Deaths (Fatalities)

• Slow Flood Recovery Stirs Anger in Far-Flung Corner of Indonesia - Protests have erupted in Aceh Province on the northern tip of Sumatra island, where anger and frustration are mounting over what many see as inadequate relief efforts by a distracted government.
• Can a Corporation Be Complicit in War Crimes? Sweden Is Trying to Find Out. - It’s Sweden’s longest criminal trial. I was there because of a different historic distinction.
• Grim Evidence of Trump’s Boat Strikes Washes Ashore on a Colombian Peninsula - First came the scorched boat. Then the mangled bodies. Then the packets with traces of marijuana. Now, fishermen fear the ocean that feeds them.
• Pilot Is Dead After Helicopters Crash in New Jersey - Another pilot was in critical condition, according to the fire chief in Hammonton, N.J., where the crash took place.
• Families Demand Answers a Year After Deadliest Plane Crash in South Korea - Many details of the Jeju Air disaster that killed 179 people remain unclear despite multiple investigations by officials and protests by the victims’ families.
• In Which I Try Valiantly to Cheer You Up - OK, 2025 wasn’t the best year ever. But we’re arguably still in the best decade in the history of humanity.
• Downpours Ease in Southern California, but Flood Risks Remain - Another wave of rain was hitting the Los Angeles area on Friday, adding to the record-setting precipitation over Christmas.
• Death Toll in UPS Plane Crash Rises to 15 - Alain Rodriguez Colina, who was injured when a cargo plane crashed into his Kentucky workplace more than a month ago, died on Christmas Day.
• Russian General Is Killed in Car Bombing in Moscow - The attack appeared to be the latest targeted assassination of a senior military official inside Russia’s borders.
• Sudanese Refugees Describe Their Escape From Darfur - No one knows the true toll of the massacre, and the city remains isolated. Now, refugee camps in Chad are flooded with newly displaced Sudanese.