Air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv on Sunday night as the latest wave of drone and missile strikes from Russia continued.

At least nine people, including a 10-year-old boy, suffocated to death as crowds rushing to see a New Year’s firework display got stuck in a narrow corridor in a shopping mall near Uganda’s capital, police said.

Former Pope Benedict XVI, who died Saturday in a monastery in the Vatican at the age of 95, asked for forgiveness for those he has “wronged” in the spiritual testament published following his death.

Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva was sworn in as Brazil’s president for the third time on Sunday, as threats of violence loomed from supporters of his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.

Countries around the world have celebrated New Year, after two years of muted or cancelled events due to the Covid pandemic.

The United Nations General Assembly has asked its highest court to give a legal opinion on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has told Russians that their leader is destroying their country.

Venezuela’s opposition has voted to dissolve its parallel government and remove its leader, Juan Guaidó.

Chinese officials must share more real-time information on Covid in the country as infections surge, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin devoted his annual New Year’s address on Saturday to rallying the Russian people behind his troops fighting in Ukraine and pledging victory over Ukrainian “neo-Nazis” and a West supposedly intent on “destroying Russia”.

Pope Benedict XVI has died, aged 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ailing health.