Canada's Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Trump's tariffs:

"If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything including cut off their energy with a smile on my face."

Zelensky’s Chief-of-Staff, Andrii Yermak:

There is mutual understanding, we are moving towards a decision that the leaders of our states should make.

Trump:

I don't think China will retaliate too much to new tariffs.

US Ambassador to the UN Alice Stefanik:

My message to all antisemites at the UN—I’m coming. You’d better buckle up and leave.

Under Trump, the days of funding terror, antisemitism, and anti-Israel actions at the UN are over.

BREAKING: Trump pauses and reviews all military aid to Ukraine.

All US military equipment not currently in Ukraine would be paused, including weapons in transit on aircraft and ships or waiting in transit areas in Poland.

U.S. Vice President Vance:

Zelensky and Putin should sit at the negotiating table.

Zelensky is still unwilling to talk.

U.S. Vice President Vance:

President Trump said the door is open if Zelensky is willing to talk about peace.

I don't care what Zelensky says about me or anyone else, but he has shown his unwillingness to enter into a peace process.

Ukrainian President's team has at least requested to return to the White House to continue talks.

We can talk to Zelensky if he makes a serious proposal on how to participate in the peace process.

U.S. Vice President Vance:

I was trying to defuse the situation with Zelensky.

U.S. Vice President Vance contradicts himself:

Are we willing to defend people even if we disagree with what they say?

If you are not willing to do that, I don't think you are fit to lead Europe or the United States of America.

Trump:

I gave Russia nothing except grief.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemns Trump's 'unjustified' 25% tariffs and says retaliatory tariffs on $155 billion of American goods will take effect at 12:01 AM EST if the US moves forward tonight.

A thousand snipers in the sky: the new war in Ukraine

Drones cause most Russian and Ukrainian casualties, reaching 80% in some battles. Drones cause more deaths and destroy more armoured vehicles than conventional weapons.

Of the 31 Abrams tanks supplied by the US, 19 have been destroyed, disabled or captured, mainly by drone attacks.

AI-controlled surveillance drones are on the horizon. An American-made Shield A.I. drone autonomously detected two Russian Buk SA-11 missile launchers and relayed their positions to Ukrainian forces for a strike.

Source: NYT

The Pentagon has denied media reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had ordered a halt in offensive cyber operations against Russia, according to a senior defense official.

Source: Bloomberg

JD Vance:

There was a lack of respect, there was a certain sense of entitlement.

Zelensky showed a clear unwillingness to engage in the peace process that President Trump has said is the policy of the American people and their president. That's the real breakdown

The sister of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un has said the country will respond to a US aircraft carrier's arrival in South Korea and other military activities.

“The DPRK is also planning to carefully examine the option for increasing the actions threatening the security of the enemy at the strategic level to cope with the fact that the deployment of U.S. strategic assets in the Korean Peninsula has become a vicious habit and adversely affects the security of the DPRK,”

The barrage of tariff announcements by the Trump administration drove US companies and individuals to buy a lot more imports to try and get goods across the US border before the levies were imposed. That took US trade deficit to a record in December, and it jumped another 26% in January to reach $153 billion in January.

Source: Bloomberg

The number of US citizens applying for UK citizenship hit a record high last year, partly due to Donald Trump's return to power and UK tax changes.

More than 6,100 US citizens applied last year – the most since records began two decades ago and 26% more than in 2023. Overall applications for UK citizenship rose by 6% to 251,000, also a record.

Applications from US citizens in particular surged in the last quarter of 2024, up 40% on the previous year to around 1,700, according to Home Office data.

Source: FT