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Overnight News Digest January 26, 2025 [1]

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Date: 2025-01-26

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BBC

Six hostages to be freed and Gazans to be allowed north - Israel

Hamas will release six hostages this week and Israel will allow Gazans to return to homes in the north from Monday, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says. The hostages include Arbel Yehud - the civilian at the centre of a row which has led to Israel delaying the return of Gazans to northern Gaza. Hamas released four soldiers on Saturday, but not Ms Yehud. Israel accused Hamas of breaching the ceasefire deal under which Israeli civilians were to be freed first in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners. The ceasefire and hostage and prisoner release deal came into force on 19 January. Two exchanges have been completed. In the third, Hamas will release Ms Yehud and two other hostages on Friday, followed by three more on Saturday, Netanyahu and Qatar, which has mediated the talks, said.

Christian Science Monitor

Police say Jan. 6 pardons carry future risk for law enforcement

As a police union boss, Jim Palmer has the ultimate duty to support the well-being of over 10,000 men and women in blue throughout Wisconsin. Now, Mr. Palmer and police across the nation say that their safety may have been undermined by the nation’s chief executive, who ran a law-and-order presidential campaign and benefited from endorsements from many local and national union chapters. The National Association of Police Organizations – of which the WPPA is a member – firmly opposed the pardons Tuesday. Likewise, the Fraternal Order of Police and the International Association of Chiefs of Police jointly voiced concerns that when those who commit crimes – particularly violent acts that target police – don’t face consequences, “it sends a dangerous message that could embolden others.” The pardons for those who attacked the U.S. Capitol included those who didn’t commit violence as well as those who carried firearms, Tasers, and knives into the melee, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.

The Guardian

Cambodia to punish Khmer Rouge genocide denial with jail under draft law

Cambodia’s government has approved a draft law that will jail for up to five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, committed by the Khmer Rouge. The draft law – which aims to prevent a repeat of the Khmer Rouge’s crimes and provide justice for victims – was approved during a cabinet meeting chaired by the prime minister, Hun Manet, on Friday, the government spokesperson Pen Bona said. The bill stipulates “the prosecution of any individual” who denies or condones the atrocities committed under the Khmer Rouge, according to a government statement. The bill’s definition of atrocities includes genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, for which a UN-backed court prosecuted top Khmer Rouge leaders nine years ago. The ultra-Maoist movement led by Pol Pot wiped out about 2 million people through starvation, torture, forced labour and mass executions during its 1975-79 rule.

The Guardian

Capital cities expecting hot public holiday as Melbourne braces for 41C (That’s 106 in F.)

Multiple heatwave and bushfire warnings are in place for the Australia Day public holiday, with every Australian capital city expecting maximum temperatures above 30C and Melbourne forecast for a scorcher. On Monday Melbourne was forecast to hit 41C before a late cool change. Sydney was due for 31C, Brisbane 30C, Adelaide 35C, Perth 32C and Hobart 32C. Hot, dry and windy weather will cause extreme fire dangers for western and central Victoria and much of eastern South Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology has warned of low to severe heatwave conditions for much of the country including Western Australia, the Northern Territory, western Queensland and New South Wales.

BBC

Mexican workers set up tent city to house deportees from US

In the shadow of a vast crucifix, labourers and construction workers in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez are building a small city of their own. A tent city. On the old fairgrounds, beneath an altar constructed for a mass by Pope Francis in 2016, the Mexican government is preparing for thousands of deportees they expect to arrive from the United States in the coming weeks. Juarez is one of eight border locations along the 3,000-kilometre-long (1,900 miles) border where Mexico is getting ready for the anticipated influx. For her part, President Sheinbaum has stressed her government will first attend to the humanitarian needs of those returning, saying they will qualify for her government's social programmes and pensions, and will immediately be eligible to work. An estimated 5 million undocumented Mexicans currently live in the United States and the prospect of a mass return could quickly saturate and overwhelm border cities like Juarez and Tijuana.

Al Jazeera

Spain plans 100% house tax on foreigners: Will it fix the housing crisis?

Last week Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced several measures, including a 100 percent tax on the value of homes bought by foreigners, to tackle the country’s housing crisis. Sanchez aims to deter non-European Union residents from buying houses in the country. “Spain’s housing should be for Spanish people to live in, as well as for migrants who come here to work and build a life and contribute to the development and prosperity of our country,” Sanchez said, referring to people who use housing as an investment vehicle. The 100 percent tax will affect overseas buyers, who bought 27,000 apartments in 2023. In the third quarter of 2024, about 15 percent of all real estate properties were purchased by foreigners, according to the Association of Registrars. “They [overseas buyers] did so not to live, but to speculate, to make money with them, something that in the context of scarcity we cannot afford,” Sanchez said at the forum, “Housing, the Fifth Pillar of the Welfare State”, in Madrid on Monday.

Al Jazeera

LIVE: Israel to let displaced return to north Gaza; Lebanon truce extended

Thousands of Palestinians are spending a second night sleeping on the street as they wait for Israeli forces to allow them to pass through the Netzarim corridor, a militarised zone cutting off access to the north of the Gaza Strip.

Israel said it would allow Palestinians to return home to northern Gaza on Monday after Qatar’s foreign ministry said Hamas had agreed to release Israeli captive Arbel Yehud by Friday.

After failing to withdraw from southern Lebanon by Sunday’s ceasefire deadline, Israeli forces have killed 22 people and injured 124 others, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. The White House says a deal between Lebanon and Israel has been extended until February 18, without specifying further details.

Hindustan Times

US-Colombia tariff war halts as Colombian President accepts plane with 'illegal aliens'

The Donald Trump administration of the United States on Sunday paused the sanctions it imposed on Colombia after it took a U-turn on deportation flights. Colombia’s government “agreed to all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on US military aircraft, without limitation or delay,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. Leavitt said the tariff orders will be “held in reserve, and not signed." But Leavitt said Trump would maintain visa restrictions on Colombian officials and enhanced customs inspections of goods from the country, “until the first planeload of Colombian deportees is successfully returned.”

Reuters

Perplexity AI proposes to merge with Tiktok, with US government getting half, source says

Jan 26 (Reuters) - U.S. search engine startup Perplexity AI has revised the merger proposal it had submitted to TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to create a new entity combining Perplexity and TikTok U.S., a person familiar with the proposal told Reuters on Sunday. The proposal calls for the U.S. government to own up to 50% of the new company upon a future initial public offering (IPO), the person said. A Perplexity document shared with ByteDance and new investors proposed the creation of a new U.S. holding company called "NewCo", the person said. Under the proposal, ByteDance would sell TikTok U.S. to the investors, which would give TikTok's existing investors equity in the company. The proposal would also exclude TikTok's core recommendation algorithm, which ByteDance would keep, the person said. The U.S. government would own up to half of the new structure once it goes through an IPO of a valuation of at least $300 billion.

Washington Post

Thieves blow up Dutch museum door and steal 2,400-year-old golden helmet

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