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> MEXICO CITY - About 200 women are still in prison in Mexico under outdated anti-abortion state laws even though the Supreme Court decriminalized abortion last year, advocates said.

> The slow legal process to free women who are still imprisoned made some progress this month when Aurelia García Cruceño, a 23-year-old Indigenous woman who was just released from prison after three years for having a miscarriage.

> In Guerrero in 2022, there were 108 women murdered and 12 cases of femicide - cases of women and girls killed because of their gender.

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> At least 21 private houses, a hospital and 2 cars were damaged in Kyiv Oblast as a result of a Russian missile attack on the morning of 29 December.

> Explosions rang out in Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv and Kyiv The Kyiv City Military Administration reported that two private houses in Darnytsia district had been damaged by debris from downed missiles.

> The Russian attack injured three people, among them a 14-year-old girl Vitalii Klitschko, Kyiv Mayor, reported that the Air Defence Forces have destroyed 16 Russian missiles over Kyiv.

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> Permission had been given through the Russian embassy for both men's bodies to be cremated in India, according to senior Odisha police officer, Vivekanand Sharma.

> The Russian counsel-general in nearby Kolkata, Alexey Idamkin, has told Russian state media that Indian authorities did not see a "Criminal element in these tragic events".

> Russian state media TASS reported the death as a suicide.

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> Russian reservists called up to fight in Ukraine as part of Russia's recent mobilization drive will be eligible for free sperm-freezing procedures, state-run media reported on Wednesday, citing a lawyers' association that represents military families hoping to secure state funding for the procedure.

> Igor Trunov, who heads the Russian Union of Lawyers, told the TASS news agency that the government had approved his request for financial aid to pay for sperm freezing, the storage of biomaterial in a cryobank, and infertility treatment for soldiers.

> More than 300,000 reservists have so far been called up to fight in Russia's "Special military operation" in Ukraine in what was the country's first mobilization since World War II. Independent media has verified the deaths of over 10,000 Russian soldiers in the 10 months since the military was ordered to invade Ukraine.

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> Earlier on Wednesday, Wang Wenbin, China's foreign minister spokesman, accused Western countries and media of "Hyping up" and "Distorting China's Covid policy adjustments".

> EU member state Italy - once the global epicentre of the virus after it spread from China in late 2019 and 2020 - has already imposed restrictions on people arriving from China.

> In India, people travelling from China and four other Asian countries must produce a negative Covid test before arriving.

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> Switzerland is one of the ten most important countries in supporting Ukraine, according to former Ukrainian ambassador to Switzerland Artem Rybchenko.

> "Our goal is to ensure that Russian oligarchs with money in Switzerland who are involved in this war cannot simply use this money for their hobby or pass it on to their children," Rybchenko said in an interviewExternal link with CH Media on Tuesday.

> Switzerland's support for Ukraine is already strong, he said, pointing to the agreed winter aid, the Ukraine Recovery Conference held in the Swiss city of Lugano in July, and support for demining the country and the construction of shelters.

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> HELSINKI - Finland's first floating liquefied natural gas terminal was moored Wednesday at the southern port of Inkoo where it will supply gas to the Nordic country that was cut off from Russian gas imports earlier this year amid the war in Ukraine.

> "Finland will permanently phase out its dependency on Russian gas and will greatly improve society's security of supply," said Gasgrid Finland CEO Olli Sipilä.

> Russian energy giant Gazprom halted gas exports to neighboring Finland in May, citing Helsinki's refusal to pay in rubles, as Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded European countries do since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.

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> Germany on Wednesday shrugged off Russia's ban on oil sales to countries and companies that comply with a price cap agreed by Western allies, saying it has "No practical significance."

> "I would not like to say that it's irrelevant but it has no practical significance," said an economy ministry spokeswoman, adding that Germany has been preparing since early summer to do without Russian oil.

> Oil prices barely change as Russia unveils export ban.

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> Yemeni student Abir Al Maqtari dreamt of studying abroad but amid a tightening of restrictions on women - echoing religious regimes in Iran and Afghanistan - Houthi forces blocked her from leaving.

> The Iran-backed Houthis, who have controlled swathes of the Arab world's poorest country since seizing the Yemeni capital Sanaa in 2014, have increasingly enforced travel restrictions on women over the past eight months, residents and activists say.

> The Houthis have clamped down on women travelling without a "Mahram" - or male relative - even within the country.

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> SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presented new plans to further bolster his military power next year at a meeting of top political officials, state media reported Wednesday, in an indication he'll continue his provocative run of weapons displays.

> The military apologized for failing to shoot down the drones and President Yoon Suk Yeol called for stronger air defenses and high-tech stealth drones to better monitor North Korea.

> In a meeting with his advisers Wednesday, Yoon said South Korea must resolutely retaliate against any provocation by North Korea, saying that will be the most powerful means to deter the North.

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> WASHINGTON The defense minister of Baltic ally Lithuania voiced skepticism over the recent Pentagon assessment that Russia, after months of fighting Ukraine and slapped with western sanctions, would deplete its fully-serviceable ammunition stockpiles by early 2023.

> Arvydas Anušauskas, following visits with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and other U.S. officials here, said in an interview that any appraisals of Russia's weapons stockpiles ought to also factor in Lithuania's Russian-allied neighbor Belarus, which sent Russia more than 20,000 tons of ammunition earlier this year.

> How does Lithuania regard a new entrant into the defense market like South Korea, which also makes self-propelled howitzers, and is known for marketing itself pretty aggressively?

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> Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced Tuesday that Japan will tighten border controls for COVID-19 by requiring tests for all visitors from China starting Friday as a temporary emergency measure against the surging infections there.

> China has been "Refining our COVID response in light of the evolving situation" while working with the global community, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperon Wang Wenbin said Tuesday.

> Japan will act flexibly while watching the development in China, he added, including halting the planned increase of flights between Japan and China "Just to be safe."

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> Russia announced on Tuesday it would ban oil sales to countries that abide by a price cap imposed this month by the West, giving its long-awaited response to the most dramatic step taken so far to limit Moscow's ability to raise funds for the war in Ukraine.

> The Kremlin ban would halt crude oil sales to countries participating in the price cap from Feb. 1-July 1, 2023.

> Some analysts have said the cap will have little immediate impact on the oil revenues that Moscow is earning, as the price for Russian oil has already fallen close to it.

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> The drop was recorded in the first half of December for public lighting, which represents 40 per cent of many communities' annual electricity consumption, according to Enedis, the operator of France's electricity distribution network.

> With 11 million lighting points across the country, public lighting has a power demand equal to the power from one nuclear reactor, according to Enedis.

> There have been efforts to reduce public lighting use by turning off lights earlier in the evening, a measure that has been often employed in smaller towns and cities.

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> Conflict has been simmering in eastern Congo for decades where more than 120 armed groups are fighting in the region, most for land and control of mines with valuable minerals, while some groups are trying to protect their communities.

> The group derives its name from a peace agreement signed on March 23, 2009 which called for the rebels to be integrated into the Congo army.

> Tensions are also rising with Congo's neighbor Rwanda, which it accuses of supporting the M23 rebels, findings backed by the UN. Earlier this week the M23 said it was retreating from Kibumba, a town near Goma which it held for several weeks, as part of an agreement made last month at a summit in Angola, said Lawrence Kanyuka the M23′s political spokesman in a statement.

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> A new report on the human rights situation in Iran indicates in comparison with the previous year, the number of executions increased by over 88 percent in 2022.

> The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency has released a 65-page report on Iran's rights violations based on collection, analysis, and documentation of over 13,000 reports from 267 news sources from January 1 to December 20, 2022.

> A glance at the rights group's recent report clearly shows a sharp rise in reported human rights violations since mid-September when the 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini died in the custody of the so-called "Morality police" following which protests swept across the country.

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> Finding an antibody that attaches to the M protein - which flags it to the immune system - can stop the bacteria from infecting the body's cells - but these antibodies have proven hard to locate.

> The researchers therefore focused on examining antibodies in patients who had recovered from Strep A infection and identified three so-called monoclonal antibodies.

> Monoclonal antibodies are identical copies of each other, and in this case target a single protein of Strep A. The researchers then investigated in animal studies whether it is possible to use the antibodies to strengthen the immune system in its fight against the bacteria.

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> Finding an antibody that attaches to the M protein - which flags it to the immune system - can stop the bacteria from infecting the body's cells - but these antibodies have proven hard to locate.

> The researchers therefore focused on examining antibodies in patients who had recovered from Strep A infection and identified three so-called monoclonal antibodies.

> Monoclonal antibodies are identical copies of each other, and in this case target a single protein of Strep A. The researchers then investigated in animal studies whether it is possible to use the antibodies to strengthen the immune system in its fight against the bacteria.

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> SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's president on Tuesday called for stronger air defenses and high-tech stealth drones while the military apologized for failing to shoot down North Korean drones that crossed the border for the first time in five years.

> Lt. Gen. Kang Shin Chul, chief director of operation at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a televised statement the military feels sorry because of its failure to shoot down the North Korean drones and for causing big public concerns.

> ADVERTISEMENT. North Korea has touted its drone program, and South Korean officials have previously said the North had about 300 drones.

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> China responded to that visit by holding what was then its biggest-ever military exercises in the seas around Taiwan, and also blocked some trade with the island.

> China has never said it would not use force to bring Taiwan under its control.

> China said it had conducted "Strike drills" around Taiwan on Sunday in response to what it said was provocation from the island and the US. A White House National Security Council official said the US was concerned by the latest development, adding it would "Continue to assist Taiwan in maintaining a sufficient self-defence capability in line with our long-standing commitments and consistent with our one-China policy".

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> A former Olympic swimmer and a political activist were sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison by a Belarusian court on Monday for their role in protesting Alexander Lukashenko's authoritarian regime.

> Champion swimmer Aliaksandra Herasimenia and political activist Alexander Opeykin were found guilty of actions aimed at "Causing harm to the national security of Belarus," according to the state-run BelTA news agency.

> Three-time Olympic medalist Herasimenia and Opeikin founded the Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation, which brings together hundreds of Belarusian athletes in opposition to Lukashenko.

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> ISLAMABAD - The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad on Sunday warned its staff of a possible attack on Americans at a top hotel in Pakistan's capital as the city was already on high alert following a suicide bombing earlier in the week.

> The U.S. government is aware of information that "Unknown individuals are possibly plotting to attack Americans at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad sometime during the holidays," the embassy said in a security alert.

> Attackers drove a dump truck up to the hotel's gates before detonating it, killing 63 people and wounding over 250 others.

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> Turkey summoned France's ambassador over what it called "Black propaganda" by Kurdish activists during a march to mourn three people killed in a shooting at a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris.

> French Ambassador Herve Magro was summoned on Monday so Ankara could relay unease after some marched in Paris with flags of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party or suggested that Turkey was linked to the shooting, the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

> The PKK has waged a four-decade armed campaign against the Turkish state, seeking autonomy for Kurdish areas of southeastern Turkey.

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> Peru has detained six people, including three police generals, as part of an ongoing probe into accusations of corruption against former President Pedro Castillo, who was impeached and removed from office earlier this month.

> An anticorruption task force in the attorney general's office said on Monday that it carried out a "Mega-operation" as part of its investigation into allegations that Castillo's government authorised "Irregular promotions" for police and military officers.

> Three of the six people arrested are active police generals accused of having approved promotions, with Castillo's alleged blessing, in exchange for money.

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> The Russian military reported Monday that it shot down a Ukrainian drone approaching an airbase deep inside Russia, the second time the facility has been targeted this month - again revealing weaknesses in Russia's air defences.

> It wasn't clear whether the drones had been launched from Ukraine or Russian territory.

> Haidai told Ukrainian television on Monday that Russian forces in the region are "Suffering huge losses and medical facilities are overwhelmed with wounded soldiers." The Russian army is redeploying paratroopers from the Kherson region to the area, he added.

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