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A viral Chinese app named Are You Dead aimed at people living alone has been rebranded to avoid controversy. Source link

A federal law enforcement officer has shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle during an arrest, US officials say. Source link

Washington could intervene militarily in Iran, the Trump administration has suggested, but it remains unclear whether that will happen.  Source link

The Crew Dragon capsule has undocked from the International Space Station carrying four astronauts, one of whom has a “serious medical condition”, and is on its way back to Earth. Source link

The US State Department will suspend processing of immigrant visas for people from 75 countries, including Fiji, Cambodia, Thailand, Somalia and Brazil, from January 21. Source link

The United States and Denmark continue to disagree over the future of Greenland after a meeting at the White House amid ongoing threats from President Donald Trump threatening to seize the semi-autonomous Danish territory for national security reasons. Source link

From a CIA-led coup to a hostage crisis and air strikes, here are some of the defining moments in seven decades of relations between the US and Iran. Source link

Would you face prison for what you believe in? Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi already has and, following the release of his latest film, he may again.  Source link

From inside Iran, a defiant voice bravely breaks through the internet blackout to detail the horrors she has witnessed and to tell the president of the United States “the people are waiting for America to intervene”.    Source link

Anti-corruption watchdogs in Ukraine have searched the offices of the country’s former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko amid allegations of a major bribery scheme. Source link