In Minneapolis, federal immigration officers ( ICE and Border Patrol) shot and killed a man with whom they had a confrontation, CNN reports . According to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara, the deceased was a 37-year-old local resident. He was presumably a US citizen. Later his name was revealed - Alex Pretty. According to CNN sources, he worked as an intensive care nurse.

US President Donald Trump said he would impose 100% tariffs on all Canadian goods if Canada reaches a trade agreement with China. He wrote about this on the social network Truth Social.

Achieving defense independence will take years, even decades, writes The Economist Olivier Polet / ABACA / Scanpix / LETA Belgian Air Force F-35 aircraft. October 13, 2025 One of the main topics of the concluded Davos Forum was the conflict between the Donald Trump administration and the authorities of a number of European countries over US claims to Greenland.

In Moscow, a memorial plaque has again disappeared from the house on Lesnaya Street where journalist Anna Politkovskaya was killed. This was reported by Sotavision. Activists hung a new sign made of paper and foam board on the house on the evening of January 23. However, the very next day it was removed again. It is unknown who did this.

Two-day negotiations between the delegations of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, held in the capital of the UAE Abu Dhabi, have ended, RIA Novosti, Suspilna and Reuters report citing sources. This information was soon confirmed to journalists by the representative of the Secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine Rustem Umerov, Diana Davityan. Update.

One thousand four hundred and thirty-first day. Russia, against the backdrop of trilateral negotiations in Abu Dhabi, dealt a massive blow to Ukraine. In Kyiv, thousands of houses are without power again; in Kharkov, more than 30 victims Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters every day because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. Share with us your thoughts about the war.

But there's a lot more to Josh Safdie's film about a fanatical table tennis player. A24 “Marty the Magnificent,” the solo film by Josh Safdie, one of the director brothers adored by independent film connoisseurs, is opening worldwide. The second brother, Benny, also recently released a sports drama - Crash with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson - but it looks like Josh beat him to it. Everything about Marty the Magnificent works: the picaresque story, the cinematography, the music.

The unique story of the Darien Gap, which many remembered because of the Pluribus series Alberto Lowe / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Ruins of a Spanish fortress in the Darien Gap from Panama. December 24, 2002 If you watched the TV series Pluribus , you were probably also surprised by the scene in which one of the characters, in an attempt to get from South America to the United States, is forced to walk through an impassable jungle .

Russia remains a “persistent but manageable threat” to eastern NATO members, according to the new US National Defense Strategy released by the US Department of Defense.

A high alert regime has been introduced in the Murmansk region due to emergencies that occurred on Rosseti lines, the regional governor Andrei Chibis said on the evening of January 23. In Murmansk and Severomorsk, electricity was partially cut off due to unfavorable weather conditions, said the head of the regional center, Ivan Lebedev. According to him, ice and frost are forming on power lines. Chibis clarified that the outages were due to the collapse of five power transmission towers.

The former president of Brazil hiccupped for nine months (!) - until doctors saved him. What did they do? And what is the correct way to get rid of hiccups? In December 2025, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro received three phrenic nerve blocks while hospitalized to relieve hiccups. Hiccups haunted the politician for nine months and exhausted him. When we saw this news, we realized that we had not yet talked about the fact that hiccups may not be as simple as many people think.

Russian troops attacked Kharkov with drones on the night of January 24, the mayor of the city Igor Terekhov and the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations reported. According to the latest data, 19 people were injured. Terekhov clarified that the attack lasted almost two and a half hours. The blows hit multi-storey and private houses, a hostel with displaced people, a hospital and a maternity hospital were damaged.

Great - sincere and warming - interview with Boris Grebenshchikov. About loneliness and death, which are not scary. And about the new album of “Aquarium” Anton Phatinov Boris Grebenshchikov The new musical year - at least in Russian-speaking culture - began with the album "Strange News from a Distant Star" by the revived Aquarium. In it, Boris Grebenshchikov talks unusually a lot about the dead, calls death his sister and states that he has no one to pass on his post to.

How does it work? Who will enter it? And can she change anything? Council of Europe/Parliamentary Assembly On January 26, the names of 12 participants in the Russian platform in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the launch of which was announced in the fall of 2025, will become known.

Trump, Macron, Merz, Zelensky made manifestos - but many were especially struck by Canadian Prime Minister Carney Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The International Economic Forum has ended in Davos, Switzerland. More than 60 heads of state and government attended it. In 2026, the organizers announced the theme “Spirit of Dialogue”. But in fact, the main topic was the US claims to Greenland and, more broadly, the split between the US and Europe.