Fire crews battle the Kenneth Fire in the West Hills section of Los Angeles, on January 9. AP
4. Donald Trump has said it over and over again – he wants to purchase Greenland. He upped the ante earlier this week when he did not refuse the use of military power to acquire the territory. This came, as his son Donald Trump Jr visited the island, the world’s largest. But
why does Trump want to buy Greenland?
And can he? And
what would it cost him? Our explainers give you the answers.
A plane carrying Donald Trump Jr lands in Nuuk, Greenland, on January 7. Donald Trump has been reiterating that he wants to acquire the island. AP
5. It’s been five years since the first Covid -19 death was reported in China in 2020. What followed later was unfathomable. A virus that spread to almost every country in the world and claimed more than six million lives. Now another virus is surging in China – the human metapneumovirus (HMPV). India has at least eight cases so far; the infection has also been reported in Hong Kong and Malaysia.
Is it a reason of grave concern?
6. The grooming gangs of the UK. This week, they have been grabbing headlines. Elon Musk hit out at British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over them. Indian lawmaker Priyanka Chaturvedi responded to the premier’s remark on “Asian” grooming gangs saying they were Pakistani. But w
hat is the scandal?
Are members of such groups of Pakistan-origin?
A woman poses at her home in England, Britain. She was 14 when she was sexually abused by a grooming gang in Rochdale. Reuters
7. Russia has 99 problems and one of them is a low birth rate. Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has resulted in massive casualties and a mass exodus. Now some female students are being offered cash payments for giving birth to healthy babies.
This story tells you more.
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