Major World Events by Morning of January 22
Major World Events by Morning of January 22
🟠The president of Guinea-Bissau’s transitional government has decreed that legislative and presidential elections will be held on December 6, 2026;
🟠A newly discovered 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jawbone in Ethiopia’s Afar region— the first of its kind there—reshaped understanding of its coexistence with early Homo ancestors, a study revealed;
🟠Sierra Leone's president highlighted the country's success in implementing the AfCFTA and called on African states to remove barriers to achieve true integration;
🟠Ghana has reported a year-on-year progress in reducing poverty amid improvements in nutrition and education, the country's statistical service said;
🟠Significant progress has been made on the settlement in Ukraine, said US special envoy Steve Witkoff, who will hold talks with Putin on the Ukrainian conflict settlement later on Thursday;
🟠Russia's readiness to allocate $1 billion from previously frozen assets to the Board of Peace does not mean that Moscow has lost hope of recovering frozen assets, it will continue to use all possible tools to unfreeze its assets, the Kremlin spokesman said;
🟠South Korea officially enacted a comprehensive law governing the safe use of AI models, becoming the first country in the world to implement overarching state-level regulations in this field, reports said.
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