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Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, photographed in Hanoi in November 2022

Kim Jong Un's sister seen with children in state media images

Morning Roundup

Meteolux warns of freezing rain, ten year anniversary for same-sex marriage, and World Darts Final tonight

Cubans walk past graffiti in Havana telling them 'you need to be happy'

Tradition of visual propaganda

'You need to be happy': graffiti encourages Cuban self-reflection

An investigator photographs the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas

Died before explosion

Vegas Tesla blast suspect's motive unknown as death ruled suicide

Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, pictured in June 2024, has been in exile in Spain since September

On his way to Argentina

Venezuela offers $100,000 reward for exiled opposition candidate

A police officer patrols the French Quarter in New Orleans, a day after a deadly truck attack marred New Year's Day

New Year attack

New Orleans killer acted alone, professed loyalty to jihadist group: FBI

The 45-year-old gunman died after shooting himself in the head, surrounded by police after hours on the run

Including two children

Montenegro mourns after gunman kills 12

Gaza's Hamas-led health ministry says at least 1,057 Palestinian health and medical professionals have been killed since the war erupted

'Horrified' by raid

UN experts slam Israel's 'blatant assault' on health rights in Gaza

Spain has moved to the forefront of the European Union's migration crisis

Via deadly route

Spain's Canary Islands received record 46,843 migrants in 2024: ministry

Migrants face inhospitable terrain, wild animals and criminal groups in the Darien jungle

Only 302,000 attempts

Panama says migrant jungle crossings fell 41% in 2024

A photographer shoots the closed door of Al Jazeera TV's office in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Ramallah following a suspension order from the Palestinian Authority

Contentious coverage

Palestinian Authority suspends Al Jazeera broadcasts

The rescued and dead migrants were found off Tunisia's Kerkennah Islands

Searches still underway

27 sub-Saharan African migrants die off Tunisia in shipwrecks

The French Quarter, near Bourbon Street, is blocked off by a heavy police and FBI presence after a truck plowed into a crowd of New Year's revelers, killing 15

'Hellbent' on carnage

FBI probes 'terrorist' links in New Orleans truck-ramming that killed 15

Police officers set up barricades in front of people taking part in a rally to support South Korea's impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol

Rival South Korea camps face off as president holds out

French skier Cyprien Sarrazin is to carry on his medical treatment in France after coming out of intensive care in an Italian hospital

Following World Cup crash

French downhill ace Sarrazin out of intensive care

Impeached South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol remains inside his residence resisting an arrest warrant for a third day

Three days and counting

South Korea's impeached president resists arrest over martial law bid

Officials investigate the site where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan airport

Aviation disaster

South Korea police raid Jeju Air, airport over fatal crash

Investigators photograph a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the lobby of President-elect Donald Trump's hotel in Las Vegas on 1 January 2025.

Loaded with fuel cans

One dead, seven injured in vehicule explosion outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas

Morning Roundup

At least 15 killed in New Orleans attack, snow alert in Luxembourg, and PM gives New Year's interview

Police and civil defence cordon off the scene of the fatal shooting in Bajice, near Cetinje in southern Montenegro, on 1 January 2025.

Update – Cetinje

Montenegro shooting rampage leaves 12 dead, including children

Police block off the French Quarter in New Orleans after a truck rammed into a crowd of New Year's revellers in a deadly attack

Suspected 'act of terrorism'

New Orleans truck attack: what we know so far

Afghan refugees returning voluntarily from Pakistan wait at the UNHCR centre in Nowshera

Afghan refugees suffer 'like prisoners' in Pakistan crackdown

Early morning on New Year's Day as police cordon off the intersection of Canal Street and Bourbon Street in New Orleans after a truck plowed into a crowd of revellers, killing at least 15 people

A grieving city

'Numb' New Orleans grapples with horror of deadly truck attack

Germans celebrate New Year's Eve with particularly intense usage of fireworks

New Year's fireworks accidents kill five in Germany

Workers unload humanitarian aid supplied by Saudi Arabia at the airport in Damascus; a high-ranking Syrian delegation has traveled to Saudi Arabia on the first foreign visit by the country's new Islamist rulers

Syria FM hopes first foreign visit to Saudi opens 'new, bright page'

Saudi Arabia carried out a record number of executions in 2024 with at least 338, according to an AFP tally of official reports

Saudi executes at least 338 people in 2024: AFP tally

Palestinian children inspect damage after an Israeli strike in Jabalia, in the north of Gaza where several displaced Gazans said they also fear falling temperatures and heavy rains

New year, same destruction

Israel threatens to step up Gaza strikes

People wave US and South Korean flags during a rally to support impeached South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol

Martial law declaration

South Korea investigators vow to execute Yoon arrest warrant

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