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Sunday, Jan 25th, 2026 - In Pictures Protesters have taken to the streets in Minneapolis, in the state of Minnesota, after a United States Border Patrol agent killed a US citizen, heightening tensions in a city already shaken by a deadly shooting just weeks earlier of a mother of three. Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara told reporters that a 37-year-old man, a Minneapolis resident, died in hospital on Saturday after being shot multiple ...

Sunday, Jan 25th, 2026 - Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has urged citizens to back domestic businesses and workers under a new "Buy Canadian" policy, hours after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose 100 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods if Ottawa proceeded with trade deals with China. In a video posted on his X account, Carney framed the policy as a response to growing economic pressure from abroad. Trump Threatens Canada ...

Sunday, Jan 25th, 2026 - ( The Hill ) — Several Senate Democrats on Saturday came out against a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after another deadly shooting by federal authorities in Minneapolis earlier in the day. "Trump's endless empowerment of federal immigration agents has resulted in yet another senseless killing," Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) wrote on the social platform X . "This brutal crackdown has to ...

Sunday, Jan 25th, 2026 - President Donald Trump commended British soldiers who fought in Afghanistan in a social media post on Saturday, backtracking on remarks he made that attracted criticism from NATO allies. In an interview Thursday, Trump had claimed troops from non-American NATO countries had stayed off the "front lines" during the war in Afghanistan. The comments drew fierce criticism across Europe, including from British Prime ...

Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that two days of trilateral talks with Russia and the United States in Abu Dhabi concluded with "constructive" discussions on "possible parameters for ending the war." The talks are the first known instance that officials from the Trump administration have sat down with both countries as part of Washington's push for progress to end Moscow's nearly 4-year-old ...

Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 - Washington — The United States carried out another strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Friday, the first since the U.S captured former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro .  The strike — the 35th since Sept. 2, 2025 — killed two people and left one survivor, according to U.S. Southern Command. "Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along ...