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The incident comes despite a US-brokered ceasefire aimed at ending cross-border clashes between the IDF and Hezbollah Israeli tanks have targeted an area with Spanish UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, the mission has said, warning that such attacks are becoming “disturbingly common.”The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said two Merkava tanks were observed on Monday moving from an Israeli army position inside Lebanese territory further into Lebanon. Peacekeepers requested that the tanks halt their activity, but one of them later fired three shells, two of which landed “approximately 150 meters away from the peacekeeping force.”Earlier today, UNIFIL peacekeepers observed…

The Danish government has reportedly deployed military “reinforcements” to Greenland ahead of a high-stakes White House meeting to discuss the future of the territory on Wednesday. According to a report from public broadcaster Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), the Kingdom of Denmark is sending military equipment and advance troops to Greenland in preparation for a larger deployment of Danish forces to the island. However, the broadcaster questioned how large a deployment Copenhagen will be able to manage in Greenland, given that many of its forces, particularly soldiers in the Danish Army, have already been committed to other theatres, such as in…

Inflation was mild outside of an increase in energy prices in November, a key gauge of prices showed Wednesday. The producer price index for final demand, which measures prices paid to U.S. producers of goods and services, rose by 0.2 percent in November, the Labor Department said Thursday. This was below analyst estimates for a 0.3 percent increase. In September, the producer price index rose 0.6 percent. In October it rose by just 0.1 percent. The report for November was delayed by the government shutdown. Excluding energy, however, producer prices were unchanged in November. Services prices were unchanged in the…

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr testifies before the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications & Technology on Wednesday, January 14. Also testifying with be FCC Commissioners Olivia Trusty and Anna Gomez. Carr has been criticized by Democrats after suggesting ABC could face consequences for misuse of their broadcasting license after Jimmy Kimmel suggested Charlie Kirk’s accused assassin was a member of the MAGA movement. Read the full article here

The political heavyweight is seeking to overturn a five-year ban on holding office Veteran French politician Marine Le Pen appeared in court on Tuesday to appeal a ruling that bars her from holding office for five years, effectively sidelining her from the 2027 presidential race, where she had long been seen as the leading candidate.Le Pen, who was convicted last year of misappropriating EU funds, told the court that she had done nothing wrong.RT examines what is at stake.Who is Marine Le Pen? Marine Le Pen, 57, is a French political heavyweight and long-time leader of the right-wing National Rally (RN), formerly…

The British Armed Forces is underfunded, unprepared for war, and doesn’t even have a plan in place should one come, the Chief of the Defence Staff told Parliament. The United Kingdom enjoyed the “peace dividend” after the end of the Cold War but this has left the country militarily unprepared now politicians are talking about war again, it emerged from testimony of Britain’s top professional officer at the Parliamentary Defence Committee on Monday. Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, an “defence bureaucrat” engineer who hit headlines last year after he was selected to become the first Chief of the Defence Staff…

Volvo has issued an urgent safety recall for its 2025 EX30 electric crossover after discovering that faulty high-voltage batteries supplied by a Chinese manufacturer could potentially short-circuit and catch fire. Autoblog reports that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced a recall affecting 2025 Volvo EX30 vehicles equipped with defective battery systems that pose a significant fire hazard. The China-owned automaker is urging owners of affected vehicles to take immediate precautions while awaiting a permanent fix. These include not parking their ticking EV timebomb in their garage. The affected Volvo EVs were manufactured between September 6, 2024, and…

The Georgia Senate passed SB 204 Tuesday, targeting Savannah gun controls related to gun storage in vehicles and allowing citizens to sue local governments over similar controls in their cities. The Associated Press reported, “Mayor Van Johnson and Savannah’s city council voted unanimously in 2024 to outlaw keeping firearms in unlocked vehicles, with maximum penalties of a $1,000 fine and 30 days in jail.” The bill also allows citizens impacted by such gun controls to sue the local authorities who put it in place. Former state state Sen. Colton Moore (R) responded to the controls, saying, “Ultimately what Savannah was doing was regulating…

Senate GOP leaders are working overtime to quash a resolution requiring President Donald Trump to come to Congress before taking additional military action in Venezuela. They don’t yet know if they have the votes. Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday they are in conversations with rank-and-file GOP members, five of whom voted with Democrats to advance the measure last week. The administration has offered “assurances,” he said, including by stating there are no U.S. troops currently in Venezuela and no plan to send them in. “These are consequential, big decisions and people want to feel like they’re honoring their obligations…

The Hungarian PM has rejected the EU-proposed loan for Ukraine, which he says will burden European taxpayers Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has lashed out at what he called a “Brusselian war plan,” accusing the EU trying to force member states to finance Ukraine at the expense of their own citizens.The European Commission on Wednesday formally presented a €90 billion ($105 billion) loan package for Kiev for 2026 and 2027, to be raised against the EU’s common budget after member states failed to agree on using frozen Russian assets for the purpose. The controversial proposal – which Hungary, Slovakia and…