Day: January 20, 2026

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Britain’s plan to cede sovereignty of the island of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands to Mauritius was an “act of total weakness,” adding that it was “another in a very long line of national security reasons why Greenland has to be acquired”.

The fictional Flower-class corvette HMS Compass Rose (K49) that appeared in the 1953 film The Cruel Sea was the real-life warship HMS Coreopsis. The vessel, which served as a convoy escort during the Battle of the Atlantic, was scrapped shortly after production.
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— Military History Now (@MilHistNow) Jan 20, 2026

Trump is dead-set on proving that any deal struck with the United States government, by anyone, is not worth the paper it is written on. Also applies to any security commitments Ukraine was hoping for. https://t.co/cpufhYHLBr

— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) January 20, 2026

The Azerbaijani parliament is exactly like this.Rodney🌞🇺🇬 (@MasaabaRhodin)Members of Parliament in Tanzania 😭—  https://x.com/MasaabaRhodin/status/2013313932841095191

— Emin Bred (@emin_bred) Jan 20, 2026

В Киеве после российской атаки в ночь на вторник без теплоснабжения остались 5635 многоэтажных домов, сообщил мэр Виталий Кличко. Он отметил, что почти 80 процентов пострадавшего жилья – это те дома, в которых восстанавливали теплоснабжение после предыдущей массированной атаки на Киев 9 января
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— Радио Свобода (@SvobodaRadio) Jan 20, 2026