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This report is from this week’s CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. The dispatch A new year brings with it optimism for the coming 12 months The main hope for the U.K. must be that 2026 proves to be better — for the economy, households and individual businesses — than…
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Now Playing Trump says he is seeking to acquire Greenland 01:16 UP NEXT Grok faces backlash over generating explicit images 01:26 Baltimore Ravens fire head coach John Harbaugh 00:17 Venezuela to turn over up to 50 million barrels of oil…
Katya AdlerEurope editor BBC On Tuesday, the so-called Coalition of the Willing, largely made up of European leaders, met in Paris with envoys of US President Donald Trump, to try to make further progress on a sustainable peace deal for Ukraine. With Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky insisting a plan to end the war with Russia…
Why does the United States want control of Greenland? President Trump has made it clear that he thinks the U.S. needs to control the Arctic island to ensure the security of America and its NATO allies, a point those allies — and Greenland — vehemently disagree with. But there’s more at play here, including a…
The ex-president’s wife says he fell out of his prison bed while sleeping and hit his head. Published On 6 Jan 20266 Jan 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Brazil’s jailed ex-president, Jair Bolsonaro, fell and struck his head in his prison cell, but his request to go to a hospital…
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to address House Republicans at their annual issues conference retreat, at the Kennedy Center, renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center by the Trump-appointed board of directors, in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 6, 2026. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump and his team are considering “a range of options”…
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Israeli airstrikes hit multiple sites in Lebanon 00:27 Attack on power lines leaves Berlin in outage for days 00:27 Lego announces new ‘Smart Bricks’ 00:16 Now Playing Trump mentions Maduro dancing while praising raid 00:35 UP NEXT Capitol Hill marks…
Israel’s foreign minister has held talks with Somaliland’s president on his first visit to the breakaway region since Israel controversially recognised it as an independent country. Gideon Saar said Israel was determined to advance relations with Somaliland “with momentum”, while President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi hailed his visit as a “big day”. Last month Israel became…
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona on Tuesday criticized the Trump administration for its approach to the Venezuela operation, saying “this president ran on getting us out of foreign conflicts and he’s doing the exact opposite of that.” “I would like to understand from him, why the change?” Kelly said on “CBS Mornings.” Kelly said…
Two days after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, 63, was abducted by special forces of the United States during an operation in the Latin American country, he appeared in a courthouse in New York. On Monday, Maduro pleaded not guilty to federal charges, including narcoterrorism and conspiring to import cocaine. In a blue and orange prison…
