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Starmer ends Beijing meeting with Xi as both call to 'strengthen' ties

The meeting between UK prime minister Keir Starmer and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing's Great Hall of the People has ended, Downing Street confirmed, on the most important day of Starmer's four-day visit — the first by a British prime minister since 2018. Starmer was welcomed

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Trump and Schumer move toward deal to split homeland security funding

President Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer moved on Wednesday night toward a possible agreement to split off homeland security funding from a broader spending package and negotiate new limits on immigration agents as current funding for multiple federal agencies is set to lapse early Saturday, Jan. 28, 2026,

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Food sector urges transition if UK realigns post‑Brexit agriculture rules with EU

British food sector representatives have urged the government to introduce a transition period if it agrees to realign post‑Brexit agriculture rules with the EU, warning that an overnight change would create a "cliff edge" that could cost UK businesses between £500m and £810m a year, industry groups

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Dozens of Cuban deportees stranded at Guantánamo Bay since before Christmas

About 50 Cuban men designated for deportation have been stranded at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay since before Christmas, the New York Times reports. The men were rounded up in the United States last year and were flown to the base instead of to Havana. The Cubans,

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Joaquin Castro visits five-year-old Liam Ramos at Dilley detention center

Congressman Joaquin Castro met today with five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father at the Dilley detention center in Texas, posting a photograph on social media of Liam resting in his father’s arms and saying he told the boy “how much his family, his school, and our country loves

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Shooting in Minneapolis Leaves Homeland Security Department in Turmoil

Jan. 28, 2026 — After federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this week, the aftermath has plunged the Department of Homeland Security into turmoil, with officials and lawmakers pointing fingers over the operation, The New York Times reported. The dispute has seen Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino pulled out

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NSW considers extra public holiday as Anzac Day falls on weekend

The New South Wales government is considering adding an extra public holiday to create an Anzac Day long weekend after the national day of remembrance falls on a Saturday, Premier Chris Minns said on Thursday, which would align NSW with Western Australia and the ACT. Remembrance services will be held

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Man Border Patrol Agents Were Seeking After Minneapolis Shooting Remains at Large

Federal officials said Border Patrol agents were searching for an Ecuadorean named Jose Huerta-Chuma when they fatally shot Alex Pretti on a Minneapolis sidewalk during a Saturday operation, and as of Jan. 28, 2026, Mr. Huerta-Chuma remained at large, DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said. At least eight federal agents in

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Rubio Says Venezuela Will Submit Monthly Budget; Funds Held First in Qatari Account

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, that Venezuela’s interim government has agreed to submit a monthly "budget" to the Trump administration, which will release money from an account funded by the sale of Venezuelan oil and initially

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Minneapolis police caught between federal immigration agents and city residents

The Minneapolis Police Department says its roughly 600 officers are stuck between the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge and residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul after a surge of about 3,000 federal immigration agents, and in the wake of two recent deaths, the New York Times reported on

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Keir Starmer to meet Xi Jinping in Beijing to deepen economic ties

Keir Starmer will meet Chinese president Xi Jinping on Thursday in Beijing for a 40-minute meeting at the Great Hall of the People, the prime minister's first visit to China in eight years aimed at deepening economic ties. Starmer told journalists on the flight to Beijing he wanted

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Chinese dissident Heng Guan granted asylum by U.S. judge

On Jan. 28, 2026, a federal immigration judge granted asylum to Heng Guan, a 38-year-old Chinese national who secretly documented the Chinese government’s detention and surveillance of Uyghurs; he will not be released immediately, as Homeland Security said it was reserving the right to appeal. Judge Charles M. Ouslander

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Trump accuses Minneapolis mayor of violating law over immigration enforcement

President Donald Trump accused Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Wednesday of breaking the law after Frey said that “Minneapolis does and will not enforce federal immigration laws,” the president wrote on Truth Social in response. Frey made the comment in a social media post saying he had “made it clear”

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Labor offers delay to NDIS autism program to secure hospitals and disability funding deal

The Albanese government has offered to delay the start of a new early intervention autism program and to provide budget top-ups for smaller states as part of efforts to secure an overdue hospitals and disability funding deal. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and health minister Mark Butler proposed pushing back the

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Democrats seek limits on $75 billion ICE windfall as government funding deadline nears

When Republicans pushed President Trump’s domestic policy bill through Congress last year, they gave the Department of Homeland Security a sweeping funding boost that included $75 billion earmarked for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Democrats are now trying to add limits as a government funding deadline approaches, The New

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Texas sues Delaware nurse practitioner over mailed abortion pills

The attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2026, in Jefferson County accusing Debra Lynch, a Delaware nurse practitioner who operates the telehealth service Her Safe Harbor, of prescribing and shipping abortion pills to residents of Texas in violation of that state’s abortion

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Keir Starmer’s team issued burner phones and lead-lined bags for China visit

Keir Starmer’s team has been issued with burner phones, fresh SIM cards and temporary email addresses for a visit to China, the Guardian reports. The measures are intended to prevent devices being loaded with spyware or UK government servers being hacked into. The paper says such tactics are par

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Trump sends Tom Homan to Minneapolis as killing of Alex Pretti sparks outcry

President Trump announced early Monday that he was sending Tom Homan to Minneapolis after the Saturday killing of Alex Pretti, a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, by immigration agents and amid videos and protests that contradicted the government’s initial account. The White House narrative had begun to

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Trump threatens Iran with 'massive Armada' and presses three demands

President Trump sharply intensified his threats against Iran on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, suggesting that if Tehran did not agree to a set of demands the administration had made, the United States could soon mount an attack “with speed and violence.” The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, along with other naval

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Trump appeared to soften tone on Minnesota as crackdown continued, reporter says

President Trump appeared to soften his tone on Minnesota after seeing outrage over the killing of Alex Pretti, but the crackdown continues on the ground, White House reporter Tyler Pager says. In a video report, Tyler Pager describes the contrast between the president’s apparent change in rhetoric and the

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Albanese to press states on national gun buyback despite Queensland and NT refusals

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will push national cabinet at Friday’s meeting to finalise details of the federal government’s looming gun buyback program, even as Queensland and the Northern Territory refuse to sign up, the Guardian reports. Laws establishing the buyback were rushed through parliament last week in response

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Gregory Bovino recalled from Minneapolis post and barred from X

On Monday, the Trump administration recalled Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official leading an operation in Minneapolis, and barred him from posting on his government profile on X, The New York Times' "Late Night Roundup" reported. Comedian Desi Lydic said Bovino got "iced out," calling

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NSW premier weighing changes to curb Sydney CBD protests, including Domain designation

The NSW premier, Chris Minns, is understood to be considering changes to the form 1 system and land use policies to curtail protests in the Sydney CBD, amid two years of regular demonstrations and a recent national poll showing public support for stronger police powers. A poll of 1,022

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Kim Keon Hee, wife of South Korea’s ousted president, jailed for 20 months

Kim Keon Hee, the wife of South Korea’s ousted president Yoon Suk Yeol, has been sentenced to 20 months in prison after a court found she received luxury gifts in return for promises of political favours, the court said. The court said Kim received items including a Graff diamond

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NTSB Says FAA Approved Dangerous Potomac Routes in Jan. 29, 2025 Midair Crash

The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the Federal Aviation Administration had approved dangerous flight routes that allowed an Army Black Hawk helicopter to fly into the path of an American Airlines passenger jet over the Potomac River on Jan. 29, 2025, a determination the board approved unanimously after a