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Concept art for ’New Gaza’ shown by Jared Kushner at a signing ceremony for the proposed Board of Peace, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, on Thursday, January 22, 2026.

‘Catastrophic success’: Skyscraper-studded Gaza bid revealed

The plan would require investment of at least $US25 billion in the devastated Palestinian enclave, according to the proposal.

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World leaders desperately need to stand up to Trump and push back on his tariffs.

Please world leaders, don’t appease Donald Trump

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump pounces on weakness, but retreats from strength. That’s why world leaders desperately need to stand up to Trump and push back on his tariffs.

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President Donald Trump is visible on a video monitor as he addresses the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Trump’s Greenland deal said to involve small tracts of land

US President Trump said on social media that he had reached a framework agreement over the future of the Danish territory.

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David, Victoria and Brooklyn Beckham

What exactly is Brooklyn accusing his parents of?

Brooklyn Beckham has gone public, accusing his parents David and Victoria of trying to wreck his marriage and control his image, turning the picture-perfect Beckham brand on its head.

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President Donald Trump speaks to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Everything (and everyone) Trump assailed in Davos

President Donald Trump took aim at many familiar targets, and some new ones, in a lengthy speech at the World Economic Forum, praising and threatening European allies while repeating demands for Greenland.

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 It’s possible to achieve positive ends through Trumpian means, but the mechanism of that achievement requires constraints, and the ones we have now seem too weak for the purpose

Without restraints and internal checks, Trumpism is doomed

THE NEW YORK TIMES: It’s possible to achieve positive ends through Trumpian means, but the mechanism of that achievement requires constraints, and the ones we have now seem too weak for the purpose.

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Trump is defying more than 100 years of US foreign policy with his brazen land grab for Greenland.

Trump’s hunger for conquest revives USA’s dark past

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump’s brazen land grab flies in the face of more than 100 years of American foreign policy of protecting the sovereignty of smaller nations.

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Federal agents detain a demonstrator outside of the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on January 17.

In Minneapolis, I glimpsed a civil war

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Despite increasing pressures from ICE, residents of Minnesota refuse to give in.

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Destroyed buildings on a wet day in Gaza City, December 11, 2025.

What to know about Trump’s ‘board of peace’ for Gaza

THE NEW YORK TIMES: As chair, Donald Trump would have considerable influence over the proposed board - but it’s still unclear how much financial control we can expect him to have.

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Valentino, whose full name is Valentino Garavini, had creations worn by Julia Roberts, far left, and Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis, below centre.

Valentino and the lasting legacy of fashion’s ‘last emperor’

Valentino, as he was called, created one of the most durable and fashionable labels and became an equal of his high society customers.

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Protests in Minnesota have been ongoing in response to the death of Renee Good.

An old theory helps explain what happened to Renee Good

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump is stress-testing American law, and the law is failing the test.

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Moments before Renee Good was shot to death on a Minneapolis street last week, a federal agent ordered her to get out of her Honda Pilot. Was she legally obligated to comply?

Was Renee Good obligated to comply with ICE agent’s orders?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Moments before Renee Good was shot to death on a Minneapolis street last week, a federal agent ordered her to get out of her Honda Pilot. Was she legally obligated to comply?

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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks to reporters as she departs the US Capitol after meeting with US senators on January 15, 2026 in Washington.

‘Wonderful gesture’: Don responds to Nobel Peace Prize move

The US President took to social media to thank the Venezuelan opposition leader for presenting her prize to him during a meeting in the White House.

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Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Donald Trump to delay a US attack on Iran.

Netanyahu asks Trump to postpone US attack on Iran

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken with US President Donald Trump, asking him to postpone any attacks on Iran. Here’s why.

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The latest AI technology has solved an equation no other mathematician has been able to do. But some experts say the AI’s solution was not very different from earlier work done by humans.

Does AI create new ideas, or just repeat old ones?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The latest AI technology has solved an equation no human mathematician has been able to do. But some experts say the AI’s solution was not very different from earlier work done by humans.

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