U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed resolution, as he attends a charter announcement for his Board of Peace initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts, alongside the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos, Switzerland on January 22, 2026.
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During a closed-door meeting at Davos, Somaliland ⁠president, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi outlined investment opportunities in the country notably the its strategic deep-sea port of ‌Berbera, which sits along one of the world’s ‌busiest shipping routes, according to two people present. 

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After meeting U.S. President Donald Trump at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) held in Davos, Mr. Zelenskyy slammed Europe’s response to the U.S.-Greenland dispute. ““Instead of taking the lead in ‌defending freedom ‌worldwide, especially when America’s focus ‍shifts elsewhere, Europe looks lost trying ‍to convince the U.S. President to change,” Mr. Zelenskyy said in a fiery speech.

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U.S. President Donald Trump signed the charter of the “Board of Peace,” which he has billed as a body for resolving international conflicts, with other founding members in Davos on Thursday (January 22, 2026). A group of leaders and senior officials from 19 countries — including Mr. Trump’s allies from Argentina and Hungary — gathered on stage with Mr. Trump to put their names to the founding charter of the body.

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President Donald Trump talks to media after a meeting about Greenland during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 21, 2026.
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U.S. President Donald Trump is set to host a ceremony on the margins of the annual World Economic Forum in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos on Thursday (January 22, 2026) to announce the broad contours of the “Board of Peace” and its charter. The countries which have accepted Trump’s invitation are Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Egypt, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Pakistan, UAE and Vietnam. A number of countries, including China, Germany, Italy, Paraguay, Russia, Slovenia, Turkiye and Ukraine, have remained non-committal on the invitation.

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Mr. Trump’s quest to take control of Greenland, which he said was needed for national and international security, dominated his address to the World Economic Forum as he returned for the first time in six years. “It’s the United States alone that can protect this giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice,” Mr. Trump told a packed audience of global political and business leaders in the Swiss ski resort who queued for more than an hour to listen.

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Earlier in the day, Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that producing massive large language models (LLMs) did not necessarily give countries a geopolitical “edge” and that the return on the massive investments being made in AI technologies would go to countries that were able to deploy them profitably.

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The Adani Group outlined an investment blueprint of more than ₹6 lakh crore across aviation, clean energy, urban infrastructure, digital platforms and advanced manufacturing, signalling a new phase of large-scale private capital deployment aligned with India’s growth priorities.

Presenting its plans at the 56th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, the conglomerate said the investments span Maharashtra, Assam and Jharkhand and reflect a strategic shift from standalone asset creation to integrated, technology-led infrastructure platforms.– PTI

UN chief Antonio Guterres, who is currently in Switzerland, has cancelled his planned trip to the Swiss Alps town of Davos due to a bad cold, his spokesperson said.

“The Secretary-General is currently near Geneva, Switzerland, where he is meeting with his Special and Personal Representatives and Envoys. Following these meetings, he will return to New York and has cancelled his planned trip to Davos due to a bad cold,” Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, said at the daily press briefing Monday.

Davos, the popular Swiss ski resort that hosts the annual World Economic Forum, is about 427 km from Geneva.

Over the weekend, Mr. Guterres was in London, where he addressed a special commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the first meeting of the General Assembly. The event, organised by the UN Association of the UK (UNA-UK), took place in Methodist Central Hall, the very place where the first meeting was held, Haq added.

Davos is hosting global leaders and business heavyweights as the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum began January 19 and will run through January 23. — PTI