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The Didban Iran website reported on Thursday that following multiple suicides among medical students, a special committee has been established at the request of the deputy minister of education at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education to investigate the underlying causes. Click here for the full story in Persian.  

Several opposition leaders in Venezuela use technology to communicate and draw up strategies in secret, while their parties prudently coordinate meetings. The repression has been relentless, said political leader Juan Pablo Guanipa, who is now under protection. Click here for the full story in Spanish.  

After the discovery of a clandestine tunnel weeks ago between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas, Mexican authorities launched an operation to detect other underground passages and prevent migrants from risking their lives to cross into the United States. Click here for the full story in Spanish.    

Scholarships abruptly canceled

Much public health information was taken down from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website

Activists have long called for the closing of the US facility, which has detained migrants under prisonlike conditions during previous administrations

Atif Najib is viewed as igniting the spark that triggered Syria’s 2011 uprising

Photos of the crash site appear to show homes on fire

Investigators continue to search for bodies after recovering 41 from the wreckage

Visit comes less than a month after Maduro was sworn in for a third six-year term despite credible evidence that he lost last year's election

Malawian authorities say they struggle to provide for refugees because the situation comes when more than a quarter of Malawi's 20 million people face food shortages due to an El Nino-induced drought

Rebels seek more territory in country's mineral-rich east

Sparsely populated and largely impassable, areas within the Arctic Circle are nevertheless becoming one of the most important strategic zones for global powers

Trump's pick for FBI director, Kash Patel, said he was not aware of any plans to terminate or otherwise punish FBI employees who were involved in the Trump investigations

Economists, importers and consumers are unsure of how a promised 10% universal tariff on Chinese goods will affect prices of products that fuel the American economy 

The territory in question has been under Guyana’s control for more than a century, and it is Venezuela that has failed to maintain its own obligations to law and peace.

ICE data from November show 37,908 Chinese nationals who are believed to be removable from the US but have not yet been detained

Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo's largest city said they want to take their fight to the far-off capital, Kinshasa. Congo’s president has called for a massive military mobilization to resist the rebellion, and his defense minister rejected calls for talks. We get insights on the situation in a conversation with Michelle Gavin, Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations provides insights into the crisis.