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On 22 Jan 2026, the Kremlin scheduled a Moscow meeting between Vladimir Putin and U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, signalling that negotiations to end the four-year Ukraine war have narrowed to one unresolved territorial clause in a 20-point cease-fire blueprint.
Two days of first US-mediated, face-to-face Russia-Ukraine negotiations (23-24 Jan 2026) adjourned in Abu Dhabi with an agreement to reconvene next week, hours after Moscow unleashed 375 drones and 21 missiles that blacked out 1.2 million Ukrainian buildings.
On 22 Jan 2026 Washington formally ended its 78-year WHO membership, executing President Trump’s 2025 order and cutting all U.S. funds and staff from the agency.
On 23–24 Jan 2026, Russian, Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators hold their first three-way session in Abu Dhabi, but talks hinge on Moscow’s ultimatum that Kyiv cede the final 5,000 km² of Donetsk it still controls.
During the Jan 20-24 2026 World Economic Forum, President Trump publicly revoked Canada’s invitation to his self-styled “Board of Peace,” dangled and withdrew new European tariffs, and warned Denmark to accept U.S. control of Greenland, jolting allies and fuelling talk of a collapsing rules-based order.
On 22 Jan 2026, Zelenskyy disclosed that U.S., Russian and Ukrainian negotiators will meet 23-24 Jan in the UAE—the first formal three-party talks since Russia’s full invasion in Feb 2022.
On 18-19 Jan 2026, after Syrian troops overran Tabqa, Raqqa’s outskirts and key Deir al-Zor oilfields, President Ahmed al-Sharaa and SDF commander Mazloum Abdi agreed to an immediate nationwide cease-fire that folds the U.S-backed Kurdish-led forces into state security structures and hands Damascus control of northeast Syria.
On 22 Jan 2026 the Wall Street Journal disclosed that, fresh from the 3 Jan seizure of Nicolás Maduro, U.S. officials have begun courting Cuban insiders to depose President Miguel Díaz-Canel and dismantle 67-year Communist rule before 31 Dec 2026.
Between 16–19 Jan 2026, President Trump revealed a seven-member executive board for a new Gaza “Board of Peace” and circulated a charter offering permanent seats to any country that wires $1 billion within the first year.
Before dawn on 20–21 Jan 2026, Israeli police and Land Authority crews seized and started bulldozing UNRWA’s East Jerusalem headquarters, enforcing a 2024 Knesset law that outlawed the U.N. refugee agency inside territory Israel claims.
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