International from Tuesday, January 21st, 2025

Israel's army chief Herzi Halevi said on Tuesday he would resign on March 6, taking responsibility for the massive security lapse on October 7, 2023, when Hamas gunmen from Gaza carried out a cross-border attack on Israel.

Israeli security forces backed by helicopters raided the volatile West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, killing at least four Palestinians in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a "large-scale and significant military operation".

A landslide in Indonesia's Central Java city of Pekalongan killed 16 people and injured 10, an official at the country's regional disaster mitigation agency and police said on Tuesday.

A fire at a ski resort hotel in Turkey's Bolu mountains killed 76 people and injured dozens on Tuesday, forcing panicked guests to jump out of windows in the middle of the night.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attended on Tuesday a Constitutional Court hearing of his impeachment trial where he denied ordering military commanders to drag lawmakers out of parliament during his short-lived bid to impose martial law.

The United States will exit the World Health Organization (WHO), President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

President Donald Trump has pardoned nearly everyone criminally charged with participating in the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, in a show of solidarity with supporters who stormed the seat of American power in his name.