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Global Markets Steady Amid Venezuela Tensions

January 5, 2026
Business

Asian markets opened higher on Monday while oil prices remained choppy, as investors looked past U.S. military action in Venezuela over the weekend and braced for a busy week of economic data.

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Samsung to Double AI-Enabled Devices in 2026

January 5, 2026
Artificial Intelligence

Samsung Electronics plans to double the number of mobile devices featuring AI powered by Google’s Gemini this year, aiming to reach 800 million units in 2026, its co-CEO T.M. Roh told Reuters.

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Oil Prices Dip as Venezuela Turmoil Fails to Shake Markets

January 5, 2026
Business/Trade Wars

Oil prices edged lower in early Asian trading on Monday, as concerns over political upheaval in Venezuela were outweighed by abundant global supply. Brent crude futures fell 34 cents to $60.41 a

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North Korea Tests Hypersonic Missiles

January 5, 2026
North Korea/World

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test firing of hypersonic missiles on Sunday, in Pyongyang’s first ballistic missile exercise of the year, state media KCNA reported. The launch comes as

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Cyberattacks on Taiwan Surge Amid China’s “Hybrid Warfare”

January 5, 2026
Business

Cyberattacks on Taiwan’s hospitals, banks, energy facilities, and other critical infrastructure rose 6% in 2025 compared with the previous year, the island’s National Security Bureau reported on Sunday, averaging 2.63 million attacks

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Sovereignty Is a Sham: The Hypocrisy of State Power Playing the Rules It Pretends to Follow

January 5, 2026
Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

Summary: In this essay, Martina Moneke exposes how states wield claims of sovereignty and international law not as binding principles, but as tools to justify power. From Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to Kremlin

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Yemen: Everyone’s playground

January 5, 2026
Columns/Diplomacy/Geopolitics

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Sunday Morning, Colombo US President Donald Trump’s policies battered the global order in ways that were mirrored, if not eclipsed, by the devastation wrought by the

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Maduro Faces U.S. Court as Trump Threatens Further Strikes

January 5, 2026
News/United States/Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is set to appear in a U.S. federal court on Monday following his capture by American forces over the weekend, a move that has ignited international concern and

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Deterrence by Force

January 5, 2026
Columns/Geopolitics

After almost six months of a US large-scale air-naval offensive against Iran’s underground nuclear reactors to reassert its security credibility in the Middle East, following Israel’s strikes in Qatar that crossed the

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Death toll climbs to 80 as Maduro captured and Washington asserts temporary control

January 5, 2026
United States/Venezuela/World

The death toll from a U.S. military operation in Venezuela has risen to at least 80, according to a report by the New York Times on Sunday, marking a dramatic escalation in

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Sri Lanka’s Voice of Valor

January 5, 2026
Culture/Diplomacy/Sri Lanka

I attended the funeral of legendary singer Deshamannya Kala Soori Latha Walpola today. I want to pen down how her famous song “Shrini Vidushitha Lanka Derene Sinha Danaya Lelede” (Lion flag flying

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Sometimes We Have to Choose Humanity Over Justice

January 5, 2026
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

Roger Berkowitz’s keynote at The PolyOpportunity Retreat, Garrison Institute, Hudson Valley, NY, April 13, 2025. This was first published in Beauty Shot  It’s a real pleasure to be here. Bard College is

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The Venezuela Operation and the Illusion of International Morality

January 5, 2026
Editorials/Human Rights

Editorial The flood of statements condemning the alleged kidnapping of Venezuela’s sitting president has been loud, moralistic and curiously hollow. Governments rush to declare the act illegal, commentators invoke international law with

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Iran Unrest Turns Deadly

January 5, 2026
Iran/World

At least 16 people have been killed during a week of unrest across Iran as protests driven by soaring inflation escalated into violent clashes between demonstrators and security forces, according to rights

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Berlin Blackout Sparks Extremism Fears

January 5, 2026
Germany/World

A fire that cut electricity to large parts of southwest Berlin and left tens of thousands of residents without power was likely caused by a far-left extremist attack, German officials said on

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