24.01.2025

Air pollution in Bangkok, Thailand causes more than 350 schools to close

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/24/more-than-250-schools-close-in-bangkok-as-air-pollution-soars

Three people were killed in a Russian drone attack on the Kiev region of Ukraine

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/24/two-killed-in-russian-drone-attack-on-kyiv-region

Donald Trump begins crackdown on 'illegal immigrant criminals'; 538 arrested, hundreds deported

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/trump-administration-arrests-538-illegal-immigrant-criminals-deports-hundreds-101737700616709.html

Romania celebrates Unification Day

https://www.euronews.com/video/2025/01/24/romania-celebrates-unification-day

Bank of Japan raises interest rates to 17-year high

https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/01/24/bank-of-japan-raises-interest-rates-to-highest-level-in-17-years

Israel Palestine Crisis

Palestinian family returns to destroyed home in Gaza

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/24/palestinian-family-returns-to-destroyed-home-in-gaza

Israeli forces ‘block entrances to Jenin’ as deadly raid enters fourth day

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/24/israeli-forces-block-entrances-to-jenin-as-deadly-raid-enters-fourth-day

Hamas names four Israeli captives to be released in latest ceasefire swap

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/24/hamas-names-four-israeli-captives-to-be-released-in-latest-ceasefire-swap

Israeli drone attack kills two in expanding occupied West Bank operation

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/24/israeli-drone-strike-kills-two-expanding-occupied-west-bank-operation

25.01.2025

US News Today Highlights for January 25, 2025: Donald Trump argues with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen over Greenland: 'It was terrible...'

https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/latest-us-news-today-on-january-25-2025-live-updates-11737744850267.html

What the Trump administration did in its first week back in power https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/25/trump-administration-first-week-back-in-power

Elon Musk makes surprise appearance at AFD event in eastern Germany

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/25/elon-musk-makes-surprise-appearance-at-afd-event-in-eastern-germany

Trump called for Britain not to impose huge tariffs

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8k2jknn8zo

Russia-Ukraine Crisis

Ukraine claims drone strike on Russian oil refinery

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg84r5g8d0o

The oil crisis fuelled by Russia’s war is evaporating – and so are the profits

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/25/the-oil-crisis-fuelled-by-russias-war-is-evaporating-and-so-are-the-profits

Ukraine war briefing: Putin aiming to ‘manipulate’ Trump, Zelenskyy warns

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/25/ukraine-war-briefing-putin-aiming-to-manipulate-trump-zelenskyy-warns

Israel Palestine Crisis

Israel and Hamas complete second swap of captives, prisoners

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/25/israel-and-hamas-complete-second-swap-of-captives-prisoners

Four Israeli soldiers, 200 Palestinians released under Gaza truce deal

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/25/hamas-releases-four-israeli-soldiers-held-in-gaza

‘My heart is split in two’: The women waiting to return to northern Gaza

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/1/25/my-heart-is-split-in-two-the-women-returning-to-homes-in-northern-gaza

US suspends new funds for aid programmes, excepting Israel and Egypt

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/25/us-suspends-new-funds-for-aid-programmes-excepting-israel-and-egypt

26.01.2025

Belarusian Elections

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/26/belarus-presidential-election-whos-taking-on-lukashenko-does-it-matter

Sudan's army commander visits recaptured headquarters, vows to 'eliminate' RSF

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/26/sudans-army-chief-visits-recaptured-hq-vows-to-eradicate-rsf

UK Growth Policy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ed6e4l29lo

CIA supports lab leak theory to explain origins of Covid-19

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/26/cia-now-backs-lab-leak-theory-to-explain-origins-of-covid-19

Israeli Events

Israel Hezbollah Ceasefire: The Hostages' Story

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67053011

Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/26/israel-hezbollah-ceasefire-why-is-israel-still-in-southern-lebanon

Israel Lebanon War Developments

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/26/israel-kills-3-wounds-dozens-in-south-lebanon-in-breach-of-ceasefire-deal

27.01.2025

Auschwitz anniversary and far-right politics in the EU

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/1/27/on-the-auschwitz-anniversary-europe-cannot-ignore-its-far-right-problem

US Colombia Relations

https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-colombia-relations

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2025/1/27/is-the-deportation-dispute-between-colombia-and-the-us-really-over

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/28/how-are-trumps-deportation-targets-reacting-to-his-threats

Can Bangladesh's Awami League be revived?

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/1/27/after-the-bloodshed-can-bangladeshs-awami-league-resurrect-itself

Israel Hezbollah Crisis

Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire (Al Jazeera spoke to Palestinians who arrived in northern Gaza.)

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/27/video-al-jazeera-reporter-talks-to-palestinians-arriving-in-north-gaza

Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire (Hamas Victory)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/27/palestinians-return-to-north-gaza-after-over-a-year-hamas-hails-victory

Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire (Israel claims 8 of 33 Hamas detainees to be released are already dead)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/27/israel-says-8-of-33-on-hamas-list-of-captives-to-be-freed-are-already-dead

28.01.2025

Gaza Peace and Israel's ban on UNRWA updates

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/28/live-more-than-300000-palestinians-return-to-devastated-northern-gaza

Who is behind DeepSeek and how did it achieve its AI 'Sputnik moment'?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/28/who-is-behind-deepseek-and-how-did-it-achieve-its-ai-sputnik-moment

US request to exit WHO

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/28/what-a-us-exit-from-the-who-means-for-global-healthcare

Russian oligarch accused of elaborate superyacht tax dodge

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cjr85l2e4l4t

Fighting rages as rebels and army clash in DR Congo

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y6j6gwgnzt

Aid convoys in Jordan head towards Gaza

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c627z92xz6lo

German economy is facing a deep economic crisis, says BDI industrial association

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/germany-is-deep-economic-crisis-says-bdi-industrial-lobby-2025-01-28/

Edge-Computing solutions for medical devices

https://link.springer.com/collections/ifciafdjbe

The significant role of amino acid metabolic reprogramming in cancer

https://link.springer.com/collections/bbjjbjdbbc

Global Hunger Statistics | World Hunger Facts&Stats

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/five-alarming-statistics-on-global-hunger

Effective and Ethical Data Sharing at Scale

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/are-we-good-at-sharing--data-

Ukraine’s crumbling wall, and what might

https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/01/27/amid-talk-of-a-ceasefire-ukraines-front-line-is-crumbling

UK Vehicle Safety Falling Behind Global Best Practice

https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/01/27/why-britain-has-fallen-behind-on-road-safety

Authoritarian Resistance and Arab Spring: Syria in a Comparative Perspective

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/syria/syrias-post-authoritarian-trap

Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy

https://www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/trump-vs-democracy-will-there-be-checks-and-balances-by-erwin-chemerinsky-2024-12

Trump Events

Immigrants and the Trump Government

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/28/trump-latest-migration-crackdown-deepseeks-rise-whats-ahead-on-tuesday

Trump claims Kim Jong Un ‘misses’ him. But he faces a very different North Korean leader this time around

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7d2g19q00o

Donald Trump to pause all federal grants and loans, memo reveals

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-orders-pause-all-federal-grants-loans-2025-01-28/

Starbucks North America head retires after five months in the role

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/starbucks-north-american-president-step-down-2025-01-28/

Trump emphasizes ‘fair’ trade and defense buys in call with India’s Modi

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-emphasizes-fair-trade-relations-call-with-indias-modi-white-house-says-2025-01-27/

Edward Alden – Trump’s  Immigration Policy

https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/tpi/trumps-immigration-policy-edward-alden-transition-2025-episode-9

29.01.2025

The Hidden Glue Holding Northern Landscapes Together

https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/weatherwatch

Abramovich may owe UK £1bn in unpaid tax

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/29/roman-abramovich-may-owe-hmrc-1bn-pounds-unpaid-taxes-analysis-shows

Japanese city deploys guards to control unruly tourists seeking perfect shot

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/29/otaru-japan-tourists-photos-danger-city-guards-deployed

What the Fall of Goma Means

https://www.cfr.org/blog/fall-goma

What do Chinese analysts expect for China-US relations under Trump 2.0?

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-do-chinese-analysts-expect-for-china-us-relations-under-trump-2-0/

Heathrow expansion live: Rachel Reeves backs third runway in major economy speech

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cg7zdme95z1t

30.01.2025

Disaster happened in 'world's most controlled airspace'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpdx6le5l27o

Ukraine launches new drone attacks on Russian oil refineries

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/31/ukraine-drone-attack-sparks-fire-at-major-volgograd-oil-refinery

The Gaza Cease-Fire, With Steven Cook

https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/tpi/gaza-ceasefire-steven-cook

The US Events

Canada and Mexico face 25% tariffs on Saturday, Trump says

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/31/donald-trump-latest-news-politics-live-canada-mexico-tariffs

Investigators find black boxes after deadly Washington plane crash, continue search for answers

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/31/washington-dc-plane-crash-live-flight-data-and-cockpit-voice-recorders-recovered-officials-say

The Price of Neglecting Latin America

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/south-america/price-neglecting-latin-america?_gl=1*1hbk829*_gcl_au*MjAyNTk3MTE2MS4xNzM4MDgwMTc1*_ga*MjA2MTc4ODI5OS4xNzM4MDgwMTc1*_ga_24W5E70YKH*MTczODMyNjc5OS4zLjEuMTczODMyNjg0MS4xOC4wLjA.*_ga_N9V4J2JY26*MTczODMyNjc5OS4zLjEuMTczODMyNjg0MS4xOC4wLjA.

31.01.2025

Jet’s black boxes, found, as cause of deadly DC crash investigated

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cy7kxx74yxlt

Japan weighs Alaska LNG pipeline pledge to win Trump’s favor

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/japan-weighs-alaska-lng-pipeline-pledge-win-trumps-favour-2025-01-31/

Syria's new rulers step up engagement with the world

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/syria/right-way-engage-syrias-new-rulers

Europe live: deadlock in German parliament over draft law aimed at controlling migration

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jan/31/europe-live-germany-parliament-migration-latest-updates-news

Israel - Hamas Situations

Hamas names Israeli hostages to be freed in Gaza on Saturday

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-releases-names-israeli-hostages-be-released-saturday-2025-01-31/

Palestinian waits to hug her father for the first time

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c334m4xl72mo