At least 34 dead in Colombia landslides (edition.cnn.com)
Volcanic eruption started on the Reykjanes peninsula (icelandmonitor.mbl.is)
State encourages coffee farmers to increase production – Kenya News Agency (www.kenyanews.go.ke)
Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists (www.theguardian.com)
Record heat, record emissions, record fossil fuel consumption. One month out from Cop28, the world is further than ever from reaching its collective climate goals. At the root of all these problems, according to recent research, is the human “behavioural crisis”, a term coined by an interdisciplinary team of scientists.
Fintech South Hub has turned Uruguay into a beacon for the sector in Latin America. - News (www.uruguayxxi.gub.uy)
ICT sector mission to Porto Alegre boosts collaboration between Uruguay and Brazil - News (www.uruguayxxi.gub.uy)
Cargo ship back in service after fire incident - Cook Islands News (www.cookislandsnews.com)
Businesses in Kikuyu struggling as festivities end – Kenya News Agency (www.kenyanews.go.ke)
Kakamega to host an international business conference – Kenya News Agency (www.kenyanews.go.ke)
IGRTC to address ECDE row – Kenya News Agency (www.kenyanews.go.ke)
Three armed Palestinians trying to break into settlement killed (www.reuters.com)
Egypt says it’ll remain in control of its Gaza border after PM suggests Israel might take it over (www.timesofisrael.com)
The spokesperson for Egypt’s foreign ministry says Cairo will remain in control of its borders after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed during a press conference earlier this evening that Israel is considering taking control after the war over the Philadelphi Corridor, which runs for 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) along the...
Russia attacks 12 communities in Sumy Oblast, injuring 1 (kyivindependent.com)
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....
Austrian heiress giving away $36.6M because the government won't tax her inheritance (www.cbc.ca)
Marlene Engelhorn says that when she inherited her grandmother’s multimillion-dollar fortune in 2022, she “wanted to be happy about it.”...
No party gets majority in Taiwan Legislature; KMT wins most seats (focustaiwan.tw)
US military strikes another Houthi-controlled site after warning ships to avoid parts of Red Sea (www.kcrg.com)
U.S. carries out new strike in Yemen after Biden vows to keep pressure on (www.reuters.com)
Biden: US delivered private message to Iran about Houthi attacks | Reuters (www.reuters.com)
No breathalyzers for eSwatini police, Spokesperson Senior Superintendent Phindile Vilakati says they will now arrest drivers who smell alcohol without conducting tests. (www.swazilandnews.co.za)
Blackout in Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital as fuel runs out, babies at high risk (www.aljazeera.com)
“We’re trying to work with what we have. But we will have to stop working completely, because we don’t have any electricity,” one doctor at the hospital told Al Jazeera. “There’s a complete outage so how can we treat the patients?”...
Le ministère du Budget dévoile le budget de l'Etat pour l'exercice 2024 (www.adi.dj)
Tragic Events in PNG Not a Good Example to Fiji And Other Pacific Island States – Fiji Sun (fijisun.com.fj)
Russian election candidate calls Ukraine war a ‘big mistake’ by Putin (www.nbcnews.com)
Boris Nadezhdin told the wives of Russia’s mobilized soldiers the war was “a big mistake by Putin, of course, and the consequences will be very grave.”...