President Trump signed a presidential memorandum ordering the United States' withdrawal from 66 international organizations, claiming they no longer serve American interests. This withdrawal includes 35 non-UN organizations and 31 UN entities.

According to the 2026 budget approved by the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye, total budget expenditures have been set at 18.929 trillion Turkish lira (440 billion USD). In contrast, budget revenues are estimated at 16.2 trillion Turkish lira (377 billion USD).

The Québec government recently introduced Bill 9, An Act Respecting the Reinforcement of Laïcité in Québec. Laïcité is the constitutional principle of secularism in France. Article 1 of the French Constitution is commonly interpreted as the separation of civil society and religious society.

On 3 January 2026, the United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a military operation in Caracas. Donald Trump announced that the US is “going to run the country”, and the US Ambassador to the UN, Michael Waltz, stated, "You cannot continue to have the largest energy reserves in the world under the control of adversaries of the United States”.