Our daily trip around the world

🇳🇿 New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern announced plans to resign next month. In her surprise announcement yesterday, Ardern said she “no longer had enough in the tank” to do the job, and will officially step down on February 7 ahead of a general election set for October. It’s still unclear who will replace Ardern as the new Labour Party leader and prime minister, with internal elections set for Sunday. Ardern became the world’s youngest female head of government when she was elected prime minister in 2017 at the age of 37.

🇨🇳 Marvel movies are returning to China for the first time in three years. The latest sequels to Black Panther and Ant-Man will be released in theaters across China next month, marking the first Marvel movies to debut in the country since Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2019. China’s government, which tightly controls the domestic movie market, has never explained why it banned the next five Marvel films after that. The original Black Panther earned $105 million in China, while Ant-Man and its first sequel made a combined $226 million.

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi and some of his top officials were killed in a helicopter crash yesterday. A government helicopter carrying six ministry officials and three crew members crashed into a kindergarten in Kyiv, killing at least 14 people, including one child and everyone onboard the aircraft. There were no initial signs of foul play, per WaPo, with Ukrainian officials saying they still haven’t determined whether the crash, which occurred in a dense fog, was an accident or related to the war. Monastyrskyi is the highest-ranking Ukrainian official killed since Russia invaded nearly 11 months ago.