Taking a cue from demonstrations that paralyzed Canada's capital city, Ottawa, for weeks, U.S. truckers on Wednesday plan to embark on a 2,500-mile cross-country drive toward Washington to protest coronavirus restrictions.
Ukrainian soldiers patrol the line of separation near the city of Novoluhanske in Donetsk, the day after Putin recognizes two Russian-backed breakaway regions.
Raging wildfires in Argentina's northern Corrientes province have scarred the region burning over 800,000 hectares of land, more than twice the size of Rhode Island.
It never gets completely dark in Colonia El Carmen, home to Mexico's largest natural gas processing center, in the poor southern state of Chiapas. After sunset, a red glare emanates from flares dotted around the Cactus gas processing center, run by state oil company Pemex.
Judges on Colombia's constitutional court voted on Monday to decriminalize abortion until 24 weeks of gestation, the court said in a statement, in a victory for abortion rights groups which sued to have the procedure removed from the penal code.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the deployment of troops to two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine after recognizing them as independent, accelerating a crisis the West fears could unleash a major war.
The world welcomes in 2022, the COVID-19 variant Omicron spreads, Moscow masses troops near Ukraine's borders, the Australian government cancels Novak Djokovic's visa ahead of the Australian Open and more photos from January. Produced by David Lucas
