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Trump Again Threatens Iran as Intelligence Shows Limited Nuclear Progress

President Trump this week renewed threats of pre-emptive military action against Iran and said the U.S. military would act “with speed and violence” if Tehran would not negotiate to eliminate its nuclear program, even as U.S., European and independent monitors report little sign of significant nuclear progress in

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Four people, including two children, found dead in Perth in suspected murder-suicide

Two adults and two children were found dead on Friday in a Mosman Park home in Perth in a suspected murder-suicide, police said. The adults were a 50-year-old man and a 49-year-old woman; the children were aged 14 and 16. Emergency services received a distressed call at 8.15am from

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Xi’s purge of top generals may set back his Taiwan ambitions

China’s leader Xi Jinping has eviscerated the People’s Liberation Army’s high command by placing Gen. Zhang Youxia under investigation last week, a move reported on Jan. 29, 2026, that followed the ousting of other senior officers including Gen. Liu Zhenli. The two generals were accused of “grave

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Lawyer says witnesses could clear Alan Jones of sexual abuse allegations

Multiple witnesses who say they saw no evidence of sexual abuse could clear broadcaster Alan Jones, his lawyer told Sydney’s Downing Centre local court on Friday as the 84-year-old faces trial on historical sexual assault charges. Jones has pleaded not guilty to 25 charges of indecent assault and two

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Lanlan Yang pleads not guilty to two new charges over Rose Bay Rolls‑Royce crash

High-profile Sydney Chinese woman Lanlan Yang has pleaded not guilty to two additional charges over the crash of a $1.5m Rolls‑Royce SUV in Sydney’s east in July, after admitting to breaching her bail last week. Yang, 23, was accused of driving the vehicle when it collided with

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Couple caned 140 times each in Aceh for sex and alcohol; woman faints

Sharia police in Indonesia’s Aceh province caned a couple 140 times each for having sex outside marriage and drinking alcohol, and the woman fainted after the punishment, according to an AFP reporter at the scene. The pair were struck on their backs with a rattan stick in a public

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France to replace Zoom and Teams with Visio for government use

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Jan. 29, 2026 that French government officials will stop using American-owned video conference software and begin using a French-made platform called Visio, the change to be completed by the end of the year, he said in a letter to his cabinet. The government said

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Trump Says Putin Agreed to Weeklong Pause in Attacks on Kyiv

President Trump said on Jan. 29, 2026, that the Kremlin had agreed to a temporary, weeklong pause in missile attacks on Kyiv amid extreme cold, a development he described at a televised White House cabinet meeting. There was no official confirmation from Russia or Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the

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ABF seizes machine able to make up to 3.6m cigarettes a day in Sydney

The Australian Border Force seized a large tobacco manufacturing machine capable of producing up to 3.6m cigarettes a day during a raid at a self-storage facility in Rouse Hill, Sydney, on Thursday. Officers executed two warrants and also seized more than 7.5kg of loose-leaf tobacco, nearly 6,000

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Florida mailman arrested after video shows him allegedly pepper-spraying 3 dogs

A Florida mailman, identified as 47-year-old Sian Andre Spence, was arrested by Lauderhill police on Wednesday, Jan. 28 and booked into jail on three counts of animal cruelty, according to Broward County Sheriff’s Office arrest records reviewed by PEOPLE. He is being held on $3,500 bond. The arrest

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Domodedovo Airport sold at about half price to Kremlin-linked Sheremetyevo

Domodedovo Airport outside Moscow was sold at a steep discount after a government auction on Thursday that allowed bids as low as 50 percent of an initial $1.7 billion asking price; Russian state media reported that Sheremetyevo Airport offered about $880 million and won. The government had seized Domodedovo

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Former Illinois Deputy Sean Grayson Sentenced to 20 Years for Killing Sonya Massey

On Thursday, Jan. 29, Sean Grayson, 31, a former Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the killing of Sonya Massey, an unarmed Black woman who had called 911, The New York Times reports. He was convicted of second-degree murder on Oct. 29, 2025,

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Venezuela’s National Assembly approves sweeping overhaul of oil sector

Venezuela’s National Assembly on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, approved a sweeping overhaul of the country’s oil laws that grants foreign oil companies greater operational control and could sharply reduce the royalties and taxes they pay, The New York Times reported. The legislation gives foreign companies clear control over

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Flooding in Southern Africa Displaces Hundreds of Thousands; 100+ Dead

Hundreds of thousands of people across southern Africa have been displaced by heavy rains and flooding, and more than 100 deaths have been confirmed across South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, reporters Zimasa Matiwane and Nazaneen Ghaffar said in a Jan. 29, 2026, report. Mozambique, the hardest-hit country, suffered damage to

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Canada signs deal with South Korea to explore bringing auto manufacturing to Canada

On Jan. 29, 2026, Canada announced an agreement with South Korea to explore bringing Korean automotive manufacturing to the country, a move the government linked to U.S. tariffs that it says threaten Canada’s auto industry. The accord, scarce on details, was presented as part of Prime Minister Mark

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NATO launches Steadfast Dart exercise without U.S. participation

NATO is conducting a cross‑continent military exercise called Steadfast Dart that will move a Pan‑European flotilla from a Spanish port northwest of Gibraltar to Germany’s Baltic coast, The New York Times reported on Jan. 29, 2026. About 10,000 troops from 11 nations are to take part,

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Man arrested after posing as FBI agent with pizza cutter to free Luigi Mangione

A man was arrested Wednesday night after prosecutors say he pretended to be an FBI agent and attempted to break accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione out of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Federal prosecutors said Mark Anderson showed up at the MDC claiming to have a court order

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Trump orders immediate reopening of commercial airspace over Venezuela

President Donald Trump ordered the immediate reopening of commercial airspace over Venezuela on Thursday, weeks after US military forces toppled Nicolás Maduro, speaking at the White House during his cabinet’s first meeting of the year after a telephone call with Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez. At the meeting

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Holocaust survivor Andriy Korshunov, 80, and his dog killed in LA hit-and-run

An 80-year-old man and his dog were killed in a hit-and-run Tuesday night, Jan. 27, in the 4400 block of Woodman Avenue in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles, authorities and local outlets said. The victim was identified as Andriy Korshunov. Korshunov, 80, immigrated to the U.S. after

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European Union lists Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group

The European Union will list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, officials announced Thursday afternoon, Jan. 29, 2026, saying the move follows a brutal and bloody crackdown against protesters in recent weeks. The decision brings the European Union in line with the United States and Canada, which

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Jury awards $30 million to man abused at Newark school

A jury on Tuesday awarded $30 million to a 44-year-old man who said he was sexually abused as a child in the 1990s at the Ann Street School in Newark, according to a New York Times report published Jan. 28, 2026. The victim’s lawyers said the abuse usually happened

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3 arrested after South Carolina woman who thought she was buying a puppy was killed

Authorities say Dana Marie Kinlaw, 40, of Olanta, S.C., was found shot dead and set on fire in a vehicle in Effingham on Jan. 22 after she believed she was meeting someone to buy a puppy, the Florence County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office responded to

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Trump threatens Iran with military strikes, raising risk of regional war

President Trump is turning his attention back to Iran and on Jan. 29 warned that he could order more military strikes "with great power, enthusiasm and purpose" if Tehran did not meet U.S. demands, including a deal to end its nuclear enrichment program. He said "time

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Ali Akbar, Paris’s last newspaper hawker, made a knight of the National Order of Merit

Ali Akbar, a 73-year-old believed to be France’s last newspaper hawker, was made a knight of the National Order of Merit in a ceremony at the Élysée Palace on Wednesday, where President Emmanuel Macron described him as the 'most French of the French'. Born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan,

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Kaja Kallas warns Russia is ‘trying to bomb and freeze’ Ukrainians as EU meets in Brussels

Arriving for an EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on 29 January 2026, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned that Russia is “bombing Ukrainians, trying to bomb and freeze them to surrender,” and said ministers had a “very package agenda” including Ukraine, the evolving EU‑US relationship