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Donald Trump has taken the oath of office as the 47th President of the United States. He swears to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution. It is the first time since the 1890s that a president who was defeated in an election has returned victorious to take the oath for… Read more »

President Joe Biden has pre-emptively pardoned Covid response chief Anthony Fauci and the members of the January 6 riot investigation to prevent what he called “unjustified… politically motivated prosecutions”. The outgoing president said: “Our nation owes these public servants a debt of gratitude for their tireless commitment.” Donald Trump, who… Read more »

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is a medical condition that remains under-recognized yet has a significant impact on those who suffer from it. It is a chronic pain disorder often triggered by an injury, surgery, stroke, or other trauma, but its exact cause is not fully understood. For loved ones… Read more »

Video-sharing app TikTok has gone offline in the US, hours before a new law banning the platform was due to come into effect. A message appearing on the app for users in the US said a law banning TikTok had been enacted, meaning “you can’t use TikTok for now”. TikTok… Read more »

President-elect Donald Trump has launched his own memem coin, $Trump, which quickly soared in market capitalization to several billion dollars. Donald Trump’s release of the meme coin comes as he prepares to take office on January 20 as 47th president of the US. The venture was co-ordinated by CIC Digital… Read more »

Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen has told US President-elect Donald Trump that it is up to Greenland to decide its own future. Donald Trump sparked turmoil in Copenhagen and Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, last week when he signalled that the US wanted to acquire the huge arctic island, which is an autonomous… Read more »

Jeff Bezos’s space company has blasted its first rocket, New Glenn, into orbit in a bid to challenge the dominance of Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The New Glenn rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 02:02 local time. It firmly pits the world’s two richest men against… Read more »

Facebook and Instagram are abandoning the use of independent fact checkers, replacing them with X-style “community notes” where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users. In a video posted alongside a blog post by the company on January 7, Mark Zuckerberg said third-party moderators were “too politically biased” and… Read more »

French far-right nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen has died aged 96. Jean-Marie Le Pen, who had been in a care facility for several weeks, died at midday on January 7 “surrounded by his loved ones”, the family said. The politician – who repeatedly played down the Holocaust and was an unrepentant… Read more »

At least 126 people were killed, with another 188 injured, after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit the foothills of the Himalayas at around 09:00 local time on January 7, according to Chinese state media. Rescue workers are searching for survivors after the major earthquake damaged more than 1,000 buildings in… Read more »