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People ride on the back of a pickup truck driving along a street in Sana'a. (EPA)
US imposes new sanctions targeting Houthi oil, weapons and smuggling networks
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration imposed new sanctions on Friday targeting Iran-backed Houthi networks involved in oil transfers, weapons procurement and smuggling operations that Washington says help finance the group’s attacks and destabilizing activities. The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said the measures target 21 individuals and entities, as well as one vessel, including front companies and facilitators based in Yemen, Oman and the United Arab Emirates. “The Houthis threaten the United States by committing acts of terror and attacking commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement. He said the Treasury would use all available tools to disrupt the networks enabling Houthi operations....
January 17, 2026

US imposes new sanctions targeting Houthi oil, weapons and smuggling networks

The Gaza administration committee is pushing to create a reconstruction and relief fund at the World Bank, according to Ali Shaath, head of the committee
Palestinians in Gaza skeptical about US ceasefire plans amid ongoing Israeli attacks
GAZA CITY — Palestinians in Gaza have expressed skepticism about US President Donald Trump’s announcement that the second phase of the ceasefire agreement has begun, amid a continuing humanitarian crisis and ongoing Israeli attacks.Israeli forces have continued deadly attacks across Gaza despite the US announcement about the launch of the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement.Palestinians in Gaza City say they are not optimistic about the prospects of the recently announced second phase of the ceasefire agreement, with so many of the promises of the first yet to be fulfilled.“It’s as if we’re still in the first phase,” said one man. “The crossings were supposed to open, prices were supposed to fall, and Israeli attacks were supposed to stop. Nothing has changed except...
January 16, 2026

Palestinians in Gaza skeptical about US ceasefire plans amid ongoing Israeli attacks

Yoweri Museveni
Seven killed in Uganda  clashes as Museveni dominates election results
KAMPALA — At least seven people were killed in violence overnight in central Uganda, police said on Friday,as President Yoweri Museveni has dominated results of Thursday's presidential election.The opposition said they were attacked by security forces in the home of an MP in Butambala, about 55km south-west of the capital, Kampala, while police blame the violence on the opposition.Results announced by the electoral commission showed Museveni with over 75% of votes in Thursday's presidential election, based on tallies from 59% of polling stations. His main challenger, popular singer Bobi Wine, trailed on about 21% and the remaining votes were split among six other candidates.Wine's home in Kampala has been surrounded by security forces "effectively placing him and his wife...
January 16, 2026

Seven killed in Uganda  clashes as Museveni dominates election results

The Black Hawk crashed during an emergency evacuation
Israeli military helicopter crashes near Bethlehem
JERUSALEM — An Israeli military helicopter crashed during a recovery operation near Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank on Friday, the Israeli army said.The Black Hawk helicopter went down while being airlifted after making an emergency landing because of bad weather, the Times of Israel reported quoting military sources.During the recovery operation, the damaged helicopter was being carried by another aircraft using a cable when it became detached and crashed to the ground. No injuries were reported.Israeli Air Force chief Tomer Bar has ordered the establishment of a military investigative committee to examine the incident, the report said. — Agencies
January 16, 2026

Israeli military helicopter crashes near Bethlehem

Israeli soldiers next to an underground tunnel in the Al-Shaboura neighborhood of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, 08 December 2025. — EPA
Israel sees spike in suicide among troops as conflicts persist
JERUSALEM — Israel is grappling with a dramatic increase in post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide among its troops as fighting persists in Gaza and Lebanon and as tensions flare with Iran, Reuters reported citing recent reports by the country's Defense Ministry.An Israeli parliamentary committee found in October that 279 soldiers had attempted suicide in the period from January 2024 to July 2025, a sharp increase from previous years.The report found that combat soldiers comprised 78% of all suicide cases in Israel in 2024.Thetwo-year assault on Gaza quickly expanded with cross-border fire between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah, and saw hundreds of thousands of soldiers and reservists deployed across both fronts in some of the heaviest fighting in the country's...
January 16, 2026

Israel sees spike in suicide among troops as conflicts persist

Police officers stand guard as supporters of impeached former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol rally outside the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, 16 January 2026.  — EPA
South Korea's Yoon given five-year jail term in first ruling over martial law
SEOUL — A South Korean court on Friday sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison on charges that included abuse of power, obstructing justice and falsifying documents following his failed bid to impose martial law in December 2024.This is the first of the verdicts in four trials linked to his shock martial law decree. Although short-lived, the move triggered nationwide turmoil, sparking protests as MPs rushed to the national assembly to overturn Yoon's decision.The Seoul Central District Court found Yoon guilty of mobilising the presidential security service to block authorities from executing an arrest warrant to investigate him for his martial law declaration.In televised proceedings, the 65-year-old former prosecutor was also found guilty of charges that...
January 16, 2026

South Korea's Yoon given five-year jail term in first ruling over martial law

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (C) arrives for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, 16 January 2026. — EPA
Xi Jinping hails 'turnaround' in China-Canada ties as Carney visits Beijing
BEIJING — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney hailed a new “strategic partnership” with China during a meeting with leader Xi Jinping Friday, as the US ally took steps to reset ties with Beijing in the face of historic friction with Donald Trump.Canada and China have struck an initial trade deal that will slash tariffs on electric vehicles and canola, Carney said, as both nations promised to tear down trade barriers while forging new strategic ties.The first Canadian prime minister to visit China since 2017, Carney is seeking to rebuild ties with his country's second-largest trading partner after the United States following months of diplomatic efforts.Speaking to Xi in Beijing’s ornate Great Hall of the People on Friday morning, Carney described the countries’ “new...
January 16, 2026

Xi Jinping hails 'turnaround' in China-Canada ties as Carney visits Beijing

People take part during a demonstration under the slogan 'Greenland is for Greenlanders' in front of the US embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 14 January 2026. — EPA
EU troops in Greenland will not impact Trump's takeover plans, White House says
WASHINGTON — European troop deployment in Greenland will have no impact on US President Donald Trump's plans to take control of the Arctic island from Denmark, the White House said on Thursday."I don't think troops in Europe impact the president's decision-making process, nor does it impact his goal of the acquisition of Greenland at all," Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said when asked about the deployment.Her comments come on the same day that European military personnel began arriving in Greenland, hours after a meeting between US, Danish and Greenlandic officials in Washington failed to resolve what Denmark's foreign minister called "fundamental disagreement" over the mineral-rich Arctic island.France, Sweden, Germany and Norway announced on Wednesday that they...
January 16, 2026

EU troops in Greenland will not impact Trump's takeover plans, White House says

Minneapolis police face off with protesters outside of the Whipple Federal Building in Fort Snelling, Minnesota, on 15 January 2026. — EPA
Trump threatens to use Insurrection Act as protests flare in Minneapolis 
MINNEAPOLIS — US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis to enforce his administration’s massive immigration crackdown.The protests flared after a man was shot and wounded by an immigration officer on Wednesday, further raising the fear and anger across the city since Renee Good was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Jan. 7.Witness video shows the moment federal agents gained access to a Minneapolis home on Wednesday night following an ICE-involved shooting.According to DHS, federal agents were conducting a “targeted traffic stop” when a Venezuelan national resisted arrest and started to “violently assault” an officer.Tensions...
January 16, 2026

Trump threatens to use Insurrection Act as protests flare in Minneapolis 

UN Secretary-General Guterres addresses the General Assembly on his priorities for 2026.
UN chief lashes out at world leaders putting global cooperation on 'deathwatch'
NEW YORK — UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres lashed out at world leaders on Thursday who he accused of turning their backs on international cooperation amid “self-defeating geopolitical divides” and “brazen violations of international law”.Addressing the UN General Assembly on Thursday, the UN secretary-general slammed “wholesale cuts in development and humanitarian aid”, warning that they were “shaking the foundations of global cooperation and testing the resilience of multilateralism itself”.The secretary-general, who will step down at the end of 2026, held off naming offending countries, but appeared to refer to deep cuts to the budgets of UN agencies made by the United States under the “America First” policies of US President Donald Trump.Guterres was giving...
January 16, 2026

UN chief lashes out at world leaders putting global cooperation on 'deathwatch'

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