US AND CANADA

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Iran has appeared to bow to pressure from the United States after postponing the execution of a 26-year-old clothes shop owner who was scheduled to be hanged on Wednesday, January 14.

Erfan Soltani became the first protester in the latest wave of unrest in Iran to receive a death sentence after taking part in demonstrations last week. His family had publicly appealed to US President Donald Trump to intervene.

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that anything less than U.S. control of Greenland is unacceptable, hours before Vice President JD Vance was to host Danish and Greenlandic officials for talks.

In a post on his social media site, Trump reiterated his argument that the U.S. “needs Greenland for the purpose of National Security.” He added that “NATO should be leading the way for us to get it” and that otherwise Russia or China would.

“NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the UNITED STATES,” Trump wrote. “Anything less than that is unacceptable.”

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Republicans in the U.S. Senate have effectively blocked a rare war powers resolution that sought to limit President Donald Trump’s authority to use military force in Venezuela.

The measure had advanced in a procedural vote last week after five Republican senators joined Democrats in support, marking a surprising setback for Trump following a U.S. operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

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Days of demonstrations against immigration agents left Minnesota tense on Tuesday, a day after federal authorities used tear gas to break up crowds of whistle-blowing activists and state and local leaders sued to fight the enforcement surge that led to the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman.

Confrontations between federal agents and protesters stretched throughout the day and across multiple cities on Monday. Agents fired tear gas in Minneapolis as a crowd gathered around immigration officers questioning a man, while to the northwest in St. Cloud hundreds of people protested outside a strip of Somali-run businesses after ICE officers arrived.

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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis on Wednesday, intensifying tensions in the Minnesota city just days after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman during an enforcement operation.

The Department of Homeland Security said federal officers began pursuing the man after a targeted traffic stop, alleging he was in the United States illegally after arriving from Venezuela. According to DHS, the pursuit ended when the man exited his vehicle and became involved in a physical altercation with an ICE officer.

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The BBC has announced it will file a motion to dismiss President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit regarding the broadcaster's alleged editing of a 2021 speech. In a legal filing submitted late on Monday, the BBC argued that the Florida court lacks jurisdiction as the program was not broadcast in that state. Furthermore, the broadcaster contended that the President cannot prove damages, pointing to his successful re-election after the segment aired as evidence that his reputation remained intact.

Trump said Britain’s publicly owned broadcaster defamed him by splicing together parts of a Jan. 6, 2021, speech, including one section where he told supporters to march on the Capitol and another where he said “fight like hell.” It omitted a section in which he called for peaceful protest.

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Several NATO countries are deploying small numbers of military personnel to Greenland to take part in joint exercises with Denmark, as US President Donald Trump intensifies his threats to forcibly annex the Arctic island.

Trump’s remarks have sent shockwaves through Europe’s decades-old, US-led security alliance by raising the unprecedented possibility of NATO’s most powerful member seeking to take over territory belonging to another member state. Denmark, which is responsible for Greenland’s defense, has warned that any attack on the island would effectively spell the end of NATO and has announced an expansion of its military presence in close cooperation with allied nations.

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Mattel Inc. made a debut for an autistic Barbie on Monday, the latest addition to its "Fashionistas" line designed to celebrate human diversity. Developed over an 18-month period in collaboration with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), the new doll joins a growing collection that includes Barbies with Down syndrome, a blind Barbie, and models with vitiligo. Mattel stated the partnership with the nonprofit was essential to ensuring authentic representation and advocating for the rights of the autistic community.

The goal: to create a Barbie that reflected some of the ways autistic people may experience and process the world around them, according to a Mattel news release.