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How Macron's Davos sunglasses spoke to the politics of friction with Trump

Macron's sunglasses, worn to conceal a benign eye issue, went viral-flooding news feeds, drawing a jab from Trump, and inspiring memes and an AI spoof casting him as a fighter jet pilot

Meta temporarily blocks teen access to AI characters ahead of LA trial

The move comes the week before Meta - along with TikTok and Google's YouTube - is scheduled to stand trial in Los Angeles over its apps' harms to children

Prince Harry defends sacrifices of British, non-US troops in Afghanistan

Prince Harry, who had two tours to Afghanistan in the British Army, said the US's allies "answered" the call to stand with the country after the September 11, 2001 attacks

Thousands rally in subzero Minnesota temperatures against ICE crackdown

Protesters have gathered daily in the Twin Cities since Jan 7, when 37-year-old mother of three Renee Good was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer

Massive armada moving towards Iran, says Trump amid deadly protests

Death toll in protest crackdown tops 5,000

Japan PM Takaichi dissolves parliament after only 3 mths, calls early polls

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi dissolved the lower house of parliament on Friday, paving the way for an early election on February 8.

EU ready to implement Mercosur trade deal despite parliament vote to delay

The EU would be ready to act as soon as at least one Mercosur country ratifies, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said

Icebreakers, key to unlock Greenland, built only by US allies or rivals

China currently has five icebreakers compared to the US's three, and is rapidly building more as they expand their ambitions in the Arctic, said Marc Lanteigne, a professor at the University of Tromso

Supreme Court signals limits on Trump's power over Federal Reserve

While backing the president's authority to fire leaders of independent agencies, the court appears poised to protect the Fed's independence in a case involving Governor Lisa Cook

Putin meets Trump's envoys as Kremlin links Ukraine settlement to territory

Witkoff and Kushner were joined by Josh Gruenbaum, the head of the Federal Acquisition Service who serves as a senior adviser on Trump's Board of Peace that Russia has been invited to join

Over 5,000 killed in Iran's protest crackdown as US moves warships closer

The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency offered the death toll, adding that more than 26,800 people had been detained in a widening arrest campaign by authorities

Woman shot during immigration stop sentenced for illegally entering US

A woman shot and wounded by a Border Patrol agent during an immigration stop in Portland pleaded guilty to illegal entry and was sentenced to one year of probation by a federal court

Trump sues JPMorgan for $5 bn, alleges account closed for political reasons

In a statement, JPMorgan said that it "regrets" that Trump sued them but insisted they did not close the accounts for political reasons

Trump administration cancels solar projects in Puerto Rico as grid crumbles

The solar projects were part of an initial $1 billion fund created by US Congress in 2022 under former President Joe Biden to help boost energy resilience in Puerto Rico

Trump admin halts use of human fetal tissue in NIH funded research

The policy, long urged by anti-abortion groups, expands restrictions issued during President Donald Trump's first term

European pressure forced Trump to drop threats over Greenland: Macron

"Europe can make itself be respected, and that's a very good thing," Macron told reporters, as he arrived in Brussels for an emergency summit

Trump admin to expand ban on foreign aid for groups supporting abortion

The official said the expanded policy would apply to more than $30 billion in foreign aid that the US provides and would cover not only foreign and US-based aid agencies but international organisation

Campaigning begins in Bangladesh for first polls after Hasina's ouster

There are also concerns about the country's law and order situation, but the government says it will keep the voting peaceful

US scraps multimillion-dollar solar projects in Puerto Rico amid grid woes

The administration of US President Donald Trump has cancelled solar projects in Puerto Rico worth millions of dollars, as the island struggles with chronic power outages and a crumbling electric grid.

US applications for jobless benefits inch up last week to still-low 200,000

Applications for unemployment benefits are viewed as a proxy for layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the job market