Jamaat-e-Islami, a once-banned Bangladeshi Islamist party, is poised for its strongest electoral showing in February's parliamentary vote and is open to joining a unity government, its chief said https://reut.rs/3Lak8Ae | Reuters

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hails Zohran Mamdani as New York City’s ‘historic new mayor’ at his inauguration https://reut.rs/4bbvtdJ | Reuters

In a New Year’s address, Chinese President Xi Jinping said reunification with Taiwan is unstoppable https://reut.rs/4jhoMJc | Reuters