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It has been a busy week, Trump escapes a prison sentence, Google, TikTok, Gaza ceasefire and Gilts have governments in a frenzy, all in the World News Briefing.

There are growing signs that a deal to end the fighting in Gaza could soon be agreed – read on for the details. In breaking news, a report from the US justice department says Donald Trump would have been convicted of illegally trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results if he hadn’t been elected.

Tiktok users are moving to a chinese app as Tik Tok refugees pending the ban on the social media app in the US.

Google is under the cosh and is getting too big to control and world governments take on the search giant to break it up.

At least 10 people have lost their lives in landslides caused by heavy rainfall in Brazil Minas Gerais state. The Bethania neighbourhood in Ipatinga was hit hardest by the disaster, which was triggered by 204mm (8 inches) of rain that fell on Sunday morning.

Nizar Zakka said that Syria’s new authorities had not provided much assistance in the case [Photo by ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images]The head of an American organisation focused on hostage releases said on Monday he believes US journalist Austin Tice was still being held in Syria by people loyal to toppled leader Bashar al-Assad. Speaking to Reuters in Damascus, Nizar Zakka said he believed Tice was being held by “very few people in a safe house in order to do an exchange or a deal”. Zakka, a Lebanese businessman with US permanent residency who was held in Iran for four…

South Korea’s suspended president, Yoon Suk Yeol, will not attend the opening of his impeachment trial on Tuesday due to security concerns, his legal team announced Sunday.

Prominent Tanzanian activist Maria Sarungi Tsehai, who was abducted by armed men in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sunday, has been safely released just hours later.

Prolific opener makes a comeback from injury but spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman misses out as he recovers from hand sprain.Afghanistan have recalled fit-again batter Ibrahim Zadran to their ICC Champions Trophy squad, amid ongoing calls for teams to boycott matches against them due to the Taliban government’s crackdown on women’s rights since returning to power in 2021. Opener Zadran has recovered from ankle surgery to make the 15-man squad named by the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) on Sunday. Right-arm spin bowler Mujeeb Ur Rehman was not included in the lineup as the team management decided against rushing him back into…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a delegation of senior officials to Qatar for negotiations on a hostage release and Gaza ceasefire deal, his office said Saturday. Netanyahu – wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Gaza – held a meeting in Jerusalem with US president-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, a representative of current US President Joe Biden and senior Israeli officials, the prime minister’s office said in a statement. Following the meeting, Netanyahu instructed the heads of the Mossad spy agency and Shin Bet security agency as well as General Nitzan Alon…

  Israel will send a delegation led by the head of its spy agency, Mossad, to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement late on Saturday. It was not immediately clear when Mossad chief David Barnea would travel to Qatar. Also being sent to Qatar are the head of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency and military and political advisers. One brief ceasefire has been achieved during 15 months of fighting. Talks mediated by the United States, Egypt and Qatar have so far failed to achieve another ceasefire and the release of the remaining hostages…

Dozens of Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Friday that is the reality of what’s happening on the ground as the IDF marches forward killing and destroying what’s left of Gaza. However, officials involved in the ongoing Gaza ceasefire talks between Hamas and Israel talked up the prospects of a deal on Friday as efforts to broker an end to the war intensify ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration later this month. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu held an urgent meeting with his defence minister yesterday after Qatar delivered a positive message from Hamas about its willingness…

Government opponents in Venezuela have reported a new wave of repression ahead of Friday’s inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro for a third term, including a brief arrest of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado amid murky circumstances.  Venezuela's Maduro set for third presidential term despite domestic, global outcry

The world has just experienced the first full year in which global temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial times, scientists have said. The milestone was confirmed by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) on Friday, which said the climate crisis is pushing the planet’s temperature to levels never before experienced by modern humans. “The trajectory is just incredible,” C3S director Carlo Buontempo told the Reuters news agency, describing how every month in 2024 was the warmest or second-warmest for that month since records began. The planet’s average temperature in 2024 was 1.6 degrees Celsius higher than in 1850-1900, the…

Chad’s national prosecutor said on Thursday that an attempt to storm the presidential palace on Wednesday evening had been foiled. Two dozen armed men allegedly carrying “weapons, machetes and knives” attacked the palace guards after pretending to be in a broken-down vehicle by the gates. President in palace at time of attack “They killed two soldiers and seriously wounded five others,” state prosecutor Oumar Kedelaye said, adding that 18 assailants were killed and six were wounded. President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno was inside the palace at the time of the attack, the motive for which was still unclear. At the time…

Is Musk proposing a new Australia? Has Egypt given up control of the Suez canal with the IMF loan. It has been a busy start to 2025 and despite the distractions of the Christmas period lots of mischievous politicals deals have been in play, that have skipped under the radar (of most news publications) but not ours, and here’s a recap of what you may have missed and an idea of what’s happening in 2025.

There is a race on in Gaza – The Israeli Genocidal regime has kidnapped the medical director of the last hospital in Gaza and then set it on fire to the hospital so no medical treatment can be provided to the dying Palestinians. It is the perfect way to clear the land, as it means the Palestinians in Gaza must now relocate further to the south in order to get treatment in makeshift tents.

President-elect Trump has shifted the narrative of Israeli hostages, he has told the Palestinian Authority to get the Israeli hostages back, in order to get any kind of consolidatory appeasement in a proposed ceasefire deal.

French Nazi leader Jean Marie Le Pen has died, a convicted xenophobic criminal- he was known as the found of the French BNP and is the father of Marine le Pen, who has since watered down his racist rhetoric to fit it within the realms of what is acceptable in today’s society. The French coined him as “the devil of the Republic”.

Sir Keir Starmer has been avoiding questions and interviews on Gaza during the Christmas period, His PR team have not allowed any interviews that will discuss the genocide in Gaza because of the optics of starving and freezing children and the Christmas spirit. In a way, they have welcomed the distraction of the grooming gangs.

Nigel Farage is transforming his image from a crooked pint pulling thug to – to the alternative to Tommy Robinson. His PR team are busy making him look more Prime MInisterial, have you noticed his news suits? and he won’t be seen smoking or drinking a pint as often anymore.

UK should take back Isis members in Syria, Trump’s terror chief says The UK should take back British members of Isis being held in Syrian prison camps, Donald Trump’s incoming counter-terrorism chief has said, indicating that a failure to do so could damage the special relationship. Sebastian Gorka said any nation which wishes to be seen as a “serious ally” of the US should commit to the international fight against the extremist group by repatriating citizens currently languishing in the north east of the country. They include Shamima Begum, who left for Syria from Bethnal Green, east London, as a…

Venezuelan opposition parties and human rights organizations are speaking out against the arrests of prominent figures, including a press freedom activist and an opposition leader, in the lead-up to President Nicolas Maduro’s third-term inauguration on Friday.

Chad’s government has assured citizens that the capital, N’Djamena, remains stable after gunshots were reported near the presidential palace on Wednesday.

Army tanks were seen in the streets before and during the alleged attack by Boko Haram [Getty]Gunmen attempted to storm the presidential complex in Chad’s capital N’Djamena on Wednesday, sparking a battle that left 18 attackers and one security personnel member dead, the government said. AFP reporters heard gunfire near the site and saw tanks on the street, while security sources reported that armed men had tried to overrun the complex. The government later said 19 people were killed in the fighting, of which 18 were members of the 24-strong commando unit that launched the assault. “There were 18 dead…

Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza, including 7 children Israeli forces have killed at least 49 Palestinians in Gaza in the past day, according to medical officials. A wave of Israeli strikes hit Gaza’s southern district of Khan Younis on Tuesday evening, killing a dozen people, seven of them children, officials said. At least five strikes targeted parts of Khan Younis, including one in the Al-Mawasi area where thousands of displaced Palestinians are living in tents along the coast. Four children were killed when a drone strike hit their tent in the Al-Mawasi area, the territory’s health ministry reported. A…

Breaking News Banking app Revolut is facing major technical issue stopping payments from being made and received. Revolut is facing major technical issue The bank has confirmed to WTX News that they are facing a technical issues which is preventing any payments from being made and they will update customers as payments are sent. Issues affecting transfers The issue was detected on 7th Jan 2025 16:37 CET time. “There are currently issues affecting transfers, which might be causing delays. We are working to resolve this as soon as possible” Revolut Bank Freelancers are fretting on social media panicking with payments…

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This is how to do a Roman holiday.

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Just a week without booze can change things.

At least 53 people have been confirmed dead and 62 injured after a powerful earthquake struck Tibet’s mountainous region on Tuesday morning, according to Chinese state media.