A South Korean court sentenced former Prime Minister Han Duk-soo to 23 years in prison on charges including participation in key acts of rebellion related to former President Yoon Seok-yeol's declaration of martial law in December 2024.

Glucose monitoring services for people with diabetes will be included in white lists - a list of sites that will be available during Internet outages. This was announced by Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko at a meeting of Vladimir Putin with members of the government. As The Insider previously wrote, parents of children with diabetes cannot remotely monitor their blood glucose levels due to constant shutdowns.

The European Parliament has suspended work on the implementation of the customs agreement between the European Union and the United States, agreed upon in 2025. Bernd Lange, Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on International Trade, stated this on January 21 in Strasbourg, Deutsche Welle reports .

On January 8, North Korea issued a decree allowing private car ownership not only in Pyongyang, but also in provincial regions. This was reported by Daily NK, citing a source in the country. According to the document, any citizen over 24 years of age with a driver's license can register a car in their name. Previously, only officials and representatives of privileged sections of society could own cars outside the capital.

On January 21, US President Donald Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. His arrival was delayed by a technical problem on Air Force One, but the meeting was ultimately delayed by only five minutes. Trump gave a speech lasting more than an hour, starting to talk about the economic success of the United States, but the main topic of his speech was Greenland and relations with NATO.

The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow sentenced Akhmadzhon Kurbonov, accused of involvement in the murder of the head of the RKhBZ troops, General Igor Kirillov, to life imprisonment. Three more defendants in the case were given sentences ranging from 18 to 25 years in prison. The Investigative Committee reports this. According to investigators, Kurbonov is the perpetrator of the terrorist attack. He will serve his term in a special regime colony, the first ten years in prison.

The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv canceled the house arrest of the former mayor of Odessa Gennady Trukhanov. The court changed the preventive measure to personal obligation and removed the electronic bracelet from him, lawyer Alexander Lysak told Suspilne on January 21. Previously, the court chose a preventive measure for Trukhanov in the form of house arrest in a case of official negligence. Investigators believe negligence led to the deaths of nine people during the September 30 disaster.

The European Parliament decided to postpone the adoption of a free trade agreement between the EU and the countries of the South American bloc MERCOSUR (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay) and sent it to the European Court for consideration. A small majority of deputies voted for the corresponding resolution in Strasbourg, Tagesschau reports . 334 deputies were in favor of checking the agreement by the court, 324 were against it, and 11 abstained.

News The Insider January 21, 2026 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, speaking at the economic forum in Davos , in his speech spoke of a “breakdown in the world order”, which was caused by the refusal of “great powers” ​​to follow the rules. According to him, Canada was one of the first countries to “hear the wake-up call,” which led to a fundamental review of the country’s strategic position.

All Russian schoolchildren will be taught how to assemble and operate drones. As RIA Novosti writes with reference to government documents, training will take place in lessons on the basics of security and defense of the homeland (OBZR). The government has approved lists of teaching aids for school OZR classrooms; they include about 90 different items: from models of weapons and first aid equipment to a soldier’s bowler hat, tent and night vision device.

News The Insider January 21, 2026 Photo: Sputnik On January 20, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced a political reform in which the bicameral parliament will be abolished and replaced by a unicameral legislative body. In addition, it is proposed to introduce the post of vice president and create a People's Council, whose members will be appointed by the president. At the same time, a popular referendum must approve the reform.

Two US State Department officials tried to persuade a French judge and the Secretary General of the National Commission of Human Rights (CNCDH), Magali Lafourcade, to oppose the ban on far-right leader Marine Le Pen from participating in the elections. Lafourcade herself reported this to Agence France-Presse and the newspaper Politico .

For the first time in a century, the Canadian military has developed a model of a hypothetical US invasion of the country and a possible response to it. This was reported to the Canadian publication The Globe and Mail by two senior government officials who were not given permission to discuss the topic publicly. The Canadian military is considering an offensive from the south in which U.S.

World leaders see joining the Peace Council chaired by US President Donald Trump as an inevitability rather than an option. This conclusion was reached by Reuters, which surveyed 16 world leaders at the Davos forum, including politicians and delegates from Latin America, the Middle East and Europe. Officials gave this assessment of possible joining the Council in private conversations with journalists.

The United States has seized another tanker carrying Venezuelan oil, the seventh since the naval blockade of Venezuela began in December. According to the US Southern Command, the Sagitta was detained on January 20 in the Caribbean Sea.