A cloak-and-dagger mystery reminiscent of a John le Carré novel is swirling around the complaint, which is said to be locked in a safe. Disclosure of its contents could cause “grave damage to national security.” www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Trump is trying to shape a new world order. Here's what it looks like. ->Vox | More on "Trump's new world order vision" at BigEarthData.ai | #no decency #trump fascism

Imaan Mazari's imprisonment expectedly angered Baloch terrorists. www.arabnews.com/node/2631312...

The world without ONE!

Russian airlines are set to bring older aircraft out of storage after falling short of plans to produce new airliners. In 2026-2027, Russian airlines will receive refurbished older aircraft to help sustain growing passenger traffic, Rostec told a Russian media outlet.

Which Arab nation is set to hurriedly acquire shares in #Israel's defense sector? www.ft.com/content/f1a0...

There are now at least 100 House members signed on to our effort to impeach Kristi Noem. Where the hell are the rest of them? Let’s ask:

#Israel estimates the direct security cost of the two years of conflict triggered by Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, to be $62b, a figure that excludes the impact on the economy. Israel’s defence budget soared to 8.3% of GDP in 2024, double of 2 years prior. www.ft.com/content/f1a0...

"Don't dare mention French wine. It's a red line and got nukes."

He actually did it. The pilot of Air Force One told Donald Trump if he didn’t shut the fuck up, he turned the plane around and go home. Probably 🤷🏻‍♂️

I need to remind everyone that the movie Air Force One starts with the USA kidnapping a foreign leader.

This happened before EU leaders' speeches at #WEF26 "The US currency fell 0.9% against the euro, while the S&P 500 was down about 2 per cent amid increasing transatlantic tensions and threats of a trade war. The tech-focused Nasdaq Composite index was down 2.3 per cent." www.ft.com/content/6292...

Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

Even the imposition of a cap on such holdings could send an already bubbly Wall Street into a tailspin. Such measures must be exercised with prudence, but in extreme circumstances they must at least be considered. #Trump #EU #Greenland #NATO www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Despite its setbacks and defeats, the #SDF remains a force to be reckoned with, and the #US is unlikely to accept its complete demise. While US may have #Syria as an ally against ISIS and a partner in Erdoğan, it will likely want to keep the SDF in reserve. en.majalla.com/node/329255/...

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

Three is the minimum number of astronauts required to keep the #ISS running. While it’s not inherently dangerous to run the ISS with a skeleton crew, it will certainly have an impact on day-to-day operations. gizmodo.com/iss-loses-4-...

They paid £3,700 in “bullet money” demanded by police and were driven 5 hours where her body had been thrown into an old grave. "You have 10 minutes to cry,” came the officer’s curt command to the couple as he revealed the corpse of their 20-something daughter. www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

A slice of the opposition in Iran is loyal to Reza Pahlavi, a son of the former shah who had the CIA’s backing. Pahlavi does not seem to represent a democratic, pluralistic vision of the country’s future, and he is openly courting US and Israeli intervention. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

“This is the last chance to build generational wealth,” the online news site quoted him saying. “You need to make money now, before you become a part of the permanent underclass.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-...

“Nobody convinced me. I convinced myself,” he said. “They didn’t hang anyone. They canceled the hangings. That had a big impact.” Meaning, #Putin advised #Trump. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

As per @thetimes.com, a new report from doctors on the ground, which says at least 16,500 protesters have died and 330,000 have been injured, most of them in two days of utter slaughter in the most brutal crackdown by the clerical regime. www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

#Iran's expensive, subsidised system of exchange rates for the rial's causing food-price inflation nearly double that of other goods. Private and state-connected firms were importing goods at a highly subsidised rate, selling at higher prices to the public. www.ft.com/content/3aec...

When #Khomeini died in 1989, #Khamenei, a protégé who had been president of #Iran since 1981, emerged as the consensus candidate for supreme leader. He'd been jailed six times under the shah and had lost the use of his right arm after a failed assassination attempt. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/w...

The protests show that many Iranians may now believe that the Revolution of 1979 has failed to address their everyday economic needs and has instead focused on extending its military might through its nuclear enrichment and proxy forces in the region. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

International cybersecurity cooperation depends on more than technical capacity 💻 UNIDIR's new policy brief shows that trust, clear mandates and coordination among computer security incident response teams are key to cyberstability. Read the brief 👉 unidir.org/COOPCSIRT

Breaking news: Every former Federal Reserve chief attacked the Department of Justice’s probe into US central bank head Jay Powell, accusing the Trump administration of behaving like an emerging market. ft.trib.al/aJHxEQx

Despite all help from #NASA and #ESA, an #India|n rocket carrying 16 loads advanced satellites went off track after liftoff in a fresh fiasco to the SLV. Of strategic community interest was EOS-N1 - Anvesha - a hyperspectral imaging satellite for the Indian military. www.space.com/space-explor...

Despite all help from #NASA and #ESA, an #India|n rocket carrying 16 loads advanced satellites went off track after liftoff in a fresh fiasco to the SLV. Of strategic community interest was EOS-N1 - Anvesha - a hyperspectral imaging satellite for the Indian military. www.space.com/space-explor...

Right now, America's vivid support in any way discredits #Iran protestors. Their chances of success shrink and the mullah get to justify their heavy-handed actions if push comes to shove. #US can't disarm #IRGC by sheer airpower. The history of the CIA grounds ops shed some light

#Trump is turning the world into 'a den of thieves'!

#IRGC does not need wargames to decide what to do in the wake of massive protests across #Iran. IRGC can jail the president and jail his cabinet members and launch a coup de tete. Tbf, a bloody coup won't be enough to save #Khamenei and his humiliated horsemen. #IranProtests

At its peak about a decade ago, #Venezuela provided 100,000 barrels a day of oil to #Cuba. This has dropped to less than 30,000 b/d — compared with Cuba’s estimated daily needs of 70,000 b/d. Another 25,000 b/d comes from domestic production. www.ft.com/content/d859...

#Greenland is rich in rare-earth minerals used to make in-demand items like batteries and cellphones, and it is largely located within the #Arctic Circle, where the world’s superpowers are fighting for dominance. #US #Denmark www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/w...

“Like most junk science that just won’t die (graphology, astrology and homeopathy come to mind), because of the usefulness or profit their practitioners enjoy, the polygraph stays with us.” www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

#Netanyahu's corruption trial judge crushed to death by car in an 'accident' www.timesofisrael.com/beersheba-di...

Tim Walz may end up being front-runner in DNC's presidential nominee race, you never know.

"Do not lose your wanderlust. There is no problem in the world that cannot be cured by a walk." Rousseau in Kierkegard's Papirer 47

Obviously, they did nothing wrong—but that’s part of the crisis too. #Trump himself can't articulate, either at pressers or, apparently, over the phone, why exactly he needs to own #Greenland, or how #Denmark can give #US companies and soldiers more access. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

#Khamenei plans reunion with Bashar al- #Assad in Moscow. www.thetimes.com/article/10cc...

More guts here than many European states lecturing the world on rules based order

Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso, a founder of OPEC, complained in 1975: “I call petroleum the devil's excrement. It brings trouble.

#Trump dubbed his new approach, without much apparent enthusiasm, the “#Donroe Doctrine,” an awkward mash-up of his own name and that of the 19th-century #Monroe Doctrine, which aimed to cement U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

“They have tremendous inflation. Their economy is bust,” Trump said. Iran’s currency fell to another all-time low, trading at more than 1.4m rials to the dollar. In 1979, before the Revolution, a dollar traded at about 70 rials. Public protests have broken out in cities. www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

There is little evidence that Venezuelan anti-aircraft equipment offered any meaningful resistance to the attack. “We assessed that we had maintained, totally, the element of surprise,” Gen Caine said. www.ft.com/content/7772...

#Tangle, at present accessible on an invite-only basis, suggests users share objectives or “intentions” with friends, support each other’s goals and “reflect” on how they are achieved. Its mission is to “build tools to help people live life more on purpose”. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“Of course we want to see Venezuela transition to a place completely different than what it looks like today. But obviously we don’t have the expectation that’s going to happen in the next 15 hours.What we do have is an expectation is that it moves in that direction.” www.ft.com/content/fed6...