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The Comprehensive Strategic Partnership treaty signed between Moscow and Tehran on January 17 shed light on a new project to deliver Russian gas to Iran.

NATO members won’t be able to meet US president-elect Donald Trump’s demand to raise military spending to 5% of GDP in the near future, Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said.

In mid-January, the US national debt reached $36.174 trillion, or $106,400 per American, Sputnik calculated, according to the US Treasury Department data.

NUUK (Sputnik) - A US invasion of Greenland would not make sense, since Washington already has unlimited access to the island, Pele Broberg, the leader of the opposition Naleraq party in Greenland's parliament and former foreign minister, told Sputnik.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Donald Trump's incoming US presidential team is planning to start a large-scale raid against undocumented migrants in Chicago next week, media reported, citing four people familiar with the matter.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - France plans to close its permanent military bases in Senegal, as well as in other countries in West and Central Africa, by the summer of 2025, Senegalese news agency reported on Friday, citing a French military source.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US Department of the Treasury will begin taking extraordinary measures on January 21 to prevent the United States from defaulting on its debt, outgoing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said.

CAIRO (Sputnik) - Egypt, Palestine, Qatar, the United States and Israel will coordinate, monitor compliance with agreement on Gaza, Al Qahera News channel reported, citing an Egyptian source.

BUENOS AIRES (Sputnik) - Nigeria has become the ninth country to join BRICS as a partner state, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry said.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Israeli government has reaffirmed that the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement will begin on January 19.