Ukraine says that it struck an
oil terminal in
Saint Petersburg,
Russia, with a domestic-produced long-range
drone, as part of a new campaign against strategic targets inside Russian territory. However, Russia reports that the attack failed.
(Reuters)
Ninety-five people are charged in
Kenya over the deaths by 429 followers of a religious cult in 2023.
(Al Jazeera)
Protests and
riots erupts across
Comoros after incumbent president
Azali Assoumani was declared winner following an election earlier this month. A government minister’s house is
set on fire and roads are barricated in the capital
Moroni, while protestors are
tear gassed by police. A person is killed and six more injured.
(AP)
The
United States Congress approves a stopgap bill to extend the deadline for government funding to March 2024, narrowly avoiding a government shutdown, which would have begun at midnight, January 19.
(Reuters)
The
European Space Agency probe Mars Express finds huge deposits of dusty
ice beneath the equator of
Mars, with the discovery being the largest amount of water ice ever found near the planet's equator.
(Space.com)