Our daily nature walk around the world

🇩🇪🇫🇷 German and French farmers held separate vehicle protests against agricultural policies. Around 30,000 German farmers participated in a mass protest on Monday against a plan to scrap tax breaks on diesel, bringing the capital city of Berlin to a standstill. On Tuesday, ~1,000 French farmers and 400 tractors converged on the southwest city of Toulouse to dump manure, hay, and rotten produce on city buildings as part of a protest against recent tax hikes and a general increase in the cost of living.

🇵🇰🇮🇶 Pakistan launched retaliatory airstrikes targeting Iran. Yesterday’s airstrikes, which killed nine Iranians, came two days after Iran launched missiles targeting an alleged terrorist group in Pakistan, which Pakistani officials say killed two children. The unprecedented attacks by Iran and Pakistan on either side of their border appeared to target militant groups with similar separatist goals. Both countries accuse each other of providing a haven to the groups.

🇨🇭 The World Economic Forum’s 54th annual meeting in Davos concludes today. Representatives from 100+ governments and 1,000+ companies convened in Switzerland for five days to discuss urgent global issues. During the summit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky advocated for a new peace agreement, which Russia rejected. Separately, Israeli officials said normalizing diplomatic ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia would be a key element of ending the ongoing war with Hamas.