B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights group, released a report on Thursday that said from the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023 to the beginning of January 2026, at least 84 detained Palestinians died in Israeli prisons or detention facilities, which the report said are more like a “network of torture camps.”
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, both of which specialize in structuring mergers and acquisitions, posted hefty earnings from 2025’s final quarter, closing out investment banking’s richest year since the COVID War.
With Canadian products facing stiff U.S. tariffs, the country has negotiated a far-reaching trade deal with China. Canadian prime minister Mark Carney inked the deal with Chinese president Xi Jinping during the first visit to China in eight years by a Canadian chief of state.
The European Union’s (EU’s) parliament has yet to approve the trade agreement EU officials negotiated with the U.S. in July. Now the body is considering refusing to ratify the deal unless Donald Trump pledges to not seize control of Greenland.
Donald Trump has declared additional tariffs on eight European nations whose leaders have spoken out against his plan to buy Greenland or seize it by military force.
Last Friday, Europe’s benchmark price of natural gas jumped another 13 percent to the equivalent of $43.47 a megawatt hour, ending a week in which the price gained almost 30 percent.
Bosch and other European car parts manufacturers have announced layoffs of more than 100,000 workers over the past 24 months as demand for the continent’s cars has slumped and China has taken a growing share of their market.
Germany’s economy, Europe’s largest, grew 0.2 percent in 2025, after shrinking by 0.5 percent in 2024 and 0.9 percent in 2023, according to Destatis, the government’s statistics agency.
In 2025, China nearly doubled its investment in its long-running Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that funds infrastructure projects in developing nations. The program’s annual budget shot from $122.6 billion in 2024 to $213.5 billion last year.