Global events and international developments affecting markets.
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Portugal’s presidential runoff resulted in a decisive victory for the moderate Socialist candidate, who won nearly two-thirds of the vote. The result suggests broad resistance across the political spectrum to the far-right Chega party’s leader, who nevertheless increased his share compared with earlier contests. Analysts say that while Chega’s infl…
A dispute over an American freestyle skier's comments about feeling conflicted representing the United States at the Milano Cortina Olympics has prompted fellow athletes to defend the right to voice opinions. The episode, amplified on social media and addressed directly by former President Donald Trump, has intersected with threats against athletes…
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy and housing minister Steve Reed publicly affirmed their support for Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday, responding to a call for his resignation from Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar amid pressure linked to the Mandelson-Epstein scandal. Lammy and Reed urged continuity, stressing the need to remain focused on …
Several Arab and Muslim-majority countries sharply criticised Israel after its security cabinet approved measures that make it easier for Jewish settlers to acquire land in the occupied West Bank and expand Israeli authority into areas nominally under Palestinian control. Critics say the decisions risk entrenching settlements, displacing Palestinia…
Israel has moved to make West Bank land records public, repeal a Jordanian-era purchase law and increase enforcement activity in Palestinian-administered areas. Palestinian leaders view the steps as violations of international law that further weaken the long-standing two-state solution framework established after the 1993 Oslo Accords. The decisio…
Ukrainian officials say Russian troops are advancing around the strategic city of Pokrovsk and nearby Myrnohrad, pressing a months-long campaign to claim control of the Donetsk region. Kyiv reports it retains the northern sector of Pokrovsk, a railway hub with a pre-war population of 60,000, while open-source researchers and military units describe…
Israeli forces reported killing four militants in Rafah after they emerged from an underground tunnel and opened fire on troops, an action Israel described as a violation of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire that began last October. In a separate episode, local health authorities reported an Israeli forces shooting that killed a Palestinian farmer in Dei…
Arab nomadic families who once moved seasonally with camels and livestock now find themselves stranded on the desert outskirts of al-Obeid in central Sudan. The 2023 war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has displaced nearly 14 million people, worsened ethnic violence and disrupted the land and livestock routes that susta…
Search and rescue teams concluded operations in Tripoli after two neighboring residential buildings collapsed, raising the confirmed death toll to 15. Civil defence officials said eight people were pulled alive from the rubble. Local officials described a wider pattern of aging, poorly maintained structures and urged central government action as di…
A government inspectorate report finds that migrants deported from the UK to France under the bilateral 'one-in one-out' arrangement had insufficient access to translators, legal advice and information about their future in France. The assessment, based on a November flight of 20 deportees and released as the scheme nears its first year, raises con…
Britain announced an expansion of a special visa route allowing more people from Hong Kong to settle in the United Kingdom, a move prompted by the sentencing of prominent democracy activist Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison. The change will allow children of British National (Overseas) status holders at the time of the 1997 handover to live in the UK…
Ugandan Information Minister Chris Baryomunsi criticized a recent military incursion into the residence of opposition leader Bobi Wine, saying Wine committed no crime and may return home. The incident, which Wine says led to his wife being hospitalised, has prompted a promised investigation even as military leadership issues mixed messages about de…
The Swedish government unveiled a package of tighter citizenship requirements that will extend the residency period for applicants from five to eight years, impose a minimum monthly income threshold, and introduce a language and culture test. Officials said the measures are significantly stricter than current rules and will affect those with crimin…
Summary: U.S. skiing champion Lindsey Vonn, 41, was transported by helicopter from Cortina d’Ampezzo to Ca’ Foncello Hospital in Treviso after a violent crash 13 seconds into the Olympic downhill race. A source close to the matter said she underwent two operations aimed at stabilising a fractured left leg and minimising complications related to swe…
A federal grand jury has indicted 33-year-old Shannon Mathre of Toledo for allegedly threatening to kill U.S. Vice President JD Vance during a January visit to the Ohio region. Arrested by U.S. Secret Service agents, Mathre also faces separate charges after investigators say they found multiple files of child sexual abuse material while probing the…
A lawsuit filed in federal court in Texas asserts that an 18-month-old girl detained at the Dilley, Texas immigration facility was returned to custody after a life-threatening hospitalization and had prescribed respiratory medications and nutritional supplements confiscated. The family was later released after filing the suit. The complaint also ra…
Survivors of a February 3 shipwreck off the Greek island of Chios dispute the coastguard's assertion that their inflatable vessel struck a patrol boat after evasive maneuvers. Fifteen Afghan migrants died in the incident, while about two dozen people, including 11 minors, were rescued. Witness statements from survivors describe no prior warnings an…
International prosecutors at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague on Monday urged judges to convict former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci and three other former Kosovo Liberation Army commanders of war crimes and hand down a 45-year prison term. The charges concern alleged persecution, murder, torture and enforced disappearances during and sh…
Russian forces launched a large overnight barrage of missiles and drones across Ukraine that Ukrainian officials say killed at least four civilians, including a mother and her 10-year-old son in Bohodukhiv, and left tens of thousands without power following damage to a high-voltage substation. Regional officials reported further casualties and dama…
Italy's Alpine rescue service has issued an urgent warning following 11 avalanche-related deaths over seven days, the latest being a 70-year-old hiker found dead in Veneto. With fresh snow resting on older unstable layers, rescues say avalanches can be triggered by the movement of a single skier and advise careful route planning, carrying standard …
Emails contained in a newly released batch of documents indicate that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor forwarded official British trade reports to Jeffrey Epstein in 2010 after receiving them in his capacity as a government trade envoy. The disclosure has renewed scrutiny of the former royal, prompted police reviews and intensified a political controvers…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia remains willing to cooperate with the United States but does not expect a promising future for bilateral economic relations, citing what he described as U.S. ambitions for "economic dominance" and obstacles to BRICS integration. He said Moscow will pursue alternative, protected channels for financi…
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s decisive victory in Japan’s lower house has diminished domestic resistance to a tougher security agenda. With 352 of 465 seats, her government is poised to accelerate defence spending, loosen arms-export restrictions and pursue a new national security strategy, steps that have provoked strong rebukes and economic cou…
Iranian authorities have arrested several senior figures affiliated with the Reform Front, including Azar Mansouri, the secretary-general of the Islamic Iran Nation’s Union Party, as part of a wider wave of detentions and intimidation following large-scale unrest last month. State-linked media and the judiciary’s outlet have reported indictments of…
Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media entrepreneur and prominent critic of Beijing, received a 20-year prison sentence on Monday under the city’s national security law. The punishment is the harshest available under the legislation that followed the 2019 protests. Lai’s career as a self-made businessman turned media proprietor, his role funding and suppor…
