International News from Friday, January 23rd, 2026

Uganda's military chief said on Friday that authorities had detained 2,000 opposition supporters, killed 30 and were hunting for more following a disputed presidential election in which his father Yoweri Museveni, won a seventh term.

Indonesian rescuers on Friday had found the bodies of 10 passengers on a fishery surveillance plane that went missing in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province over the weekend, the country's search and rescue agency said.

US President Donald Trump has withdrawn on Thursday an invitation for Canada to join his Board of Peace initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts.

Six people have been confirmed missing in a landslide that ripped through a busy campground on New Zealand's North Island, authorities said on Friday as emergency crews continued to comb through the rubble.

The US has officially left the World Health Organisation (WHO) after a year of warnings that doing so would hurt public health globally, saying its decision reflected failures in the UN health agency's management of the COVID-19 pandemic.