Palestinians in Gaza began returning to their homes, many destroyed, after a ceasefire took hold. Food trucks crossed the border into the enclave. The truce belatedly began at 11:15am local time, after Hamas released the names of three hostages that it will free on Sunday. Israel earlier delayed the truce when details of the release failed to materialise.
TikTok was removed from app stores in America, ahead of a potential nationwide ban. On Friday the Supreme Court upheld a law forcing the app’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell it by Sunday or shut down the video platform. TikTok said that divestment is “simply not possible”. It is now banking on a reprieve from Donald Trump, who assumes the presidency on Monday.
Thousands of demonstrators, mostly women, marched in Washington, DC in protest against Mr Trump’s inauguration. Monday’s event will be moved indoors due to freezing weather, the first time in 40 years that the swearing-in ceremony has been relocated inside the Capitol. The change will deprive him of the large outdoor crowds that he so prizes.
Supporters of Yoon Suk Yeol went on the rampage in a court in Seoul after a judge extended the South Korean president’s detention. Some 40,000 protesters had gathered around the building; more than one hundred breached police lines, smashing windows and vandalising offices. Mr Yoon was arrested last week for insurrection, following his attempt to introduce martial law in December.
A gunman shot dead two senior judges in Iran’s Supreme Court in Tehran, before killing himself. Officials said the motive was unclear, but suggested that “enemies” of the state were behind the attack. The judges, Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini, had presided over cases involving espionage, terrorism and dissidents.
Colombia’s human-rights office said that 60 people were killed during a bout of rebel violence in the Catatumbo region, an area on the border with Venezuela where coca, the plant-base of cocaine, is abundant. Columbia’s president, Gustavo Petro, on Friday called off peace talks with one of the groups involved, the National Liberation Army (ELN), accusing it of war crimes.
Mount Ibu, a volcano in eastern Indonesia, has erupted more than a thousand times this month, according to officials. It had already erupted more than 17 times on Sunday. The most recent eruption sent a 1.5km pillar of smoke into the air. Indonesian officials have begun evacuating the 3,000 people living around it.
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