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Wednesday 28th January 2026. Ukraine train hit. NATO Europe 'dreaming'. Honduras president. EU India deal. AI risk. Italy landslides...

Jan 28, 2026
A Russian drone strike on a Kharkiv passenger train and NATO warnings about Europe’s defence. Reports on Holocaust memorials and Sicily landslides forcing evacuations. Coverage of South Sudan evacuations and an international corruption trial. Discussion of an EU–India trade deal and China’s falling population.
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INSIGHT

Holocaust Memory Is Time-Sensitive

  • Around 200,000 Holocaust survivors are believed to be alive, with half in Israel and an average age of 87.
  • Holocaust Memorial Day marks the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz and underscores the urgency of remembrance as survivors age.
ANECDOTE

Sicily Town Evacuated After Landslides

  • Landslides on Sicily forced over 1,500 residents from a town and caused some house collapses.
  • Many more buildings in the town of Nishemi remain at risk of collapse.
ANECDOTE

Olympian Pleads Not Guilty

  • Canadian former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding pleaded not guilty to large-scale cocaine smuggling in a US court.
  • He had surrendered himself at the US Embassy in Mexico City days earlier.
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