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20.01.2026 12:00 Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced on Monday that she will dissolve the House of Representatives on January 23, the day the ordinary Diet session convenes, for a snap general election, according to media reports. Japanese media described the move as "an unusually early election at an unusual time." Besides the weak position of the ruling party, Japanese media noted that factors behind the

20.01.2026 12:00 The United States has delivered a new shipment of F-35 stealth fighter jets to the Israeli regime despite its repeated Gaza ceasefire violations, according to the Israeli military, bringing Israel's total operational fleet of the advanced fifth-generation fighters to 48.

20.01.2026 12:00 Providing Canadian Armed Forces members with the facilities and tools they need to support operations is critical to preparing personnel for the challenges of tomorrow. To help bring the Royal Canadian Navy's new River-class destroyer into service and support them throughout their lifecycle, the Department of National Defence is building a Land-Based Test Facility on DND property at

20.01.2026 12:00 Atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region are spreading from town to town in an organized campaign of violence that includes mass executions, rape and ethnic targeting, amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court told the UN Security Council on Monday.

20.01.2026 12:00 Even as severe funding cuts put further pressure on humanitarian resources, UNHCR responded last year to a range of highly complex new emergencies as well as intensifying protracted crises that forced millions of people from their homes, according to UNHCR's 2025 Impact Report: Response to New Emergencies and Protracted Crises, released today.

20.01.2026 12:00 One hundred days into the ceasefire, the United Nations World Food Programme has significantly expanded its life saving operations across the Gaza Strip, reaching more than one million people each month. While critical progress has been made in pushing back famine, the situation remains extremely fragile. Sustained access through all crossings, the flow of humanitarian and commercial goods, and the continuation of the

20.01.2026 12:00 Russian President Vladimir Putin has received an invitation to join the Board of Peace for Gaza, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.

20.01.2026 12:00 US President Donald Trump has told Norway's prime minister that he no longer feels obliged to focus on world peace after failing to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

20.01.2026 12:00 On Monday, January 19, at the Ministry of Defence of Latvia, State Secretary Aivars Puriņš and the Canadian Commercial Corporation signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen cooperation between Latvia and Canada in the field of procurement.

20.01.2026 12:00 Documents seen by RFE/RL highlight Chinese government pressure behind the prosecution of 19 activists in Kazakhstan who organized demonstrations against China's mass internment camps for Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.

20.01.2026 12:00 A deadly, multiple-car accident on the streets of Chechnya's capital has added to uncertainty about the future in the southern Russian region, the volatile site of two wars and an Islamist insurgency since the Soviet collapse.

20.01.2026 12:00 European countries are hardening their stance amid growing condemnation across the continent after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on eight European countries in an effort to advance his push to "take over" Greenland, prompting mounting calls for a tough, coordinated European response and for the bloc to deploy its full range of countermeasures.

20.01.2026 12:00 The UK has signed a £205 million contract extension with QinetiQ to strengthen the RAF's Typhoon fleet with technical and engineering support

20.01.2026 12:00 A 20-year-old man was killed when a pressure Improvised Explosive Device , believed to be planted by Naxals, went off in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police said Monday.

20.01.2026 12:00 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday spoked with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, expressing opposition to Qatar and Turkey's inclusion to the Gaza "board of peace," media reported on Tuesday.