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U.S. President Donald Trump in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, 2026.
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Europe's far-right parties face growing obstacle: Donald Trump

by Martin Fornusek

Donald Trump's bulldozer-style foreign policy is a gut punch for the far-right. Nationalist parties in the U.K., France, and Germany — endorsed by the U.S. president — have pushed back against the American leader's claim on Greenland and the temporary threat of tariffs against those who stand in his way. While aligned with Trump on immigration, enmity toward the EU, and a dovish stance on Russia, Europe's hard-right populists see their interests clash with MAGA's "America First" policy. Exper

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'A place for real investment and recovery' — Ukraine House Davos 2026 sees key investment deals

As temperatures in Ukraine plummeted to -18C (-0.4F), leaving businesses fighting for survival without power and heating, world leaders and business chiefs congregated in the much milder Davos, the Swiss ski resort home to the World Economic Forum. Among them is Ulyana Khromyak, the head of Ukraine House Davos since 2023, representing Ukrainian businesses to the thousands of global figures in attendance. Her mission is to bring capital into Ukraine now and show the world that Ukraine is brimmin

Ulyana Khromyak, Ukraine House’s executive Director in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 19, 2026.

Ukraine war latest live: SBU detains Russian GRU agents scouting Oreshnik strike aftermath in Lviv Oblast

This is Tania Myronyshena reporting from Kyiv on day 1,429 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story so far: Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has detained two agents of Russia's military intelligence (GRU) tasked with assessing the aftermath of an Oreshnik ballistic missile strike on civilian infrastructure in Lviv Oblast overnight on Jan. 9, the agency said on Jan. 22. Russia used the Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile for the first time in the recent attack on

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Ukraine needs billions in US arms as Greenland dispute pushes alliance to breaking point, documents reveal

Launchers of the Bundeswehr’s Patriot air defense system stand in Poland, on April 3, 2023.

Ukraine needs at least $27 billion in military equipment from non-European Union sources in 2026, highlighting the bloc's dependence on American technology to support Kyiv, negotiating documents show. The EU is set to spend 60 billion euros ($70 billion) on Ukraine's defense as part of a larger 90-billion-euro support package agreed in December, an unprecedented sum that European leaders hope will reboot its military industrial base and support the Ukrainian military’s continued operation durin

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