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01.01.2026 20:12 U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his administration is pulling the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, a few days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the administration.

01.01.2026 20:12 Governor Gavin Newsom today issued the following statement in response to President Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth backing down in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals — and the court returning the California National Guard to state command and control and conclusively ending their deployment in an American city, against American citizens.

01.01.2026 20:12 Israel's new laser-based air defense system, marketed as a low-cost alternative to missile interceptors, is actually far more expensive than previously acknowledged, an Israeli paper reveals.

01.01.2026 20:12 Israeli authorities have approved construction of 126 new illegal settler units in the northern side of the West Bank, defying international outcry over illegal settlement expansion and land grab activities in the occupied Palestinian territories.

01.01.2026 20:12 On Dec. 30, at the direction of Secretary of war Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted kinetic strikes against three narco-trafficking vessels traveling as a convoy.

01.01.2026 20:12 Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned four companies for operating in Venezuela's oil sector and identified four associated oil tankers as blocked property. These vessels, some of which are part of the shadow fleet serving Venezuela, continue to provide financial resources that fuel Maduro's illegitimate narco-terrorist regime. Maduro's regime increasingly depends on a shadow fleet of

01.01.2026 20:12 The Iraqi army has announced that the US-led military coalition purportedly formed to fight the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group will withdraw from the strategic Ain al-Assad Airbase in the western al-Anbar province next week, and will hand it over to Iraqi security forces.

01.01.2026 20:12 The UN Secretary-General has condemned amendments adopted by Israel's Knesset to a law aimed at ceasing the operations of the UN agency assisting Palestine refugees , saying the measures must be immediately repealed.

01.01.2026 20:12 The New Year's address delivered by Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te was filled with lies and nonsense, hostility and malice, and once again peddled the fallacy of "Taiwan independence," and incited cross-Straits confrontation, a Chinese mainland spokesperson said on Thursday.

01.01.2026 20:12 Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te's New Year speech was full of lies and hostility, advocated fallacies of "Taiwan independence" and stoked tensions across the Taiwan Strait, said a Chinese mainland spokesperson on Thursday.

01.01.2026 20:12 The Chinese Embassy in Australia on Thursday criticized a statement issued by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as distorting facts and confusing right and wrong and urged Australia to abide by its political commitments on Taiwan.

01.01.2026 20:12 Lithuania, Australia and New Zealand on Wednesday joined the many countries around the world that have voiced concerns over China's latest live-fire military drills around Taiwan, and they urged restraint to avoid escalating tensions across the Taiwan Strait.

01.01.2026 20:12 On December 31, the successful launch of the Long March-7A carrier rocket delivered the Shijian-29 satellite into orbit. With this mission, the state-owned space giant China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation has completed a record of 73 space launch missions throughout 2025, the CASC said in a release.

01.01.2026 20:12 The US military has launched new deadly strikes on boats it claims were involved in drug trafficking, escalating an aggressive campaign in international waters as tensions with Venezuela remain high.

01.01.2026 20:12 Iran's permanent mission to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva warns that normalizing US threats against its nuclear facilities will jeopardize the credibility of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty .