, which is accessed through Musk’s social media platform X, has been criticised for generating manipulated images, including depictions of women in bikinis or sexually explicit poses, as…
The stars of film and TV gathered in Los Angeles on Sunday for the 83rd Golden Globes ceremony, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and Netflix miniseries Adolescence emerged as the big winners on the night, earning four Globes apiece. One Battle After Another won Best Film (Comedy or Musical), Best Supporting Actress for Teyana Taylor, Best Director and Best Screenplay, both for Anderson, who has become only the second filmmaker after Oliver Stone to collect Best Director, Screenplay and Film (as a producer) at the Globes. Loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s postmodern countercultural novel “Vineland”, Anderson’s tenth…
The comments coincide with a rising death toll. Iran Human Rights, an Oslo-based group, said Sunday that nearly 200 protesters had been killed since demonstrations broke out on Dec. 28. Other rights groups put the number at more than 500. “The regime has a track-record of crushing protests, and we see a heavy-handed response by the security forces,” Kallas added in the written comments. “Citizens are fighting for a future of their own choosing and risking everything to be heard.” The protests, which kicked off over spiking inflation, now want an end to the clerical rule of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader. Iranian state-linked…
Hamas announced on Sunday that it will dissolve its current administration in Gaza after a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee assumes control of the region, as is required by the US-brokered plan for the enclave. The Gaza militant group and the rival Palestinian Authority, the Palestinians’ internationally recognised representative, have not announced the names of the technocrats, who are not supposed to be politically affiliated, and it remains unclear if they will be cleared by Israel and the US. The government and other elements of the truce that went into effect on 10 October, such as disarming Hamas and sending an…
“We’ll be heading in with a certain amount of humility, and we’ll try not to be in the mindset that this is a political trial,” said one of trio, a French elected official who is one of the codefendants appealing their conviction. Line by line Le Pen and 24 other codefendants stood trial in late 2024 on charges they illicitly used funds from the European Parliament to pay party employees by having them hired as parliamentary assistants. But those assistants, the prosecution argued, rarely if ever worked on actual parliamentary business. The National Rally’s apparent defense strategy back then was to paint the trial as politicized, potentially winning in the court of public opinion and living with…
Published on 12/01/2026 – 7:31 GMT+1 •Updated 8:05 The world’s eye are on Iran. EU leaders from Brussels to Berlin have called for imprisoned Iranian protesters to be released. The country was plunged into blackout last Thursday after mass demonstrations spread due to dire economic conditions, and authorities have responded with internet shutdowns, arrests, and lethal force. Euronews EU editor, Maria Tadeo, joins today’s programme to report on the latest on this front. Then former Primer Minister of France Dominique de Villepin join us to offer his perspective on the world’s events. A close advisor to President Jacques Chirac, Dominique…