Evacuation warnings were in place in rural Northern California on New Year's Day after a powerful storm brought drenching rain or heavy snowfall to much of the state, breaching levees, snarling traffic and closing major highways.
The U.K. division of climate change protest group Extinction Rebellion says its members plan to temporarily stop blocking busy roads, gluing themselves to buildings and engaging in other acts of civil disobedience because such methods have not achieved their desired effects.
When Brazil's president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is sworn in on Sunday in the country's capital it will mark his third return to office — the culmination of a political comeback sure to thrill supporters and enrage opponents in a fiercely polarized nation.
Does Vladimir Putin realize now that invading Ukraine was a calamitous mistake? Nobody but the Russian president knows for sure — but nothing coming out of the Kremlin in recent weeks suggests he's planning to change direction soon.
Russia continued intense attacks on Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine early on New Year's Day, following a barrage of missiles fired on Saturday, with air raid sirens wailing for hours overnight.
