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‘The dollar is losing credibility’: why central banks are scrambling for gold

Experts say central banks are increasingly stuffing their vaults as an insurance policy in a volatile world

Fifteen minutes after takeoff, the call came for Serbia’s central bank governor: millions of dollars’ worth of gold bars, destined for a high-security Belgrade vault, had been left on the runway of a Swiss airport.

In air freight – despite the extraordinary value of bullion – fresh flowers, food and other perishables still take priority. “We learned this the hard way,” Jorgovanka Tabaković told a conference late last year.

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© Photograph: Mike Groll/AP

© Photograph: Mike Groll/AP

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Panicking over Greenland plays into Trump’s hands – it’s time for cool heads and stalling diplomacy | Simon Jenkins

European countries sending troops to the island is only raising the temperature and generating fear – exactly what the US president wants

Is Greenland Donald Trump’s 25th-amendment moment? Last time around, this was when the Washington “grownups” debated his capacity to be president, notably in the final fortnight of his presidency, after the January 6 Capitol insurrection. Under the constitution, a president can be replaced should the vice-president and a cabinet majority decide their leader is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office”. The trouble today is that there are no grownups.

The US president’s designs on Greenland are clearly mad. He claims Russia and China are scheming to seize the island and that Denmark should be forced urgently to transfer its sovereignty. Denmark had long allowed the US extended military access to Greenland, but Trump seems to want to own it. None of his staff has been able to say why.

Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist and the author of A Short History of America: From Tea Party to Trump

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© Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

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Allemagne: ouverture du procès d’un Afghan accusé de l’attaque à la voiture-bélier de Munich

Le procès de Farhad N., un Afghan de 25 ans, qui avait foncé avec une voiture sur un cortège syndical début 2025 à Munich s'est ouvert vendredi 16 janvier au matin dans cette ville allemande. L'accusation lui a attribué des motivations islamistes dans le cadre de ce drame qui avait choqué l'Allemagne et qui a fait deux morts et une quarantaine de blessés, alors que l'Allemagne organisait la conférence sur la sécurité et à quelques jours des élections générales. L’accusé a refusé de s’exprimer.

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Allemagne: ouverture du procès d’un Afghan accusé de l’attaque à la voiture-bélier de Munich

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Le procès de Farhad N., un Afghan de 25 ans, qui avait foncé avec une voiture sur un cortège syndical début 2025 à Munich s'est ouvert vendredi 16 janvier au matin dans cette ville allemande. L'accusation lui a attribué des motivations islamistes dans le cadre de ce drame qui avait choqué l'Allemagne et qui a fait deux morts et une quarantaine de blessés, alors que l'Allemagne organisait la conférence sur la sécurité et à quelques jours des élections générales. L’accusé a refusé de s’exprimer.

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Starring role for ‘Kardashian jetty’ as Venice visitors seek peeks of Bezos wedding sites

Tourists keen to see island where couple exchanged vows, seven-star hotel where they stayed and paths trodden by their celebrity guests

For the residents of Venice who travel daily through the city’s waterways, the small wooden floating jetty outside the Gritti Palace hotel is nothing special, “no different to a London underground stop”, as Igor Scomparin, a tour guide, puts it.

But for a certain type of tourist it is a must-see spot. In June last year, Kim Kardashian disembarked from a water taxi here and navigated its planks during the five-day wedding of the billionaire Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, and Lauren Sánchez, a former TV journalist.

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© Photograph: Marta Clinco/The Guardian

© Photograph: Marta Clinco/The Guardian

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‘Garden of Eden’: the Spanish farm growing citrus you’ve never heard of

Todolí foundation produces varieties from Buddha’s hands to sudachi and hopes to help citrus survive climate change

It was on a trip with a friend to the east coast of Spain that the chef Matthew Slotover came across the “Garden of Eden”, an organic farm growing citrus varieties he had never heard of. The Todolí Citrus Foundation is a nonprofit venture and the largest private collection of citrus in the world with more than 500 varieties, and its owners think the rare fruit could hold the genetic secrets to growing citrus groves that can deal with climate change.

The farm yields far more interesting fruit than oranges and lemons for Slotover’s menu, including kumquat, finger lime, sudachi and bergamot.

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© Photograph: Todolí Citrus Fundació

© Photograph: Todolí Citrus Fundació

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The countdown to clean orbits has begun with ESA’s Zero Debris Charter

An illustration showing GEO being crowded, as Earth is blanketed by an orbit of satellites and debris.

Space is rapidly becoming the world’s most congested frontier. What was once a domain of scientific exploration is now a crowded commercial arena, a global infrastructure layer critical to communications, navigation, climate monitoring and defense. Yet this dependence is threatened by a growing, largely invisible hazard: orbital debris. The European Space Agency’s Zero Debris Technical […]

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‘An attempt to break people’: Bucha holds out amid Russia’s weaponisation of winter

Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power plants as severe frost set in have been described as ‘crimes against humanity’

Outside the main pumping station for Bucha, three engineers, bundled up in parkas, are working on the emergency generator keeping the Ukrainian city supplied with water.

One holds a heat gun to the generator’s filter in an effort to unfreeze it, his face reddened by blowing snow and a daytime temperature of -12C (10.4F). Watching attentively is the city’s mayor, Anatolii Fedoruk. The generator in his office is also frozen when the Guardian visits and he apologises for the lack of coffee.

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© Photograph: Peter Beaumont/The Guardian

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Ferraris for all and wine on tap: satirical candidate shakes up Portugal’s presidential election

The campaign by ‘Candidate Vieira’ mirrors the country’s growing anti-establishment sentiment

In Lisbon’s Campo de Ourique market earlier this week, conversation had turned – a little inevitably – to Sunday’s presidential election, which will decide who will take over from the outgoing Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

But amid the usual claims and counter-claims, promises and pledges, one candidate has been offering voters something a bit more enticing than his competitors.

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© Photograph: Henrique Casinhas/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Henrique Casinhas/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

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Voici comment le groupe Stellantis veut améliorer drastiquement l’autonomie de ses voitures électriques

Le groupe Stellantis envisagerait de recourir au prolongateur d’autonomie déjà adopté par Leapmotor. Ce qui permettrait de rendre ses voitures électriques encore plus polyvalentes, mais avec un gros inconvénient.
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Les Européens et la mission militaire au Groenland: une brèche au sein de l'Otan?

  Après la visite des ministres danois et groenlandais des Affaires étrangères à la Maison blanche mercredi, l’avenir du territoire arctique reste en suspens. Les appétits américains sont incompatibles avec la position du Groenland et du Danemark, voilà la principale conclusion de ces pourparlers initialement destinés à chercher un compromis. La menace des États-Unis est donc toujours aussi présente. 

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Les Européens et la mission militaire au Groenland: une brèche au sein de l'Otan?

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  Après la visite des ministres danois et groenlandais des Affaires étrangères à la Maison blanche mercredi, l’avenir du territoire arctique reste en suspens. Les appétits américains sont incompatibles avec la position du Groenland et du Danemark, voilà la principale conclusion de ces pourparlers initialement destinés à chercher un compromis. La menace des États-Unis est donc toujours aussi présente. 

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TikTok to strengthen age-verification technology across EU

Move comes as calls for Australia-style social media ban for under-16s grow around world

TikTok will begin to roll out new age-verification technology across the EU in the coming weeks, as calls grow for an Australia-style social media ban for under-16s in countries including the UK.

ByteDance-owned TikTok, and other major platforms popular with young people such as YouTube, are coming under increasing pressure to better identify and remove accounts belonging to children.

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© Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

© Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

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