![A Georgia State Patrol SWAT team member stands guard outside the Georgia State Capitol building [John Bazemore/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP_21014756216577.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
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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)
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![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)
![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=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)
![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=120%2C80)
![The peak is known as the 'Savage Mountain' for its punishing conditions [File: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2014-10-22T000000Z_1112941608_LM2EAAM0R5Q01_RTRMADP_3_PAKISTAN-K2-WIDERIMAGE.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![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)
![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
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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)
![A Tunisian demonstrator throws a rock during clashes with security forces in Regueb, near Sidi Bouzid on January 10, 2011 [Fethi Belaid/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/000_Par3704091.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C4200px%2C2801px&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)
Opinion
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.
![At 76 - though some opponents say he is older - Museveni says he is fighting fit [File: Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-13T125536Z_869911355_RC207L9HKXY7_RTRMADP_3_AFRICA-PRESIDENTS.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
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)
Syria sanctions inflict suffering as al-Assad regime marches on
Life in government-controlled areas worsens with queues outside bakeries and fuel stations as al-Assad hangs on.
![Bashar al-Assad has withstood the threat posed by the decade-long war even as Syria faces its worst food and economic crisis [Sergei Grits/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/9b80176ec9d040c8830aeb5324c9ca80_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Zango leaps into record books with world indoor triple jump mark
Burkina Faso athlete adds 15 centimetres to the previous record set by his own coach, Teddy Tamgho.
![Zango warmed up with a leap of 17.33 metres before steadily increasing his best to 17.61 metres and then 17.70 metres [File: Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-16T181305Z_102020435_RC269L99VPVK_RTRMADP_3_ATHLETICS-RECORD.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Trump administration carries out 13th, final federal execution
Number of federal death sentences carried out under Trump since 2020 is more than the previous 56 years combined.
![Bill Breeden, an anti-death penalty advocate, protests the execution of Dustin Higgs outside the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana [Bryan Woolston/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Execution.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
