Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City just after midnight Thursday, taking the oath of office at an historic decommissioned subway station in Manhattan. Mamdani, a Democrat, was sworn in as the first Muslim leader of America’s biggest city, placing his hand on a Quran as he took his oath. Read more: https://bit.ly/3YgqZLp

The 2-month-old ceasefire in Gaza has been slow to bring help for thousands of Palestinians who suffered amputations from Israeli bombardment over the past two years. The World Health Organization estimates there are some 5,000 to 6,000 amputees from the war, 25% of them children. Those who lost limbs are struggling to adapt, faced with a shortage of prosthetic limbs and long delays in medical evacuations out of Gaza. Read more: https://bit.ly/3L1RwZO

La ceremonia del sorteo de la Copa Mundial de la FIFA definió los grupos del primer Mundial con 48 equipos. Argentina y Lionel Messi enfrentarán a Argelia en el arranque de su campaña en busca de mantenerse en el trono. El sorteo también confirmó el partido inaugural: México se las verá el 11 de junio contra Sudáfrica en el renovado estadio Azteca. https://bit.ly/3XCYOGg

President Donald Trump announced late Thursday that the U.S had launched a “powerful and deadly strike” against alleged Islamic State forces in northwestern Nigeria. The residents of Jabo, a village near one of the sites, described a night that became chaotic and how they now feel vulnerable. One local leader told The Associated Press that debris left by the strikes was scattered and people rushed to the scene before the arrival of security operatives. The Nigerian military did not respond to an AP request asking how many locations were targeted. Read more: https://bit.ly/3YPEEZS

Nepal, once a safe haven for Tibetans, now lives under the gaze of Chinese-supplied surveillance. An AP investigation found that this monitoring was based on technology developed in the U.S. Know more: https://bit.ly/4j6rxwR

Outside China, the same technology Beijing employs at home is being used to threaten wayward officials, along with dissidents and alleged criminals. The U.S. has criticized these overseas operations as a “threat” and an “affront to national sovereignty.” More than 14,000 people, including some 3,000 officials, have been brought back to China from more than 120 countries through coercion, arrests and pressure on relatives, according to state information. Read more: https://bit.ly/3KHcZqQ

Search teams on Wednesday recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from the jet that crashed and killed Libya’s military chief and other senior officers, while efforts to retrieve the victim’s remains were still underway, Turkey’s interior minister said. The private jet carrying Gen. Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad, four other officers and three crew members crashed in Turkey on Tuesday after taking off from the capital, Ankara, killing everyone on board. Read more: https://bit.ly/498CY2m

Australia allrounder Cameron Green became the most expensive overseas player in Indian Premier League history when he was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for $2.7 million at the 2026 auction held on Tuesday. Read more: https://bit.ly/3YyA1TW

A protest erupted in India’s capital in response to the death of a Hindu man who was lynched and burned by an angry mob in neighboring Bangladesh, a new sign of strain in relations between the neighboring countries. The protest in New Delhi, mainly led by Hindu nationalist organization Vishva Hindu Parishad, highlights the fragility in the relationship between India and Bangladesh, which often is held up as a rare example of stability in South Asia. Bangladeshi student leader Sharif Osman Hadi died in a hospital in Singapore on Thursday after being shot on Dec. 12 in Dhaka. Police in Bangladesh said they identified suspects and the shooter likely had fled to India. Hadi’s death triggered widespread violence in Dhaka. The offices of two national daily newspapers were torched and Indian diplomatic missions were targeted. A Hindu man also was burned alive, which sparked the protest Tuesday in India. Read more: https://bit.ly/4p7NKfi

José Antonio Kast, del derechista Partido Republicano, es elegido presidente de Chile. Sucederá al izquierdista Gabriel Boric en el período 2026-2030. Sigue nuestra cobertura: https://bit.ly/3Kwb2gX