NEW YORK - Workers cleaning up the Buffalo Niagara International Airport days after a deadly Christmas blizzard buried New York City in blinding snow.
SOUTH AFRICA - The death toll from a gas tanker blast in Johannesburg on Christmas eve has climbed to 27.
ISRAEL - Israel’s Premier Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-right Israeli government was sworn in aiming to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
ITALY - Italian PM Giorgia Meloni urged the EU to follow its lead on imposing mandatory Covid tests for all passengers flying in from China.
HAITI - The U.N.'s Deputy Secretary-General urges countries "With capacity" to consider the Haitian government's plea for international armed force to help restore security.
UNITED STATES - The U.S. Supreme Court has voted to keep in place the Trump-era policy that blocked thousands from crossing the U.S. - Mexico border.
VATICAN CITY - Former Pope Benedict XVI is very ill according to Pope Francis, who is now asking pilgrims at the Vatican to pray for him.
CHINA - Italy has imposed mandatory covid tests on Chinese tourists after China announced it would reopen its borders next week.
UNITED STATES - Caricom Reparations Commission Chairman Sir Hilary Beckles is calling for reparations negotiations between the Netherlands and the Caribbean.
PARIS - A gunman opened fire in central Paris, killing three people and wounding three others.
