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• Who is Guatemala's new president and can he deliver on promised change?

  16-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 20

  Bernardo Arevalo was sworn in early Monday as Guatemala's new president.

• Cyclone causes heavy flooding, 1 death in Mauritius after also battering French island of Reunion

  16-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 20

  A tropical cyclone caused heavy flooding and at least one death in Mauritius on Monday as cars were washed away by surges of water in the Indian...

• Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state confronts flood damage after heavy rain kills at least 12

  16-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 22

  Neighborhoods in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state remained flooded Monday more than a day after torrential rains that killed at least 12 people.

• Colombia extends cease-fire with FARC splinter group in bid to reduce rural violence

  16-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 20

  Colombia's government has extended a cease-fire with the FARC-EMC rebel group that was set to expire this week, as both sides hold peace talks in...

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• Poland's crucial local elections will be held in April, newly appointed prime minister says

  16-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 19

  Poland's new Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Monday crucial elections to choose city mayors and provincial and county administration leaders would...

• U.N. agency chiefs say Gaza needs more aid to arrive faster, warning of famine and disease

  16-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 17

  Gaza urgently needs more aid or its desperate population will suffer widespread famine and disease, the heads of three major U.N. agencies warned...

• Switzerland hosts President Zelenskyy and offers to host a peace summit for Ukraine

  16-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 16

  Swiss President Viola Amherd said Monday, during a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Bern, that her country has offered to...

• U.K. government says the lslamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is antisemitic and moves to ban it

  16-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 16

  The U.K. government said Monday that the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is antisemitic and should be banned as a terrorist organization.

• Defense Secretary Austin released from hospital after furor over cancer diagnosis, treatment

  16-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 28

  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from the hospital Monday following prostate cancer surgery and follow-up complications that sparked a...

• New Houthi missile hits American-owned cargo ship off coast of Yemen, U.S. officials confirm

  16-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 17

  A missile fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen struck an American-owned cargo ship traveling off the country's coast near the Gulf of Aden on Monday,...

• Hamas fights with a patchwork of weapons built by Iran, China, Russia and North Korea

  16-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 24

  Iranian sniper rifles. AK-47 assault rifles from China and Russia. North Korean- and Bulgarian-built rocket-propelled grenades. Anti-tank rockets...

• Biden, Harris, congratulate new Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo on inauguration

  16-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 17

  President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday congratulated Bernardo Arevalo upon his inauguration as president of Guatemala and said...