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Alex Krainer · I was hoping to round up President Trump’s speech in Davos, Switzerland in this report today, but as I write this, Trump is still speaking and it looks like he’s gone off script: he’s not looking at teleprompters but at the audience and he’s clearly ad-libbing which could go on a while. · The prepared remarks - the part Trump appears to have read off the teleprompters - was interesting but not surprising in substance.…

Putin might accept Trump’s invitation to participate in order to avoid offending him and not lose a seat at the table where members provide input on US policy towards settling various conflicts. · Andrew Korybko · Kremlin spokesmen Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the US invited Putin to join the Board of Peace, which refers to the UNSC-endorsed Trump-chaired group for implementing his Gaza peace plan. Interestingly, Gaza isn’t mentioned anywhere…

Plans to sell La Repubblica and La Stampa have sparked concerns about a loss of editorial control, Simona Mangiante has told RT · FILE PHOTO. © Getty Images / franckreporter · Plans for two of Italy’s leading newspapers to be sold to a foreign media group amount to a “transfer of narrative power” and risk putting control of the country’s public debate in outside hands, journalist and former legal…

The US president has called Britain’s deal to lease back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius an act of “total weakness” · US President Donald Trump. ©  Alex Wong/Getty Images · US President Donald Trump has criticized the UK’s decision to hand over control of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, calling it a “great stupidity” and a threat to US national security. · The Chagos Archipelago,…

Threats to seize the autonomous Danish territory have raised fears for the future of sovereignty and international law, Alain Berset has said · RT: Secretary General of the Council of Europe Alain Berset. © Getty Images / Thierry Monasse / Contributor · Any US move to annex Greenland would undermine the post-World War II international legal order and challenge the principle of state sovereignty,…

The US president has clashed with several NATO allies over his plan to annex the Danish overseas territory · RT: FILE PHOTO: US President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida, US, January 16, 2026. © Getty Images / Anna Moneymaker · Western European leaders should focus on the Ukraine conflict rather than US efforts to get Greenland, President Donald Trump told NBC News on Monday. · In a…

The body proposed by the US president is intended to manage Gaza following the Hamas-Israel war · RT: Russian President Vladimir Putin. ©  Sputnik/Sergey Bobylev · Russia has been invited to sit on a new ‘Peace Board’ proposed by US President Donald Trump and meant to steer post-war governance and reconstruction in Gaza, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. · Trump proposed the board late last…

African countries are undergoing the most significant geopolitical recalibration over the past century · https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/adamu-b-garba-ii/ By Adamu B. Garba II, Executive Chairman of IPI Group Limited, Nigerian 2019/2023 presidential aspirant https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/adamu-b-garba-ii/ · RT composite. ©  Getty Images/Jeff Bottari;Sefa Karacan;Suo Takekuma · What analysts have…

by Tyler Durden · "These Countries, who are playing this very dangerous game, have put a level of risk in play that is not tenable or sustainable," warned President Trump as he escalated his quest to acquire Greenland, threatening multiple European nations with tariffs of up to 25 percent until his purchase of the Danish territory is achieved. · A 10% tariff "on any and all goods sent to the United States of America" will impact Denmark,…

Fixler explains how she helped build the ESG and stakeholder capitalism framework from inside Wall Street before discovering it was being used to mislead investors, overcharge consumers, and rebrand powerful elites after the financial crash. Drawing on her time as Chief Sustainability Officer at Deutsche Bank’s trillion dollar asset manager, she reveals how ESG labels were slapped onto funds with no evidence, no data, and no accountability. …