The election on Saturday of Taiwan’s vice president and candidate of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Lai Ching-te, to be the island’s next leader highlights Taiwanese voters’ support for political continuity, but may add fresh uncertainty into already frosty relations with China....
According to a December report by the United Nations into food insecurity in Gaza, “At least one in four households (more than half a million people) in the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic acute food insecurity conditions (IPC Phase 5 – Catastrophe), characterized by extreme food gaps and collapse of their livelihood.”...
Russian forces targeted 12 rural communities in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy Oblast on Jan. 13, injuring a civilian in the town of Shostka, the local military administration reported....