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18.01.2026 17:20 This week, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen , Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was interviewed by Bloomberg's Mishal Husain this week for a conversation that touched on topics from American foreign policy to healthcare to the future of American democracy. Key quotes from Senator Shaheen on foreign policy topics during the interview are included below.

18.01.2026 17:20 On January 16, 2026, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi had a phone call with Uzbek Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov at the latter's request.

17.01.2026 15:12 Electricity for a few hours daily at best. Apartments without heat for days. Power generators whirring on snowy sidewalks. On-and-off running water in homes. The coldest temperatures in years.

17.01.2026 15:12 The IAEA today secured the agreement of both the Russian Federation and Ukraine to implement a localized ceasefire enabling repairs to begin on the last remaining backup power line to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant , IAEA Director General Rafeal Mariano Grossi confirmed.

17.01.2026 15:12 This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Representative to Ukraine, Munir Mammadzade, to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

17.01.2026 15:12 Families across Ukraine are in "constant survival mode" amid ongoing waves of Russian missile and drone strikes that have left blocks without power for days at a time, while temperatures plunge to deadly lows, the UN Children's Fund said on Friday.

17.01.2026 15:12 Following his extradition from Mexico to the United States, Roberto Najera Gutierrez, also known as "Kunfu Panda" and "La Gallina," pleaded not guilty in the Northern District of Georgia to a federal charge of conspiring to manufacture and distribute cocaine that he knew would be imported into the United States.

17.01.2026 15:12 US President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the rarely used Insurrection Act to crackdown on protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement's violence in Minneapolis.

17.01.2026 15:12 The teenage son of Chechnya's Moscow-backed leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, Adam Kadyrov, is reportedly in serious condition following a car accident in the republic's capital, Grozny.

17.01.2026 15:12 Yesterday, in Portland, Oregon, a man from Delhi, India was sentenced to federal prison for conspiring with others to export controlled aviation components and a navigation and flight control system to end users in Russia, in violation of the Export Control Reform Act. Sanjay Kaushik, 58, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and 36 months of supervised release.

17.01.2026 15:12 Myanmar on Friday rejected allegations of genocide against the Rohingya minority, telling the International Court of Justice that the Gambia's case rests on "unsubstantiated allegations," as public hearings continued in a landmark case on the application of the Genocide Convention.

17.01.2026 15:12 Former impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday on charges that included the obstruction of investigators' attempt to detain him last year, Yonhap News Agency reported.

17.01.2026 15:12 Security forces are reportedly maintaining a heavy presence on the streets in parts of Iran as more than two weeks of protests ease following a crackdown that has left thousands of Iranians dead and an ongoing Internet blackout.

17.01.2026 15:12 The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the State of Israel on the occasion of the launch of a Strategic Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, Research, and Critical Technologies on January 16, 2026.

17.01.2026 15:12 The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to provide Taiwan with US$300 million in Foreign Military Financing and up to US$2 billion in loans and loan guarantees to strengthen deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.