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Monday, January 26, 2026 7:41 PM ET

BBC News - World

Trump raises US tariffs on South Korea imports to 25% -- The US president said he was frustrated that lawmakers in Seoul had yet to approve a trade deal between the two countries that was reached last year. -- Business

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Tech giants face landmark trial over social media addiction claims -- Defendants include Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, TikTok's owner ByteDance and YouTube parent Google.

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LIVE - Border Patrol chief and some agents to leave Minneapolis after shooting - Gregory Bovino will leave the city as Trump orders in 'border tsar' Tom Homan, as calls grow for an independent investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.

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Israel says it has retrieved remains of final Gaza hostage -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Ran Gvili's return "an extraordinary achievement".

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Deadly US winter storm leaves flights delayed and thousands without power -- At least a dozen people have died in multiple US states possibly due to the storm, officials have said.

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French MPs take first step to ban social media for under-15s -- Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has said he will use a fast-track procedure to get the legislation on the books by September.

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Nigerian officers to face trial over coup-plot allegations -- Following an investigation some of the 16 detained last year are accused of planning to unseat President Bola Tinubu.

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Spain slashes speed limit on popular train route after fault found -- The discovery of a crack on the Madrid-Barcelona line follows two recent deadly crashes in the country.

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Gunmen storm Mexico football pitch and kill at least 11 people -- The incident happened in Salamanca, a city particularly subject to gang-related violence.

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Trump abandons attack mode as Minneapolis shooting backlash grows -- The White House has shifted how it talks about Alex Pretti's killing as more Republicans express concern over the deadly encounter.

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Who was Alex Pretti, the intensive care nurse shot dead in Minneapolis? -- He has been described as an avid outdoorsman who loved mountain biking.

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NRA and other US gun activists push back at Trump officials over Minneapolis shooting -- The gun-lobby group, typically aligned with Trump, criticises a suggestion that those who carry guns risk being lawfully shot.

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Murder and MI5: How an extraordinary battle erupted over what the state keeps secret -- Can the state, especially when it is implicated in killing, be trusted as the arbiter of what should remain confidential?

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'I spent £2,000 on one event': Why Gen Z is obsessed with Hyrox -- How young millennials and Generation Z - people in their twenties to early forties - have become obsessed with this fitness craze.

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Analysing the Minneapolis shooting frame by frame -- BBC Verify has analysed footage of the shooting from multiple angles, piecing together a detailed picture of what happened.

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Deadly winter storm grips large parts of the US -- A powerful winter storm swept across the country, with heavy snow, ice and dangerously low temperatures affecting millions.

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Watch: BBC at protests near scene where Alex Pretti was shot dead -- Protesters chanted Alex Pretti's name after he became the second person this month to be shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis.

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Could trilateral talks yield a breakthrough in Ukraine-Russia war? -- It's the first time representatives from Kyiv, Moscow and Washington have come together since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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Can India be a player in the computer chip industry? -- India is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in building up a computer chip industry.

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China has purged its highest-ranked military general. Why? -- Zhang Youxia had been seen as a close ally of China's leader, Xi Jinping.

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'We're all terrified', Minnesotan tells the BBC in tears -- The BBC's Ana Faguy speaks to residents in the state after the second fatal shooting by federal immigration officers.

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New Iran videos show bodies piled in hospital and snipers on roofs -- Footage from a hospital in Tehran shows at least 31 bodies piled inside and seven body bags outside.

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Two British men detained in France over far-right protest -- French authorities said they would deport anyone arriving from the UK for anti-immigrant demonstrations.

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