The FBI says the New Orleans truck attack that killed 14 people was carried out by one suspect, while investigators continue to examine possible links to a separate explosion in Las Vegas.
An Israeli air strike on a displaced people’s camp in al-Mawasi killed Gaza’s police chief, his deputy and other Palestinians, as competing accounts emerged over the targets and broader civilian toll.
Airstrikes hit several parts of Gaza on January 1, killing at least 26 Palestinians, including children, as displaced families endured flooding and the search for missing people continued.
In a New Year’s speech, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye said Senegal would shut French military facilities and withdraw all foreign forces from the country.
Moscow and Kyiv carried out one of their largest prisoner swaps of the war, with hundreds of captives released and many Ukrainians returning after years in custody.
On December 30, 2024, Trinidad and Tobago imposed emergency powers after five men were shot dead in Laventille and officials warned of further reprisal attacks and high-calibre weapons.
Thirteen Filipino women convicted over a surrogacy scheme in Cambodia have been pardoned and sent home, with several still pregnant and taken to a government shelter on arrival.
Afghanistan’s defense ministry says it hit “several points” beyond the disputed border after Pakistani air strikes, as border tensions sharpen between the two neighbours.
Estonia has deployed a patrol boat to protect its remaining power link to Finland after damage to Estlink 2 intensified fears of sabotage in the Baltic Sea.
Medical staff and patients were removed from Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza after an Israeli operation that the World Health Organization said left the area’s last major health facility out of service.
Senegal’s prime minister says the country will close all foreign military bases, a move aimed at ending France’s remaining military footprint after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s shift in policy.
South Korea says the first captured North Korean soldier in the Russia-Ukraine war has died from serious injuries after being taken by Ukrainian forces in Kursk.
Washington imposed sanctions on Georgia Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili as protests, election disputes and EU-accession tensions deepened in Tbilisi.
The Houthi group said it fired toward Israel’s main international airport on December 27, 2024, as Israel and the rebels traded new attacks across the region.