INDONESIA

INDONESIA

National Transportation Safety Committee officers receive the retrieved flight data recorder of Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ-182 in Jakarta on January 12. The plane with 62 people on board crashed into the Java Sea after taking off from Jakarta on January 9

DPRK

Kim Jong Un speaks at the Eighth Congress of the ruling WorkersParty of Korea in Pyongyang on January 12. He was elected general secretary of the party on January 10

ESTONIA

Prime Minister Juri Ratas submits his resignation to President Kersti Kaljulaid in Tallinn on January 13 following a corruption probe. Kaljulaid asked the head of the opposition Reform Party， Kaja Kallas， to form the next government

TURKEY

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan receives a dose of a China-developed COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Ankara on January 14. The Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency approved the emergency use of the vaccine a day earlier

NIGERIA

A firefighter works at the scene of an oil tanker explosion on the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway in Lagos on January 7

KAZAKHSTAN

A voter casts her ballot during parliamentary elections in Nur-Sultan on January 10. The ruling Nur Otan party grabbed 71.09 percent votes and 76 seats out of 98