North Korea: Rare footage shows teens sentenced to hard labour over K-drama (www.bbc.com)
Map reveals where measles cases are surging across the UK (www.independent.co.uk)
There have been 216 cases in the West Midlands since October 2023, with 80 per cent in Birmingham...
ethnic killings one sudan city left up 15000 dead- UN report (www.reuters.com)
In the report to the U.N. Security Council, independent U.N. sanctions monitors attributed the toll in El Geneina to intelligence sources and contrasted it with the U.N. estimate that about 12,000 people have been killed across Sudan since war erupted on April 15, 2023, between the Sudanese army and the RSF....
German lawmakers pass bill seeking faster deportations (www.dw.com)
Biggest faction in Japan's ruling party decides to disband (english.kyodonews.net)
Hostage families protest outside Netanyahu's home, ramping up pressure for a truce-for-hostages deal (abcnews.go.com)
Zelensky calls for seized Russian billions to rebuild Ukraine (www.bbc.com)
President Zelensky has called for some of the Russian billions seized by world banks to be sent to rebuild Ukraine....
Several Investigative Journalists Under Pressure in Ukraine. (text.hrw.org)
Tragedy Strikes as Dormitory Blaze Claims Lives of 13 Students in China (businesswisehub.com)
Ukraine to continue operations in Crimea to degrade Russian logistics – Budanov (news.yahoo.com)
Ukraine will continue to conduct special operations in occupied Crimea to sabotage Russian logistics, Ukrainian Defense Intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov told the Financial Times on Jan. 19....
Iran Can Build 'Several' Nukes With Current Uranium Stockpiles, UN Says (themessenger.com)
Iran can likely build several atomic bombs with its current stockpiles of enriched uranium, the head of the United Nations’ nuclear agency said Thursday....
Ethnic killings in one Sudan city left up to 15,000 dead - UN report (www.reuters.com)
Israeli drones attack hospital in southern Gaza, Palestinian Red Crescent says (www.reuters.com)
Women and children are main victims of Gaza war, with 16,000 killed, UN says (abcnews.go.com)
‘We cannot operate, we have no drugs’: Gaza’s indirect casualties mount as health service decimated (www.theguardian.com)
Health services in Gaza are “decimated”, with medical staff exhausted after three months of war forced to extract shrapnel without adequate pain relief, conduct amputations without anaesthetics and watch children die of cancers because of a lack of facilities and medicine....
Gangs in Haiti have attacked a community for 4 days and residents fear the violence could spread (apnews.com)
Ministers admit losing track of 5,600 asylum claimants - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Swiss cocaine so cheap and widely used they’re considering legalising it (www.telegraph.co.uk)
NATO admiral warns of potential all-out war with Russia (thehill.com)
Top NATO official Adm. Rob Bauer warned Thursday that a larger war with Russia and other adversaries is a real threat amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine....
Why are so many Russians freezing in their homes? (www.dw.com)
Russia boasts a massive energy infrastructure, but a recent wave of heating system breakdowns has left many of its citizens scrambling to keep the frost outside. We are still using the communal infrastructure that was made during the Soviet era," said Svetlana Razvorotneva, a Russian lawmaker and member of the committee in...
'Banker of the Climate Crisis': Lawsuit Targets ING in the Netherlands. (www.commondreams.org)
The Red Sea Conflict Is Scrambling Shipping. Europe Is Bearing the Brunt (www.wsj.com)
Europe is again on the front line of the latest geopolitical tensions, a development that threatens to widen the economic gap between it and the U.S....
Donkey cart loaded with explosives kills a police officer and critically injures 4 others in Kenya (apnews.com)
A donkey cart carrying a suspected improvised bomb blew up at a checkpoint on the Kenya-Somalia border Thursday, killing one Kenyan police officer and critically wounding four others, authorities said....
Estonia expels Russian head of church (kyivindependent.com)
The Estonian government did not extend the residence permit of Metropolitan Yevgeniy of the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, forcing him to leave by Feb. 6, the ERR public broadcaster reported on Jan. 18....
Alarm as Israeli forces move closer to crowded areas in southern Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
As Israeli forces have moved further into southern Gaza, airstrikes and close-combat fighting are approaching areas crowded with more than a million people seeking refuge from the destruction across the rest of the territory....