In the four-day New Year holiday, Vietnam faced 136 traffic accidents which killed 111 people and injured 54 others, the country's Traffic Police Department said on Wednesday.
Jair Bolsonaro was sworn in as Brazil's president on Tuesday. The leaders of Cuba and Venezuela were not invited to the inauguration ceremony in the capital Brazilia.
The US government will remain partially shut down into the New Year, as Congress wrapped up the last day of 2018 without holding substantial talks on spending bills.
A Turkish TV station has broadcast footage showing men carrying what is purportedly the remains of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to the Saudi consul-general's residence in Istanbul.
