![With the US Capitol in the background, a member of the Virginia National Guard stands at the ready inside the secured Capitol complex, on Saturday, January 16, 2021, in Washington, as security is increased ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris [Jacquelyn Martin/ AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP_21016862864280.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
![A polling agent from the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party celebrates the victory of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni [Baz Ratner/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-16T133620Z_221602688_RC219L9SMK7I_RTRMADP_3_UGANDA-ELECTION.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
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![The drill saw anti-warship ballistic missiles launched in the Indian Ocean [Iranian Revolutionary Guard/Sepahnews via AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP_21016342179876.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![This handout photo shows the core stage for the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System rocket in the B-2 Test Stand during a scheduled eight minute duration hot fire test, January 16, 2021, at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St Louis, Mississippi [Robert Markowitz/ NASA/ AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/000_8YX28H.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Faisal bin Farhan says the issue is just a matter of logistics [File: AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20288502276484.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
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![A polling agent from the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party celebrates the victory of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni [Baz Ratner/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-16T133620Z_221602688_RC219L9SMK7I_RTRMADP_3_UGANDA-ELECTION.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Rescuers search for victims in the ruins of a building flattened during the earthquake. [Yusuf Wahil/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP_21016371751999-1.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Rescuers search for victims in the ruins of a building flattened during the earthquake. [Yusuf Wahil/AP Photo]
![Damaged roads and bridges, power blackouts and lack of heavy equipment hampered Indonesia's rescuers. [Yusuf Wahil/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP_21017120984728.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Damaged roads and bridges, power blackouts and lack of heavy equipment hampered Indonesia's rescuers. [Yusuf Wahil/AP Photo]
![Members of an Indonesian search-and-rescue team carry the body of a victim pulled out of the ruins of a building damaged by the magnitude 6.2 earthquake in Mamuju. [Opan Bustan/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/h_56623099.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Members of an Indonesian search-and-rescue team carry the body of a victim pulled out of the ruins of a building damaged by the magnitude 6.2 earthquake in Mamuju. [Opan Bustan/EPA]
![The earthquake and its aftershocks damaged more than 400 homes. [Sigid Kurniawan/Antara Foto via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-16T101621Z_1257750667_RC2X8L9VNNJD_RTRMADP_3_INDONESIA-QUAKE.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
The earthquake and its aftershocks damaged more than 400 homes. [Sigid Kurniawan/Antara Foto via Reuters]
![Workers use excavators to clear away debris in Mamuju. [Adek Berry/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/000_8YX2PK.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Workers use excavators to clear away debris in Mamuju. [Adek Berry/AFP]
![Rescuers search for survivors in the ruins of a collapsed building in Mamuju city. [Hariandi Hafid/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/000_8YV67C.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Rescuers search for survivors in the ruins of a collapsed building in Mamuju city. [Hariandi Hafid/AFP]
![At least 56 people have been killed and more than 820 people injured after the earthquake that struck Indonesia's West Sulawesi. [Adek Berry/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/000_8YX2EL.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
At least 56 people have been killed and more than 820 people injured after the earthquake that struck Indonesia's West Sulawesi. [Adek Berry/AFP]
![Residents gather at a makeshift shelter in Mamuju. About 15,000 people left their homes after the 6.2 magnitude quake. [Muhammad Rifki/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/000_8YV7HL.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Residents gather at a makeshift shelter in Mamuju. About 15,000 people left their homes after the 6.2 magnitude quake. [Muhammad Rifki/AFP]
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Brazil: COVID-hit Amazonas state receives more emergency supplies
Healthcare facilities in Amazonas state are being pushed to their limits due to a surge in COVID-19 infections.
![A man holds an oxygen tank in Manaus on January 15, as medical workers are battling a shortage of oxygen and other essential equipment to respond to a surge in COVID-19 cases [File: Michael Dantas/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/000_8YV4ER.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
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From: The Listening Post
Trump-free Twitter: The debate over deplatforming
Numerous social media sites have suspended Trump’s accounts – is this good media ethics or good business sense?
![Protesters demonstrate against Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunis January 14, 2011. Tunisian President Ben Ali stepped aside on Friday after failing to quell the worst anti-government unrest in his two decades in power. As the prime minister stepped in until promised elections can be held, Ben Ali’s whereabouts were unclear. Al Jazeera television said he had left the country [Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/RTXWKHS.jpg?resize=770%2C330)
Arab Spring 10 years on: Tunisia's revolution
![Tunisian protesters demonstrate beneath a poster of Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor who set himself on fire to protest against social conditions, starting the Arab Spring in late 2010 [File: Salah Habibi/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AP_110128121974-e1608200818567.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
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![Protesters demonstrate against Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunis on January 14, 2011 [Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/RTXWKHS.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![Tunisians chant slogans as they gather at Mohamed Bouazizi Square in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid on December 17, 2020, during commemorations of the 10th anniversary of Bouazizi's self-immolation [Fethi Belaid/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/000_8XC3YU.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Armed group captures military base in northeast Nigeria
Residents, government troops flee as armed group overran a town in Nigeria’s Borno state in attack claimed by ISIL.
![The assault came just two months after residents driven from their homes by the violence had returned to the town under a government programme [File: AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/304aa41a5eff47d3bb46cd0979f6bc31_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Museveni, one-time critic of clinging to power, wins sixth term
Ugandan president will continue to govern population where 75 percent are under 30 and not known anyone else in charge.
Tunisian PM appoints new ministers in cabinet reshuffle
Hichem Mechichi names a dozen new cabinet members, including interior, justice, energy and health ministers.
![Mechichi had previously sacked the environment and culture ministers [File: AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/142a6ebf3d954dc2b5bec5c981d331d4_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
