Liam Conejo Ramos, 5, is detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers after arriving home from preschool, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, in a Minneapolis suburb. (Ali Daniels via AP)

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy frustrated by lack of European help

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is criticizing European allies for their slow and fragmented response to Russia’s invasion. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, he highlighted Europe’s inadequate support compared to the U.S. push for peace. Zelenskyy met with U.S. President Donald Trump, calling the talks productive. He urges Europe to become a global force, contrasting its response to Washington’s actions in Venezuela and Iran. Despite European support, internal disagreements and slow responses frustrate Kyiv. Zelenskyy stresses the need for Western weaponry and international focus on the war as Russia’s influence persists.

Europe, he said, “still feels more like a geography, history, a tradition, not a real political force, not a great power,” and that it spends too little on defense and fails to stop Russian tankers that are breaking international sanctions.

After Trump cut support for Ukraine, other NATO countries began buying weapons from the U.S. to donate to Kyiv under a special financial arrangement.

Five-year-old detained by ICE

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents have detained a 5-year-old boy and his father in Minnesota, taking them to a detention facility in Texas. School officials and the family’s lawyer say this is part of the ongoing immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities. Zena Stenvik, the school superintendent in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights, says the boy, Liam Conejo Ramos, was “essentially” used “as bait” to apprehend his father, who is pursuing an asylum claim in the U.S.

Stenvik said the family, who came to the U.S. in 2024, has an active asylum case and had not been ordered to leave the country.

The Department of Homeland Security says the operation targeted not the child, but the father — Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, from Ecuador — who fled on foot when ICE arrived but was soon apprehended.

Liam is the district’s fourth student who has been detained recently.

During a visit to Minnesota on Thursday, Vice President J.D. Vance defended the federal agents’ actions.

Gates Foundation to employ AI at Rwandan health centers

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda will test technology powered by artificial intelligence in more than 50 health clinics as part of a new initiative by the Gates Foundation to support 1,000 clinics across Africa with the aim to improve health care services. Andrew Muhire, a senior official with Rwanda’s Ministry of Health, said on Thursday that the technology is intended to strengthen rather than replace clinical judgment. Rwanda now has one health care worker for 1,000 patients — far from the globally recommended ratio of 4:1,000. The Gates Foundation and OpenAI on Wednesday launched a new initiative dubbed Horizons1000, with joint funding of $50 million over two years. Bill Gates said the initiative will help close the health inequality gap.

NASA and families of fallen astronauts mark 40th anniversary of space shuttle Challenger accident

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — All seven on board were killed when Challenger broke apart following liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986, which was 40 years ago on Thursday. At a memorial ceremony at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, Challenger pilot Michael Smith’s daughter, Alison, said through tears that her life forever changed that frigid morning, as did many other lives.

Memorably, on board was schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, who was selected from more than 100 teachers representing every state.

Bob Foerster, a sixth-grade math and science teacher from Indiana, who was among the 10 finalists, attended the memorial. Foerster said he’s grateful that space education blossomed after the accident and that it didn’t just leave Challenger’s final crew as “martyrs.”

US government warns it may take action in Haiti

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. has warned the transitional council in charge of Haiti against making changes to the troubled country’s government, as pressure mounts for the unelected body to move toward elections for the first time in a decade. The U.S. Embassy posted Wednesday on X that such a maneuver would undermine efforts to establish “a minimal level of security and stability” in Haiti, and said the U.S. would take “appropriate measures” to respond. The statement came as some members of the council are at odds with Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, although it wasn’t immediately clear why. The council is supposed to step down by Feb. 7, but critics warn some members are seeking to stay in power longer.

Canada PM Carney fires back at comment from Trump

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney responded to U.S. President Donald Trump comment that “Canada lives because of the United States” on Thursday by saying Canada thrives because of Canadian values. Carney says Canada can show the world that the future doesn’t have to be autocratic after returning from Davos where he gave a speech that garnered widespread attention. In Davos at the World Economic Forum, Carney condemned coercion by great powers on smaller countries without mentioning Trump. Upon returning home to Canada, Carney says his country “can show that another way is possible, that the arc of history isn’t destined to be warped toward authoritarianism and exclusion; it can still bend toward progress and justice.”