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World leaders warn that Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at the Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

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Global condemnation grows as Nicolas Maduro appears in a New York court, pleading not guilty to drug charges.

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses House Republicans at their annual issues conference retreat, at the Kennedy Center, renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center by the Trump-appointed board of directors, in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 6, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

US attack on Venezuela evokes Monroe Doctrine, laid out in 1823 to cement Washington’s sphere of influence in Americas.

U.S. military aircraft are parked on the tarmac at Jose Aponte de la Torre Airport in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

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UAE says it will voluntarily withdraw ‘counterterrorism’ units, its only remaining military force in Yemen.

Smoke rises in the aftermath of a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on Yemen's southern port of Mukalla, December 30, 2025. [SABAA TV/Handout via REUTERS]

Russia shells the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, killing at least one person and injuring five.

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on situation in the zone of the "special military operation", the Kremlin's term for the nearly four-year-long Ukraine offensive, in Moscow on December 29, 2025. (Photo by Mikhail METZEL / POOL / AFP)