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The EU and Vietnam agreed on a Joint statement on upgrading relations between the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam and the European Union to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, in Hanoi (Viet Nam), on 29 January 2026.

Die Bemühungen, Ali Khamenei zu entfernen, wurden durch Sicherheitsbedrohungen gestoppt, da iranische Medien über einen mutmaßlichen Mordanschlag auf eine der führenden Persönlichkeiten der Bewegung berichteten.

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Access to high quality data to train generative AI in the EU should go hand in hand with fair remuneration for the creative sector.
Committee on Legal Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

Access to high quality data to train generative AI in the EU should go hand in hand with fair remuneration for the creative sector.
Committee on Legal Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

Even before the tug-of-war with Washington over Greenland, Europe was pondering whether and how it could take its military security into its own hands. Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte has now dismissed such ideas with the words "keep on dreaming", stressing that Europe cannot defend itself without the US. Commentators take stock of the security situation on the continent.

The Spanish government has approved a plan to grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of people without valid residence permits. The regularisation, which is to be enacted by decree, applies to migrants who entered the country before 31 December 2025, have been living in the country for at least five months and have no criminal record.

After the fatal shootings by ICE officers in Minneapolis, some immigration and border control agents will be withdrawn from the city, Mayor Jacob Frey announced following a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump. Trump also contradicted members of the administration who had described Alex Pretti, the nurse who was shot on the weekend, as a would-be assassin, calling Pretti's death a " very unfortunate incident". Will the tensions in the US calm down now?