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Trump asks Putin to join Gaza ‘board of peace’ even as Ukraine war rages 

19 January 2026

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to join United States President Donald Trump’s “board of peace”,...

Trump tells Norway PM not bound to ‘think purely of peace’ after Nobel snub 

19 January 2026

United States President Donald Trump’s simmering resentment in the wake of failing to win the Nobel Peace Prize has su...

Israel launches ‘large-scale’ military raid in occupied West Bank’s Hebron 

19 January 2026

News|Israel-Palestine conflict The Israeli military has launched a “large-scale” operation in Hebron in the southern...

Several killed in Kabul blast, Afghan Taliban Interior Ministry says 

19 January 2026

Several ‍people ‍have been killed in a blast in ⁠Afghanistan’s Kabul, ​the Taliban Interior ‍Ministry said. ...

India is profiling Kashmir mosques, raising new surveillance fears 

19 January 2026

Mohammad Nawaz Khan regrets the day his father, Sanaullah Khan, a retired government employee, agreed to head the managi...

Power lines and power struggles: Unpacking Syria’s push towards unification 

19 January 2026

Deir Az Zor, Syria – On the broad, windswept plains through which the Euphrates River snakes, the land remembers every...

Why is Germany trying to build ‘Europe’s strongest conventional army’? 

19 January 2026

At the beginning of the year, German men aged 18 began to receive a compulsory questionnaire registering their fitness f...

Japan’s PM Takaichi will dissolve parliament, call snap election 

19 January 2026

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, News|Elections Japan’s Prime Minister ⁠Sanae Takaichi has ​said she ‍will diss...

New storm to hit Gaza, piling on suffering for thousands of displaced 

19 January 2026

A new storm is forecast to hit Gaza, adding further to the suffering of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in ...

Syria’s President al-Sharaa to meet SDF leader Abdi after ceasefire deal 

19 January 2026

Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa is set to meet Mazloum Abdi, the head of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), to cons...