Morning news brief: Capitol hill bomb threat standoff ends, and more

Here is WION's Daily Morning News Brief with what’s happening around the world today.

Foreign aid has started to reach Haitidays after a powerful earthquake killed nearly 2,200 people andflattened tens of thousands of buildings into rubble.

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A man who threatened to set off abombon Washington'sCapitolHillsurrendered to police Thursday, ending an hours-longstandoffthat rattled lawmakers still shaken by January's pro-Trump insurrection.

Foreign aid has started to reach Haitidays after a powerful earthquake killed nearly 2,200 people andflattened tens of thousands of buildings into rubble.

Syria's air defence system engaged "hostile targets" over the capital Damascus late Thursday, state news agency SANA reported, with a military source claiming they were Israeli missiles.

Tropical storm Grace dumped heavy rain on Mexico's Caribbean coast on Thursday but appeared to have spared tourist resorts serious damage as it moved across the Yucatan Peninsula into the Gulf of Mexico, where it was forecast to strengthen again.

Sydneyextended its two-month-oldlockdownfor another month and introduced apartialcurfewFriday, as Australia's largest city struggled to contain a fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak.