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Overnight News Digest: US election certified without a riot and death [1]
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Date: 2025-01-06
NPR
Congress convened Monday in the midst of a snowstorm to certify President-elect Donald Trump's election victory in a smooth and orderly process, in stark contrast to four years ago when throngs of Trump's supporters breached security barriers at the U.S. Capitol and stormed the building to try to overturn the 2020 election results. Vice President Harris, who lost the presidential election to Trump, oversaw the proceedings certifying Trump's win and announced the final tally: 312 to 226. Unlike four years ago, there were no objections to the certification of any state's election certificate during the hour-long joint session of Congress, a return to what's normally a mundane bureaucratic process of members fulfilling a constitutional duty to officially oversee the counting of electoral votes.
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BBC
For months now, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been asked variations of the same question: "Will you step down?" But though he vowed to stay on as Liberal Party leader - despite deepening frustrations amongst voters and a political rival surging in the polls - even the self-described "fighter" could not withstand the growing chorus of members of his own party calling for him to resign. "This country deserves a real choice in the next election, and it has become clear to me that if I'm having to fight internal battles, I cannot be the best option in that election," Trudeau conceded on Monday, announcing his resignation in front of Rideau Cottage, his official residence for most of the last decade. He will stay on as prime minister until a new Liberal Party leader is chosen, at a date yet to be set by the party. Trudeau asked for parliament to be prorogued - or suspended - until 24 March to give time for the party to find a new leader.
BBC
Apple has said it will update, rather than pause, a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that has generated inaccurate news alerts on its latest iPhones. The company, in its first acknowledgement of the concerns, on Monday said it was working on a software change to "further clarify" when the notifications are summaries that have been generated by the Apple Intelligence system. The tech giant is facing calls to pull the technology after its flawed performance. The BBC complained last month after an AI-generated summary of its headline falsely told some readers that Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, had shot himself.
Kyiv Independent
Key developments on Jan. 6: Ukraine strikes 3 Russian air defense systems in single day, Navy claims
3,800 North Korean troops killed or injured in Russia's Kursk Oblast, Zelensky says
Ukraine's position in Kursk Oblast important for possible negotiations, Blinken says
Zelensky offered to buy weapons from incoming Trump administration with frozen Russian assets
Lukashenko apologized to Zelensky for Belarus' role, denied responsibility early in Russia's invasion, Zelensky says
Russia fueling Transnistria energy crisis for propaganda, destabilization, Moldova says
Macron sees no 'quick and easy solution' to Ukraine, urges 'realistic' discussions on territory Two Russian anti-missile Pantsir-S1 systems and one OSA anti-aircraft vehicle were damaged or destroyed by Ukraine's Navy in one day, the military branch claimed on Jan. 6. "Our soldiers continue to turn Russian equipment into scrap metal," Ukrainian Navy Commander Oleksii Neizhpapa said in a Facebook post referring to the three successful attacks.
NPR
At least four people have died and dozens have been injured as a major winter storm moves across several states from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic, with officials warning those in its path to stay off the roads. Forecasters are predicting up to a foot of snow in some areas. There have been hundreds of calls for help on the highways and thousands of stranded cars from Kansas to Virginia since Saturday, including a car pileup in Illinois. In Kansas, where blizzard warnings had been issued across the state over the weekend, at least three people have died in car crashes, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. At least one person has died and more than 30 people have been injured in Missouri, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
Al Jazeera
On Sunday, photographer and social activist Oleg Pogozhikh went to work at his studio in Kursk, western Russia, to the roar of explosions. Sitting on the border, the Kursk region came under occasional bombardment early on in the full-scale war with Ukraine. Fighting intensified in August last year, when Ukraine launched a daring incursion into the area, capturing several settlements. Russia has since retaken much of the territory seized. But this weekend has seen resurgent battles as Ukraine launched a new offensive in Kursk. “Everything is as usual: missile warning sirens, explosions somewhere nearby,” Pogozhikh wrote on his Telegram feed, titled Eye of Kursk. “Today it is especially loud. I am in the studio, and a couple of times I was shaken so much that it blocked out my ears. Close. So close that the question arises: what is the enemy trying to achieve? Of course, their goal is to spoil the holiday season, sow panic, distract attention.”
Deutsche Welle
For the past 14 months, Zahra's family has sought safety by moving from place to place in Jabalia and Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. In December, the family of seven made their way to Gaza City. "The war has been harsh since day one, but now it feels like hell," Zahra, who asked that her full name not be used, told DW over the phone from Gaza City, where her family has found shelter in a partially bombed-out house in the Shati refugee camp. "We don't know if we'll survive or perish before it ends."
Despite repeated orders from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to head to the southern part of the Gaza Strip, Zahra's family decided to stay in the north, partly out of fear that they would never be able to return home. "We didn't leave the north earlier because we knew the bombardment was everywhere and we hoped the military operation in the north would end soon. But, instead, it became even more unbearable," Zahra said. "Our house in Jabalia camp was completely destroyed months ago, and now we find ourselves in a state of constant displacement."
Deutsche Welle
Two telecom cables connecting Estonia and Finland have been repaired after suspected sabotage, Finnish operator Elisa said. The authorities in Finland are investigating the suspected sabotage of four telecom cables and one power cable on December 25, just weeks after other cables in the region were severed. The cables are steel-reinforced with a diameter of just over two centimeters (0.78 inches), with several layers of insulation protecting the fibers within. Some experts and politicians have said recent actions targeting infrastructure are part of a hybrid war between Russia and Western countries.
The Guardian, EU
Emmanuel Macron has added his voice to a growing chorus of European criticism of Elon Musk, accusing the world’s richest man of intervening directly in the continent’s democratic processes, including Germany’s snap federal elections next month. The French president joined the Norwegian and British prime ministers and a German government spokesperson on Monday in responding to a barrage of hostile posts by Musk backing far-right political parties and attacking leftwing politicians in Europe. The owner of the social media platform X is a close ally of Donald Trump and, after spending more than $250m (£210m) to help get him re-elected, has been asked by the incoming US president to cut the federal budget as a special adviser. “Ten years ago, who would have imagined that the owner of one of the world’s largest social networks would be supporting a new international reactionary movement and intervening directly in elections, including in Germany,” Macron said.
The Guardian, EU
The Danish king has shocked some historians by changing the royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland and the Faroe Islands – in what has also been seen as a rebuke to Donald Trump. Less than a year since succeeding his mother, Queen Margrethe, after she stood down on New Year’s Eve 2023, King Frederik has made a clear statement of intent to keep the autonomous Danish territory and former colony within the kingdom of Denmark. For 500 years, previous Danish royal coats of arms have featured three crowns, the symbol of the Kalmar Union between Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which was led from Denmark between 1397 and 1523. They are also an important symbol of its neighbour Sweden.
The Guardian, International
The United States has sent 11 Yemeni detainees at the Guantánamo Baydetention center to Oman, the Pentagon said on Monday, in a major resettlement that nearly halves the detention facility’s remaining number of prisoners. The released men include Tawfiq al-Bihani, who had been cleared for transfer since 2010; Khalid Qassim, a long-term hunger striker who has spoken about spending most of his adult life in Guantánamo; and Hassan bin Attash, who was captured in a security raid in Pakistan in 2002. His older brother, Walid bin Attash, remains detained and is a defendant in a military tribunal, accused of helping to plot the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US. None of the men in the latest transfer out of the camp had been criminally charged or put on trial during their two decades of detention. All were approved for transfer through federal national security officials.
Pro Publica
Fed-up North Dakotans, led by a group of women calling themselves the BadAss Grandmas, voted to amend the constitution and establish a state Ethics Commission six years ago. Their goal was to investigate and stop unethical conduct by public officials. But the watchdog agency has achieved less than the advocates had hoped, undermined in large part by the legislature the commission is charged with overseeing, an investigation by the North Dakota Monitor and ProPublica has found. The commission has not substantiated any of the 81 complaints it has received. It has dismissed 47, most because it lacked the authority to investigate them. Thirty complaints are pending, some for more than a year. Numerous tips don’t get investigated because the agency can’t proceed without a formal complaint, and complainants have said they fear retaliation if they file one, the commission’s executive director said.
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