AP, Yemen
As the first light of dawn trickles in through the hospital window, 19-year-old Mohammed Ali learns that his two-year-old cousin has died of hunger. But he has to remain strong for his little brother Mohannad, who could be next.
He holds his brother’s hand as the five-year-old struggles to breathe, his skin stretched tight over tiny ribs. “I have already lost a cousin to malnutrition today, I can’t lose my little brother,” he says.
Obama has few options to protect young immigrants
AP, Washington
Barack Obama is under pressure during his final weeks as president to do something – anything – to secure the future of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children who could face deportation under the Trump administration. His options appear few.
At least 50 congressional Democrats are pushing Obama to take the rare if not unprecedented step of granting pardons to the young immigrants who have stepped forward to identify themselves in exchange for a promise that they’d be safe from deportation. The White House, though, has repeatedly ruled that out.
Shoe hurled at Arvind Kejriwal
The Indian Express
A youth hurled a shoe at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal while he was addressing a public meeting against demonetisation in Rohtak district of Haryana. The shoe, however, missed its target and the youth was nabbed.
The shoe was hurled towards Kejriwal when he attacked PM Modi over the demonetisation drive, terming it as a “scam”.
17 still missing after Indonesia boat fire
AP, Jakarta
A search resumed Monday for 17 people reported missing after a ferry fire off the coast of Indonesia’s capital that left at least 23 dead, officials said.
The victims died Sunday when the vessel, Zahro Express, carrying more than 260 people from a port near Jakarta to Tidung, a resort island in the Kepulauan Seribu chain, caught fire, officials said. Most of the passengers were Indonesians celebrating the New Year holiday, according to local media reports.
