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Ukrainian team arrives in Miami for peace talks global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202…

Ukrainian team arrives in Miami for peace talks

MIAMI — Ukrainian negotiators arrived in the United States on Saturday for talks with President Donald Trump's administration on how to end four years of conflict with Russia, expected to focus on security guarantees and postwar recovery.
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E33 finally lost at the New York Game Awards (but not GOTY)

Clair Obscur is the Game of the Year favorite at TGAs to GDC, but New York critics found room for Ball x Pit and other indies

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Finally, a winners list that proves 2025 was bigger than one consensus favorite

New York critics find room for tons of titles in its annual game awards
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IDF warns that Trump plan will strengthen Hamas, fails to answer Israel's security needs haaretz.com/israel-news/2026-0…

IDF warns that Trump plan will strengthen Hamas, fails to answer Israel's security needs

As Hamas Resumes Fundraising and Attempts to Revive Weapons Production, Israeli Defense Officials Worry the Plan Being Implemented Is Different From the One Discussed.
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Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro

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🪟 Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable

When you think Microsoft you probably don't think sense of humor. And yet, I'm convinced that Microsoft is going to do a very specific *very* funny thing within our lifetimes.
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Trump's Board of Peace finds few enthusiasts among Palestinians in Gaza haaretz.com/middle-east-news/p…

Trump's Board of Peace finds few enthusiasts among Palestinians in Gaza

Pitched as a Temporary Solution to Replace Hamas in Gaza, the Members of Donald Trump's Board of Peace Are Being Announced This Week. But the Palestinians Who Would Actually Live Under Its Governance in Gaza Dismiss the Initiative as a U.S.
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms cut one major poop gag (but kept the rest)

Ira Parker, co-creator and showrunner of The Game of Thrones spin-off, explains why the series' poop jokes are important — and the one that wasn't

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' showrunner shares the one poop joke he had to cut

"I probably shouldn't bring this up. That's all people are going to be quoting me for. But…"
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Valued at $200 Million: U.S. company Ondas aims to acquire the 'brain' of Iron Dome haaretz.com/israel-news/securi…

U.S. firm seeks control over Iron Dome 'brain' maker at $200m valuation

The Proposed Acquisition Would Hand Ondas a Majority Stake in mPrest, Whose Technology Is Critical to Iron Dome's Operation and Subject to Israeli Defense Approval
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【イベントレポート】「あらしのよるに」8年ぶりの博多座公演に向けて、獅童と壱太郎が福岡に（ステージナタリー） - Yahoo!ニュース

二月花形歌舞伎「あらしのよるに」に向けて、1月16日に福岡県福岡市博多区にて中村獅童と中村壱太郎の取材会が行われた。 福岡・博多座での上演が決まったときの思いを問われた獅童は「2018年の博多座公
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After facing hate messages and boycott, Antwerp-based Israeli food chain Boker Tov closes haaretz.com/world-news/europe/…

After facing hate and boycott, Antwerp-based Israeli food chain Boker Tov closes

At Its Height, the Small Chain Included Four Restaurants Across Belgium and Even Produced a Popular Cookbook. Once the Association With Tel Aviv Became 'Too Controversial', the Owners Even Contemplated Changing the Interior and the Name
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Fires one minute, floods the next: 26 photos show a devastated Great Ocean Road

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Still reeling from the worst bushfires since the 2019-20 Black Summer, Victoria faces down another natural disaster. The post Fires one minute, floods the next: 26 photos show a devastated Great Ocean Road appeared first on Crikey.


Fires one minute, floods the next: 26 photos show a devastated Great Ocean Road

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One Nation pips Coalition in Newspoll for the first time

www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/19/one-nation-pauline-hanson-coalition-newspoll

Pauline Hanson's party has received a higher primary vote than the Coalition in the latest Newspoll. Plus parliament returns early, with a condolence motion for the Bondi attack victims first on the agenda. The post One Nation pips Coalition in Newspoll…


One Nation pips Coalition in Newspoll for the first time

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Australia stays silent as allies learn no Trump deal is worth a damn

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Donald Trump has once again demonstrated that no agreement with him is worth the paper it's written off. Yet Australia makes itself ever more reliant on him. The post Australia stays silent as allies learn no Trump deal is worth a damn appeared first on…


Australia stays silent as allies learn no Trump deal is worth a damn

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Report: Iran's FM told Trump via Witkoff that Tehran canceled 800 executions to avert U.S. strike haaretz.com/us-news/2026-01-18…

Report: Iran's FM told Trump via Witkoff that Tehran nixed executions to avert U.S. strike

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi Notified Washington That It Had Canceled Hundreds of Executions Amid Nationwide Protests Against the Regime, The Washington Post Reported. The Pentagon Was Also Concerned U.S.
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「Action Stage『エリオスライジングヒーローズ』-THE EAST-」が、1月17日に東京・天王洲 銀河劇場で開幕した。 「Action Stage『エリオスライジングヒーローズ』」（以
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Americans do not support Trump’s desire to take over Greenland – Danish Foreign Ministry en.news-front.su/2026/01/18/am…

Americans do not support Trump’s desire to take over Greenland – Danish Foreign Ministry

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said in an interview with the Danish TV channel TV2 that the Americans do not share the desire of US President Donald Trump to take over Greenland.   “Trump is an influential man.
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河原雅彦×森雪之丞、韓国発ロックミュージカル「ETERNITY」日本初演を八重洲の新劇場ほかで(ステージナタリー)
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河原雅彦×森雪之丞、韓国発ロックミュージカル「ETERNITY」日本初演を八重洲の新劇場ほかで（ステージナタリー） - Yahoo!ニュース

ミュージカル「ETERNITY（エタニティ）」が、7・8月に東京・八重洲 新劇場（仮）、愛知・御園座で上演される。 本作は、韓国で2024年に初演、昨年に再演されたロックミュージカル。台本・歌詞を
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IGN just posted:

AU Deals: Games That Aged Brilliantly and Finally Cost What They Should

I did not plan to fall in love with my backlog again, but here we are. This batch of deals sent me digging through games I already adore, ones I bounced off years ago, and a few I absolutely paid too much for at launch. There is something deeply satisfying about seeing time, patches, and good discounts finally align.

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The Best Gaming Deals In Australia (IGN)

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Dilapidated houses in Gaza… between the terror of living in them and the lack of alternatives dailyyemen.net/2026/01/19/dila…

Dilapidated houses in Gaza… between the terror of living in them and the lack of alternatives

In Gaza, cracked houses are crumbling, and others uninhabitable are collapsing on the heads of those forced to live in them. Dozens have been killed and hundreds injured, but the bitterness of life in tents forces residents to live in makeshift shel
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What is the Blackfyre Rebellion and why is it important to A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms?

The Game of Thrones prequel is set in the aftermath of a bloody civil war. Here's a detailed history of the Blackfyre Rebellion

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Here's the one piece of Game of Thrones history you need to know before watching A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

The prequel is a small story with big stakes for Westeros
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Doctors Without Borders fears it may have to suspend its operations in the Gaza Strip dailyyemen.net/2026/01/18/doct…

Doctors Without Borders fears it may have to suspend its operations in the Gaza Strip

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said in a statement Sunday that Israel has suspended its registration under its new regulations for operating in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, without specifying a timeframe.The international organization added in a
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United Nations: The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is not over yet dailyyemen.net/2026/01/18/unit…

United Nations: The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is not over yet

Three months after the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations and its partners have managed to deliver tons of humanitarian aid and carry out vital repairs to damaged infrastructure in the territory. However, this is only a temporary soluti
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One martyr and six injuries arrived at hospitals within 24 hours dailyyemen.net/2026/01/18/one-…

One martyr and six injuries arrived at hospitals within 24 hours

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced today its daily statistical report on the victims of the Israeli aggression, stating that hospitals in the Strip received one martyr and six wounded individuals in the past 24 hours.In a
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Artillery and air strikes and house demolitions in an escalation by the Israeli occupation dailyyemen.net/2026/01/18/arti…

Artillery and air strikes and house demolitions in an escalation by the Israeli occupation

Israeli occupation forces carried out artillery and airstrikes and demolished homes in various areas of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, in continued violation of the ceasefire agreement that went into effect on October 10.Medical sources reported that I
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Grand Jury Finds Ditto Guilty on 150 Counts of Identity Theft

A unanimous verdict has been reached in the largest case of felony identity fraud in the Kanto region to date.
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Under every rain shower, a Gazan child leaves their learning tent full of dreams #Palestine tiktokgenocide.com/28715

Under every rain shower, a Gazan child leaves their learning tent full of dreams @ Genocide.live

Under every rain shower, a Gazan child leaves their learning tent to show the world: dreams never die, regardless of the struggle.
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Civil Rights Groups Warn Against NY Gov. Hochul's Anti-Palestinian "Buffer Zone" Proposal to Ban Constitutionally-Protected Protests #Palestine palestinelegal.org/news/2026/1…

Civil Rights Groups Warn Against NY Gov. Hochul's Anti-Palestinian "Buffer Zone" Proposal to Ban Constitutionally-Protected Protests — Palestine Legal

Today, during her State of the State address, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a proposal to ban demonstrations within 25 feet of religious institutions.
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Hero shooter Highguard reportedly didn't even pay for the Game Awards slot that's earned it so much preemptive hate—the showrunners thought it deserved the spotlight

Highguard's trailer landed with a thud at 2025's biggest award show, but it didn't pay for the privilege.

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Operation Mockingbird, CIA mind control through tell-a-vision programming

Operation Mockingbird, CIA mind control through tell-a-vision programming


Operation Mockingbird, CIA mind control through tell-a-vision programming

A snippet from the new ‘Out of the Shadows’ documentary.Operation Mockingbird is a large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)...
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Police Invested Millions in Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software Won't Say How Used

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Texas Police Invested Millions in a Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software. They Won’t Say How They’ve Used It.

One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause.” Civil liberties experts say its use violates constitutional rights.
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The Collapse of the International Order and the Decline of an Empire abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/271…

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The Collapse of the International Order and the Decline of an Empire


The would-be emperor is naked, finally, an openly predatory action by Donald Trump and his team—the treacherous kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro in a nighttime military attack on January 3, in Caracas—has launched 2026 into a crucial moment, not only for Latin America, but for world politics.

It is pathetic that some supposed defenders of human rights and the Charter of the United Nations, in the face of this heinous crime, look the other way and do not condemn these vile and dangerous acts, which threaten planetary stability and bring us closer to the holocaust. They are the same ones who did not blush in the face of the Israeli genocide, with Trump’s complacent approval, in Gaza.

From the point of view of Public International Law, the manu militari kidnapping of a sitting Head of State is neither a small anomaly nor an interpretable gray area: it is an absolute breach of the international legal order established after the Second World War. On January 7, 2026, United States President Donald Trump withdrew the country from 66 organizations, almost half of which are United Nations entities, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, a treaty that underpins all international efforts to combat global warming.

Explaining the US foreign debt situation, Michael Peterson, president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, said in a statement that “reaching $38 trillion in debt during a government shutdown is the latest worrying sign that lawmakers are failing to meet their basic fiscal obligations.”¹

However, the debt grew faster than expected due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which lasted for several years starting in 2020 and paralyzed much of the US economy. The federal government borrowed heavily during the terms of then-President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden to stabilize the national economy and boost the recovery.

Trump has several obstacles, among them, the so-called tariff war, whose results have not been as expected; the divergences with the Federal Reserve, the mid-term elections, which are presented with serious storm clouds, serious social tensions, among others.

In its study, the ASPI (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) indicates that China surpasses the United States and the rest of the countries in 37 of 44 key technologies for innovation and growth in areas such as defense, space exploration, robotics, biotechnology, quantum technology and artificial intelligence.

“In the long term, China’s leadership position in research means that it has positioned itself not only to excel in the development of current technology in almost every sector, but also in future technologies that do not yet exist,” says the report titled ASPI Key Technology Tracker: The Global Race for Future Power.²

Meanwhile, Russia is consolidating itself as the most advanced military power, with its hypersonic weapons and the strength of an economy that advances in the midst of a fierce hybrid war that the Global West has imposed on it and consolidates its alliance with China.

The anthropologist and demographer by training Emmanuel Todd has recently returned to be the topic of debate in the world by publishing his latest work, The Defeat of the West (published in Spanish by the AKAL publishing house), where he warns the nations of the world about the danger that Western nations, led by the United States, represent for the stability of the world. It describes a Western world mired in a serious internal social, political and religious crisis, which falls into nihilism and self-destruction, and consequently fosters the main armed conflicts that shake the world. Thus, Todd claims that NATO is responsible for the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, but is not capable of winning it, due to its economic, industrial and educational decline.

That is the backdrop that has led Donald Trump to the blow in Venezuela, which testifies to the weakness of the empire at the current moment, by slapping the world chessboard. I believe that the tendency to make oil transactions in yuan is what is at the root of this monumental miscalculation. Submission to Trump’s demand is the only variable that matters for the current Republican Administration. All masks have been removed. The Rubicon has been crossed.

Trump wants Venezuelan oil to be traded in dollars, not yuan, which is not within the freedom of trade, as the Trump Administration understands it. You don’t play with oil and the dollar. Donald Trump has demanded something from the Venezuela temporarily presided over by Delcy Rodríguez, which he can hardly satisfy: giving it between 30 and 50 million barrels of oil and cutting relations with its partners, with China, with Russia, with Iran and with Cuba.

By acting in this way, the United States not only ignores a norm, but deliberately undermines the principles that make coexistence possible between formally equal states. The logic that sustains the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations is thus dismantled and the principle of sovereign equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations is emptied of its content. The message is unequivocal: international law ceases to be a common framework and becomes a selective instrument, applicable only when it does not interfere with the interests of the power that invokes it.

The United States updates the validity of the Monroe Doctrine. According to the Spanish newspaper el País: “On December 4, 2025, the US Government published the National Security Strategy, which outlines the foreign policy priorities of Donald Trump’s administration. In this, Latin America once again plays a leading role, after, in May 2012, Hillary Clinton announced the Obama government’s intention to ‘Pivot to Asia’, making the Asian continent its foreign policy priority.”³

The only truth told by Donald Trump, in this process, is that María Corina Machado is not respected in Venezuela and, therefore, cannot be a replacement for Nicolás Maduro. But he has not explained the reasons for those words, meaning that it is difficult for the Chavista masses to accept a person in the government who has repeatedly requested North American military intervention in Venezuela.

The Trump Administration’s plan is for the current government of the newly inaugurated president, Delcy Rodríguez, to continue controlling the country, as long as she meets Trump’s wishes. If she or any of her ministers do not follow that plan, they will receive the “Maduro treatment,” or worse. Several journalistic sources report that the United States has already threatened the Minister of the Interior of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello. In my opinion, the United States has a situation full of unknowns in Venezuela, given the attitude adopted by Delcy Rodríguez and the Chavista team, in addition, Nicolás Maduro cannot be kept indefinitely imprisoned.

The Trump Administration is determined to take over Greenland, invoking its national security and affecting its military arm, NATO, and its relations with the European Union, which it warns is facing the “disappearance of civilization.” It also fuels tensions in the Middle East, rampantly fueling a conflict in Iran, along with Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel. It smells of sulfur, as Hugo Chavez would say, because of Tehran’s oil links with Beijing, and the strategic partnership in Moscow. They also threaten Cuba, Mexico and anyone who defends their natural resources and national sovereignty. The North American political scientist John Mearsheimer⁴ has warned the North American Administration and I quote: “Any attempt to invade Cuba would end in a disaster that would make the Bay of Pigs look like a minor setback.”

When this happens, we are approaching defining moments in the conflict that the United States and NATO imposed on Russia in Ukraine, with all the consequences that a Russian military victory would bring.

I believe that what happened in Venezuela is embedded in this panorama, the new world order that is taking shape and that suggests that, although the situation is dangerous, Venezuela is anchored in the great changes that the old capitalist powers are trying, in extremis, to prevent.

* The author is a member of the UNEAC Writers Association.

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(2)swissinfo.ch/spa/china-supera-…

(3) Mario Carvajal Cabal. DEC 15, 2025 – 05:30 CET

(4) Born December 14, 1947, he is an American political scientist and international relations expert. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.

By Oscar Oramas Oliva, Cuba en Debate, Resumen Latinoamericano, 18 January, 2026.
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China supera a EEUU en investigación en tecnología del futuro, según informe

Sídney (Australia), 2 mar (EFE).- China lidera la investigación en la tecnología del futuro, asentando la base para convertirse en la superpotencia científica mundial por delante de Estados Unidos, según un informe del Instituto de Política Estratégi…
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The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar

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The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar

If you’re of a certain age, you probably remember the essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The TL;DR was that old open source was the cathedral of exclusive developers and groups.
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Best Metroidvanias For Players Tired of Open World Bloat

If you love Metroidvanias but hate grinding in unnecessarily large environments, check out our list for players tired of open-world bloat!

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Best Metroidvanias For Players Tired of Open World Bloat

Fans of Metroidvanias who hate getting lost in bloated open worlds need to check out this list of short and sweet adventures.
Joshua Speer (DualShockers)

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