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  • Sunday, 18 January, 2026
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    The dark truth of CEO silence on Trump’s climate retreat

    Failing to speak out about the US president’s ever more egregious actions is more dangerous than it appears

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  • Saturday, 17 January, 2026
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    Broad mandate of Trump’s Board of Peace sets it up for rivalry with UN

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  • Saturday, 17 January, 2026
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    Trump to hit Europe with 10% tariffs until Greenland deal is agreed

    US president said levies against eight nations would rise to 25% unless they support his acquisition of the island

  • Saturday, 17 January, 2026
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  • Saturday, 17 January, 2026
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    The best show to understand the Trump era turns out to be the best show of the pre-Trump era

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  • Saturday, 17 January, 2026
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    Trump names Tony Blair, Jared Kushner and Marc Rowan to advise Gaza ‘Board of Peace’

    US president will chair executive body that he says will guide reconstruction of war-ravaged enclave

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  • Friday, 16 January, 2026
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    John Ratcliffe arrived for talks two weeks after US capture of Nicolás Maduro

  • Friday, 16 January, 2026
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    President urges nation’s largest grid operator to have data centre companies bid for contracts to build plants

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    The escalating conflict between the White House and the US central bank could have far-reaching consequences

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  • Friday, 16 January, 2026
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    US president says moving National Economic Council director to central bank would be a ‘serious concern for me’

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  • Friday, 16 January, 2026
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    Trump-headed body could mediate in countries such as Ukraine and Venezuela

    Rows of makeshift tents are scattered among widespread rubble and destroyed buildings in Gaza City.
  • Friday, 16 January, 2026
    Trump threatens tariffs on allies over opposition to Greenland plan

    US president redoubles demands for Danish territory two days after Washington agreed to be part of high-level working group

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  • Friday, 16 January, 2026
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    Monetary policy is not meant to get as exciting as it has with the Trump administration’s attacks on the Fed

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  • Friday, 16 January, 2026
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    To transform Iran, the west needs patience not over-reach

    Playing a long game paid off with the Soviet Union and a similar trajectory of regime collapse could come in Tehran

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  • Friday, 16 January, 2026
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    Trump’s former chief strategist thinks the country is ripe for a national-populist insurgency

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  • Friday, 16 January, 2026
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    Lower rates and higher fiscal deficit will boost US growth in 2026

    Procyclical spending continues

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  • Friday, 16 January, 2026
    Venezuela
    Venezuela’s opposition leader gives her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump

    María Corina Machado leaves White House meeting without the US president’s backing to be her country’s next leader

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  • Friday, 16 January, 2026
    French politics
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    French finance minister Roland Lescure raised concerns with American Treasury secretary Scott Bessent

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  • Friday, 16 January, 2026
    ‘Maga has gone Maoist’: corporate America reels as Trump turns interventionist

    President’s freewheeling policy proclamations send shockwaves through companies and financial markets

    Donald Trump is silhouetted in front of a large American flag as he arrives to deliver a speech
  • Friday, 16 January, 2026
    Ivan Krastev
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    Countries that once saw American success as their own now view the US as an adversary and Beijing as a model

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  • Friday, 16 January, 2026
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    If the Trump administration exerts more influence on the US central bank, global swap lines could become more politicised

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