MEXICO: More than 30 migrants from several countries abducted from a bus and held by armed men for days near the country’s border with the United States have been released by their captors.
The group, which included a baby, was left in the car park of a shopping centre in Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas, and no arrests have been made.
AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban have arrested women in Kabul for not following the dress code and wearing “bad hijabs,” an official spokesman confirmed for the first time yesterday since the group returned to power in 2021.
Women and girls in the country are already reeling from bans on education, employment and access to public spaces and are only allowed to show their eyes.
EUROPE: Extremely cold temperatures merged with cold winds and snowfall has wreaked havoc across the Nordic region, leaving thousands without power while heavy rains in Germany, France and the Netherlands flooded the regions struggling for the past two weeks.
The death of a 73-year-old man was reported in France after being found in his partially submerged car a day after he was reported missing and electricity was cut to some 4,000 homes in Artic Sweden.
UNITED NATIONS: The United States has called on the UN security council to take urgent action against Yemen’s Houthi government for attacking ships in the key Red Sea trade route as industries began struggling from delays in products and supplies.
International Maritime Organisation secretary-general Arsenio Dominguez told the council that as a result of the Houthi attacks, around 18 shipping companies have rerouted their vessels around South Africa to avoid the risk of being hit.