South Korea's Corrupt Practices Investigation Office (CIO) announced that security forces were unable to detain suspended President Yoon Seok-yeol due to resistance from his security detail. A Seoul court issued an arrest warrant for the president on December 31. “We have determined that executing the arrest warrant would be virtually impossible due to the ongoing standoff and have suspended enforcement due to concerns for the safety of personnel on site due to the resistance.

Special forces soldier Matthew Livelsberger, who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck near Donald Trump's hotel in Las Vegas on January 1, shot himself in the head a few seconds before the explosion, investigators have found. The FBI is still investigating Livelsberger's motives and is not entirely sure whether this attack was related to the terrorist attack in New Orleans. The Associated Press reports this.

The Far North has long been a place of cooperation between Russia and Western countries: here the parties managed to resolve disputes and peacefully divide territories. But the war in Ukraine changed everything. Now the Arctic is another point of confrontation between Russia and the West, where the largest mineral deposits and the future of the planet are at stake.

Apple has agreed to end a five-year legal battle over the protection of personal data of users affected by the virtual assistant Siri. Under the terms of the preliminary agreement, the company will pay customers $95 million, The Washington Post reported . Apple has agreed to sign a settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit filed in a US court alleging that Siri could be accidentally activated by voice and record people's conversations without their consent.

An orca named Tahlequah, who several years ago spent a record 17 days grieving for her calf, has again been spotted with her dead baby. A female killer whale appeared off the US Pacific coast, pushing the body of a dead calf and preventing it from drowning, The Guardian reported . Specialists from the Center for Whale Research recently spotted a killer whale along with the body of a calf in Puget Sound, Washington.

Venezuelan authorities have announced a reward of 100 thousand dollars for the capture of the main rival of the country's President Nicolas Maduro in the last elections. Edmundo Gonzalez, 75, believes the voting results were rigged. Gonzalez promised to return to Venezuela from Spain on January 10 to take the presidential oath of office in Maduro's place.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico threatened Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees with retaliatory measures because Ukraine refused to renew the agreement on the transit of Russian gas. Quotes from the politician’s video message were published by Reuters and RIA Novosti . “We are ready to discuss and agree in the coalition on stopping electricity supplies and significantly reducing support for Ukrainian citizens who are on the territory of Slovakia,” said Robert Fico.

The Ministry of Education of the Syrian Transitional Government has published a new version of the curriculum for all age groups. According to the program, schools must stop teaching the theory of evolution and the Big Bang, the BBC reported .

On the morning of January 2, in the center of St. Petersburg, near a residential building, the body of a woman was found with injuries consistent with a fall from a height. In the woman’s apartment in the same building, police found an eight-year-old child “with signs of violent death,” the Investigative Committee reported . Mother and son died at night on 10th Sovetskaya Street in the Central District of the city, investigators said.

The Association of Independent Industrialists and Businessmen of Turkey called the cessation of Russian gas transit through Ukraine a victory and called on the government to help businesses take advantage of the situation.

The Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow demanded that the oil refinery be hidden on the Yandex satellite map. Prosecutors sued the corporation after Ukrainian drones attacked the plant four times. Mediazona drew attention to the court decision of December 24.

The Investigative Committee of Chuvashia announced the arrest of a man suspected of murdering a store owner in the city of Kanash. According to investigators, on January 2, a man entered the store dressed as Santa Claus and shot the businessman. Fontanka found out that the businessman’s name was Yuri Surakin, he was 55 years old. The Investigative Committee believes that the man killed the businessman because of a financial debt.