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According to a report, a total of 6.9 million people are eligible to cast their vote in today’s election in Belarus. Reportedly, Alexander Lukashenko who took office in 1994 is expected to win a seventh term.

Reportedly, the four opposition candidates appearing on today’s ballots have praised Mr Lukashenko’s rule, previous opponents who were too critical are in prison or have left the country.

Belarus was part of the Soviet union until its dissolution in December 1991. According to a report, Mr Lukashenko who has pardoned more than 250 people described as political prisoners since July plans to ease his total dependence on Russia and start a conversation with the west about easing sanctions.

According to reports, Donald Trump who was sworn into office on Monday 20 January first indicated a plan to buy Greenland from Denmark while he was previously in office in 2019.

Reportedly, Múte Egede, Greenland’s prime minister since 2021 who was part of work on a constitution for an independent Greenland and has called for independence from Denmark has said that Greenland is committed to nato membership but does not want to be part of the u.s. Historically, from 1711 Greenland became the subject of danish/norwegian colonialism beginning with a missionary expedition following the reformation. According to reports, the expedition was headed by Hans Egarde, a lutheran minister. Reportedly, in 1814 there was war with Sweden who, fighting on behalf of Britain were promised Norway. The Denmark-Norway union was dissolved. According to reports, Greenland remained a danish colony until 1953 when it was reidentified as an overseas county and an integral part of Denmark.

Reportedly, Greenland has had some autonomy for inward affairs since 1979 though the Parliament of Denmark has full control of all external policies, security, policing and natural resources. According to reports, Greenland has substantial amounts of rare earth elements, crucial for making tanks, fighter jets and submarines. Reportedly, the u.s. stockpile of modern weaponry is diminishing due to war in Ukraine, and China who represent 90% of rare earth extractions have banned selling to the u.s.

According to reports, Greenland has a vast mineral wealth and is at the centre of a modernday gold rush. The world’s largest island’s immense land mass has been covered in ice, though climate warming now opens up opportunities for mining. Reportedly, Greenland holds substantial reserves of lithium and other elements needed for batteries, topically electric vehicles. According to reports there are also opportunities for oil extraction, especially in the north east in the basin of Danmarkshavn which some years has been impossible to access, while the southern town of Narsaq holds substantial amounts of uranium.

Reportedly, Denmark. subsidises Greenland to the amount of 512 million euro per year. According to a report, danish subsidies are needed to buy danish goods and pay danes who do skilled work. Reportedly, Denmark has contacted Donald Trump’s team relaying a willingness to discuss Greenland with regard to an increased u.s. military presence without claiming it for their own, but the majority of Greenlanders want independence from Denmark. Mental health issues are a problem, as is alcoholism and substance abuse. According to a report, the suicide rate among Greenlanders is 6 times higher than in Denmark.

According to a report, knife crimes are on the rise in the uk with 14,500 offences recorded last year. Reportedly, the Ben Kinsella trust is a uk based anti knife crime charity named after a school boy who was killed in an unprovoked knife attack as he walked home after a night out with friends 16 years ago. According to the report, the trust say there are vulnerabilities within uk’s youth such as poverty and undiagnosed or unsupported mental health issues and learning difficulties.

Reportedly, another reason might be that the conservative government cut £1 billion to police budgets. According to the report, a spokesman for the police said measures need to be taken to tackle inequality and inclusion.

According to a report, three men who are accused of the 9/11 attacks have been given an agreement that if they plead guilty the prosecution will not seek the death penalty.

On September 11 2001 hijackers seized passenger planes and crashed them into the world trade centre and the Pentagon killing nearly 3000 people. Reportedly, the prosecution say the attacks were the idea of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a u.s. educated engineer who was captured in Pakistan in 2003. According to the report, he and two other men have been held in the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba for years.

According to a report, Sudan’s military leader General Burhan has survived a drone attack that targeted an army graduation ceremony in Jabait, about 100 kilometres from Port Sudan. Reportedly, the strike is believed to be the work of the rapid support forces who are engaged in conflict with the military government following a disagreement about the way to move forward. According to the report, peace talks mediated by the u.s. have been scheduled for this month.

According to a report, president Nicolàs Maduro and his opponent Edmundo Gonzàlez have both claimed victory in Venezuela’s election on Sunday. Reportedly, protesters took to the streets after the national electoral council declared president Maduro the winner, but with 73% of the votes counted opposition parties say that Mr Gonzàlez won with 6 million votes compared to 2.7 million for president Maduro.

According to the report, protests concerned corruption and decreasing living conditions and authorities fired teargas and rubber bullets to try to disperse the crowds. Reportedly, Venezuela’s financial crisis, the worst in the country’s history has deteriated further during the president’s 11 year term. According to a report, Venezuela holds 299,953,000,000 barrels of proven oil reserves ranking first in the world.

According to a report, 12 members of the druze community were killed in the town of Majdal Shams in the Golan heights following a rocket attack. Reportedly, the deceased were children and young adults who were playing football when the rocket descended. According to the report, an Israeli defence spokesman said the rocket was a falaq 1, owned exclusively by hezbollah. Reportedly, though hezbollah have denied responsibility they have previously claimed responsibility for 4 other such attacks.

According to a report, Israel seized the Golan heights from Syria during the 6 day war in 1967 before formally annexing it in 1981. Reportedly, the region is inhabited by druze who identity as Syrian. According to the report, Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, the leader of the druze community in the region said the horrific massacre have crossed every possible red line. Reportedly, in retaliation the Israeli airforce said it has struck terror targets in Lebanon.

According to a report, France’s intelligence services and law enforcement agencies are investigating a coordinated series of arson attacks on rail links to Paris that are causing disruption to travel to the olympic games opening ceremony Reportedly, the opening ceremony which takes place at 18.30 today will be the first that takes place outside a stadium. According to reports, the parade of athletes will be held on a 6 kilometre section of the river Seine with a boat for each country’s entry and will end in Paris’s Trocadèro; created for the 1937 world fair, the gardens of the Trocadèro are 10,000 square metres of green space in the capital.

According to a report, the eu are in disagreement with Hungary following a visit to the russian president by Viktor Orban, the new hungarian president of the European council. Reportedly, Mr Orban who has accused the eu of having a pro war stance also visited China and Ukraine. According to the report he wants to give peace a chance but has been criticised for vetoing a €50 billion aid package to Ukraine.

Reportedly, the eu’s foreign policy chief has changed the venue of August’s meeting of foreign and defence ministers from Budapest to Brussels because of Mr Orban’s visit to Russia. Only Slovakia and Luxembourg disagree.

According to reports, Kamala Harris who is supported by 1,976 Democratic delegates becomes the party’s presidential nominee, but another vote is needed to make it official. Reportedly, Ms Harris was born in 1964, her mother was a distinguished indian biologist and her father, a professor of economics was said to be of afro jamaican ancestry.

According to a report, she began a law career in the office of the district attorney in Alameda county and in 2003 was elected district attorney of San Francisco, in 2010 she became attorney general of California.

Reportedly, as a senator Ms Harris was in favour of gun control laws and supported the right to work of immigrant minors once they reached adulthood. According to the report, she became known for her questioning of Trump administration officials during hearings.

Reportedly, Ms Harris who has no challengers sought the presidential nomination in 2020 but withdrew, Joe Biden selected her as his running mate and she became vice president in 2021.