(2026-02-01). UN Watchdog Warns Ukraine War Remains World's Biggest Threat To Nuclear Safety. eurasiareview.com The war in Ukraine remains the world's biggest threat to nuclear safety as a fifth year of combat looms, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog warned on Friday, citing continued risks to power supplies at nuclear sites vulnerable to fighting nearby. | Addressing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors, Director General Rafael Grossi said the agency remains focused on preventing a nuclear accident as fighting continues to endanger critical infrastructure. | "The conflict in Ukraine is about to enter its fifth year," Mr. Grossi said. "It continues to pose the world's biggest threat to nucl…
(2026-02-01). Statement on meetings on protected persons in the Russia-Ukraine international armed conflict. icrc.org
(2026-02-01). Next Week's Ukraine Talks to Proceed as Winter Crisis Intensifies. moderndiplomacy.eu U. S.-backed talks involving Ukraine and Russia are scheduled for February 4 and 5 in Abu Dhabi, as President Zelenskiy reported on Sunday. Ukrainians face uncertainty over a ceasefire deal with Russia amid extremely cold temperatures while dealing with ongoing air strikes that have severely damaged Ukraine's energy system. Kyiv is under pressure from the …
(2026-02-01). War On Borrowed Power: Zelenskyy's Shrinking Freedom To Choose OpEd. eurasiareview.com President Volodymyr‚ÄØZelenskyy is governing within a narrowing corridor of possibility. His public stance—unyielding, morally charged, insistently sovereign—conceals a harsher truth: Ukraine's freedom to choose its course is contracting, not expanding. Kyiv did not control the terms of war, and it will not control the terms of peace. The longer it behaves as though it can, the greater the risk of abandonment at the moment of maximum vulnerability. | A War on Other People's Timetables: | From the first days of Russia's invasion, Ukraine's resistance has run on resources it…
(2026-02-01). Latin America Pushes Back Against US Intervention. popularresistance.org When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a recent Senate hearing on Venezuela that the administration's announcement of a new Monroe Doctrine "does not land well in the Americas," he was putting it mildly. | I just returned from an emergency gathering in Bogotá on January 24-25 with about 90 delegates from 20 countries, where speaker after speaker denounced the open revival of this doctrine — and its companion, the so-called Trump Corollary or "Donroe Doctrine" based on raw coercion— as a blatant, illegal, and reprehensible interference in their internal affairs.
(2026-02-01). Liadagmis Povea se impone con salto de 13,40 en campeonato francés. cubadebate.cu La subcampeona mundial de esa modalidad el pasado año abrió este sábado sus participaciones internacionales en pistas techadas como parte de una temporada en la que enfrentará varios compromisos importantes, incluidos los Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe de Santo Domingo 2026.
(2026-01-31). UPDATE 1-Zelenskiy says Ukraine getting ready for new peace talks next week. devdiscourse.com President Volodymyr ‚ÄåZelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukraine was waiting for more information from the United States about further peace talks and expected ‚Å new meetings to take place next week.
(2026-01-31). Electricity lines between Ukraine, Moldova, Romania fail, causing mass outages. scmp.com Ukraine's power grid experienced mass outages on Saturday after a "technical malfunction" caused electrical lines between Moldova, Romania and Ukraine to fail, Ukraine's energy minister said. | The outages knocked out water supplies to Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, and prompted a complete shutdown of the city's metro network, paralysing transport for thousands.
(2026-01-31). How China Courts the Global South to Counter U.S. Alliances. moderndiplomacy.eu China's strategy to counter Western alliances, such as: (Aukus, Quad, comprising: the United States, Japan, Australia, and India", and NATO), relies on a combination of soft power and economic strength through its Belt and Road Initiative, rapid military modernization, including: (cyber warfare and artificial intelligence), the formation of counter-alliances through the (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) "SCO" …
(2026-01-31). Real Madrid to play Benfica again. tribune.com.pk 
Real Madrid were handed a quick rematch with Jose Mourinho's Benfica in the draw for the Champions League play-off round on Friday, while reigning European champions Paris Saint-Germain will face domestic rivals Monaco. | Benfica beat Real 4-2 in their final game of the league phase on Wednesday, with a 98th-minute goal by goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin proving decisive in allowing the Portuguese side to snatch the last play-off spot ahead of Marseille, who were eliminated altogether. | The defeat also nudged Madrid out of the top eight places in the league standings, which give direct access to the last 16, forci…
(2026-01-31). Trump at Davos: War threats and racist rants. iacenter.org By Betsey Piette January 28, 2026 While U.S. President Donald Trump's over an hour-long rambling rant at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21 provided ample fodder for late-night talk show hosts' comedic content, Trump's fascistic, fact-free speech was no laughing matter. Trump's retreat from his latest tariff threats on European allies opposing the U.S. takeover of Greenland led to initial relief for some imperialist U.S. allies, until he quickly followed up with threats of a possible U.S. pullback from the 76-year-old North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and directed…