France's government is offering to discuss some autonomy for the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe, which have been wracked by virus-related rioting and strikes that reflect long-running frustrations over inequality with the French mainland.
At least three people have died in the U.K. after the year's first winter storm battered parts of the nation with gusts of nearly 160 km/h.
An apology service this week marked a major step forward for reconciliation in Sweden, where the Indigenous Sámi people continue to fight for self-determination and recognition of past wrongs committed by church and state.
A court in Siberia on Saturday remanded five people in custody for two months to face charges related to a coal mining accident that killed more than 50 people this week and left dozens injured.
Gilbert King's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, unearthed previously unknown details about the case of four Black men who were wrongfully accused and convicted of raping a white woman in 1949.
Further testing has been ordered for 61 travellers to Amsterdam who arrived on two flights from South Africa on Friday and tested positive for the coronavirus, to establish whether any have a recently discovered variant of concern named omicron.
