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Zara Rutherford, 19, carries the Belgian and British flags on the tarmac after landing her Shark ultralight plane at the Kortrijk airport in Belgium, on Thursday at the completion of a record-breaking solo circumnavigation.

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19-year-old lands in Belgium, becoming youngest woman to fly solo around the world

2:13pm January 20, 2022

Zara Rutherford set off from Belgium in August to circle the globe in her Shark UL plane. Five months later, she landed back home, having landed in 41 countries on five continents.

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This Marine-turned-journalist interviewed the Taliban commander he had fought against

1:33pm January 20, 2022

by Terry Gross

Thomas Gibbons-Neff served two tours in Afghanistan, and is now a New York Times reporter. He recently interviewed a high-level Taliban commander about a battle they had both been engaged in.

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Lisala Folau (wearing blue printed shirt) says he swam for more than 24 hours after getting swept to sea by Saturday's tsunami, sits with other people of Atata island in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, on Wednesday in this picture obtained from social media.

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A Tongan man says he swam for more than 24 hours after a tsunami swept him out to sea

1:09pm January 20, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Lisala Folau told a local broadcaster about his swimming journey, which lasted more than a day and took him to three islands. Social media users hearing his story are calling him "real-life Aquaman."

A flag of the International Committee of the Red Cross flutters above the humanitarian organization's headquarters in Geneva on Sept. 29, 2021. The ICRC is pleading with hackers to keep stolen data confidential.

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Cyberattack on Red Cross compromised sensitive data on over 515,000 vulnerable people

12:57pm January 20, 2022

by Jenna McLaughlin

The attack targeted a contractor in Switzerland that was storing the data. The Red Cross has been forced to halt a program that reunites families torn apart by violence, migration or other tragedies.

Tongan Foreign Minister Fekitamoeloa 'Utoikamanu (right) is accompanied by Australian High Commissioner to Tonga Rachael Moore as they receive a Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster III aircraft delivering Australian aid at Fuaʻamotu Internationa

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First aid flights arrive in Tonga after massive volcanic eruption and tsunami

11:15am January 20, 2022

by Scott Neuman

The eruption severed Tonga's single fiber-optic cable, rendering the Pacific archipelago offline and unable to communicate with the rest of the world. Flights brought bottled water and other supplies.

The former Pope Benedict XVI, seen here in 2010, did not intervene in four cases of sexual abuse when he was the archbishop of Munich and Freising, according to a law firm's new report. The inquiry was commissioned by the archdiocese.

Pope Benedict XVI failed to stop sex abuse when he was an archbishop, law firm says

10:28am January 20, 2022

by Bill Chappell

"In a total of four cases, we reached a consensus there was a failure to act," said attorney Martin Pusch of the law firm that was hired by the church to investigate decades of abuse.

A train is ready on the station during the handover ceremony of the high-speed rail project in Vientiane, Laos, connecting the city with Kunming, China, on Dec. 3, 2021.

With U.S. focused on defense, China's trade and infrastructure sweep Southeast Asia

7:43am January 20, 2022

by Julie McCarthy

The Biden administration hopes to make deeper inroads in Southeast Asia but lags far behind China, which has already built up major trade ties, as well as roads and a high-speed rail.

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The first humanitarian aid has arrived in the Pacific nation of Tonga

7:21am January 20, 2022

The flight arrived in Tonga five days after a massive underwater volcano erupted there – killing three people and leaving extensive tsunami damage and a blanket of fallen ash in its wake.

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U.K. Conservatives may oust Boris Johnson — here's how they can do that

4:24am January 20, 2022

by The Associated Press

If Johnson does not heed calls to resign — and he insists he won't — he could be toppled through a no-confidence vote.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses a post-Cabinet press conference at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, Monday, Oct. 4, 2021.

New Zealand will not impose lockdown when omicron hits

1:30am January 20, 2022

by The Associated Press

"This stage of the pandemic is different to what we have dealt with before. Omicron is more transmissible," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.