ADEN, Yemen (AP) – Saudi warplanes have reportedly struck on Friday forces in southern Yemen backed by the United Arab Emirates, a separatist leader says. This comes as a Saudi-led operation attempts to take over camps of the Southern Transitional Council, or STC, in the governorate of Haramout that borders Saudi Arabia.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – The FBI said Friday it had disrupted a plot to attack a North Carolina grocery store and fast-food restaurant on New Year’s Eve, arresting a man who officials said was inspired by the Islamic State group and had pledged loyalty to the extremist militants.
Today is Friday, Jan. 2, the second day of 2026. There are 363 days left in the year. On Jan. 2, 2016, a heavily armed group led by brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, beginning a 41-day standoff to protest the imprisonment of two ranchers convicted of setting fires on public land.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – President Donald Trump has spent much of his two-week vacation in Florida golfing. But when he gets back to the White House, there’s a military golf course that he’s never played that he’s eyeing for a major construction project.
HELSINKI (AP) – Finnish authorities have arrested two members of a cargo ship’s crew in connection with damage to an undersea telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland that occurred earlier this week between the capitals of Finland and Estonia, police said Thursday.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – A multi-story building under construction in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, collapsed Friday, leaving at least four people believed trapped. Rescue workers are digging through the rubble. The Kenya Red Cross, which said in a statement that a multi-agency response team was at the scene “managing the situation.”
DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – A grandmother and her 5-year-old grandson burned to death in Gaza when their tent caught fire, as thousands of Palestinians battle harrowing winter conditions in flimsy makeshift housing and the humanitarian crisis persists.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – More than 300,000 inactive university students have been removed from the rolls in Greece, cutting the country’s official student population by nearly half, authorities said Friday. The move marks the end of a decadeslong practice that allowed extended enrollment to facilitate lifelong learning and lengthy breaks for work.
MEXICO CITY (AP) – A strong earthquake rattled southern and central Mexico on Friday, interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum ‘s first press briefing of the new year as seismic alarms sounded. The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 and its epicenter was near the town of San Marcos in the southern state of Guerrero.
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