Like every other day this week, holdout residents of this all-but-destroyed city on Ukraine's front line flocked to a ground-floor humanitarian aid centre Friday, desperate for food and internet access.. - A makeshift Christmas - The aid centre offers a rare place for Volodymyr and others still in Bakhmut to escape the basement shelters where they spend most days.
Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin is talking after a breathing tube was removed overnight and he made a video-call with his teammates and coaches on Friday, the team said.. "Per the physicians at UCMC, Damar's breathing tube was removed overnight," the Bills said in a tweet.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva held his first cabinet meeting Friday, vowing to work with Congress and run a government of traditional technocrats to "rebuild" Brazil after the "authoritarianism" of predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.. Lula vowed to fight to "rebuild the country" and protect the Amazon rainforest after four years under far-right Bolsonaro's "authoritarian government," which he accused of undermining democracy and blamed for Brazil's massive Covid-19 death toll, currently almost 700,000.
The latest revelations by Prince Harry have shone a glaring light on his fractured relationship with his elder brother William, with whom he was once close.. - 'Arch-nemesis' - The latest claims include that family members briefed against him, and William warned him to "slow down" his relationship with Meghan.
Ten soldiers and 19 criminal suspects died in a massive operation to arrest a son of jailed drug trafficker Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Mexican government said Friday, with a dramatic shootout damaging three planes and sowing terror at a local airport.. El Chapo is serving a life sentence in the United States for trafficking hundreds of tons of drugs into the country over the course of 25 years.
US banking giant Wells Fargo on Friday sacked a top Indian executive now being pursued by police for allegedly urinating on a fellow passenger aboard an Air India flight.. "This individual has been terminated from Wells Fargo," it added, without naming Mishra or specifying his position.
Pakistan's central bank forex reserves have plunged to an eight-year low of $5.6 billion, posing a serious challenge for the country in financing imports.. The latest data from the central bank released overnight -- for the week ending December 30 -- show the country has half the foreign exchange reserves it held a year ago.
Prince Harry's memoir "Spare" was on Friday mauled by British media and commentators who called it "vengeful" and "calculated", as Buckingham Palace kept silent on the widely leaked contents.. But there was no official palace comment.
A brief ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin but dismissed by Ukraine as an empty gesture was due to have taken effect on Friday in what would be the first full pause since Moscow's invasion in February 2022.. Since the invasion began on February 24 last year, Russia has occupied parts of eastern and southern Ukraine, but Kyiv has reclaimed swathes of its territory and this week claimed a New Year's strike that killed scores of Moscow's troops.
Mexican security forces on Thursday captured a son of jailed drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, scoring a high-profile win in the fight against powerful cartels days before US President Joe Biden visits.. His capture -- which resulted in gunfire and cars set ablaze in Culiacan -- comes as Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador prepares to welcome Biden next week for a North America leaders' summit at which security is expected to be high on the agenda.
