US President Donald Trump and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado met for lunch at the White House in Washington on January 15, Reuters reports. The first meeting between the two politicians lasted about an hour. Leaving the White House, Machado said the meeting went “great.” Machado declined to say whether she had given Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, as she had previously planned to do. Trump did not comment on the results of the meeting.

Russian court’s treason verdict in occupied Crimea separates mother from premature baby requiring lung surgery Alexandra Strilets. First Department In August 2025, a Russian court in Sevastopol sentenced 42-year-old Viktoria Strilets and her 24-year-old daughter, Alexandra, to 12 years in prison on charges of high treason. The case is classified, and little is known about its details.

Seven European countries have sent troops to Greenland as part of a reconnaissance mission aimed at bolstering security in the region. According to Reuters, France sent the most military personnel - 15 specialists. Germany sent 13 people to Greenland. Sweden sent three officers, Finland and Norway two each, and Great Britain and the Netherlands one each. The first military personnel arrived in Nuuk on a Danish Air Force plane on January 14.

The Ukrainian government has authorized the relaxation of curfew rules in areas of the country that are in the zone of a declared energy emergency, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko announced on January 15. According to the new decision, during the curfew, citizens will be allowed to be on the street and in public places without passes, including in shopping and entertainment centers, which serve as “invincibility points” and heating.

Russia’s latest breakout singer is a TikToker who makes listeners feel like the 2010s never ended — and the full-scale war never began Russia’s biggest musical success of 2025 wasn’t Shaman , the hawkish Kremlin-backed pop singer, or Instasamka, the blogger-turned-rapper who built hits around conspicuous consumption and controversy before turning pro-war herself.

According to The Insider, he communicated with Sergei Lavrov and had connections in the LDPR - and died immediately after the disappearance of Vladislav Baumgertner Anton Panov On January 8, Russian diplomat and alleged Russian intelligence officer Anton Panov died in the building of the Russian Embassy in Cyprus in Nicosia. The Russian Embassy reported his death on January 12. Local media reported that Panov committed suicide in his office.

The American investment fund Noble Capital RSD filed a lawsuit against the Russian authorities in a US federal court, demanding that the Russian Federation recognize its obligations under the bonds of the Russian Empire, issued in 1916, RBC reports. The defendants in the lawsuit are the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Finance and the National Welfare Fund of the Russian Federation. The amount of the claim is $225.8 billion.

Two residents of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky died after they were buried under snow falling from their roofs, local authorities said. A state of emergency at the municipal level has been introduced in the city, announced the head of the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky urban district, Evgeny Belyaev. The prosecutor's office of the Kamchatka Territory reported the first death. According to the department, the incident occurred on the morning of January 15 on Sovetskaya Street.

This is mother and daughter. The mother has a serious illness. The daughter has two small children. “Mediazona” told the details of this case Alexandra Strilets. "First Department" In August 2025, a court in annexed Sevastopol sentenced 42-year-old Victoria Strilets and her 24-year-old daughter Alexandra to 12 years in prison on charges of “treason.” Little is known about the essence of the charges - all cases under this article are classified.

The opposition accused her of treason The Rest Is Politics: Leading / Youtube Moldovan President Maia Sandu gave an interview to the British podcast The Rest Is Politics. It came out on January 11th. At the very beginning of the interview, answering a question about the development of Moldova’s identity in the post-Soviet period, Sandu said: The struggle in the late 1980s and early 1990s was over the issue of national values.

Russian strikes have left hundreds of Kyiv apartment buildings without heat or power amid freezing temperatures Andrew Kravchenko / Global Images Ukraine / Getty Images On the night of January 8, Russian forces carried out a massive strike on Kyiv, knocking out a significant portion of the city’s heating, power, and water supplies.

And why might the number of such cases be underestimated in Kuzbass? Gabriel Grigorov / TASS / Profimedia During the New Year holidays, nine babies died in the obstetric hospital of Novokuznetsk (for comparison: in 2024, 100 children under one year died in the entire Kemerovo region).

The head of EU diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, held talks in Berlin with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and Chairman of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee Armin Laschet - and confused these politicians in a report on social networks, German media write. On January 14, the Callas team published a story on Instagram with the caption “It was nice to meet the Federal Minister of Defense, @boris-pistorius.” Moreover, in the photograph she was captured with Laschet, and not Pistorius.

The main thing from the Politico publication Djordje Kojadinovic / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Police and demonstrators in front of the Serbian Parliament during protests in Belgrade. March 15, 2025 After one of the largest protests in Belgrade in March 2025, demonstrators accused Serbian authorities of using “sound cannons,” devices used by security forces to disperse activists.

Demonstrators block a street during a protest in Tehran. January 9, 2026. MAHSA / MEI / SIPA / Scanpix / LETA Russia is once again watching one of its allies slide into crisis. Over the past several weeks, mass anti-government protests have erupted across Iran, in what many experts describe as the most serious challenge yet to the Islamic Republic.