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Huge balloons of various shapes, including Lionel Messi's jersey, light up the night on Wednesday, as part of the First Moon Balloon festival in Envigado, Antioquia Department, Colombia. AFP

US President Joe Biden tells reporters that he has been briefed by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and that "aircrafts can still land safely, just not take off right now," as he leaves the White House on his way to Walter Reed Medical Center. "They don't know what the cause of it is, they expect in a couple of hours they'll have a good sense of what caused it and we'll respond at that time," he adds. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that normal operations were resuming gradually as airlines warned of lingering delays. AFP

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said he had revoked the Ukrainian citizenship of Viktor Medvedchuk, once seen as Russian leader Vladimir Putin's top ally in Kyiv and accused of high treason.Medvedchuk, a former Ukrainian lawmaker who was handed over to Russia in a prisoner exchange last September, was stripped of his citizenship along with three others, Zelensky said in his daily address.

On Tuesday, Germany's foreign minister Annalena Baerbock visited Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, the first visit of a high-ranking Western official to the war-torn city close to the Russian border.

Protest by the members of social movements in defense of democracy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 9, 2023, a day after supporters of Brazil's far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro invaded the Congress, presidential palace, and Supreme Court in Brasilia.