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Man arrested and charged in 2023 Toronto Pearson gold theft

A man identified in the April 2023 theft of gold from Toronto Pearson International Airport was arrested and charged on Monday, Peel Regional Police said. Arsalan Chaudhary, 43, was taken into custody at Pearson after arriving on a flight from Dubai and charged with theft and other offences in the

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South Korea courted by China and Japan as leaders meet amid their spat

Time reports Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung on Tuesday at a summit in Takaichi’s home prefecture of Nara, as Seoul becomes a focal point in an escalating China–Japan dispute. Both leaders spoke of improving Korea–Japan ties after 60 years of diplomatic

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Trump urges Iranians to keep protesting and warns ‘help is on its way’

President Donald Trump called on Iranians to keep protesting and promised "help is on its way," a sign he may soon authorize U.S. military strikes, Time reported. On his Truth Social account Trump wrote, "Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names

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Caracas residents report fear and phone searches after U.S. raid on Maduro

Time reports that residents of Caracas say they have been living in fear since U.S. forces struck the capital in the early hours of Jan. 3 during a raid to capture Nicolás Maduro. People interviewed described panic during the blasts—“The noise is something I’ll never forget,” one

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Trump urges Iranians to 'take over' institutions as protests continue

President Trump on Tuesday called on Iranians to continue protesting and to “take over” their institutions, posting on Truth Social that those responsible for killing demonstrators would “pay a big price.” He said he had canceled meetings with Iranian officials and has threatened military intervention if Tehran uses lethal force

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Trump announces 25% tariff on countries that trade with Iran

President Trump said on Monday that any country doing business with Iran would face a 25 percent tariff on trade with the United States, announcing the measure would be applied "effectively immediately," though neither he nor the White House set out how the tariffs would be implemented or

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Trump tells Iranian protesters 'help is on its way' as rights groups warn of possible execution

Independent.co reports that Donald Trump told protesters in Iran that "HELP IS ON ITS WAY" and warned Tehran it would pay a "big price" for a violent crackdown, posting the message on Truth Social. In his post Mr Trump wrote: "Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING

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Bazaar strike sparks nationwide protests but Iran lacks 1979-era alignments

Time reports that merchants in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar refused to open their shops on Dec. 28 to protest steep inflation, a precipitous fall in the rial and bleak economic conditions, and that protests quickly spread to every province. Iranian authorities have blocked internet access, arrested thousands and killed hundreds

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World Bank finds one in four developing countries poorer than 2019

The World Bank has found that a quarter of countries in the developing world are poorer than they were in 2019, before the Covid pandemic. The Washington-based organisation said a large group of low-income countries, many in sub-Saharan Africa, suffered a negative shock in the six years to the end

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Opening statements set in trial of Brendan Banfield over alleged double murder

Opening statements are set to start Tuesday in the trial of Brendan Banfield, who is accused of murdering his wife and another man in northern Virginia, Independent.co reports. Banfield is charged with aggravated murder in the February 2023 killings of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at the Banfields’ home;

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Rebels Close Shunda Park Scam Complex in Myanmar’s Karen State

Journalists from The New York Times gained rare access to Shunda Park, an expansive scam complex near the Thailand border in Karen State, Myanmar, after it was taken in late November by a rebel force aligned with the Karen National Liberation Army. The compound, which opened in 2024 and at

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Greenland would be largest U.S. land acquisition if Trump acquired it

President Trump has repeatedly said he wants to take over Greenland, part of the Danish kingdom for more than 300 years — a proposal Denmark has said it does not want to pursue. At 836,000 square miles, Greenland would be the largest territory the United States ever added, according to

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One dead and at least 20 injured in multi-vehicle pileup on Fresno's Highway 99

People reports one person was killed and at least 20 others injured in a multi-vehicle pileup on State Route 99 in Fresno, California, at about 9:15 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 11. The southbound collision involved 17 vehicles between North and Cedar avenues and followed two crashes that occurred

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Reza Pahlavi draws support from some protesters amid Iran unrest

As mass protests have swept Iran, some demonstrators have rallied around Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the last shah, raising his profile as a possible alternative to the clerical leadership in Tehran. Pahlavi, who lives in the United States, has long presented himself as a potential future leader, but

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NGO says Pop Mart supplier in Jiangxi exploited workers producing Labubus toys

A New York-based labour rights NGO, China Labor Watch (CLW), says it found evidence of worker exploitation at Shunjia Toys, a factory in Xinfeng county in Jiangxi province that supplies Labubus toys for the Chinese company Pop Mart. CLW investigators spent three months in 2025 at the factory, which employs

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Eyewitnesses and videos depict deadly Iranian crackdown amid communications blackout

Iranian authorities have imposed a near-total communications blackout as mass protests spread, and videos and eyewitness accounts emerging from the country suggest security forces have opened fire on demonstrators in what witnesses and rights groups say may be one of the deadliest crackdowns in more than a decade. Eyewitnesses told

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Two divers survive after their boat drifted away off Mindarie, WA

Two divers survived becoming stranded in the ocean after losing their boat while diving about 5km off Mindarie, a coastal suburb north of Perth. Ryan Chapman and his mate had anchored and were free diving and scuba diving when Chapman said the wind may have picked up and he had

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Four killed as Russia launches major strikes on Kyiv and Kharkiv

Independent.co reports that at least four people have died in what Ukraine says was Russia's most intense aerial bombardment of the country so far this year, with major strikes hitting Kyiv and Kharkiv overnight. The Ukrainian air force said Russia launched at least 293 drones and 18

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Mass nationwide protests surge in Iran after currency crash and crackdown

According to Time, mass protests have erupted across Iran and appear to be the largest in at least 17 years, with security forces deploying riot police, tear gas and live ammunition against demonstrators. The unrest began after the rial plunged to 1.48 million to the dollar on Dec. 28,

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19-year-old arrested in alleged arson at Jackson synagogue

People reports Stephen Spencer Pittman, 19, of Madison, was taken into custody Saturday evening, Jan. 10, in connection with an alleged arson at Beth Israel Congregation and the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life in Jackson, the United States Department of Justice said in a Jan. 12 press release.

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79-year-old Florida bus aide charged after allegedly striking nonverbal autistic boy

People reports that, according to a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office press release and a criminal affidavit, 79-year-old school bus aide James Savage Jr. was arrested and charged with child abuse after police allege he purposely harmed a 9-year-old nonverbal autistic boy on a school bus. Deputies responded to Cypress

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China and India record first simultaneous fall in coal power since 1973

Coal-fired electricity generation fell in China and India last year, marking the first simultaneous decline in both countries since 1973, analysts at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air said. The analysis, commissioned by the climate news site Carbon Brief, found coal generation dropped by 1.6% in

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He Jiankui returns to gene-editing work in Beijing after prison

He Jiankui, the Chinese researcher who created the worlds first genetically edited babies and served three years in prison after being convicted of deceiving medical authorities, is living and speaking openly from a government-backed research hub north of Beijing as he resumes work in gene editing. He cannot travel

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Three arrested after 29 dead dogs found in Lee County yard

People reports three people were arrested after 29 dogs were found deceased in plastic bags in the backyard of a home in the Beauregard community of Lee County, Alabama. Authorities also discovered approximately another 24 dogs inside the residence in emaciated condition; the dogs' ages ranged from puppies to

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China’s state media adopts “kill line” metaphor to depict U.S. poverty

Chinese commentators and state-linked media have adopted the video‑game phrase "kill line" to describe poverty in the United States, using it as a metaphor for an abrupt threshold beyond which people cannot recover, the outlet reported. The expression — drawn from gaming culture to mark the point where