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> A mere 11% of the electorate voted in Tunisia's parliamentary runoffs, with critics of president Kais Saied saying the empty polling stations were evidence of public disdain for his agenda and seizure of powers.

> The latest poll was seen as the final pillar of Saied's transformation of politics, ushering in a new legislature that will have almost no authority to hold the president or government to account.

> Saied has said his actions were both legal and necessary to save Tunisia from years of corruption and economic decline at the hands of a self-interested political elite.

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> The US will renew efforts by the West to wean India away from oil and arms dependency on Russia with a series of meetings in the coming days.

> In India for foreign office consultations, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland told the Senate Foreign Relations committee that India had "60 years of entanglement" with Russia which needs to end.

> The attempt to bring India close to the Western military bloc received a boost when the chair of the UK's defence select committee suggested the AUKUS agreement between Australia, the UK, and the US should expand to include India and Japan.

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> U.S., Dutch and Japanese officials are close to an agreement to limit China's access to technology used to make computer chips, a Dutch semiconductor supply company confirmed Sunday.

> The Dutch government has prohibited ASML from exporting that equipment to China since 2019, but the company had still been shipping lower-quality lithography systems to China.

> U.S. officials say China is spending heavily to develop its fledgling semiconductor producers but so far cannot make the high-end chips used in the most advanced smartphones and other devices.

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> Ukraine has proposed creating a mechanism for auditing the aid provided by the United States for recovery projects, together with the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

> Kubrakov said the mechanisms and procedures for transparency and accountability in the use of funds and assistance that Ukraine receives for recovery and post-war reconstruction had been discussed at a meeting with inspectors from the U.S. Department of Defense, the State Department, and the U.S. Agency for International Development, who arrived in Kyiv to audit the U.S. aid.

> "We proposed creating a respective mechanism for auditing the United States aid for recovery projects together with the U.S. Government Accountability Office. I hope this will become an additional effective tool to ensure transparency in the use of aid from partners," the minister said.

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> Ukraine has proposed creating a mechanism for auditing the aid provided by the United States for recovery projects, together with the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

> Kubrakov said the mechanisms and procedures for transparency and accountability in the use of funds and assistance that Ukraine receives for recovery and post-war reconstruction had been discussed at a meeting with inspectors from the U.S. Department of Defense, the State Department, and the U.S. Agency for International Development, who arrived in Kyiv to audit the U.S. aid.

> "We proposed creating a respective mechanism for auditing the United States aid for recovery projects together with the U.S. Government Accountability Office. I hope this will become an additional effective tool to ensure transparency in the use of aid from partners," the minister said.

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> An armed Syrian suspect was shot dead by soldiers Sunday while attempting to cross the border into Israel in the southern Golan Heights with another gunman, the Israel Defense Forces said.

> According to the IDF, soldiers monitoring surveillance cameras spotted the two armed men crossing the so-called Alpha Line - a UN buffer zone separating Israel from Syria - and approaching Israel's security fence.

> Earlier this month, the IDF said troops detained five suspects who crossed into Israeli territory from Syria.

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> The prediction by Alyaksandr Azarov, who represents an association of former Belarusian security officials, comes amid conflicting signals about whether Lukashenka may finally decide to commit Belarusian troops to the Ukraine invasion, now in its 12th month.

> "Everyone, including Lukashenka, understands that Ukraine is not going to attack, and will not attack, the territory of Belarus. It seems to me that this is more aimed at the Belarusian audience and the Russian audience" - at Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azarov said.

> The Institute for the Study of War, a U.S.-based think tank, said Russian forces are clearly using Belarusian military infrastructure, including bases, supply chains, and railroads, but that there is no indication that Russian forces are starting to position themselves for offensive operations in Belarus.

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> An armed Syrian suspect was shot dead by soldiers Sunday while attempting to cross the border into Israel in the southern Golan Heights with another gunman, the Israel Defense Forces said.

> According to the IDF, soldiers monitoring surveillance cameras spotted the two armed men crossing the so-called Alpha Line - a UN buffer zone separating Israel from Syria - and approaching Israel's security fence.

> Earlier this month, the IDF said troops detained five suspects who crossed into Israeli territory from Syria.

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> An angry crowd accosted a television news crew in Jerusalem on Saturday, berating the journalists as "Leftists" and telling them to leave the area as the reporters covered a terror attack that happened in the neighborhood the night before.

> The Channel 13 news crew had been broadcasting from the site of a terror shooting that killed seven people and wounded three others in the capital's Neve Ya'akov neighborhood on Friday night.

> Friday's Jerusalem terror attack, carried out near a synagogue during Shabbat, was the deadliest against Israelis in over a decade and ramped up tensions that were already soaring amid ongoing violence between Israel and the Palestinians.

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> Iran's defence ministry has reported several drone attacks on a military plant in the country's central city of Isfahan.

> Reports of the drone attacks in Isfahan also came as Iran's state TV also said a fire had broken out at an oil refinery in an industrial zone near the northwestern city of Tabriz.

> In July last year, Iran said it had arrested a sabotage team made up of Kurdish fighters working for Israel who planned to blow up a "Sensitive" defence industry centre in Isfahan.

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> Researchers from the University of Birmingham have developed an innovative method for existing furnaces that could reduce steelmaking's CO2 emission by nearly 90%. The iron and steel industry is a major cause of greenhouse gasses, accounting for 9% of global emissions.

> In blast furnace steel manufacturing, coke is used to produce metallic iron from ore obtained from mining - which releases large quantities of carbon dioxide in the process.

> According to Dr Harriet Kildahl, who co-devised the method with Professor Yulong Ding, their technology aims to convert this carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide that can be reused in the iron ore reaction.

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> Hundreds of climate activists were arrested in The Hague after blocking the A12 highway in both ways on Saturday afternoon in protest at government subsidies for fossil fuels such as oil and gas.

> By late afternoon, police said at least 200 people were arrested but Extinction Rebellion, which organised the protest, said some 500 people had been picked up.

> Earlier this week, seven people were arrested in their homes for calling on people to attended today's demonstration.

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> KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine and its Western allies are engaged in "Fast-track" talks on the possibility of equipping the invaded country with long-range missiles and military aircraft, a top Ukrainian presidential aide said Saturday.

> The attacks continued Saturday, when Russian missiles struck the city of Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk province.

> Podolyak, the presidential adviser, said Ukraine needs supplies of Western long-range missiles "To drastically curtail the key tool of the Russian army" by destroying the warehouses where it stores cannon artillery used on the front line.

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> BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil's federal police searched the home of a nephew of former President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday in connection with the Jan. 8 storming of government buildings in the capital by far-right protesters.

> Police said Leonardo Rodrigues de Jesus, known by Bolsonaro supporters as Leo Índio, was one of the targets of a series of raids that led to 11 arrests in different states.

> Carlos Bolsonaro is the head of the former president's digital operations and a key member of Bolsonaro's failed reelection bid.

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> SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Human Rights Watch says it has obtained a database leaked from El Salvador's government that corroborates massive due process violations, severe prison overcrowding and deaths in custody under the emergency powers put in place last March to confront a surge in gang violence.

> El Salvador's Legislative Assembly approved the suspension of some fundamental rights following an outburst of violence from the country's powerful street gangs.

> ADVERTISEMENT. Many of the abuses have been previously reported by Human Rights Watch and local civil society organization Cristosal, but the government data added some detail.

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> Today we'll explore why Russia may need to sell oil at steep discounts, take a look at the record broken by America's second biggest oil company and see why the Biden administration is betting on biofuels.

> Unpredictable oil: Russian oil initially declined following the Dec. 5 implementation of an EU embargo on crude, as well as a $60 price cap set by the EU and Group of Seven nations.

> California oil giant Chevron Corp. posted record profits of $35.5 billion last year, according to a 2022 fourth quarter report released on Friday.

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> SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's government said Friday it will promote civilian efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to North Korea in hopes of softening a diplomatic freeze deepened by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's growing nuclear ambitions.

> "To reopen a path for dialogue amid tightly strained South-North relations and to build trust between the South and North, even if it's little by little, we will support the efforts of civilian organizations to resume contact with North Korea and also try to broaden contact through international organizations," said Kwon.

> ADVERTISEMENT. Kwon said that South Korea has not made any new offers for inter-Korean government talks after North Korea ignored repeated calls for meetings in 2022.

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> MOSCOW - A former Russian Orthodox monk, who denied that the coronavirus existed and defied the Kremlin, was handed a seven-year prison sentence Friday.

> Nikolai Romanov, 67, who was known as Father Sergiy until his excommunication by the Russian Orthodox Church, urged his followers to disobey the Russian government's lockdown measures and spread conspiracy theories about a global plot to control the masses.

> Romanov served as a police officer during Soviet times, but after quitting the ranks was convicted of murder, robbery and assault and sentenced to 13 years in prison.

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> THE HAGUE, Netherlands - International Criminal Court judges on Thursday cleared the way for the court's prosecution office to resume its investigation into the so-called war on drugs in the Philippines.

> The investigation was suspended in late 2021 after the Philippines said it already was examining the crimes and argued that the ICC - a court of last resort - therefore didn't have jurisdiction.

> ADVERTISEMENT. "The various domestic initiatives and proceedings, assessed collectively, do not amount to tangible, concrete and progressive investigative steps in a way that would sufficiently mirror the court's investigation," the judges said.

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> Germany's finance ministry firmly rejected proposals on new European Union joint debt on Thursday, saying such a move, backed by France and European Council President Charles Michel, was not needed and would send a wrong signal to markets.

> German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has made clear that he believes there is still a lot of untapped EU money - more than €200 billion - from the EU's post-pandemic recovery fund that should be used first before any discussions on new funding.

> Draft conclusions for an upcoming EU summit in February showed that leaders are to back new EU funding for the green tech industry to counterbalance subsidies in the United States and China, and will expect the EU executive Commission to come up with a plan for a European Sovereignty Fund to support investment.

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> A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Spain, working with two colleagues from France and another from Germany has discovered an Obsidian handaxe-making workshop from 1.2 million years ago in the Awash valley in Ethiopia.

> More information: Margherita Mussi et al, A surge in obsidian exploitation more than 1.2 million years ago at Simbiro III, Nature Ecology & Evolution.

> Citation: Obsidian handaxe-making workshop from 1.2 million years ago discovered in Ethiopia retrieved 26 January 2023 from https://phys.org/news/2023-01-obsidian-handaxe-making-workshop-million-years.

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> Russia launched a wave of missiles at Ukraine on Thursday, a day after Germany and the US pledged tanks to aid Kyiv's fight against the invasion.

> A day earlier, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised to provide Ukraine with 14 Leopard 2 tanks, following weeks of international pressure.

> Speaking on the same programme, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said sending tanks to Ukraine would make a big difference to the country's ability to win the war.

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> Two new scientific review articles by international teams of researchers paint a bleak picture of the state of the Amazon rainforest: The critical ecosystem is being damaged at an unprecedented pace, they warn, which may usher in "a qualitatively different global climate regime" with grievous effects on biodiversity and human welfare.

> Specifically, they compared how fast humans are changing the Amazon with the speed at which other natural processes are affecting it.

> Brazil's recently elected president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has pledged to safeguard the Amazon after damage to the rainforest accelerated under his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.

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> Toughening sanctions on Wagner this month, White House national security spokesman John Kirby branded the group "a criminal organisation that is committing widespread atrocities and human rights abuses." In a short open reply to the U.S. government, Prigozhin asked Kirby to "Please clarify what crime was committed" by Wagner.

> Last month, Reuters reported that the U.S. intelligence community believes that Wagner had approximately 40,000 prisoner recruits deployed in Ukraine as of December, accounting for the vast majority of Wagner personnel in the country.

> A Russian graveyard reveals Wagner's prisoner army.

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> While PA President Mahmoud Abbas has previously praised the security ties as well, they are not particularly popular among the Palestinian public, and he has made a habit in recent years of threatening to cut coordination amid growing frustration with Israel.

> It also briefly suspended security coordination with Israel in protest at Israel installing new security measures at the entrance to the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem following a terror attack in which two Israeli policemen were killed by Arab Israeli gunmen who emerged from the holy site to commit the murders.

> The Biden administration on Thursday cautioned the PA against cutting security ties with Israel again.

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