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1. 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and father return to Minnesota from Texas ICE centre

   Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, who were detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and held at an ICE facility in Texas, have been released following a judge’s order. They have returned to Minnesota, according to Texas politician Joaquin Castro. The two were detained in a Minneapolis suburb on January 20. They were taken to a detention centre in Dilley, Texas. Katherine...

2. US House Speaker Johnson says he has votes to end partial government shutdown by Tuesday

   US House ‍Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday he believes he has the Republican votes to end a partial government shutdown within days and that the chamber will debate Immigration and Customs Enforcement reforms for two weeks after that. “I’m confident that we’ll do it at ⁠least by Tuesday. We have a logistical challenge of getting everyone in town,” Johnson said on NBC’s Meet the Press...

3. Sacked UK ambassador Mandelson has ‘no recollection of US$75,000 payments from Epstein’

   British politician Peter Mandelson on Sunday said he does not remember receiving payments from paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein totalling US$75,000. Mandelson, who was sacked as ambassador to the United States last year because of his links to Epstein, appears to feature in several bank statements released on Friday in the huge tranche of files related to the disgraced financier by the US...

4. Nigerian army kills top Boko Haram commander, 10 militants in night raid

   The Nigerian army said on Sunday it killed a top commander of Boko Haram and 10 members of the Islamic extremist group in a night raid in the northeastern part of the country. Abu Khalid, a commander of Boko Haram in the Sambisa Forest in Borno state, was a key figure within “the terrorist hierarchy, coordinating operations and logistics in the Sambisa axis,” army spokesman Sani Uba said in a...

5. 62% of Hong Kong Zoomers fear they can’t compete with AI: Chinese YMCA survey

   More than 60 per cent of Hong Kong Zoomers fear they cannot compete with rapidly advancing AI in the workplace, a survey has found. The survey by the Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong also showed about 30 per cent of respondents did not know how to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools, while only 11.5 per cent considered themselves “very familiar” with the technology. The young members’ council under...

6. Japan’s Takaichi seeks mandate, improved majority with snap election: poll

   Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, has extended its lead from last week in a new poll on the race ahead of the February 8 election, with 36.1 per cent backing the party, up 6.9 percentage points, the survey showed on Sunday. The Centrist Reform Alliance, a new major opposition force, was second with 13.9 per cent, up 2.0 points. At the...

7. Ex-Hong Kong chief secretary Rafael Hui, jailed for graft, dies at 77

   Rafael Hui Si-yan, a former Hong Kong chief secretary who was jailed for pocketing nearly HK$20 million from a prominent land developer, has died at the age of 77. “Mr Rafael Hui passed away at [Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital] peacefully on Sunday after a brave fight with an acute illness,” a source told the South China Morning Post. Hui served as the city’s No 2 official from 2005 to...

8. Pentagon eyes expanded role for South Korea-based US forces to help deter China

   The Pentagon has signalled a shift for US forces in South Korea, pushing them to expand their role beyond North Korea to help deter Beijing in the Taiwan Strait and elsewhere in the region, according to experts. The analysis follows a visit to South Korea this week by Elbridge Colby, the US undersecretary of defence for policy and a key architect of the Pentagon’s National Defence Strategy. In...

9. CK Hutchison faces limited legal options after Panama voids port rights: experts

   Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings faces limited legal avenues to challenge a Panama court ruling that nullified its rights to operate two major ports at the country’s canal, while taking the case to the International Court of Justice will require Beijing to act on its behalf, a legal expert has said. Basil Hwang, managing partner of law firm Hauzen LLP, said billionaire Li Ka-shing’s...

10. Iraq’s parliament delays presidential vote again amid US pressure

    Iraq’s parliament has again postponed the election of the country’s new president, state media reported on Sunday, amid intense political horse-trading and US pressure over the new prime minister. It was the second time parliament has delayed the presidential vote, which had first been due last week. A journalist in the parliament said the required quorum was not reached on Sunday. The vote was...