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Published on 07/01/2026 – 10:51 GMT+1 Aldrich Ames, the Central Intelligence Agency spy who was sentenced to life in prison for selling secrets to Moscow costing the lives of a dozen double agents, died in prison on Monday, US authorities said. He was 84, according to the Bureau of Prisons. Ames worked as a counterintelligence analyst for the CIA for 31 years and, along with his wife Rosario, was convicted of selling information to the Soviet Union between 1985 and 1993, compromising secret missions and costing lives in exchange for more than $2.5 million (€2.1 million). Ames had been head…
Published on 07/01/2026 – 9:25 GMT+1 Scientists warn that it is “only a matter of time” until Greenland’s Prudhoe Dome starts to melt away – as heat-trapping emissions continue to bake the planet. The huge 500 metre thick ice cap is roughly the same size as Luxembourg, covering around 2,500 square kilometres. Its demise would unleash catastrophic consequences around the world, capable of pushing sea level rise by up to 73 centimetres. To put this in perspective, Copernicus states that for every centimetre of sea level rise, around six million more people are exposed to coastal flooding. Greenland’s Prudhoe Dome…
Three things from Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy to start your political day. What the government is having to deal with: the unpredictability of Donald Trump. Just as Britain signs up to troops in Ukraine if there’s a peace deal, it’s having to use its best diplomatic language on what the president is thinking about Greenland. What the government wants to deal with: publishing the road safety strategy, which is something every driver will have a view on. What some government sources are thinking: Sam’s got a story about whether AI is to blame for a massive rise in the…
Police motorcycles led the way, followed by marching bands and colourful floats, as crowds gathered along the routes. January 6 is a turning point for the city, closing the Christmas period in many countries but signalling the start of weeks of Mardi Gras celebrations. This year’s opening came amid a strong security presence. Police officers were visible throughout the parade, and National Guard troops continued patrols around the French Quarter, where they have been deployed for about a week. City officials point to falling crime, with police reporting sharp declines in murders, shootings and robberies since 2022, even as the…
But Kyiv also takes great pleasure in seeing Maduro, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, being taken for trial to the U.S. — proof of the futility of previous Russian arms sales and security guarantees from the Kremlin. “The Maduro dictatorship helped Putin. Now, Putin lost his ally — this is a plus for us,” Oleksandr Merezhko, head of the Ukrainian parliament’s foreign relations committee and co-head of the Ukrainian parliament’s Free Venezuela friendship group, told POLITICO. “This situation could lead to a weakening of Russia on the international stage, a fall in oil prices and, accordingly, a…
Germany, the EU’s industrial kingpin, is keen to secure a Mercosur agreement to boost its exports, but is still wary as to whether sufficient support exists to finalize an accord on Friday. A German official cautioned everything was still to play for. “A qualified majority is emerging, but it’s not a done deal yet. Until we have the result, there’s no reason to sit back and relax,” the official said. Optimism is growing regarding Rome in the pro-Mercosur camp, however. After all, the pact is widely viewed as strongly in the interests not only of Italy’s engineering companies, but also…
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By Theo Farrant with AP Published on 07/01/2026 – 7:00 GMT+1 Ever wished you could be in two places at once at work? A new AI tool unveiled at CES 2026 in Las Vegas claims to make that possible – by creating a digital twin of you. At the annual consumer tech conference, Texas-based software company IgniteTech demonstrated MyPersonas, a platform that can build AI-powered replicas of employees using their video, voice, and written materials. The digital stand-ins can answer questions, chat on video, and respond in 160 different languages, acting as a virtual version of the real person. It even replicates mannerisms…
Crosbie, from the Royal Danish Defense College, said Trump’s strategists are likely presenting him with various options. “The most worrisome would be a fait accompli-type strategy, which we see a lot and think about a lot in military circles, which would be simply grabbing the land the same way Putin tried to grab, to make territorial claims, over Ukraine. He could just simply put troops in the country and just say that it’s American now … the United States military is capable of landing any number of forces on Greenland, either by air or by sea, and then claiming that…
Friedrich Merz signalisiert erstmals Bereitschaft, einen möglichen Waffenstillstand in der Ukraine auch mit der Bundeswehr abzusichern. Hans von der Burchard ordnet ein, was „grundsätzlich nichts ausschließen“ für deutsche Soldaten bedeutet und warum die Stationierung in Polen oder Rumänien der erste Schritt in eine neue Ära ist.Szenenwechsel ins verschneite Kloster Seeon: Bei der Winterklausur der CSU humpelt Markus Söder nicht nur körperlich, sondern auch politisch. Rasmus Buchsteiner berichtet von der Stimmung vor Ort, warum Alexander Dobrindt im Hintergrund bleibt und wieso das neue Mantra der Christsozialen jetzt „Wirtschaft First“ lautet. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview stellt CSU-Landesgruppenchef Alexander Hoffmann klare Forderungen: Die Unternehmenssteuer soll…