BANGLADESH: Relief workers estimate the massive fire at the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar on Monday destroyed 17,000 temporary shelters and facilities—including food, water, and sanitation sites—and has left anywhere from 45,000 to 70,000 people again homeless in one of the world’s largest refugee camps.

JAMAICA today became the first country in the Caribbean to receive coronavirus vaccines via the global COVAX program.

SYRIA: This week marks the 10th anniversary of the war in Syria, which erupted out of Arab Spring protests that President Bashar Assad responded to with bloody military assaults. Children are the biggest casualties in a war that sparked the rise of terror groups like Islamic State (ISIS): A UNICEF study finds more than 12,000 children have been killed in the decade of conflict, and more than 2.5 million are out of school, many of them for years.

GHANA received the first shipment of coronavirus vaccines under the multilateral program COVAX today—600,000 vials for the country of 30 million that this month has seen a record spike in COVID-19 cases. But the international effort to assist poorer countries remains behind schedule as distribution of vaccines under the European-led effort lags.

MEXICO looks like Canada, and the winter storm that devastated the Texas power grid has caused blackouts in northern Mexico and cut natural gas exports south of the border by 25 percent.

CHINA: The head of a World Health Organization team investigating the origins of COVID-19 said bats and other animals remain a possible source and that transmission of the virus via frozen food warrants further investigation.

RUSSIA: A Moscow judge ordered opposition politician Alexei Navalny to begin serving more than 2 ½ years of a six-year-old conviction that the European Court of Human Rights found unlawful. Navalny, determined to mount a campaign against President Vladimir Putin despite the cost, gave a withering speech in court calling the president “this thieving little man in his bunker.”