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A Columbus, Ohio police officer who fatally shot a Black man on Tuesday was suspended from duty, the city’s mayor announced less than three...

Canadian police have ruled the death of a prominent Pakistani rights activist in the city of Toronto to be “non-criminal”, even as rights groups...

At least two people have been killed in a bomb attack that was followed by a shooting in Kabul. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/23/bomb-shooting-attack-in-kabul-kill-2

A civilian has been killed and three others wounded by Indian shelling in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Pakistan’s military has said. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/23/indian-shelling-kills-civilian-in-disputed-kashmir-pakistan-says

An alliance of political parties in Indian-administered Kashmir opposed to India’s policies in the region has won a majority of seats in local elections,...

The Central African Republic’s fourth-largest town, which was seized by rebel fighters on Tuesday ahead of next week’s elections, is now in the hands...

Turkish journalist Can Dundar has been sentenced in absentia to 27 years and six months in prison for espionage and aiding an armed organisation,...

Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov has turned down an offer to lead the UN mission in conflict-stricken Libya, according to a UN spokesman. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/23/mladenov-turns-down-offer-to-lead-un-mission-in-libya

Al Jazeera has condemned the continued imprisonment without charge of its journalist Mahmoud Hussein by the Egyptian authorities. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/23/al-jazeeras-mahmoud-hussein-four-years-in-an-egyptian-jail