Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Iraq's Al Faw Grand Port, a deep-water container port on its only stretch of coastline, is aiming to commission its first phase, positioning the country as a new global shipping hub.

One of the world's largest gas plants began processing associated gas from the offshore Marjan and Zuluf fields, heading for 2.6 billion cubic feet a day of raw gas capacity in 2026, as the Marjan crude increment came on stream.

Right after the Stairway to Adulthood TV special aired, the Kaguya-sama: Love Is War anime announced a theatrical finale built on a new original story by creator Aka Akasaka.

A two-judge Ninth Circuit panel turned down an emergency appeal by the Environmental Defense Center and Center for Biological Diversity seeking to block the federal restart permit granted to Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, sending the company's stock surging. The terse December 31 order is not the end: the court put the case on an expedited schedule, with its first deadline on January 26.

Jimmy Bannos Jr. and chef-partner Kevin Stack open a large, lively Greek restaurant in the Chicago suburb of Niles, with a wood-fire grill.

After the Supreme Court refused to let him deploy the Guard in Chicago, President Trump said on Truth Social that he was removing National Guard troops from Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, ending the LA deployment that began in June.

Swiss utility KWO finished building a new 113-metre arch dam directly in front of its cracked 1932 predecessor high in the Grimsel Pass.

There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless… ~Next Shine~ premieres on Japanese television, continuing studio MOTHER's light-novel adaptation about a reinvented high schooler juggling confessions from two of her school's most popular students.

Group board member Nicolás de Lope took over as CEO of Aldi Nord from Torsten Hufnagel, who left after 28 years for personal reasons; Germany chief Felix Rottmann moved up to the group board.

Nvidia projected 20 million units of Blackwell and Rubin generation GPUs, against 4 million of the prior Hopper generation, alongside about $500 billion in combined sales.

From January 2026 Aldi's Polish store staff earn PLN 5,700 to 6,450 gross a month and store managers up to PLN 9,350, with every employee also getting PLN 400 a month on a prepaid card for shopping at Aldi.

Rolex increased recommended retail prices worldwide as 2026 began, by roughly 2.5% to nearly 6% depending on model and material, with gold references such as the yellow gold Daytona and Submariner rising by about 5.7-5.8%.

A federal magistrate judge combined 33 class actions over the Cl0p theft of Oracle E-Business Suite data into In re Oracle Corporation Data Breach Litigation.

At CES 2026 Qualcomm added the Snapdragon X2 Plus to its PC line, a 3 nm chip with up to 10 Oryon cores and an 80 TOPS NPU that brings X2-series performance and multi-day battery life to lower-priced Copilot+ laptops from the first half of 2026.

After tracing the toxin cereulide to arachidonic acid (ARA) oil from a global supplier, Nestlé began recalling SMA, BEBA, NAN, Alfamino and Guigoz batches country by country from 5 January 2026, in more than 60 countries.

Vuori filed a trademark suit in Miami federal court against the anonymous owners of 24 look-alike web shops such as vuoriclothing-outlets.shop and vuoriactivewear.com, seeking to freeze and seize them.

Boston Dynamics revealed the product version of its fully electric Atlas humanoid at Hyundai's CES media day and began building it at its Boston headquarters immediately. Every 2026 Atlas is already committed, with fleets going to Hyundai's Robotics Metaplant Application Center and to Google DeepMind.

A 243-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Oma, Aomori, sold for a record JPY 510.3 million at Toyosu Market's first auction of 2026, bought by Kiyomura, the owner of the Sushi Zanmai chain.