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Japan’s cherry blossom season is a notoriously popular time for tourists to visit and often sees prices spike. But 2026 might be one of the cheapest years in recent history to witness the famed sakura. The country has seen a sharp drop in tourist numbers from mainland China following the suggestions late last year by Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, that her country could deploy its military if China attempted to invade Taiwan. It has triggered a decrease in the cost of flights and accommodation, which is expected to persist into March and April, when the cherry trees usually bloom.…
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By Euronews with AFP Published on 24/01/2026 – 17:35 GMT+1 •Updated 22:08 Federal immigration agents deployed in Minneapolis as part of a sweeping immigration crackdown shot and killed a 37-year-old man on Saturday, in what Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has called “another horrific shooting”. The man has been identified as Alex Pretti, a Minneapolis resident and intensive care unit nurse. The incident marks the second fatal shooting of a civilian in the city, coming three weeks after US citizen Renee Good was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. A video circulating online, which has been confirmed by authorities, showed…
Updated: 24/01/2026 – 23:43 GMT+1 Video captures a confrontation between federal officers and a 37-year-old man moments leading up to a fatal shooting in Minneapolis. The shooting came amid widespread daily protests in the Twin Cities since the Jan. 7 shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good. … More
Hundreds of people gathered around a growing makeshift memorial for Alex Pretti, the man shot and killed Saturday by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. According to his family, Pretti worked as an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital. Family members told the Associated Press that Pretti had taken part in protests following the killing of Renee Good, who was shot by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on January 7. In a statement, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said federal officers were carrying out an operation as part of the administration’s immigration crackdown…
The document argues that Europe is economically and militarily capable of defending itself, noting that non-U.S. NATO members dwarf Russia in economic scale, and are therefore “strongly positioned to take primary responsibility for Europe’s conventional defense.” At the same time, the strategy places emphasis on Greenland, explicitly listing the Arctic island — alongside the Panama Canal — as terrain the U.S. must secure to protect its homeland interests. The Pentagon says it will provide the president with “credible options to guarantee U.S. military and commercial access to key terrain from the Arctic to South America, especially Greenland,” adding that “we…
The talks brought together senior military and intelligence officials from all three sides. Ukraine’s delegation included Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov; Russia was represented by members of its armed forces and military intelligence; and the U.S. delegation included President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and senior White House advisers. Zelenskyy said the U.S. side raised possible formats for formalizing any future settlement, as well as the need for American monitoring and oversight of a potential ceasefire or peace process. “As a result of the meetings held over these days, all sides agreed to…
By Euronews with AFP Published on 24/01/2026 – 16:23 GMT+1 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Saturday voiced outrage after the release of Jacques Moretti, co-owner of a Swiss bar where 40 people lost their lives and 116 others were injured during New Year’s celebrations. In a statement, Meloni and her Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said they asked Rome’s ambassador to Switzerland to contact regional public prosecutor Beatrice Pilloud and convey their “strong indignation” over the decision to free Jacques Moretti on bail. Italy has also recalled its ambassador to Switzerland to “determine what further measures to take”, the statement said. Ignazio Cassis,…
Göttlich also took aim at FIFA President Gianni Infantino — widely seen as a close ally of Trump — accusing football’s leadership of applying double standards. “Qatar was too political for everyone, and now we’re completely apolitical?” he said. “That really, really bothers me.” His comments add momentum to a growing debate in Europe over whether global sport can remain insulated from politics as Trump ramps up pressure on allies — from threats surrounding Greenland to U.S. military action in Venezuela — while treating the World Cup as a major soft-power trophy of his second term. Not all governments are…
“I will never forget [U.K. soldiers’] courage, their bravery and the sacrifice that they made for their country,” Starmer said on X. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said: “Donald Trump is wrong. For 20 years our armed forces fought bravely alongside America’s in Afghanistan.” Prince Harry, who served two tours in Afghanistan as a British Army captain in 2008 and 2012, said NATO allies “answered that call” when Washington invoked Article 5 of the NATO treaty after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. “I served there. I made lifelong friends there. And I lost friends there,” Prince Harry said in a…