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Emmanuel Macron

@Emmanuel Macron

We will not tolerate any violation.

This morning, the French Navy boarded an oil tanker coming from Russia, subject to international sanctions and suspected of flying a false flag.

The operation was conducted on the high seas in the Mediterranean, with the support of several of our allies. It was carried out in strict compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

A judicial investigation has been opened.

The vessel has been diverted.

We are determined to uphold international law and to ensure the effective enforcement of sanctions.

The activities of the "shadow fleet" contribute to financing the war of aggression against Ukraine.

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Murders plummeted more than 20% in U.S. last year, the largest drop on record, study shows

Murders plummeted more than 20% in 2025 from the year before, the single-largest one-year drop on record — and it might be the lowest murder rate in the U.S. since 1900, a study released Thursday by the Council on Criminal Justice found.

The annual crime trends report analyzed data from 40 large cities across the United States for 13 different crime types, including murder, carjacking, theft and drug offenses.

Alongside homicides, which dropped 21% from 2024, carjackings have declined 61% since 2023, while shoplifting is down 10% since 2024. In general, the overall crime rate declined, with violent crimes at or below levels seen in 2019, the analysis found — drug offenses were the only category that rose during this period, while sexual assault remained even.

Researchers pointed toward multiple reasons for the large drop in homicides, but cautioned that "identifying decisive factors with certainty is challenging."

Senior research specialist Ernesto Lopez, lead author of the report, said that while the "overall reduction in crime, especially homicide, is welcome news," he noted homicide rates had been steadily dropping since the late 2000s, prior to a notable spike in 2020.

"It is possible that these rates reflect a longer-term downward trend punctuated by periods of elevated homicides," Lopez said.

The cities — which included New York, Philadelphia, Omaha, Nebraska, and Raleigh, North Carolina, among others — were selected based on the availability of crime statistics at the time of data collection in early January 2026.

While data varied between cities, researchers said there were 25% fewer homicides in 2025 compared to 2019, with rates dropping in 27 of 35 cities in the sample.

Richmond, Virginia, saw a drop of 59%, Los Angeles saw a drop of 39% and New York City dropped by 10%. Homicide rates in some cities remained stable and several other cities saw reductions of under 5%.

Atlanta Police Chief Darren Schierbaum said Tuesday at a news conference that his city has seen a dramatic decrease in shootings since 2022. He said the department recorded under 100 homicides in 2025 for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic. CCJ data recorded a drop of 14% in Atlanta's murders in 2025 from the previous year.

Schierbaum said a fair number of murders in Atlanta were the result of "escalating dispute," and called on the community to consider "conflict resolution."

A group of criminal justice experts convened by CCJ had varied answers as to what caused such a precipitous drop in homicides, but they were generally in agreement that the stabilization of routines, an influx of COVID-19 relief funds and program intervention were strong drivers.

"Many cities focused enforcement and prevention on the small number of neighborhoods and groups driving a large share of shootings, improved shooting investigations, and got the courts moving again," said Thaddeus Johnson, an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at Georgia State University, and a former Memphis police official.

He added that informal guardianship returned to the streets, saying bystanders and community presence can help defuse conflicts before they escalate.

"But national averages can hide what is happening in some neighborhoods. The key question is which neighborhoods are sustaining gains, and which are not," Johnson said.

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/murders-plummet-crime-trends-2025/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=900540183

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonald Trump

Maybe we should have put NATO to the test: Invoked Article 5, and forced NATO to come here and protect our Southern Border from further Invasions of Illegal Immigrants, thus freeing up large numbers of Border Patrol Agents for other tasks.

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NATO's Article 5:

Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty states that an armed attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against them all.

bigpicture001:
That has always been ur stand since 2022..

Nobody has begged u for support... One day it will b ur turn.. and Ukraine will do same

All necessary channels have been employed by well meaning world leaders to bring this war to an end, but it now seems your Ukrainian comedian doesn't want to loose the heavy money bag despite loosing thousands of troops on a daily.

Sooner the world would know how demonic this comedian is.

Orbán Viktor
@PM ViktorOrban

Dear President @ZelenskyyUa,

It seems to me that we will not be able to come to an understanding. I am a free man who serves the Hungarian people. You are a man in a desperate position who, for the fourth year now, has been unable or unwilling to bring a war to an end-despite the fact that the President of the United States has provided every possible assistance to do so.

Therefore, no matter how much you flatter me, we cannot support your war efforts. The Ukrainian people, of course -despite your carefully chosen insults-can still count on us to continue supplying your country with electricity and fuel, and we will also continue to support refugees arriving from Ukraine.

Life itself will settle the rest, and everyone will get what they deserve.

Viktor

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If you watch Speed in China, you'll know Africa is still living in 'stone age' and his streaming here further magnify that stereotype.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonald Trump

Macron. Starmer. Von der Leyen.

You've had your chance TIME. While Europe drowns in bureaucracy, weak borders, and endless meetings that solve NOTHING, Greenland is sitting there - enormous potential, incredible strategic value, totally underused. Sad! Under U.S. leadership, Greenland would be GREAT AGAIN. Tremendous security. Real investment. Jobs, infrastructure, strength- not lectures and paperwork. We build. We win. We protect. America doesn't talk - America DELIVERS. When the U.S. leads, the Arctic is strong, safe, and prosperous. When Europe leads? Chaos, delay, and decline. and frankly, you've blown it. BIG

Greenland deserves strength.

Greenland deserves growth.

Greenland deserves AMERICA.

The future is bold leadership and everyone knows who does that best.

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European officials suspend US trade agreement amid tariff dispute over Greenland

European lawmakers on Wednesday suspended a trade agreement with the United States over tariff threats issued by President Donald Trump as part of his push to acquire Greenland.

The announcement came minutes after President Donald Trump reasserted his call for U.S. ownership of Greenland during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

The speech followed tariff threats issued by Trump days earlier against seven European Union countries, plus the U.K., over the issue.

European leaders, meanwhile, have pushed back on Trump's ambitions. Greenland is a self-governing territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, a member of the EU.

Members of the Committee on International Trade (INTA) – a body within the European Parliament – hold "unshakable commitment to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Denmark and Greenland," European Parliament member Bernd Lange, an INTA chair on EU-US trade relations, said in a statement on Wednesday.

"By threatening the territorial integrity and sovereignty of an E.U. member state and by using tariffs as a coercive instrument, the U.S. is undermining the stability and predictability of EU-US trade relations," Lange added.

The EU and US struck the trade agreement in July, moving to ratchet down tariffs on European goods and restore stability to the commercial relationship. At the time, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the agreement “creates certainty in uncertain times."

On Wednesday, Lange said the E.U. would pause the ratification process in response to Trump's proposed tariffs. Under Trump's plan, eight European nations – including Denmark, France, Germany and the United Kingdom – will be slapped with 10% tariffs beginning on Feb. 1. Those levies are set to escalate to 25% on June 1, Trump said.

In his speech on Wednesday, Trump ruled out use of the military in his push for Greenland. "We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly, unstoppable. But I won't do that," Trump said.

U.S. stocks slumped on Tuesday in response to the tariffs, with the Dow closing down 870 points, but recovered roughly half of those losses in a rally on Wednesday morning. In Europe, the pan-continental STOXX 600 index ticked slightly lower on Wednesday

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Business/european-officials-suspend-us-trade-agreement-amid-tariff/story%3fid=129422031

Flangelo12:
Get away with your lies.

Countering with a BBC headline?

NATO is USA and USA is NATO Europe are just frontiers that has no real stakes in the org.

Go beyond BBC, CNN you'll got the real picture of the world

Dogalmighty17:
All because of one insane man.
A bit of a background how all this started. In 2019, then Senator Tom Cotton, submitted a letter to the Trump Whitehouse. The letter contained some documents that placed urgency on the need for the US to acquire Greenland. Danish intelligence determined that the documents were clever forgeries produced by Russia. It was a few weeks after this that Trump publicly mentioned for the first time that the US was interested in Greenland.

One of Trump's billionaire backers in his second term, Ronald Lauder, a man who has met Putin many times, has active interests in the mineral resources in Greenland and has bought a freshwater company there. He, together with Palantir Boss Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal with Elon Musk) are behind the pressure by Trump on Greenland. Peter Thiel is the one who insisted that Trump pick J.D Vance as vice president. His company, Palantir has been rewarded with contracts worth billions of dollars as a result. Peter Thiel wants to build for himself a technologically advanced community on Greenland, an exclusive community he will lord over.

It gets interesting. Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos and the present US Commerce secretary, Billionaire Howard Lutnick have all invested in companies in Greenland. Guess who were sitting on the front row seats in Trump's second term inauguration ceremony? All the men listed above.

Greenland possesses no strategic military value for the United States. The US already has a military base there. This is all about billionaires using Trump to claim fresh pristine territory.

The ice sheets in Greenland are several miles thick. It will take tens of billions of dollars in investments before the mineral resources in Greenland can even be accessed and this is not something that can be done in less than 5 years.

Denmark has given its soldiers an order to shoot at sight any US invading force. Germany and France have committed to sending troops to Greenland. Even though they will stand no chance against the US, at least they will show intent. It is unfortunate though that any attempt by the US to invade Greenland will result in the end of NATO and that's exactly what Putin wants.

Go read how US acquired great places like Cali. that's now the most prosperous among US states.

He isn't invading. Greenland would be bought and NATO won't raise a finger

Dogalmighty17:
Musk single handedly bought that election for Donald Trump. Musk doesn't need to control Trump. Trump is like a child, boost his ego and he will do what you want. I suggest you take some time and read up on the extensive influence Musk has on the republican party and the trump whitehouse. That way, you won't come off as being overwhelmingly ignorant.

Oh he's now being controlled, the other day he was a tyrant, huh?

Flangelo12:
Let me see what that Orange bigot would do.

They actually got permission from US before they could station their 'troops' there.

Guestmale:
Is it that those who are not financially viable to go on pilgrimage won't make heaven.

I ain't no Muslim bro

Just taking a cue from the information the state provides. That's all.

Yampotatocarrot:
See

You said the government "got" the money directly to the individuals (I believe you meant the government "gave"

But is it supposed to be? Is the money supposed to be given to them?

It wasn't a gift bro.

The money (at least leaning on this statement) was fully recovered.

The reason the government got involved was to enable those who wouldn't be able to meet up with the deadline get a chance. It was a very short term loan that individuals who qualified were thoroughly vetted and proven capable to refund.

Mrchippychappy:
So MURIC wan cash out 10 billi? See mind.

Like some foundational stuff you know.

They'll act as middle men between the state and the individuals interested so they could get their own cuts.

But the state was smarter, hand delivering the money themselves leaving MURIC in the dark

Mrchippychappy:
10 billion from Nigeria to Saudi. Wow, great use of our national funds

Nope bro, you got it wrong.

According to this statement the State borrowed those who wouldn't be able to meet up with the deadline set by Hajj Comm. some amount to be repayable in days, to qualify for this you have to proof that you are able enough to remit the funds in weeks.

The state goffer got fully refunded, Muric now going with their smir campaign because the state ignored them and instead got the money direct to the account of individuals that were fully vetted and approved.

That's my understanding of the damned story.

BRICS News
@BRICSinfo

JUST IN: President Trump tells Iranian protesters "help is on its way."

"MIGA."

Source:https://x.com/i/status/2011087148917875128

Per Reuters

WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) -

President Donald Trump on Tuesday told Iranians to keep protesting and said help was on the way, but did not elaborate on whether that meant possible U.S. action.
"Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!... HELP IS ON ITS WAY," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

Trump has previously said military action is among options he is weighing to punish Iran, which is seeing its biggest anti-government protests in years. About 2,000 people including security personnel have been killed in protests in Iran, an Iranian official said on Tuesday.
Late on Monday Trump also announced 25% import tariffs on products from any country doing business with Iran - a major oil exporter.


Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told Al Jazeera on Monday that he had continued to communicate with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff during the protests and Tehran was studying ideas proposed by Washington.

Source:https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-tells-iranians-keep-protesting-says-help-is-its-way-2026-01-13/

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Mynd44

naptu2:
They said "unlawful order" not lawful order.

He did a video telling troops not to obey Trump.

Is Trump not a lawful US president?

Emekaonline:
Senator Kelly should not bother. They just need to Campaign wiser for the midterm election so that you and other Democrats can take back your country from the racist bully by imeachibg him early next year and send him to jail. If Democrats take over both houses in November, the arrogant bully knows that husband end has comes

To stop this madness, the house needs to expedite in making voter Identification a necessity in every US ELECTION.

Do you know a huge democracy like US don't need a voter to identify before voting? that in Minnesota you can "vow" for at least eight people and they'll be cleared to vote irrespective of their citizenship status?

Republicans gonna sweep the midterm, Democrats cheating machine "illegal immigrant" are being dealt with. No loop hole for the far left.

As a veteran and a serving senator, asking military members not to obey lawful order is seditious.

Volodymyr Zelens...

@ZelenskyyUa

What is currently happening in Iran, including the widespread protests, is in fact a revolution, and it is also a clear sign that it will not be easier for Russia.

And every ordinary person on earth really wants the people of Iran to finally be fortunate enough to free themselves from the regime that exists there and has brought about a great deal of evil, including for Ukraine and other countries.

It is important that the world does not miss this moment, when change is possible. And every leader, every country, international organizations must now get involved and help the people eliminate those who are responsible, which unfortunately Iran has been in this way. Everything could be different.

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BRICS News

@BRICSinfo

JUST IN:Germany Chancellor

Merz says 'we are witnessing the final days and weeks of the Iranian regime.'

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Per CNBC.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday said the embattled Iranian regime appears to be finished as mass protests continue across the country.

Speaking to reporters during his visit to India, Merz renewed calls for Iranian authorities to end their violence against demonstrators, adding that he hopes for a peaceful end to the escalating crisis.

"If a regime can only keep itself in power by force, then it's effectively at the end. I believe we are now seeing the final days and weeks of this regime," Merz said, in comments reported by Sky News.

"In any case, it has no legitimacy through elections in the population. The population is now rising up against this regime," he added.

Merz's comments come as Iran grapples with one of the most widespread anti-government demonstrations in years.

The Iranian government has claimed the prolonged protests are now under control, while human rights groups have reported that hundreds have been killed by Iranian security forces in recent weeks.

Source:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/01/13/iran-protests-inflation-trump-germany-merz.html

OFFICIAL STATEMENT12/01/2026

Real Madrid CF announces that, by mutual agreement between the club and Xabi Alonso, it has been decided to end his time as first-team coach

Xabi Alonso will always have the affection and admiration of all Madrid fans because he is a Real Madrid legend and has always represented the values ​​of our club. Real Madrid will always be his home.

Our club thanks Xabi Alonso and his entire technical team for their work and dedication during this time, and wishes them the best of luck in this new stage of their lives.

Source:https://www.realmadrid.com/es-ES/noticias/club/comunicados/comunicado-oficial-xabi-alonso-12-01-2026
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Mynd44

muyico:
Fake news 🗞️
Not real
Bloggers

WSJ a credible source is reporting too..

Iran gonna receive the hard blow bro.

madridguy:
The source is a rumour career

Iran is about to be hit hard bro.


Wall Street Journal (WSJ) can confirm.

Khamenie about to be Maduro'd or Osama-bin-laden'd..

In whatever way the ALMIGHTY US deem it feat, IRAN would be liberated.

BRICS News

@BRICSinfo

JUST IN: US official says planning for military options against Iran has reached advanced stages.

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God saved Trump from two Assassination attempt during his campaign, so that he can do what he's doing today.

God is on His Side.

LordReed:
Self defense? She turned the car AWAY from the ICE agents so what was he defending from?

If she was turning away....

Why did the bullets pierce through the wind shield not the side window?

Her wife was on the ground recording clips for tik tok point, do you mean she was running or going away without her?

She was never in any danger prior to her accelerating the vehicle, only what the agents ask her to do was 'come down' cause she was blocking their way with her SUV.

There's a body cam footage release by the DHS, go have a look.

Pope Leo XIV

@Pontifex

In the current context, we are seeing an actual "short circuit" of #HumanRights.

The right to freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, religious freedom, and even the right to life are being restricted in the name of other so-called new rights, with the result that the very framework of human rights is losing its vitality and creating space for force and oppression. This occurs when each right becomes self-referential, and especially when it becomes disconnected from reality, nature, and truth.

Source:https://x.com/i/status/2009611119652921742
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Onegai:
<sub>She's white and middle class.

She was a widow previously married to a man, with young kids. Some Right wingers are trying to use that against her, not realizing all the world will see is a white, blond mum who had toys and plushies in her car.

She was in a LGBTQ partnership. Which means omo she got Gen Z on her side.

She was apparently protesting the harsh immigration removal policies.

She then tried to comply and let the officers go and they shot her as she was driving away.

The ICE agents then refused a Doctor that saw it all, help her with medical assistance.

Even some Right supporters are worried this will be the catalyst to stop their movement. There's not enough "but what about Charlie Kirk!!" that will save this from blowing up.

Trump now made it worse by defending the ICE agents and lying that they were in hospital receiving treatment from her "attack", when there's video of her trying to drive away and not touching them.

The Democrats just won the midterms with this.

Both sides are now getting worried that reprisal killings will escalate more.</sub>

You're very wrong with this analysis and it's obvious you're leaning your brain to the left.

Was she a widow? Yes.

She had children? Yes. But lost custody of the eldest two due to her leftist radicalized ideology which actually put the children in greater harms way. There's even an established fact that her "wife" was summoned for having their six year involved with a cigarette.

She left Missouri (her residence) to Minneapolis an eight hour drive ( 300 miles), to go protest ICE which means she's a carrier rioter who has no work but to obstruct, fight, impede federal agents doing their lawful duty.

She wasn't driving away neither was she scared, her "wife" was there urging her to 'drive baby drive ' when they all saw the agent was clearly at the rear.

She got her self killed for being stupid, go watch the body-cam recording of the agent. Her "wife" was even recording, which means they had this pre-planned so the could use it to spite the agents and gear up their fellow leftist had it happen the other way.

And don't compare this to Charlie Kirk. Kirk was killed while talking to student, holding up debate. He was shot by a radical leftist who was brainwashed by their never ending rhetoric against the right, calling them Nazi and fascist.

Ms Good died of her stupidity and with the body-cam recording now being release the agent had a reasonable fear to activate self defense.