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Palestinian father Tayseer Obaid who was displaced with his family from the north of the besieged Gaza Strip, sits with his children in a trench he dug in his tent in an attempt to protect them from the cold and Israeli strikes, in a makeshift camp in Deir el-Balah January 8, 2025, as the war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement continues. — AFP pic

A Gaza father’s struggle to survive winter in a hole dug by hand for his family

Edgar Hernandez waits outside the Pasadena Humane Society to surrender his cat, after evacuating his home in Altadena, following powerful winds fuelling devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area in Pasadena, January 8, 2025. — Reuters pic

Burned, broken, but not alone: The heartbreaking rescues of animals left behind in the LA fires

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai (left) looks on during an international summit on 'Girls? Education in Muslim Communities', in Islamabad on January 12, 2025. — AFP pic

‘They don’t see women as human beings’: Malala calls on Muslim leaders worldwide to not legitimise the Taliban

Smoke from flames rises behind homes in the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on January 11, 2025, as the Palisades Fire continues to burn. — AFP pic

‘It’s obscene’: Desperate survivors of LA fires face soaring rents, price gouging

Ekkalak Paenoi, a suspect in the assassination of a former politician with now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Lim Kimya, 74, is escorted by police officers as he arrives in Thailand following handing over from Cambodia to Thai authorities, in Bangkok, Thailand, January 11, 2025. — Reuters pic

Thai murder suspect says killed former Cambodian lawmaker out of ‘gratitude’ to someone

A girl sorts through her school notes as she sits on a bed in her damaged room in the aftermath of Israeli bombardment on an apartment building in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on January 7, 2025. — AFP pic

Malala Yousafzai: Israel destroyed more than 90pc of schools in Gaza, ‘decimating’ entire education system

People walk at the Santa Monica pier during sunset with smoke from the Palisades Fire seen in the sky. — AFP

Firefighters race to beat LA blazes as winds grow and death toll hits 16

A photograph obtained from the Telegram account of V_Zelenskiy_official shows an alleged soldier presented as North Korean detained by Ukrainian authorities. — AFP

Seoul confirms Ukraine has captured two North Korean soldiers

Protesters taking part in a demonstration against impeached South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol. — AFP

South Korea’s suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol will not attend first impeachment hearing

Environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion (XR) hold a banner reading 'stop companies complicit in the colonisation of Palestine'. — AFP pic

Dutch police use water cannons to disperse 700 climate activists blocking A12 highway

Firefighters walk down a hill as they battle the Palisades Fire on January 10 in Los Angeles, California. —  AFP pic

LA mayor dismisses reports of fallout with fire chief amid wildfire crisis

Retardant dropped as Palisades Fire spreads near Encino Hills, California, forcing evacuations and leaving at least 11 dead. — AFP pic

Toxic wildfire smoke blankets Los Angeles as health officials urge residents to stay indoors

US President-elect Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing in front of New York State Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal case in which he was convicted in 2024 on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, at the New York Criminal Court January 10, 2025. — AFP pic

A bizarre end to Trump’s criminal trial: When justice took an unlikely ‘finality’

A firefighter works at the site of a burned building, following the Eaton Fire, in Altadena, California, January 10, 2025. — Reuters pic

Far from Hollywood’s wealth and attention, survivors of LA’s fires feel overlooked

Caroline Darian told the BBC her father was always a sexual pervert and should die in prison. — Screenshot from BBC

Daughter says French rapist Dominique Pelicot ‘should die in prison’

File photo of medical workers performing swab tests for Covid-19 on residents on a street in Wuhan on May 15, 2020. —  AFP

China marks muted fifth anniversary of first Covid death