The International Court of Justice unanimously ruled that Myanmar must take take emergency measures (Al Jazeera) to prevent the genocide of the Rohingya minority group and must preserve all evidence of possible genocide.
 
The decision is the first in a case that will eventually decide (Reuters) whether Myanmar’s 2017 crackdown on the Rohingya amounted to genocide. While more than seven hundred thousand Rohingya now live in refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands remain inside Myanmar. The court also ruled against (WaPo) Myanmar’s contentions that the ICJ did not have jurisdiction over its case and that Gambia lacked the legal basis to bring it to the court. Gambia has brought the case to The Hague on behalf of the fifty-seven-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

More than six hundred militants from eight rebel groups in India’s northeastern state of Assam surrendered to authorities (Al Jazeera) as part of a peace initiative, police announced.
 
Pakistan: Prime Minister Imran Khan, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, called for (Reuters) the United Nations to mediate his country’s dispute with India over the border territory of Kashmir.

Additional U.S. troops stationed at an Iraqi base when it was attacked by Iranian missiles on January 8 were medically evacuated (Reuters) to Germany, U.S. Central Command said. Eleven U.S. troops had already been treated in Germany for brain injuries that U.S. President Donald J. Trump described as “not very serious.” 
 
Iran: Unidentified gunmen killed (Reuters) Abdolhossein Mojaddami, a leader of the Basij paramilitary force and an ally of Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian commander recently killed by the United States, Iran’s official news agency reported.

Foreign ministers from Chad, Egypt, Mali, Niger, Tunisia, and Sudan are meeting in Algeria today to discuss measures to support a cease-fire (Al Jazeera) in Libya’s civil war.
 
This CFR In Brief discusses what’s at stake in Libya’s war.
 
Zimbabwe: Doctors agreed to return to work (BBC) after striking for more than four months following Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa’s pledge to donate more than $6 million toward their wages.

Germany is banning (AP) the neo-Nazi group Combat 18 Deutschland and has conducted raids in more than six German states to seize weapons and propaganda linked to the group, the interior ministry announced.
 
Greece: High court judge and human rights advocate Katerina Sakellaropoulou was elected Greece’s first female president (Guardian) by a wide majority of the country’s Parliament.

Guatemala’s government announced it will continue receiving asylum-seekers (Reuters) bound for the United States as part of a deal that newly inaugurated President Alejandro Giammattei had pledged to review.
 
Mexico: The country’s Senate is set to debate a bill to regulate legal marijuana distribution (Bloomberg) in its upcoming session, according to the bill’s cosponsor.
 
This CFR Backgrounder discusses Mexico’s decades-long war on drugs.

In his first public testimony in a Guantanamo Bay trial against accused September 11 attackers, psychologist and interrogator James Mitchell detailed a torture program he developed for use on the suspected terrorists, and said he came to believe it went too far (NPR) and verged on being illegal.