Life around the world is returning to pre-pandemic normal this winter. In the Philippines, people are looking forward to the new year with hope that they will stay healthy and happy.

Luis Inácio Lula da Silva will be sworn in as Brazil’s new leader — just three years after being released from prison on corruption charges and 12 years after his first two terms as president.

NPR’s Emily Feng talks with Abao, one of Taiwan’s biggest pop stars. She is Paiwan, an indigenous people that lived on the island before Han Chinese colonized it more than 300 years ago.

Police say a stampede during New Year’s celebrations at a popular mall in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, has left at least nine people dead, including children

A spokesman for the Taliban-led government says a bombing at a military airport checkpoint in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed and wounded several people

By Gleb Garanich and Herbert Villarraga
KYIV/DONETSK PROVINCE FRONT LINE, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainians cheered from their balconies while their air defences blasted Russian missiles and drones out of the sky in the first hours of 2023, as Moscow saw…