A Seoul appeals court will rule on January 26 on ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law case, after prosecutors again sought the death penalty.
Harmeet Dhillon has resigned as head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, the first senior Trump official to leave after the midterms.
A UN report says a UAE-linked firm hired hundreds of Colombian ex-soldiers to fight for Sudan’s RSF, clouding Abu Dhabi’s bid to lead the United Nations.
Türkiye’s parliament has ratified the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, treating an attack on one as an attack on all three.
Tanzania’s High Court has cleared opposition leader Tundu Lissu of treason but sentenced him to four years for incitement, in a verdict his party calls political.
A Federal High Court in Abuja has voided Atiku Abubakar’s 2027 presidential candidacy, ruling the ADC leadership that nominated him was illegal.
Trump has declared the Oval Office a national monument, saying the move will stop future presidents from reshaping the room he redesigned.
Nithya Raman defeated Karen Bass to become Los Angeles’ first South Asian mayor, as voters in America’s second-largest city backed the democratic socialist.
Paraguay’s Congress refused President Santiago Peña’s resignation after the Ueno Bank collapse, leaving him in office as the Senate impeachment trial resumes.
The US Treasury has sanctioned an Indian couple and a Turkish aviation firm it accuses of helping Iran evade oil and aviation restrictions.
Governor Gavin Newsom has commuted all 548 death sentences in California to life without parole in the largest mass clemency in American history.
Syria and Saudi Arabia signed a defence cooperation deal and more than $403m in loans in Riyadh, but neither side has published the agreement’s terms.
