Spain sent its own rescue tug to escort the tanker Chariot Tide, which belongs to the Russian “shadow fleet” and recently lost control in the western Mediterranean Sea. Despite the fact that the ship is under EU and UK sanctions, Spanish authorities helped it continue its voyage to the Moroccan port of Tangier. This was reported by Reuters and Lloyd's List , citing Spanish authorities.

Beijing has given three major technology companies ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent permission to import Nvidia H200 chips, the second most powerful in the company's line of artificial intelligence processors. Reuters writes about this with reference to sources. According to the agency's interlocutors, companies were approved for a total purchase of more than 400 thousand H200 chips. Other Chinese firms are also awaiting approvals.

The Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee resumed the investigation against the Khachaturian sisters in the case of the murder of their father Mikhail Khachaturyan. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the lawyer of the relatives of the murdered man, Georgy Chuguashvili, as well as by the newspaper Kommersant, with reference to the lawyer of one of the sisters.

A large-scale security operation by the Israeli police, Capital Shield, continues in the Kafr Aqab area of ​​East Jerusalem. According to Israeli media, the area is virtually isolated: roads are blocked, water and electricity supplies are disrupted, and thousands of schoolchildren cannot get to classes. The operation began on Friday, January 23, and is carried out by the police, border service MAGAV, special forces and municipal services.

Since March 2022, 214 premium cars worth 5.9 billion rubles ($75 million) have been imported into Russia, bypassing EU and UK sanctions, the investigation bureau TriTrace Investigations has found . The recipients of the cars are families of sanctioned oligarchs, state contractors, management of defense enterprises and a key investor in a construction project in annexed Crimea.

The United States has released two Russians from the crew of the hijacked Marinera tanker; they are already on their way to Russia. Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova reported this to TASS. The BBC reported the day before that almost the entire crew, who were taken to the UK after the tanker was detained, would soon be able to leave the country.

Hungarian prosecutors have officially charged Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony with holding an LGBT Pride event last summer despite a police ban. Hungarian Forbes reports this. The indictment notes that in June 2025, Karácsony published a video on his social networks in which he said that a pride march for LGBTQ+ people would be held in the capital.

Since March 2022, 214 luxury vehicles worth 5.9 billion rubles ($75 million) have been imported into Russia in circumvention of European Union and British sanctions, according to an investigation by the TriTrace Investigations group. The recipients included families of sanctioned oligarchs, government contractors, senior managers of defense enterprises, and a key investor in a construction project in annexed Crimea. The investigation found that despite EU and U.K.

The United States sent another military flotilla to the shores of Iran. The American president stated this during a speech in Iowa. The speech was broadcast live by ABC News. “Right now another beautiful armada is sailing towards Iran. So we'll see. <...> I hope that they [the Iranian authorities] will make a deal.” Last week, Trump announced that he had sent US Navy ships to Iran.

The list of “undesirable organizations” maintained by the Russian Ministry of Justice based on decisions of the Prosecutor General’s Office was expanded by five associations, including the International Alliance of Libertarian Parties. The corresponding entries appeared in the register on January 27. The International Alliance of Libertarian Parties is an international association created in 2015 to coordinate cooperation between libertarian parties from different countries.

On January 24, 2026, federal Border Patrol and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) agents shot and killed 37-year-old American citizen Alex Pretty in Minneapolis. Following the incident, Republican senators, congressmen, several governors, the National Rifle Association and mainstream conservative media criticized the Trump administration and demanded an investigation.

Six people suspected of “political and military espionage” for Iran have been arrested in Turkey. This was reported by Turkish media with reference to materials from an investigation conducted by the Istanbul prosecutor's office together with the police and the Turkish National Intelligence Organization. According to investigators, the detainees, one of whom is an Iranian citizen, collected information about military bases and strategically important facilities in Turkey, as well as abroad.

POLITICS Karyna Olykova 28 January 2026 The military junta that has ruled over Myanmar since 1962 is once again trying to legitimize its grip on power through elections to the national parliament and regional legislatures. Russia’s Central Election Commission is playing a notable role in preparing and conducting this vote. The EU has already declared the results falsified, and whether or not any democratic countries recognize them will depend largely on the position of U.S.

The Amsterdam Court of Appeal lifted the arrest of Gazprom's 50 percent stake in the gas production company Wintershall Noordzee following a claim by the Ukrainian company Avtodorkomplekt. Vedomosti reported this with reference to the case materials. At the same time, the share remains under arrest in another case - within the framework of the claim of the Ukrainian energy holding DTEK by businessman Rinat Akhmetov.

Vladimir Nikolaenko immediately after returning from captivity. Telegram channel of the head of the Kherson regional military administration Yaroslav Shanko Confession Victoria Ponomareva 28 January 2026 The former mayor of Kherson, Vladimir Nikolaenko, returned to Ukraine on August 24, 2025, after spending almost three and a half years in captivity.