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10.01.2026 11:00 As of 1 January 2026, the Norwegian Armed Forces Medical Service has been given a new organisational structure. In light of the security situation, both the medical profession and operational deliveries will be strengthened.

09.01.2026 17:30 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a plan on security guarantees for Ukraine is "essentially ready" after an overnight barrage of Russian strikes crippled electricity, heating, and water infrastructure in parts of the country, leaving around 1 million people in the dark amid freezing temperatures.

09.01.2026 17:30 Several parts of Ukraine were hit by a new wave of Russian strikes between Wednesday and Thursday morning.

09.01.2026 17:30 On February 5, a treaty capping the numbers of deployed Russian and US nuclear warheads will expire, marking the first time in more than half a century that the Kremlin and Washington's nuclear programs will be unconstrained by numerical limits.

09.01.2026 17:30 Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed regret over the decision by the United States to withdraw from a number of UN entities, while underscoring that the system will continue to deliver on all its mandates.

09.01.2026 17:30 The U.S. Senate on Thursday advanced a resolution aimed at limiting U.S. President Donald Trump's ability to take further military action against Venezuela.

09.01.2026 17:30 "We do need Greenland, absolutely." U.S. President Donald Trump returned to his long-standing fixation on the world's largest island days after an audacious U.S. military operation in Venezuela -- one that ended with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife captured and taken to New York. one that ended with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife captured and taken to New York.

09.01.2026 17:30 After years of Chinese calls for added measures in Pakistan to safeguard its citizens, Pakistani authorities have announced the creation of a new special police unit to protect Chinese nationals.

09.01.2026 17:30 Russia has freed imprisoned French researcher Laurent Vinatier in exchange for a Russian basketball player held in France and wanted in the United States for alleged ties to a computer hacking group.

09.01.2026 17:30 UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, today urged the international community to unequivocally reject the country's sham election, redouble efforts to isolate the junta and pressure junta leaders to call off the election after the first round of voting laid bare the coercion, violence and exclusion underpinning the polls.

09.01.2026 17:30 An independent human rights expert has urged the international community to reject the electoral process organised by Myanmar's military government, after the first round of voting revealed widespread coercion, exclusion and violence.

09.01.2026 17:30 Protests against Iran's clerical establishment are spreading, drawing in new cities and towns, social groups, and symbols in what activists describe as a new phase of confrontation with the authorities.

09.01.2026 17:30 U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened again to strike Iran "very hard" if its authorities "start killing people" protesting in the Middle Eastern country.

09.01.2026 17:30 Syria's Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham forces have carried out a large-scale offensive against Aleppo's Kurdish neighborhoods controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces , as insecurity persists across the Arab country a year after the ouster of former president Bashar al-Assad.

09.01.2026 17:30 Progress continues to be made towards eliminating remnants of the chemical weapons programme in Syria that was developed under the Assad regime, the UN Security Council heard on Thursday.