🕯The funeral of the football icon Pele, who won three World Cups with the Brazilian team, took place in Santos.

🤔What Will Happen to US House January 6 Committee After New Congress Convenes?

The January 6 Select Committee’s final report and other materials produced by the panel are currently being transmitted to the National Archives and Records Administration, where they are due to be preserved for at least half a century.

With the new Republican-­dominated Congress set to hold its first session later on Tuesday, the question arises on what will now happen to the House January 6 Select Committee’s work.

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🇺🇳UN Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan Fran Equiza held a meeting with Afghan Disaster Management Minister Mohammad Abbas Akhund to discuss the decision of the Taliban* to ban women from working in the health care facilities, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Tuesday.

💬"UN Dep-HC in Afghanistan, Fran Equiza, met today Taliban Disaster Management Min. Mohammad Abbas Akhund. UN re-iterated immediate life-threatening consequences for all Afghans of banning Afghan women working for aid agencies. Long term impact can be devastating for the country," UNAMA said on Twitter.

The Taliban came to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, resulting in deepening economic, humanitarian, and security crises in the country.

*the Taliban movement is under UN sanctions over terrorism

💃🏾👮🏾‍♂️Cultural integration looks like

A policemen in New Zeland joins the Indian women who are dancing on the occasion of a pan shop's opening.

A good way to celebrate differences, isn’t it?

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⚡️US House fails to elect speaker on first vote after Republicans block McCarthy bid

🇨🇦Canada welcomed a historic number of immigrants in 2022 and marked more than 431,645 new permanent residents, the Ministry of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) said on Tuesday.

🗣"Newcomers enrich our communities, and contribute to our economy by working, creating jobs and supporting local businesses. Recognizing their value, the government of Canada planned to welcome 431,645 new permanent residents in 2022," the IRCC said in a statement.

IRCC Minister Sean Fraser said the targeted number of immigrants was achieved and also broke the 2021 record.

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US Billionaire's New Year Fireworks Start Wildfire in New Zealand

A fireworks show paid for by billionaire Anthony Malkin led to a fire and nearly burned down his home during a lavish New Year's Eve celebration in New Zealand.

According to British media reports, the extremely expensive fireworks were set off just as the New Year dawned at a luxury hilltop retreat in Dalefield, a rural area on the outskirts of Queenstown. The explosive show caused the flames to set off in three spots.

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Scholar: US Labeling TikTok 'Digital Fentanyl' Absurd, Shows Dysfunction of American Politics

According US press, the incoming chairman of the new House Select Committee on China GOP Rep Mike Gallagher in a media interview labeled TikTok as "digital fentanyl" China's government is providing to Americans.

Even though it has already been politically correct to be anti-China in Washington, labeling a popular short video app "digital fentanyl" is both absurd and hypocritical as the US is decriminalizing marijuana.

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"The commanders use us as cannon fodder”

📹WATCH: Ukrainian troops complain to their government about the conditions of military service.

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No More Gaslighting the GOAT: 'Banished Words' of 2023 Revealed by a US University

Hours before the end of 2022, the Lake Superior State University (LSSU) in Michigan released their annual “banished words list": a collection of “imprecise, trite, and meaningless words and terms of seeming convenience” that educators advise people to refrain from using in the New Year.

Nominations for the ten-word list were submitted to the university by people living both in the United States and abroad, including residents of countries such as Australia, Portugal, China and Namibia.

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😲📹Fifty-two-year-old Philippine artist Elito Circa draws...with his own blood!?

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📹The Russian Defense Ministry has published a video showing Grad MLRS crews in combat as part of the special military operation in Ukraine.

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🚘The car production in Russia is expected to increase by over 30% in 2023, reaching 800,000 cars compared to 600,000 produced over the past year, Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said on Tuesday.

💬"We should reach the level of car production of at least 800,000. Last year, it was a bit over 600,000 cars," Manturov told Russian media.

📌The minister also noted that the number of car sales in Russia would also likely to increase by around 25% from 800,000 in 2022 to 1 million this year.

💬"We believe that there will be 800,000 cars produced [in Russia] and considering the market growth and its recovery due to mechanisms of parallel imports, it [the number of car sales] will amount to some 1 million," Manturov stated.

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📹WATCH: Russian 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system crews in combat as part of the special military operation in Ukraine (video by Russian’s MoD)

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Video footage from the California Highway Patrol helicopter shows the rescue operation after a couple and their two children plunged nearly 100 meters while driving along a treacherous stretch of California’s Pacific Coast Highway.

Two adults were critically injured after their Tesla sedan tumbled downhill after being driven off the road, according to Brian Pottinger, the battalion chief of CAL Fire’s San Mateo - Santa Cruz unit. The two children aged four and nine, reportedly suffered less serious injuries

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Jeremy Renner, who portrayed Hawkeye, one of the superheroes from Marvel’s Avengers, underwent surgery on January 2 due to “blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries” sustained in an accident while clearing snow in his Reno, Nevada, neighborhood after a massive blizzard on New Year's Eve.

🗣️ "Thank you for all your kind words. I'm too messed up now to type. But I send love to you all," wrote the 51-year old actor, whose condition was described as critical but stable after the injuries he sustained when hit by a snow plough

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The Russian military death toll in the city of Makeevka in the Donetsk People's Republic after a strike by Ukrainian troops on January 1 rose to 89 after the rubble was cleared, first deputy head of the Russian Armed Forces' Main Military-Political Directorate, Lt. Gen. Sergey Sevryukov, said.

🗣 “Immediately after the tragedy, the command and officers of this military unit, junior commanders and servicemen of other units took all available measures to rescue those wounded. First aid was provided, the wounded were evacuated to medical facilities. Unfortunately, during the clearing of the rubble of reinforced concrete structures, the number of our comrades who died rose to 89," he said

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Twitter Pressured by US Lawmakers to Exaggerate Alleged Russian Election Meddling

The latest batch of internal documents released, in coordination with Twitter chief Elon Musk, shows that the social media giant had originally seen no coordinated effort by Russia to use the social media platform to launch a major campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election.

Twitter's then Public Policy Vice President Colin Crowell said in an email to former CEO Jack Dorsey in September 2017 that Democrat lawmakers had taken cues from then Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to pressure Twitter to investigate accounts linked to Russia

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😳 California Highway Patrol (CHP) in San Francisco reported that Dharmesh Patel of Pasadena who was with his family in the Tesla that plunged almost 100 meters after veering off California’s Pacific Coast Highway, has been arrested for attempted murder and child abuse. After talking to witnesses and collecting evidence at the scene, investigators believe that "this incident was a deliberate act".

Earlier, CHP Officer Mark Andrew said that investigators did not believe that the Tesla was operating on autopilot or full autonomous driving at the time

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The stars of Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film Romeo and Juliet are suing over a nude scene they shot when they were teenagers.

71-year-old Olivia Hussey and 72-year-old Leonard Whiting were 15 and 16 respectively at the time and have filed a $500 million lawsuit in the Santa Monica Supreme Court in California, accusing Paramount Pictures of sexual harassment, fraud, sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional stress.

Director Zeffirelli initially told them there would be no nudity in the film. The lawsuit alleges that Zeffirelli showed the actors where the camera would be placed, but that no nudity would be filmed or published.

According to US media, the actors' lawsuit is based on a California law that has temporarily suspended the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse claims

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