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On 22 Jan 2026, Donald Trump cancelled 10% tariffs set for 1 Feb on eight European NATO members after he and Secretary-General Mark Rutte agreed in Davos to a still-undefined, permanent “framework” giving the U.S. expanded security and mineral rights in Greenland and the wider Arctic.
On 19 Jan 2026, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced she will dissolve the Lower House on 23 Jan and hold Japan’s first winter general election in 36 years on 8 Feb, gambling her new premiership on converting a 78 % personal approval surge into a stable parliamentary majority.
At dawn on 20 Jan 2026 Israeli security forces seized the long-vacant UNRWA compound in Sheikh Jarrah, raised Israel’s flag, and started bulldozing the buildings—marking the first time a UN facility in Jerusalem has been physically dismantled since the Knesset outlawed the agency in Oct 2024.
On 20 Jan 2026 the BJP’s 5,700-member electoral college confirmed Bihar MLA Nitin Nabin as national president after an uncontested nomination process completed the previous day, ending J.P. Nadda’s six-year tenure.
On 16 Jan 2026 President Ahmed al-Sharaa signed Decree 13 legally reversing the 1962 Hasaka census by restoring citizenship to Kurds and elevating Kurdish to co-national-language, immediately followed by a Syrian army push that triggered the SDF’s agreement to withdraw east of the Euphrates the next morning.
Between 15–17 Jan 2026, Tehran’s security forces—shielded by an eight-day internet blackout—used lethal force and mass arrests to silence the country’s biggest protests since 1979, then paused hundreds of slated executions when U.S. military threats and Gulf mediation raised the stakes.
In the early hours of 20 January 2026, a mixed missile-and-drone barrage from Russia disabled Kyiv’s district-heating network again, stripping warmth from 5,635 apartment blocks and severing water to the city’s Left Bank only eleven days after engineers had largely repaired the previous outage.
On 17 Jan 2026, Ayatollah Khamenei publicly acknowledged “several thousand” protesters killed since 28 Dec unrest and blamed the U.S., triggering President Trump’s most explicit call for “new leadership in Iran” and a U.S. military buildup in the Gulf.
On 14 Jan 2026, Donald Trump and interim Venezuelan president Delcy Rodriguez spoke for the first time since U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro, opening direct negotiations on oil, trade and security after weeks of open conflict.
By 17 Jan 2026 the largest anti-regime protests since 1979 vanished from Iran’s streets after security forces killed at least 3,428 people during an eight-day nationwide internet blackout, prompting Washington—prodded by Saudi-led diplomacy—to shelve plans for immediate military action.
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