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德外长将晤中亚五国 讨论防规避对俄制裁等议题 | 联合早报

发布/2026年2月9日 23:13

德国外交部长瓦德富尔将于星期三（2月11日）在柏林与中亚国家外长会晤，议题包括能源合作以及防止规避对俄制裁等问题。

路透社报道，针对俄罗斯入侵乌克兰的欧盟第20轮制裁方案，或首次对包括吉尔吉斯斯坦在内的中亚国家采取措施。欧盟方面指控，一些中亚国家企业系统性地从欧盟采购商品，再转售给俄罗斯，从而协助规避制裁。

自2022年俄乌战争爆发以来，德国与吉尔吉斯斯坦等中亚国家的贸易额显著增长。

德国外交部发言人说，瓦德富尔将与土库曼斯坦、塔吉克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、乌兹别克斯坦和哈萨克斯坦的外交部长举行会谈。

发言人未透露德国是否支持对这些国家实施欧盟制裁。

发言人指出，中亚国家在多项当前议题上正成为德国“日益重要的合作伙伴”，包括能源多元化、资源安全、应对气候变化，以及防止规避对俄制裁等方面。

此外，德国经济界也对包括哈萨克斯坦在内的中亚国家所拥有的原材料资源抱有浓厚兴趣。

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Judge temporarily halts order requiring Trump to unfreeze tunnel funding

February 9, 2026 6:19 PM UTC / Reuters

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Feb 9 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge in New York on Monday temporarily put her ruling on hold forcing the Trump administration to lift a four-month-old freeze on federal funding for the $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project connecting New York City and New Jersey.

U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas on Friday had ordered the funding restored. The Justice Department had warned it would be required by 1 p.m Monday to disburse up to $200 million in funds for the project unless her order halted.

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Vargas said she would put her order on hold until Thursday 5 p.m. to give the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals time to consider the government’s emergency request.

Reporting by David Shepardson

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尚穆根谈中国行：理解历史 不视和平为理所当然

发布时间：2026年2月9日 23:56 / 来源：联合早报

国家安全统筹部长兼内政部长尚穆根（右一）正式访问中国期间，参观了多处对中国近现代发展意义重大的地方，包括延安革命纪念馆。 （取自尚穆根脸书）

国家安全统筹部长兼内政部长尚穆根在参观中国人民抗日战争纪念馆及延安梁家河村等革命景点后指出，理解历史有助我们思虑更周全地与伙伴互动，并提醒人们和平绝非理所当然。

尚穆根星期一（2月9日）在脸书发文，图文并茂地分享了自己在1月31日至2月3日正式访问中国期间，参观多处对中国近代发展具有重要意义的地方后的感悟。

他在北京期间，参观了2021年为庆祝中共建党百年开设的中国共产党历史展览馆，以及中国人民抗日战争纪念馆。

尚穆根写道：“后者警醒着我们，整个亚洲在第二次世界大战期间所做的巨大牺牲——包括新加坡。我们每年2月都举办全面防卫日活动，以铭记我们在日据时期的经历。

“理解历史有助我们思虑更周全地与伙伴互动，并提醒人们和平绝非理所当然。”

尚穆根此行也到陕西参观了延安革命纪念馆，以及杨家岭革命旧址。他指出，红军长征后，延安在1935年至1948年间成为中国共产党的总部，时常被誉为“中共革命的摇篮”，也是中共组织基础发展和许多治理理念孕育的地方。

他也参观了延安市延川县梁家河村。这是中共总书记、中国国家主席习近平在1969年至1975年间，作为知识青年上山下乡、参与劳动，之后担任党支部书记的地方。

访华期间，尚穆根会见了中共政治局委员、中央政法委书记陈文清，以及中国国务委员兼公安部部长王小洪，讨论深化新中两国之间的执法合作。

据内政部此前文告，尚穆根与王小洪会面时，重申新中两国机构间的良好工作关系，并讨论在打击诈骗和贩毒等领域深化执法合作的方式。他们也同意加强定期交流，以进一步巩固两国关系。

尚穆根指出，愿同中方保持密切沟通，进一步深化执法安全务实合作。

Senate Republicans confirmed half a dozen of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees last week, continuing a quick pace to green-light as many of his picks as possible.

While the Senate GOP is moving fast to confirm Trump’s judicial nominees, the president and some of his allies want to eviscerate an over-century-old tradition in the Senate that provides bipartisan guardrails to the judicial nomination process.

They contend that the blue slip tradition is slowing down Republicans from being able to confirm picks, and that Democrats are holding the process hostage.

“Nuking the blue slip would be a huge mistake,” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told Fox News Digital.

Tillis, like several other Republicans, has argued that the blue slips are a valuable tool of the minority, and that inevitably, the GOP would need to use the tradition to their advantage when Democrats regain control of the upper chamber.

The Senate has confirmed 33 judges since the start of Trump’s second term, a figure that dwarfs the number of total judicial nominees, including U.S. attorneys, district and circuit court judges, moved through the upper chamber during his first go-round in the White House.

During the first year of his first term, the Senate confirmed 19 Article III nominees, including Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.

Though Republicans are far ahead of Trump’s first time clip, Democrats under former President Joe Biden still outpaced them in this metric. Biden clocked 42 total judicial nominees confirmed during the first year of his term.

Whether the Senate can outpace Trump’s final total of 234 judicial nominees from his first term remains to be seen, but for now the blue slip appears to be safe.

Still, Trump sounded off on the practice late last year in the Oval Office, arguing that the GOP should “get rid of blue slips, because, as a Republican President, I am unable to put anybody in office having to do with U.S. attorneys or having to do with judges.”

Much of his frustration with the tradition, which has been around for over 100 years in the upper chamber, likely stemmed from the nominations of Alina Habba and Lindsey Halligan getting derailed by blue slips last year.

He’s taken his frustrations out on Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, a vocal proponent of the practice, and other Republicans that want to maintain the tradition.

Notably, Grassley modified the tradition in 2017 to allow for circuit court judges to skirt the process, further boosting the number of judges Republicans were able to confirm under Trump despite Democratic objections.

When asked if the Senate’s pace in confirming judicial nominees further affirmed that the blue slip was here to stay, Grassley told Fox News Digital, “It doesn’t need to be a present question.”

“Because it’s a question of 110 years, and everybody in the Senate wants to maintain the blue slip,” Grassley said.

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

US FDA says Novo’s obesity pill TV ad is false or misleading

February 9, 2026 3:59 PM UTC / Reuters

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Feb 9 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said a television advertisement for Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss pill is “false or misleading,” according to a letter dated February 5.

The health regulator said the television spot misleadingly suggests that Wegovy, in its pill form, offers an advancement or improvement over other weight-loss drugs that belong to the class known as GLP-1s.

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“We confirm that Novo Nordisk received an ‘Untitled Letter’ from FDA concerning a television commercial for Wegovy pill, which has been running since launch — not the Super Bowl ad,” said Novo spokeswoman Ambre James-Brown.

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The agency said the Novo direct-to-consumer ad was in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and asked the drugmaker to take immediate action to address any violations, which could include ceasing all ads containing misleading claims.

“We take all regulatory feedback seriously and are in the process of responding to the FDA to address their concerns regarding the advertisement’s presentation,” James-Brown added.

The FDA also said the claims “live lighter” and “a way forward” misleadingly imply additional weight loss compared to other currently approved GLP-1 treatments, when this has not been demonstrated.

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“Additionally, they misleadingly imply benefits beyond physical weight loss, such as emotional relief, reduced psychological burden, hope, or direction for patients’ lives, positioning the drug as a solution to broader life challenges rather than a treatment for a specific condition, when this has also not been demonstrated,” the agency said in the letter.

The FDA also flagged the ad included certain presentations where the text on screen did not match the audio.

Reporting by Sriparna Roy in Bengaluru; Editing by Vijay Kishore and Alan Barona

Retail operator of Eddie Bauer, venerable outdoor apparel retailer, declares bankruptcy

February 9, 2026 / 1:45 PM EST / CBS News

Eddie Bauer said Monday that it has declared bankruptcy — the third time the 106-year-old outdoor apparel retailer has filed for Chapter 11 protection from its debts.

The Bellevue, Washington-based company, which operates roughly 180 stores across the U.S. and Canada, said its retail locations will continue serving customers as the company starts winding down some stores. Its e-commerce and wholesale operations are not affected by the filing because they are operated separately.

The bankruptcy doesn’t affect Eddie Bauer stores in markets outside the U.S. and Canada.

“This is not an easy decision,” Marc Rosen, CEO of Catalyst Brands, which holds the license to operate Eddie Bauer stores in the U.S. and Canada, said in a statement. “However, this restructuring is the best way to optimize value for the retail company’s stakeholders and also ensure Catalyst Brands remains profitable and with strong liquidity and cash flow.”

In recent years, the company has faced dwindling sales, supply-chain issues and what Rosen on Monday cited as “ongoing tariff uncertainty.”

“While the leadership team at Catalyst was able to make significant strides in the brand, including rapid improvements in product development and marketing, those changes could not be implemented fast enough to fully address the challenges created over several years,” he said.

Eddie Bauer launched in 1920 as a Seattle fishing shop, and became known for providing outerwear, including down jackets and sleeping bags, for the military during World War I. In 1963, Jim Whittaker wore the company’s clothing in becoming the first American to climb Mount Everest.

Edited by Alain Sherter

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Ghislaine Maxwell pleads Fifth, shuts down questions in House Epstein probe | Fox News

By Elizabeth ElkindFox News

Published February 9, 2026 10:15am EST

The House Oversight Committee’s deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell ended less than an hour after it began on Monday morning, when the convicted accomplice of the late Jeffrey Epstein pleaded the Fifth Amendment.

Maxwell appeared before lawmakers virtually for a closed-door interview in the House bipartisan probe into the federal government’s handling of Epstein’s case.

Her attorney apparently told lawmakers, however, that she could not implicate neither President Donald Trump nor former President Bill Clinton in any wrongdoing.

“[B]oth President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing. Ms. Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to that explanation,” lawyer David Oscar Markus posted on X after the deposition.

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Markus also told lawmakers that she would only answer questions if her prison sentence was cut short by Trump, according to the statement.

“If this Committee and the American public truly want to hear the unfiltered truth about what happened, there is a straightforward path. Ms. Maxwell is prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump. Only she can provide the complete account. Some may not like what they hear, but the truth matters,” his statement said.

Maxwell is currently serving out a 20-year sentence at a Texas prison.

“As expected, Ghislaine Maxwell took the fifth and refused to answer any questions. This is obviously very disappointing,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told reporters after the deposition. “We had many questions to ask about the crime she and Epstein committed, as well as questions about potential co-conspirators. We sincerely want to get to the truth for the American people and justice for the survivors.”

Comer said Maxwell’s lawyer told the committee that she would only answer questions if she was granted clemency by President Donald Trump.

Maxwell did say through her attorney, however, that neither Trump nor

Democrats on the panel, who spoke after Comer, accused Maxwell of trying to lobby for a pardon and demanded that Trump publicly rule out the possibility.

“What we did get was another episode in her long-running campaign for clemency from President Trump, and President Trump could end that today,” said Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va. “He could rule out clemency for Ghislaine Maxwell, the monster. The question for all of us today is why hasn’t he done that?”

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The former British socialite was found guilty in December 2021 of being an accomplice in Epstein’s scheme to sexually traffic and exploit female minors.

The DOJ said at the time of her sentencing that Maxwell “enticed and groomed minor girls to be abused in multiple ways.”

Comer announced lawmakers would hear from Maxwell late last month during a meeting on holding former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress for refusing to appear for his Epstein probe.

“We’ve been trying to get her in for a deposition. Our lawyers have been saying that she’s going to plead the Fifth, but we have nailed down a date, Feb. 9, where Ghislaine Maxwell will be deposed by this committee,” Comer said at the time.

Contempt proceedings against the Clintons stalled, however, after they agreed via their attorneys to appear in person on Capitol Hill just days before the full House of Representatives was expected to vote on referring the pair to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for criminal charges.

Comer’s team had been in a back-and-forth with Maxwell’s attorney for months trying to nail down a date for her to speak to committee lawyers.

He agreed to delay her previous planned deposition in August after her lawyer asked him to wait until after the Supreme Court decided whether it would hear her appeal. The Supreme Court turned down Maxwell’s case in October.

She and the Clintons’ depositions are part of the House Oversight Committee’s months-long probe into how the government handled Epstein’s case.

Comer told reporters on Monday that five more depositions would happen in the coming weeks including former Victoria’s Secret CEO Les Wexner on Feb. 18, Hillary Clinton on Feb. 26, Bill Clinton on Feb. 27, Epstein accountant Richard Khan on March 11, and Epstein attorney Darren Indyke on March 19.

Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.

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2026 Winter Olympics committee looking into medals breaking and “taking the issue seriously”

February 9, 2026 / 12:06 PM EST / CBS News

Milan — The 2026 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee told CBS News it was “aware of an issue affecting a small number of medals and is investigating the matter,” after some athletes who won medals in the games reported they had broken.

“Don’t jump in them,” Breezy Johnson, who won the gold medal in downhill skiing for Team USA on Sunday, told reporters after her race.

“I was jumping in excitement and it broke. I’m sure somebody will fix it — it’s not like crazy broken — but it’s a little broken,” Johnson said.

Team USA gold medal-winning skier Breezy Johnson shows her broken medal to the media in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, at the Winter Olympics on Feb. 8, 2026. Andrew Milligan/PA Images/Getty

U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu, who won gold with her team Sunday night, posted a video on social media showing her medal also having broken off the ribbon.

“My medal don’t need the ribbon,” she wrote.

In an interview with CBS News on Monday, figure skater Danny O’Shea, making his Olympics debut at the Milano-Cortina Games, said he was being cautious with the gold medal he won with his team on Sunday.

“We’re just trying not to do too much of the jumping around ourselves,” O’Shea said.

His teammate Ellie Kam told CBS News that her gold medal was, “definitely like a heavy weight to carry, but I slept with mine under my pillow, so that’s how I’m keeping mine safe.”

German biathlete Justus Strelow was captured on camera shortly after his bronze win, picking his broken medal up off the ground and trying to reattach it to its ribbon.

The video shows Strelow’s teammates dancing in celebration, and while he’s off camera, his medal can be heard clattering to the floor. When the camera pans to him, he tries to put his medal back together before giving up and resuming dancing.

Swedish local media reported that the country’s cross-country skier Ebba Andersson’s silver medal also came apart.

“The medal fell in the snow and broke in two,” Andersson was quoted as saying, according to Reuters. “Now I hope the organizers have a ‘Plan B’ for broken medals.”

The Winter Olympics Organizing Committee told CBS News it was “taking the issue seriously, fully recognizing the significance these medals hold for the athletes.”

高市领军自民党取得历史性胜利 特朗普热烈祝贺

发布时间：2026年2月9日 23:03 / 来源：联合早报

（东京／华盛顿综合电）日本首相高市早苗取得历史性选举胜利，成为日本多年来罕见的实力派领导人。根据日媒报道，自民党独自赢得了众议院465个席位中的316席，在众议院的代表比例创下了日本战后各政党之最。

高市（64岁）在就任几个月后就将个人政治前途押注于提前大选，声言如果执政联盟无法拿下多数席位，她将辞职。结果，这场豪赌获得巨大成功，星期天（2月8日）的选举佳绩距离自民党失去国会两院控制权仅过去七个月。

自民党连同日本维新会的执政联盟取得众院三分二以上席次。日媒星期一报道，自民党赢得316席，日本维新会36席，共352席，大幅扩大此前仅233席的微弱多数优势；反对党阵营的中道改革联盟惨败，仅得49席；国民民主党28席、参政党15席、未来党11席和日本共产党4席等。

特朗普社媒发文高调祝贺高市胜选 高市立即回应

美国总统特朗普星期天在社交媒体发文高调祝贺高市早苗大胜，赞美她大胆和明智地决定提前举行大选， 并祝愿她在“推行保守的、以实力求和平的议程方面取得巨大成功”。特朗普也赞扬高市是备受尊敬且非常受欢迎的领导人。

高市立即对特朗普的公开支持表示感谢，她在X平台发文说，会继续与美方携手合作，进一步巩固日美同盟，并指这个联盟潜力无限。

她星期一傍晚也在记者会上重申，计划3月访美。高市强调，日本将继续以日美同盟为安全政策基轴，同时加强与韩国、澳大利亚、菲律宾等国家的合作。

截至截稿时，外界尚不知中国是否对自民党祝贺。去年10月21日高市本人当选首相时，中国国家主席习近平并未发贺电，而是由总理李强发贺电，但这个消息也是几天后才由日媒引述外交消息人士透露，中方从未公布李强的贺电内容。

韩国总统李在明则在星期一祝贺自民党胜选，祝愿日本在高市领导下不断取得成功。他也在社媒发文表明希望不久后能在韩国与高市会面。

李在明刚在今年1月访日，期间还走访高市的家乡奈良县。两人同意加强在经济安全、区域和全球问题及人工智能领域的合作，会谈后还即兴同台打鼓。

马来西亚首相安华则形容自民党的压倒性胜选，展现了日本民众对高市推动国家经济复兴愿景的高度信心，以及她动员新一代选民的能力。

黄循财总理：期待与高市合作 深化新日关系

新加坡总理黄循财星期一上午祝贺高市获胜，表示期待与高市携手合作，进一步深化新日关系。

黄总理在贺函中说，新加坡与日本有亲密、实质和持久的伙伴关系。“我们今年将纪念建交60周年，我期待与高市首相继续合力，在传统领域以及绿色转型和数码化等新兴领域，进一步推进两国合作。”

黄总理也说，新加坡期待与日本继续在区域和多边场合密切合作。两国共同致力于维护以规则为基础的国际秩序、多边主义和自由贸易。

他说，作为亚细安—日本对话关系的协调国（至2027年），新加坡期待深化日本与亚细安的合作，促进区域和平与繁荣。

Jasmine Crockett’s vulgar 6-word message for Trump in Epstein probe

By Elizabeth Elkind | Fox News
Published February 9, 2026 1:26pm EST

Progressive Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, shared a vulgar six-word warning for President Donald Trump as Democrats continue to hunt for links implicating him in Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

It comes after Ghislaine Maxwell’s closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee in which the convicted Epstein accomplice pleaded the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering any questions from lawmakers.

“We’re gonna be on his ass,” Crockett told reporters on Monday morning after the deposition concluded. “We have a 34-count convicted felon, and there are people that are still shielding him from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex-trafficking ring.”

She then pivoted to contrasting Trump’s treatment with how House Republicans have handled the Clintons, who are also being asked to testify, though Crockett insisted it was not a partisan situation.

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, spent several minutes criticizing President Donald Trump after Ghislaine Maxwell’s closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee.(Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“Right now we know that they were willing to try to throw the Clintons in prison for not showing up yet,” Crockett said.

“Then we went through the hearing as it relates to the Clintons, I said, listen, we know that Donald Trump’s name is mentioned more. Bring him in, too… This, for the Democrats, this isn’t partisanship. This is about right versus wrong.”

Crockett was referring to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., launching contempt proceedings against former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for initially refusing to appear in person on Capitol Hill for their own closed-door depositions.

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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are pictured on March 15, 2005, in New York City.(Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

The Clintons’ attorneys wrote to Comer announcing they would finally agree to come in under his terms just days before the full House of Representatives was set to vote on referring the ex-first couple to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for criminal charges.

But a public spat has erupted since then, with the Clintons demanding they instead get to testify at televised hearings. Currently, they are slated to be grilled during closed-door, videotaped depositions.

When asked about that back-and-forth by Fox News Digital, Crockett said, “What they want to do is they want to go behind closed doors and then come out with whatever spin that they want to put on it and have it be a he said, she said.”

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer speaks to the media in the Rayburn House Office Building on July 24, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

“They are playing games right now. And again, this is all about shielding and distracting from the President of the United States, who is absolutely mentioned in those files,” Crockett told Fox News Digital.

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Both Trump and Bill Clinton’s names do appear in the Epstein files released by both the committee and the DOJ, but neither is implicated in any wrongdoing related to the late pedophile.

Crockett is currently mounting a long-shot bid for the Senate seat currently being occupied by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.

Follow on Twitter at @liz_elkind and send tips to elizabeth.elkind@fox.com