Start your day informed with AnewZ Morning Brief: here are the top news stories for the 17th of January, covering the latest developments you need to know.
The U.S.-based HRANA group said it had verified 3,090 deaths, including 2,885 protesters, after residents said the crackdown appeared to have largely quelled protests for now and state media reported more arrests.
The protests erupted on 28 December over economic hardship and swelled into widespread demonstrations calling for the end of clerical rule in the Islamic Republic, culminating in mass violence late last week.
The White House on Friday announced some members of a so-called 'Board of Peace' that is to supervise the temporary governance of Gaza, which has been under a fragile ceasefire since October.
The names include U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, former British prime minister Tony Blair and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The plan aims to reduce violence, support humanitarian access, and push for a longer-term resolution to the conflict.
Venezuela said that 47 soldiers died during a U.S. military operation earlier this month that captured President Nicolás Maduro.
Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino López told state television that members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces were killed while facing advanced technology and overwhelming resources deployed against the country.
He highlighted that 32 Cuban nationals also died in the attack and said the military is activating the Ayacucho Plan to strengthen its capabilities.
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine's party said he was taken by the army from his house and brought to an unknown location on Friday as President Yoweri Museveni closed in on a landslide reelection.
The claim could not be immediately verified, and some senior party officials said they did not have confirmation.
President Donald Trump said he is considering using tariffs to pressure countries that oppose U.S. plans related to Greenland, arguing the Arctic island is vital for national security.
Speaking during a White House roundtable on rural healthcare, Trump said economic pressure could be used against countries that do not support Washington’s position.
“I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security,” he said.
A former Syrian security officer convicted in Austria of abusing detainees under Bashar al-Assad has returned to Syria while appealing his eight-ye...
Uzbekistan has eased parts of its extremism legislation following criticism from UN rights experts, while retaining broad state powers over materia...
Armenia is preparing to export goods to Azerbaijan in the near future as the two countries move to expand bilateral trade, Prime Minister Nikol Pas...
Disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has increased the strategic importance of Bab al-Mandab, raising fears that instability in both waterways could trigger a wider global energy and trade crisis.
Flights at Catania airport in Sicily will remain suspended until early Friday as ash from Mount Etna continues to disrupt air travel, following hundreds of cancellations and diversions over the past week.
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz remains under its control, rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim of “total control” over the strategic waterway and insisting it will not reopen until Washington fulfils its commitments under an interim deal.
Iran and the United States remain at loggerheads over efforts to agree a permanent end to the war in the Gulf, according to a senior Iranian source who said there had been no progress in talks to revive the interim deal agreed in June and define a timeframe to implement it.
Russia has accused Ukraine of threatening global grain supplies after recent strikes on Black Sea agricultural infrastructure, while Moscow carried out a new overnight attack on Ukraine’s major Danube port of Izmail.
At least 437 civilians were killed and 2,610 injured in Ukraine in July, according to UN investigators, marking the highest monthly civilian casualty toll since March 2022.
Record rainfall in Japan killed eight people and stranded thousands of travellers at Tokyo's Narita Airport on Friday, as flooding disrupted transport and cut power to 20,000 homes.
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Hundreds of flights have been cancelled or rerouted at Catania Airport over the past week as ash from Mount Etna’s ongoing eruption continues to disrupt air travel in Sicily.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Ebola outbreak has spread to a sixth province. A man died of the virus in Bas-Uélé in the north, the African Union’s health agency said.
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