The Petersburg Post

Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 - DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The European Union's top official on Tuesday described US President Trump's planned new tariffs over Greenland as "a mistake especially between long-standing allies" and called into question Trump's trustworthiness, saying that he had agreed last year not to impose more tariffs on members of the bloc. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was responding to Trump's ...

Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 - – The Syrian military claimed Tuesday that guards from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces had abandoned a camp in northeast Syria housing thousands of people linked to the Islamic State group, allowing the detainees to escape. The al-Hol camp houses mainly women and children who are family members of IS members or accused of being otherwise affiliated with the group. Thousands of accused IS militants ...

Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 - US President Donald Trump has described the UK's deal to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back a key military base as an "act of great stupidity", months after he endorsed the move. The UK signed the £3.4bn ($4.6bn) agreement in May, under which it would retain control of a UK-US military base on the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia. Previously US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed it as ...

Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 - The World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting kicked off in the Swiss resort city of Davos on Monday, with global figures from politics, business, academia and civil society attending the five-day event. The annual forum that attempts to shape global agendas comes at a time of massive global upheaval. United States President Donald Trump will attend the annual event along with other global leaders. His attendance ...

Monday, Jan 19th, 2026 - Guatemala's president has declared a state of emergency following a weekend eruption of violence during which gang members took dozens of hostages across three prisons and killed at least seven police officers in the capital in apparent retribution, after the authorities regained control of facilities where inmates had rioted. President Bernardo Arevalo issued a 30-day order on Sunday, which restricts civil ...