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These are important developments since day 1,422 of Russia’s war against Ukraine.Published January 16, 2026January 16, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareHere’s what happened on Friday, January 16th.finding Two employees of a state-run pharmacy were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack while transporting medical supplies to Polokhi in the Russian-occupied region of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya region, Russia’s state-run TASS news agency reported. Three people were injured in Russia’s frontline Belgorod region in a Ukrainian drone attack, the regional task force reported, TASS reported. One person was killed and at least four others were injured when Russian forces dropped a…

Nathan Aspinall has revealed that he found out via text message that he was not included in the Premier League Darts 2026 line-up.The top four finishers on the PDC Order of Merit will automatically qualify, with World Champions Luke Littler and Luke Humphries and World Championship finalists Jan van Veen and Michael van Gerwen guaranteed spots. Stephen Bunting, Josh Locke, Gerwyn Price and Johnny Clayton were then selected as wildcard candidates. Lock’s debut, Clayton’s return, and Price and Bunting remaining in place meant that “The Asp” missed out on a spot. Use Chrome Browser for a more accessible video player…

Futures and options traders work on the NYSE American (AMEX) floor of the New York Stock Exchange on January 15, 2026 in New York City, USA. Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersStock futures were mostly flat Thursday night as gains in banks and tech stocks lifted the average of major stocks.S&P500 futures Although it rose by 0.1%, Dow Jones Industrial Average Futures rose 30 points, or less than 0.1%. Nasdaq 100 futures It rose by nearly 0.2%.Major US stock indexes rebounded across the board in regular trading on Thursday. of S&P500 and Nasdaq Composite Each stock rose nearly 0.3%, but 30 stocks…

The Cloudflare logo is placed outside the company’s building on the opening day of the 55th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on January 20, 2025.Eve Herman | Reuterscloudflare The company announced Thursday that it will acquire artificial intelligence data marketplace Human Native to expand its development of deals between AI developers and content creators.”Content creators deserve full control over their work, whether they want to write it for humans or optimize it for AI,” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said in a release announcing the news.The internet infrastructure company said the acquisition will help AI developers build tools…

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Colina Machado traveled to Washington DC to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House following the abduction of her political rival, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.Thursday’s meeting was the first opportunity for the two leaders to meet face-to-face.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listHowever, this visit was an unusually restrained one for Trump, who usually welcomes foreign leaders to the Oval Office and holds press conferences with reporters.But this time, Trump kept his meeting with Machado private, avoiding clicking camera shutters and shouting questions from reporters.Despite Machado’s insistence that the rebels have a mandate…

Kyiv, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that heavy Russian drone strikes had left hundreds of thousands of homes in the Kyiv region without power as temperatures plunged well below freezing. Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said around 500 high-rise buildings had no heating and there was a severe lack of electricity “even in critical infrastructure.” President Zelenskiy said in a social media post on Tuesday that Russia launched more than 300 attack drones into Ukraine overnight, as well as 18 ballistic missiles and seven cruise missiles. He said a total of eight regions were hit, including Kiev.…

Masters champion Rory McIlroy believes Brooks Koepka’s return to the PGA Tour signals the decline of LIV golf.The five-time major champion’s quick return was widely welcomed by many top pros, less than a month after his contract with the Saudi Breakaway League ended a year early. Following his departure, the PGA Tour was persuaded to rewrite the rules to include him within a certain penalty window and also allow big names like Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Cam Smith room to return. McIlroy, who shot a 5-under 66 to take the lead at the Dubai Invitational in the first competitive…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer suggested Thursday that the company had a strong quarter this year. taiwan semiconductor Wall Street renewed confidence in artificial intelligence stocks, including industry leaders Nvidia. “The Taiwanese cicada has thoroughly crushed the skeptics who have questioned the staying power of AI,” he said. “They said something we’ve only heard from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: The demand is insatiable, and more importantly, the benefits could be huge for customers.”Taiwan Semiconductor, the world’s largest contract chip maker, exceeded expectations, setting a new record and reporting a 35% increase in profits. The company has currently recorded eight consecutive quarters of…

Riccardo Milani AFP | Getty ImagesWikimedia announced new deals with several artificial intelligence companies in a blog post Thursday. Amazon, Meta and Perplexity as part of the company’s 25th anniversary celebration.Through a new partnership under Wikimedia Enterprises, companies will pay Wikipedia to use its data to develop and train AI models instead of web scraping. partnership with Amazon, Meta, microsoftMistral AI and Perplexity were formalized last year, but have not been shared publicly, Wikimedia said.”All of these organizations rely on Wikimedia Enterprise to integrate human-managed knowledge into their platforms at scale,” Wikimedia said in a release.The technology company joins existing…

Iranian and U.S. officials engaged in a heated exchange at a U.N. Security Council meeting amid deadly protests in Iran and threats of attack by the U.S. government.The United Nations Security Council has held an emergency meeting to discuss deadly protests in Iran as President Donald Trump threatens to intervene militarily in the country.Members of the influential 15-nation U.N. body heard from Iran’s deputy envoy to the U.N., who warned at Thursday’s meeting that Iranians do not seek confrontation and would respond to U.S. aggression, and accused the U.S. of being “directly involved in inducing unrest in Iran.”Recommended stories list…