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- World leaders, senior ministers and key figures in climate diplomacy have, one by one, reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris agreement this week, in response to the order by Donald Trump to withdraw the US from the pact. The Guardian
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Benjamin Netanyahu owes his political fortunes to the support of the far-right Jewish Power and Religious Zionist parties. Both vehemently oppose the cease-fire and insist that Israel continue its war once the hostages are free. Jacobin
- Brazil’s AI bill is one window into a global effort to define the role that artificial intelligence will play in democratic societies. Large Silicon Valley companies involved in AI software — including Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon Web Services, and OpenAI — have mounted pushback to proposals for comprehensive AI regulation in the EU, Canada, and California. Rest of World
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Former Bernie Sanders campaign chair Faiz Shakir is running an insurgent campaign for chair of the Democratic National Committee, focused on bringing the working class back into the party’s fold. Jacobin spoke to him about it. Jacobin
Trump used Davos to challenge Europe, which now generates nearly half its energy through solar. The president: ‘We have more coal than anybody. We also have more oil and gas than everybody.’
The Italian premier is already putting herself forward as the envoy that can manage relations between the U.S. and the E.U., which promise to be anything but smooth.
After being arrested under the Hague Court's executive order, Osama Najeem Elmasri should have been handed over to the international judges. Instead, he went back to Tripoli on an Italian state flight.
At Davos, Trump claims Russia waited for Biden to start the war in Ukraine and that Putin wants to denuclearize. He also wants NATO members to increase defense spending to 5 percent of GDP.
While the migration issue is likely to become explosive and dramatic at the same time, what scares Mexicans the most is the threat of tariffs on 25 percent of the products traded between the U.S. and Mexico.
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