World in brief: January 4, 2024
MEXICO: More than 30 migrants from several countries abducted from a bus and held by armed men for days near the country’s border with the United States have been released by their captors.
The group, which included a baby, was left in the car park of a shopping centre in Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas, and no arrests have been made.
AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban have arrested women in Kabul for not following the dress code and wearing “bad hijabs,” an official spokesman confirmed for the first time yesterday since the group returned to power in 2021.
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