Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on January 1 that the end of natural gas supplies to Europe via a major pipeline traversing Ukraine is a major defeat for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russia launched a New Year's Day drone attack on Ukraine's capital early Wednesday, killing at least two people, injuring at least six others, and damaging buildings in two districts, authorities said.
Israeli airstrikes in northern and central Gaza killed at least 17 Palestinians on Wednesday, according to Palestinian officials and local media reports.
The Turkish artillery shelled the areas of 'Ain Isa', 'Tal Tamr' and the city of 'Ain al-Arab' (Kobani) located in northern Syria.
A driver crashed a pickup truck into a crowd celebrating New Year's early Wednesday in New Orleans and opened fire, killing 15 people and injuring more than 35 others.
Shi'ite and Sunni leaders in northwestern Pakistan on January 1 signed a peace agreement to end tensions and establish a permanent cease-fire after clashes believed to be linked to a tribal land dispute killed more than 100 people in the past 90 days.
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te reiterated his administration's willingness to welcome equal and dignified exchanges with China but said Beijing remains the obstacle for both sides to resume regular exchanges.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command on Wednesday released a music video to celebrate the New Year, with a scene showing a ginkgo leaf and a bird triggering netizens' associations to the alleged debuts of China's sixth-generation fighter jets that have been circulating on social media recently.
The spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces has declared the downing of a US MQ-9 drone in the skies over the Arab country.
Yemeni air defense units have successfully intercepted and shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone while it was conducting hostile activities in the airspace over the country's west-central province of Ma'rib.
Yemeni movement Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, brought down a US military MQ-9 drone in northeastern Yemen, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said on Wednesday.
A senior Iranian diplomat has condemned the latest round of airstrikes by US and British warplanes against a number of sites in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a, holding Washington and London directly responsible for any "dangerous" and "unpredictable" consequences of the regional situation.
A member of Yemen's Supreme Political Council has condemned US aggression against the country as a blatant violation of the sovereignty of an independent state.
Yemen's Ansarullah has warned the United States about the continued presence of the American aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea, media outlets have reported.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) reiterated its commitment to defending the country and the people in welcoming the New Year.
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has confirmed that the country intends to get rid of foreign military presence as early as 2025.
The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, has announced that it has bombarded Netivot, southern occupied Palestine, with a barrage of rockets in response to the massacre of civilians by the Zionist regime.
Secretary-General of Hezbollah Sheikh Naeem Qassem has stated that the collaboration between Lebanon's resistance and Iran is a response to shared challenges in the region.
The secretary general of Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement says the group has recuperated well following the assassination of its late leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut on September 27, emphasizing that his group has revived its military prowess as well.
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