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Davos live: Trump to address world leaders amid Greenland standoff after ‘minor electrical issue’ on Air Force One
Rolling coverage of the World Economic Forum in DavosNervous rex: the Davos elite brace for Trump and his dinosaur diplomacyScott Bessent then blasts California’s governor, Gavin Newsom.Asked about Newsom’s claim yesterday that he was a “smug man”, Bessent shoots back that the governor may be “the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris”. Continue reading...
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Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart review – her frankness about her ordeal is truly inspiring
Taken from her bedroom at the age of 14 and sexually abused for nine months, Smart, now a child safety activist, rails powerfully against shame in this true-crime documentaryNew year, new true-crime documentary from Netflix. Age cannot wither the genre made famous by the streamer all the way back in 2015 with Making a Murderer, which explored the wrongful conviction of Steven Avery for sexual assault and attempted…
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Thousands of workers flee Cambodia scam centres, officials say
Amnesty International deeply concerned for scores of people ‘walking around in search of assistance’Thousands of people, including suspected victims of human trafficking, are estimated to have been released or escaped from scam compounds across Cambodia over recent days, after growing international pressure to crackdown on the multibillion-dollar industry.The Indonesian embassy in Phnom Penh said it had received…
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Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to accountJust 32 fossil fuel companies were responsible for half the global carbon dioxide emissions driving the climate crisis in 2024, down from 36 a year earlier, a report has revealed.Saudi Aramco was the biggest state-controlled polluter and ExxonMobil was the largest investor-owned polluter. Critics…
Donald Trump is not forgetting America’s old alliances – his goal is to destroy them | Rafael Behr
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Donald Trump is not forgetting America’s old alliances – his goal is to destroy them | Rafael Behr
European leaders who know their continent’s history must now see that the US president is siding with the forces of tyrannyIn January 2018, when Donald Trump was in the second year of his first term as US president, Angela Merkel, in her 13th year as German chancellor, gave a gloomy speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos. She opened her remarks with a warning from Europe’s past. Politicians had “sleep-walked” into the first world war. As the number of surviving eyewitnesses to the second world war dwindled, she added, subsequent generations would have to prove they understood the fragility of peace. “We need to ask ourselves if we have really learned from history or not.”Fast forward eight years. Vladimir Putin’s territorial aggression harries Europe’s eastern flank. To the west, Trump, now in his second term and guest of honour at Davos, threatens to annex Greenland. This is not a world that has internalised the lessons of the 20th century. Continue reading...
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‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’: Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump
In a speech at Davos, written by Carney himself, the Canadian prime minister laid out his doctrine for a world of fractured international normsFor much of Mark Carney’s career as an economist and central banker, he existed at the nexus of global thinkers and multilateral institutions. The “rockstar banker” was a fixture at summits, where he spoke beside business leaders and the political elite, espousing the values…
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Erratic Emma Raducanu bounced out of Australian Open by Anastasia Potapova
Briton falls to disappointing 7-6 (3), 6-2 loss to Austrian world No 5528th seed’s struggles with same issues as opening matches of seasonEmma Raducanu crashed out of the Australian Open in the second round with a poor 7-6 (3), 6-2 loss to Anastasia Potapova after a tepid, error-strewn performance in Melbourne.Having only lost to grand slam champions inside the top 10 at the grand slams last year – Elena Rybakina,…
Champions League roundup: PSG at risk of playoffs after stumbling at Sporting
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Champions League roundup: PSG at risk of playoffs after stumbling at Sporting
Suárez hits late winner after Kvaratskhelia stunnerMcTominay scores but Copenhagen peg back NapoliParis Saint-Germain slipped to a 2-1 defeat against Sporting in Lisbon, jeopardising their bid to qualify directly for the Champions League last 16 after Luis Suárez struck twice, scoring the winner in the final minute.Sporting had gone ahead against the run of play in the second half through Suárez, despite sustained pressure from PSG. The French champions hit back quickly as Khvicha Kvaratskhelia levelled with a superb strike, appearing to salvage a point. Continue reading...
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Solanke leads Tottenham past 10-man Dortmund to offer relief for Frank
It was a contender for shock result of the season. Nobody had given Tottenham any hope after the Premier League disaster here against West Ham on Saturday, one which came coated in vitriol for Thomas Frank. The fans had demanded his immediate removal as the manager, only for him to stagger on.The execution was stayed. But here were Borussia Dortmund, the Bundesliga’s second-placed team, who had lost only three games…
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VARs will intervene on second yellows and corners after football law changes
Players to have eight seconds to take goal-kicksIfab focused on limiting disruption of playFootball’s law-making body has backed plans to extend the use of the video assistant referee system, allowing it to intervene on second yellow cards and the awarding of corners, provided the process “does not slow the flow of play”.With the speed of the game in mind, the International Football Association Board (Ifab) also…
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Foul play? Seve Ballesteros statue vanishes from hometown in Spain
Life-size statue disappears in golf legend’s hometown‘Everything indicates that it was a theft,’ says councilSpanish authorities have launched an investigation into the disappearance of a statue commemorating Seve Ballesteros from his hometown of Pedrena, near Santander in northern Spain’s Cantabria region.The Marina de Cudeyo Town Council confirmed the incident on Sunday through their social media accounts,…
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Greenland’s tragedy: the dream of independence now looks like a trap laid by Donald Trump | Rune Lykkeberg
Denmark and its former colony have a complex relationship, but for now they must speak with one voice against US colonial ambitionsThere are two tales about the relationship between Greenland and Denmark; both contain truth and blindness. One is the story told by the ruling classes in Denmark, the other is the narrative that unites progressives and nationalists in Greenland.The moral of the first tale is that…