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1. International Bar Association ‘will speak out’ if US sanctions Hong Kong judges

   The new head of the International Bar Association (IBA) has said that the organisation will speak out if unjustified and illegal sanctions are imposed on legal professionals in Hong Kong. The remarks from IBA president Claudio Visco came during his visit to attend the ceremonial opening of the legal year on Monday, following calls from some US politicians to sanction Hong Kong judges and...

2. Train derails near Barcelona, killing driver, just days after deadly Spain crash

   A commuter train ‌derailed on Tuesday after a containment wall ‍fell on the track due to heavy rain near the Spanish city of Barcelona, killing the driver and ⁠injuring around 20 people, a source at the Catalonia regional government and several local media outlets said. The accident occurred just two days ‍after a high-speed train collision and derailment near Adamuz ‍in the southern Cordoba...

3. Canada PM’s blunt message to Davos: the rules-based order is dead

   Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney used a major address in Davos to argue that the world’s middle powers must band together to resist coercion from aggressive superpowers. Recent events have shown the “rules-based international order” is effectively dead, Carney said, which means Canada and other countries have no choice but to create new alliances to oppose pressure tactics and intimidation by...

4. China’s coal-fired export ban was cheered by the West. Then came the massive blackouts

   In 2021, when Beijing finally pledged to stop building and financing new coal power plants overseas, Western governments and climate advocates rejoiced. John Kerry, US climate envoy at the time, said he was “absolutely delighted to hear” of the decision. It is “a key topic of my discussions during my visit to China”, Alok Sharma, a member of the British House of Lords, wrote on social media,...

5. How Donald Trump could break up Canada

   Alberta is a very cold place in winter, even by Canadian standards. And yet, in the past week, hundreds of Albertans formed long queues in freezing weather, in big cities and small towns, to sign a petition for an independence referendum for the province. If at least 177,732 signatures – 10 per cent of the total number of votes cast in the last provincial general election – are collected and...

6. Scientists plan deep-sea expedition to probe ‘dark oxygen’

   A team of scientists announced on Tuesday that they had developed new deep-sea landers specifically to test their contentious discovery that metallic rocks at the bottom of the ocean are producing “dark oxygen”. If a previously unknown source of oxygen has always been lurking in Earth’s depths, it would represent a remarkable revelation that would call into question long-held assumptions about...

7. Spain’s royals visit deadly train crash site as country mourns

   Spain’s king and queen visited the site of the collision of two high-speed trains that killed at least 42 people on Tuesday, as the country began three days of national mourning. The country’s deadliest rail accident in more than a decade took place late on Sunday when a train operated by rail company Iryo, travelling from Malaga to Madrid, derailed near Adamuz in the southern Andalusia...

8. Syria gives Kurds 4 days to accept integration, as US signals end of support

   Syria on Tuesday announced a ceasefire with Kurdish forces it ‌has seized swathes of territory from in the northeast and gave them four days to agree on integrating into the central state, which their main ally, the US, urged them to accept. The lightning government advances in recent days and the apparent withdrawal of US support for the continued holding of territory by the Syrian Democratic...

9. Greenland PM warns islanders to prepare for possible US invasion

   Greenland’s prime minister said the Arctic island’s population and its authorities need to start preparing for a possible military invasion, even as it remains an unlikely scenario, as US President Donald Trump continues to threaten taking over the territory. “It’s not likely there will be a military conflict, but it can’t be ruled out,” Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said at a press...

10. Macron urges EU to hit back against Trump’s threats: ‘brutalisation of the world’

    Europe must respond to US threats over Greenland and China’s industrial excesses, or else “passively accept … vassalisation and bloc politics”, French President Emmanuel Macron warned in a speech at Davos on Tuesday. Macron warned of the “brutalisation of the world”, as he urged the use of the EU’s most powerful trade weapon in response to US President Donald Trump’s threat to slap tariffs on...