Crowds in Pyongyang welcome the start of the New Year
Crowds climbed Mansu Hill in the centre of Pyongyang to lay flowers and bow to statues of past leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung.
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Zelenskiy and Putin signal desire to break war’s deadlock in new year
There has been little movement in the frontlines for weeks, and there are signs Russia lacks offensive combat powerRussia’s war on Ukraine enters its second calendar year at a delicate point. It is six weeks after the liberation of Kherson and there ha…
Huge prison riot breaks out as more than 30 dangerous inmates escape cells killing 14 in deadly jailbreak
AT LEAST 14 are dead after a deadly prison riot broke out in a notorious Mexican prison in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
More than 30 dangerous inmates have reportedly escaped from the CERESO State Three prison in Ciudad Juarez.
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Tulane seeks 10-win improvement vs. USC in Cotton Bowl
USC is going for its first 12-win season since 2008 in the Cotton Bowl.
Ukraine must get long-term support, warns Nato chief
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Iranian police detain top footballers at New Year’s Eve party
Players briefly held after raid on mixed-gender party, as elsewhere dissident Keyvan Samimi is released from prisonIranian police briefly detained several top-tier football players in a raid on a New Year’s Eve party east of Tehran, where men and women…
Swamps, forests and shelling: new year on Ukraine’s northern frontline
Amid talk of Russia reinvading from the north, volunteer units of the remote Sumy region represent the first line of defenceOn New Year’s Eve in a patch of forest along the north-east border with Russia, a unit of Ukrainian territorial defence forces s…
Dozens of New Year attacks on Berlin firefighters: Firefighters in the German capital, Berlin, have reported multiple attacks while trying to do their job. Across the country, there were reports of violence on a "terrifying" New Year for many emergency staff
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Visualising Peace: A Virtual Museum
Borrowing the words of Frank Möller, shifting from war to peace in discourse is a precondition for politics to move the same way.
Leftist Lula sworn in as Brazil president, replacing far-right Bolsonaro
Leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as president of Brazil on Sunday in the country’s Congress at the start of his third presidency.