* Uganda's incumbent President Yoweri Museveni won the country's presidential election, the Electoral Commission (EC) said on Saturday as it released the final results at the National Tally Center in the capital, Kampala. Announcing the outcome, EC Chairperson Simon Byabakama said Museveni secured 71.6 percent of the total votes tallied in Thursday's poll.
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Friday chaired a State Council executive meeting which mulled measures to boost consumption by accelerating the formation of new growth points in service consumption.
* Cambodia has arrested a total of 75 online scam suspects in the latest crackdown on the cyber scams, said a press release from the Ad-Hoc Committee to Combat Online Scams on Saturday.
* The United States will impose 10-percent tariffs on all goods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, Britain, the Netherlands and Finland over Greenland starting on Feb. 1, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday. Those tariffs would increase to 25 percent on June 1, and would continue until a deal is reached for the United States to purchase Greenland, he said on social media.
* European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa warned on Saturday that U.S. tariff threats linked to Greenland would undermine transatlantic ties and risk a "dangerous downward spiral."
* Bernd Lange, chair of the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade, on Saturday urged the European Commission to trigger the EU's anti-coercion instrument after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened additional tariffs on a group of European countries over Greenland.
* French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday slammed U.S. tariff threats over Greenland as "unacceptable," stressing that Europeans will respond in a united and coordinated manner should they be confirmed.
* British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on allies was "completely wrong."
* Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Saturday rejected a U.S. tariff threat over Greenland, emphasizing that "We will not allow ourselves to be blackmailed."
* Vast protests against U.S. actions and remarks suggesting control over Greenland were held on Saturday in multiple cities across Denmark and Greenland.
* The future of Greenland can only be decided by the Greenlandic people in accordance with the right to self-determination granted to them by the laws of the Kingdom of Denmark, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic said in a statement on Saturday.
* The Russian Armed Forces took control of five populated settlements in the special military operation zone over the past week, including two in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.
* Ukrainian and U.S. teams will hold another round of negotiations on Jan. 17 in Miami, Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Olga Stefanishyna announced on Friday.
* Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Saturday that the free trade agreement between the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the EU protects vulnerable sectors and represents a direct response to rising protectionism and unilateralism.
* Argentine President Javier Milei said Saturday that the trade agreement between the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the EU "is a starting point within a broader plan of economic engagement with various international partners" for his country.
* The Peruvian government has extended the state of emergency in Lima and the neighboring port province of Callao for 30 days to curb crime and organized criminal activity, the Prime Minister's Office said Saturday. The cabinet also approved a 60-day extension of the measure in the northern provinces of Tumbes and Zarumilla, as well as in Trujillo and Viru in the La Libertad region.
* The U.S. military conducted a strike in northwest Syria on Friday, killing a "leader affiliated with Al-Qaeda" who had direct ties to an Islamic State (IS) terrorist responsible for an ambush that killed two U.S. service members and an American interpreter last month, U.S. Central Command said Saturday.
* Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that Iran had defeated the United States and Israel "once again" and had "extinguished the sedition" he alleged was incited by Washington and Tel Aviv.
* Iranian schools will reopen on Sunday after a one-week closure, Iranian Students' News Agency reported on Saturday.
* The Iraqi Defense Ministry said on Saturday that the Iraqi army has taken full control of the Ayn al-Asad Airbase in western Iraq's Anbar province following the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and his Pakistani counterpart Mohammad Ishaq Dar on Friday urged regional countries to work together to maintain peace, stability, and security, Iran's Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
* Egypt's General Intelligence Service Chief Hassan Rashad pledged support on Saturday for the newly-formed Palestinian technocratic committee tasked with administering the Gaza Strip, state-run Al-Qahera News reported.
* Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein and his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan discussed bilateral relations and rising regional tensions during a phone call on Saturday.
* Uganda restored internet services on Sunday after a five-day nationwide shutdown imposed during the general elections, a move authorities said was intended to curb the misuse of online platforms.
* Military tensions between Syria's interim authorities and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) sharply escalated on Saturday across northern Syria, as clashes erupted despite a withdrawal agreement announced a day earlier.
* A landslide impacted three houses in northern Sydney as life-threatening flash flooding prompted evacuation orders on Saturday night.
* The body of the last remaining missing person in the Jan. 8 landfill landslide in the central Philippine city of Cebu was retrieved early Sunday, bringing the total number of victims who perished in the tragedy to 36, the country's Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said.
