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Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko makes his first public appearance in months, greeting and waving at hundreds of supporters in the capital Dakar, a day after his release from prison. Sonko is welcomed by the crowd ahead of a press conference he was due to hold with his deputy, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who was also released from prison on Thursday and who Sonko has endorsed as a candidate for the country's March 24 presidential vote. IMAGES
Doctors form a picket line outside the University College Hospital in Londonas England's hospital doctors begin their longest strike action yet in a move that health bosses fear will pile pressure on services at the busiest time of year. Six more days of industrial action are planned from January 3. IMAGES
The Israeli army "will provide the assistance needed" to get babies in the paediatric department of Shifa hospital to a safer hospital, says a spokesman. Intense fighting is raging around the facility between soldiers and Palestinian militants. SOUNDBITE
The United States says that the Taliban's "despicable" public execution in Afghanistan showed a return to the Islamist group's past and went against their promises to the world. SOUNDBITE
Images of the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital in Tivaouane, western Senegal. Just before midnight in Senegal, the country's president Macky Sall announced on Twitter that 11 infants had died in a blaze. IMAGES
Extinction Rebellion stage protest in Carbis Bay, Cornwall urging for G7 action on climate change. IMAGES