Finns took more parental leave from work last year than in 2023 , according to the Social Insurance Institution of Finland , Kela .

The year-on-year increase was 5.3 percent , with fathers using about one-fifth of available parental leave benefits.

In 2022 , only 12 percent of fathers left work to care for their children, but the following year the proportion of dads taking the leave grew to 21 percent .

Kim Yong-hyun called protesters who stormed a court over last month's decision to extend President Yoon Suk Yeol's detention.

Hundreds of angry supporters of the arrested president stormed the Seoul Western District Court on Jan. 19 , smashing windows and equipment inside.

More than 60 people have been arrested, many of them in their 20s and 30s , local media reports.

NEW: Police chief says there is "a lot to indicate" that the gunman had shot himself.

NEW: Three women and two men, all with gunshot wounds, are in serious but stable condition.

The gunman was found dead when police reached him, a police official says.

Police raided the suspect's home after the shooting, but it wasn't immediately clear what they found.

Motassembelah "Motassem" Abuzayed was a junior in high school and dreamed of going to college or university.

He was severely injured by an airstrike while he was outside with his friends in his neighborhood in the Gaza Strip .

More than 25,000 children have been injured in the Israel -Hamas war, according to the United Nations .

Motassem was medically evacuated to Egypt on New Year's Eve in 2023 through a program run by the Gaza Ministry of Health .

He had several operations on his arm and fingers and needed to have a chest tube placed on his left side after doctors found he had a hemothorax, which occurs when blood pools in the pleural space, or the space between the lungs and the chest wall.

He also developed a severe bacterial infection, but it's unclear which infection he had.

Motassem arrived in the U.S. at John F. Kennedy International Airport on his birthday, Oct. 19, 2024 .

He said he was held up in questioning for four hours and asked if he was a Hamas supporter.

He was put on a direct flight from Cairo to New York City with another child being medically evacuated.

He underwent nerve-bundling surgery on Jan. 24, 2025 .

A petition seeking the impeachment of Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte received the required support of more than a third of lower-house lawmakers.

A bill of impeachment will go to the upper house, where the 23 senators would serve as jurors in proceedings.

The grounds for impeachment were not immediately clear.

The moves come amid a bitter rift between her and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

US -based rail manufacturer Wabtec has secured deals worth US$525 million to supply the locomotives that will deliver the first shipments.

Simandou, the world's largest known undeveloped reserve of high-grade iron ore, is strategically important to China .

China aims to diversify its suppliers from Australia and Brazil , that together account for about 80 per cent of seaborne exports.

Simfer and WCS will construct the dual track main rail line, a 16km ( 10-mile ) spur rail line and a 60 million tonne per year barge port.

Ownership of the rail and port infrastructure will transfer from CTG to the Guinean state after 35 years of operation.

Palestinians will mark this year the 77th anniversary of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel .

Some 700,000 Palestinians — a majority of the prewar population — fled or were driven from their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel ’s establishment.

After the war, Israel refused to allow them to return because it would have resulted in a Palestinian majority within its borders.

Even before the war, many Palestinians spoke of an ongoing Nakba , in which Israel gradually forces them out of Gaza , the West Bank and east Jerusalem .

They point to home demolitions, settlement construction and other discriminatory policies that long predate the war.

Yara Asi , a Palestinian assistant professor at the University of Central Florida , says it’s “extremely difficult” to imagine the kind of international effort needed to rebuild Gaza .

First Minister John Swinney says there must be no ethnic cleansing in Gaza .

Trump has previously called for a "clean out" of Gaza , saying Palestinians should be resettled.

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn calls on Sir Keir Starmer 's government to denounce Trump 's comments.

France 's CAC 40 shed 0.3% in early trading to 7,881.94 , while Germany 's DAX fell 0.5% to 7.881 .

Japan 's benchmark Nikkei 225 recouped earlier losses and was little changed, finishing up less than 0.1% at 38,831.48 .

Honda Motor Co. shot up 8.2% after Japanese media reports said its talks to set up a joint holding company with rival Nissan were unraveling.

More than 100 Indian migrants deported by the US arrive home in northern Indian city.

The Indians who returned home had illegally entered the United States over the years .

The move came ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ’s visit to Washington , which is expected next week .

India says it is against illegal immigration, mainly because it is linked to organized crime.