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La Cina ha dichiarato che la sua economia è cresciuta del 5% lo scorso anno, raggiungendo l'obiettivo ufficiale di Pechino poiché un surplus commerciale record ha sostenuto la crescita.
La seconda economia più grande del mondo ha raggiunto il suo obiettivo nonostante la crescita sia rallentata al 4,5% negli ultimi tre mesi del 2025.
L'anno passato della Cina è stato contraddistinto da lotte per aumentare la spesa interna, una prolungata crisi immobiliare e il tumulto causato dalle politiche tariffarie del presidente statunitense Donald Trump.
Gli esperti affermano che i dati indicano un "economia a due velocità", con la manifattura e le esportazioni che sostengono l'espansione mentre le persone continuano a spendere con cautela e il mercato immobiliare continua a pesare sul paese. Mentre i dati ufficiali cinesi suggeriscono che ha raggiunto il suo obiettivo di crescita, alcuni analisti mettono in dubbio l'accuratezza dei dati dato il debole investimento e la spesa dei consumatori.

Camminando lungo una spiaggia remota in Papua Nuova Guinea, Shad Ellis si è trovato a fare una chiacchierata profonda con Will Smith, uno dei volti più riconoscibili del pianeta.
La sorpresa? Il volto su cui si posò lo sguardo del conducente della metropolitana di Londra sembrava incredibilmente simile al suo.
Il 47enne ha costruito una carriera essendo un sosia e artista tributo di Will Smith da quando aveva 18 anni.
Ma dopo tre decenni di "getting jiggy with it" per i fan in tutto il mondo, stava finalmente raccontando alla star di Hollywood quanto quella somiglianza avesse cambiato la sua vita. Anche se ora vive a Bedford, Ellis è nato e cresciuto nella capitale.

A cafe owner on the Isle of Man has begun opening the doors to his business under a different guise to help combat isolation and loneliness.
Tim Brogan runs Gourmet Shakes N Snacks and said he had seen a "phenomenal" change in social behaviour over the past decade or so.
To encourage more interaction, he has launched a weekly two-hour evening opening at his Douglas cafe to encourage people to engage in conversation, or just spend time among others.
He said while he understood attending could be daunting for some, "the first step is everything".$BTC
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A project set up to tackle loneliness has received National Lottery funding to keep it going for another three years.
Bransholme Chat has been based at the North Point Shopping Centre, in Hull, since 2019.
The community shop and warm space offers a place where people can connect, make friends and try new activities.
Carrie Murphy, 54, is among the regulars. She said: "For the local community it's good, because people can relax, join in and mix with other people that they don't normally see.$BTC
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday hailed the "historic" entry into force of the Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction.
"Today marks a watershed moment for the ocean," Guterres said in a video message to celebrate the agreement coming into force on Jan. 17.
"This is a historic achievement -- for people and planet; for international cooperation and the United Nations," he said.
The UN chief said the treaty establishes the first legal framework for conserving and sustainably using marine biodiversity in the two-thirds of the ocean that lies beyond national borders, and provides "binding global rules" to share fairly the benefits from marine genetic resources.$BTC
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Gold and silver prices hit record highs but share prices fell on Monday as investors reacted to the threat by US President Donald Trump to impose fresh tariffs on eight European countries opposed to his proposed takeover of Greenland.
The price of gold touched $4,689.39 (£3,499) an ounce on Monday, while silver rose to a peak of $94.08 an ounce.
Precious metals are seen as safer assets to hold in times of uncertainty, and the prices of both gold and silver have soared over the past year.
But stock markets in Europe fell as investors worried over the latest increase in geopolitical tensions.On Saturday, Trump announced a 10% tariff on goods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland would come into force on 1 February, but could later rise to 25% - and would last until a deal on Greenland was reached.
Reports have suggested the EU is considering responding with a €93bn (£80bn) package of tariffs on US imports.
Worries over the Greenland spat triggered another rise in gold and silver prices as investors headed for "safe haven" assets.
Last year, the price of gold soared by more than 60%, partly due to concerns about global tensions and economic uncertainty.
However, there are other factors behind the rise, including expectations of more interest rate cuts, central banks adding hundreds of tonnes of gold to their reserves and - in regard to silver - China announcing restrictions on exports of the metal.
"Gold has hit fresh record highs on its glittering run upwards," said Susannah Streeter, chief investment strategist at Wealth Club.
"The precious metal is holding even more allure as a safe haven as worries spread about the repercussions of the US aggressive trade and geopolitical policies."
But while gold and silver were continuing their recent strong runs, shares were on the back foot.
London's FTSE 100 index fell 0.4%, while the FTSE 250 - which has a greater number of domestically focused companies - was down 0.8%. A mixture of financial firms and industrial stocks were lower, but shares in gold miners Fresnillo and Endeavour rose following the latest increase in precious metal prices.
Across Europe shares in carmakers, tech and luxury goods firms saw sharp falls.
In Germany, the Dax index fell 1% with car companies BMW, Mercedes-Benz and VW all down by about 3-4%.
In France, the Cac 40 index was down 1.4%, with luxury brands LVMH and Hermes among the biggest losers.
However, European defence stocks rose, with Germany's Rheinmetall and France's Thales both trading higher.
Markets in the US are closed on Monday for a public holiday.
Dan Coatsworth, head of markets at AJ Bell, said Trump's latest tariff threat "turns up the heat to max".
However, he noted that "while we've seen a red day for European shares in general, it's not panic time".
"What needs to be watched closely is how markets behave over the near term. A 1% to 1.5% decline every day over a series of weeks adds up to trouble, and that's what investors are keen to avoid happening."
Trade tensions are one of the main risks to global economic growth, according to the latest forecast from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
In its latest world economic outlook - prepared before the latest tariff threat emerged - it described the global economy as "steady", but said risks to growth included an end to the AI boom and a "flare up" in trade tensions.$BTC
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US President Donald Trump has said he no longer feels obliged to think only of peace after he did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize, as he again repeated his demand for control of Greenland.
In a message to Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Trump blamed the country for not giving him the prize.
In his reply to Trump, Støre explained that an independent committee, not the government of Norway, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October to Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado.
CBS News, the BBC's US partner, confirmed the message and its contents.Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper' for the US", Trump said in the message obtained by US media.
"The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland," he added.
Prime Minister Støre said he had received the text message on Sunday in response to a text he and Finland's president Alexander Stubb had sent to Trump.
Støre said they had conveyed opposition to proposed tariff increases over the Greenland dispute, and pointed to the need to de-escalate, proposing a three-way phone call the same day.
Trump has made no secret of his desire to be awarded the annual prize. He has increasingly insisted that the US needs to take over Greenland for national security reasons.
The sparsely-populated but resource-rich Arctic island is well placed for early warning systems in the event of missile attacks and for monitoring vessels in the region.
Trump has repeated that he wants the US to buy Greenland and has not ruled out using military force against a member of the Nato security alliance to take it.$SOL
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Il Cremlino ha annunciato che Vladimir Putin è stato invitato a unirsi al "consiglio di pace" di Donald Trump, istituito la scorsa settimana con l'intenzione di supervisionare un cessate il fuoco a Gaza.
Il portavoce del Cremlino, Dmitry Peskov, ha detto ai giornalisti lunedì che la Russia stava cercando di "chiarire tutte le sfumature" dell'offerta con Washington, prima di dare la sua risposta.
La notizia di un invito arriva mentre Putin non mostra segni di voler porre fine alla sua invasione dell'Ucraina, in cui centinaia di migliaia sono stati uccisi e le truppe russe hanno commesso atrocità contro i civili. Il presidente russo ha ripetutamente rifiutato proposte di cessate il fuoco lungo le attuali linee del fronte.

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will dissolve parliament on Friday, paving the way for an early election on 8 February that she hopes will translate her strong public polling into a big majority in the lower house.
It was an "extremely weighty decision" that would "determine Japan's course together with the people", Takaichi told a news conference in Tokyo.
The country's first female leader and her cabinet have enjoyed high public support since taking office last October.
But her party lags behind in polls and the move is risky. It's Japan's second general election in as many years and will test appetite for her plans to boost public spending when cost-of-living is top of voters' minds.
Having been elected as prime minister by lawmakers on 21 October, Takaichi is now seeking a public mandate in the House of Representatives, the more powerful house in Japan.Since the day she took office, Takaichi said, she has been "constantly concerned that the Takaichi cabinet has not yet been tested in an election where the public chooses the government".
"Is Sanae Takaichi fit to be prime minister? I wanted to ask the sovereign people to decide," she told the news conference.
Campaigning for the vote to elect the 465 lower house MPs, who serve four-year terms, starts on 27 January.
Her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has governed Japan almost continuously since 1955. It currently has 199 seats - including three held by its independent partners - in the House of Representatives, the most of any party. The LDP's coalition with the Japan Innovation party gives it a fragile majority, with just enough seats to govern.
A protege of former conservative PM Shinzo Abe and self-professed admirer of Margaret Thatcher, Takaichi is known as Japan's "Iron Lady".
She came into office promising an economic upturn after years of stagnation.
Takaichi is an advocate of heavy government-led spending to drive economic growth - a revival of the sort of stimulus measures that Japan saw under "Abenomics". Her first few months in office have seen soaring personal poll ratings - no Japanese PM has been popular since Abe, in 2012.
In December, her cabinet approved a record defence budget of nine trillion yen ($57bn; £43bn). This comes amid growing concern over China, with Tokyo describing its neighbour's military activities in the region as its "greatest strategic challenge".
Takaichi has found herself the target of China's ire since last November, when she made comments suggesting that Japan could respond with its own self-defence force if China attacked Taiwan. The diplomatic spat that ensued has sent bilateral ties plunging to their lowest point in more than a decade.
Meanwhile, Takaichi has pursued closer ties with the US. During US President Donald Trump's visit to Japan last October, the two leaders heaped praise on each other and signed a deal on rare earths. They also signed a document heralding a new "golden age" of US-Japan relations.
Opinion polls show that while the LDP remains broadly unpopular among Japanese residents, Takaichi and her government have charted approval ratings of 60-80%.
This popularity is what Takaichi hopes can help the LDP secure a "sole majority" in parliament and push through bolder policies more easily, Dr Seijiro Takeshita, a management professor at the University of Shizuoka, told the BBC World Service's Asia Specific podcast.
"She wants to solidify her position to make things smoother at a later stage," Takeshita said.
But the snap election gamble comes with its own set of risks.
The LDP's leadership has been on shaky ground, and Takaichi is the country's fourth PM in five years. Her predecessors' terms were cut short by falling public support and scandals.
Her immediate predecessor, Shigeru Ishiba, also announced a snap election shortly after taking office - leading to one of the LDP's worst ever results and costing the party its majority in the House of Representatives.
Another challenge looms in the form of a new, consolidated opposition, the Centrist Reform Alliance, which was formed last week by Japan's largest opposition party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and the Komeito party, the LDP's former coalition partner.
Takaichi said the dissolution of parliament was being carried out only "after establishing a thorough system" which ensures there is no disruption to economic policies affecting livelihoods and rising prices.
What Takaichi is hoping for is that "people will trust her to deliver on her promises", Dr Jeffrey Kingston, an Asian studies professor at Temple University in the US, told the BBC.
Her high approval ratings are "only going to decline so she wants to lock in the benefits of a long honeymoon", he added.$BTC
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