Trump urges Putin to end Ukraine war; Israeli aid enters Gaza, and more
The World in Brief from The Economist
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🗓️ 23 January 2025
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| 0:44.3 | Donald Trump threatened Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, with high levels of taxes, tariffs and sanctions if he does not make a deal to end the war in Ukraine. |
| 0:56.4 | Mr. Trump has missed the deadline of his campaign trail promise to stop the conflict within 24 |
| 1:02.2 | hours of entering office. |
| 1:04.4 | The president says he intends to meet with Mr. Putin but has not specified when. |
| 1:10.5 | The UN said that a further 900 aid trucks had entered |
| 1:14.4 | Gaza, bringing the total to 2,400 since the ceasefire started on Sunday. The agreement |
| 1:21.4 | between Israel and Hamas calls for at least 600 daily aid deliveries during the six-week |
| 1:27.3 | truce, but fighting raged |
| 1:29.5 | elsewhere. Israeli forces killed 10 people and injured almost 40 others as it launched |
| 1:35.9 | a big operation in the West Bank. Elon Musk criticized Stargate, a new American artificial |
| 1:44.1 | intelligence infrastructure project, |
| 1:46.9 | saying its backers lack the funds to support the venture. Open AI, SoftBank and Oracle, |
| 1:54.0 | said they could spend as much as $500 billion on Stargate over four years. Mr. Musk appears |
| 2:00.5 | to be at odds with his ally, Donald Trump, |
| 2:03.1 | on the matter. The president eagerly promoted Stargate after the deal was signed. |
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