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Supporters of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol gathered outside the court in the capital Seoul

Show of support

Protesters storm S. Korea court after president's detention extended

A tunnel discovered on the US-Mexico border allowing entry from Ciudad Juarez into the Texan city of El Paso will be sealed by Mexican authorities, an official said

Under investigation

Mexican authorities to seal secret tunnel on US border

People displaced from recent clashes between armed groups board the back of a truck in the municipality of Tibu in Colombia

'Critical situation'

60 killed in Colombia guerilla violence

People gather at the entrance of Tokyo's Kokugikan arena for the arrival of sumo wrestlers during the Grand Sumo Tournament

Sumo to stage event in Paris as part of global push

Young people took the biggest mental health hit during the pandemic, research has shown

'Generational problem'

Youth still struggling in pandemic's shadow

Some of those present carried photos of the hostages under a sign saying 'abducted'

Awaiting ceasefire

Hope, fear at Paris rally for Gaza hostages

A relative in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, carries the body of a child -- Civil Defence rescuers said an Israeli strike killed at least five members of one family

Gaza ceasefire to begin Sunday morning

A third contingent of police officers from Kenya arrives at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince on January 18, 2025, to bolster a multinational force seeking to restore order to the violence-ridden Caribbean island

Seeking to restore order

More Kenyan police land in Haiti to bolster security mission

Supporters of suspended South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol stand off with police outside a Seoul court

Potential to extend detention

S. Korean court extends impeached president's detention, angering supporters

The burial of former warlord Prince Johnson marks the end of a five-day state funeral

Thousands attend funeral of Liberian ex-warlord Prince Johnson

Displaced Sudanese bid farewell to locals in Port Sudan on January 7, 2025 as they embark to return home by bus to Sinja, in Sennar province, after Sudan's army regained control

After army recapture

Over 55,000 displaced Sudanese return to southeastern state: IOM

Police stand guard at a Kolkata court's entrance as the man accused of the rape and murder of an Indian doctor arrive

Indian court finds man guilty in notorious hospital rape case

People protest against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the first Trump administration's immigration policies outside a Chicago ICE office in 2018

Trump administration plans mass immigrant arrests next week: incoming official

Queen Sonja of Norway was fitted with a pacemaker

Norway queen leaves hospital after pacemaker surgery: palace

Hamada Shaqura, a former food blogger, distributes food after cooking a meal for displaced Palestinians in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza

Humanitarian assistance

Aid agencies ready Gaza push but warn of mammoth obstacles

People in southern Gaza celebrate the announcement of a deal to end the 15-month war with Israel

Israeli government approves Gaza ceasefire deal

A member of Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) guerilla group near the Baudo river in Choco province on October 26, 2023

Paused peace negotiations

39 dead in Colombia guerilla violence, govt suspends peace talks

Washington offered an expansion of the Lobito Corridor into eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as a way of prodding the DRC and Rwanda toward a peace deal

Expansion of Lobito railway

US offered infrastructure incentive for DRC-Rwanda peace deal: official

People in southern Gaza celebrate the announcement of a deal to end the 15-month war with Israel

Israeli cabinet convenes to vote on Gaza ceasefire deal

Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev at their sentencing on Friday

During Ukraine offensive

Russia sentences Navalny lawyers to years behind bars

Now inside: A dress rehearsal ahead of the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump

Freezing temperatures

Trump inauguration to be moved indoors due to cold

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses, the largest single-day act of clemency in US history

Commuted sentences

Biden grants clemency to 2,500 people, most ever in a day

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is sworn in during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on her nomination to be Secretary of Homeland Security, on Capitol Hill in Washington on January 17, 2025

Immigration crackdown

Trump homeland security pick calls border 'number one' threat

Some 150,000 people have been displaced in the Masisi and Lubero territories in North Kivu province

Humanitarian crisis

Over 230,000 flee eastern DR Congo violence since January 1: UN

Starting on Sunday

US Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok

France's President Emmanuel Macron was in Beirut to support his new-elected Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun

To offer support

Macron announces aid conference to rebuild Lebanon

Ilya Yashin was one of several Russian political prisoners freed in a historic swap with the West last summer

Organised anti-war protests

Parents of Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin interrogated

Most Gazans have been displaced at least once by the war

Finally there's hope

Displaced Gazans awaiting truce so they can go home

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