ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's Supreme Court refused Thursday to void the recent election of President Bola Tinubu and dismissed the political opposition's challenges, which argued that the vote was flawed and that Tinubu...
BULENGO (AP): A hooded man burst into the 42-year-old woman’s tent while her children were out searching for food, then raped her in the displacement camp where she had fled from war in eastern Congo. “I wanted to scream, (but) he took my mouth...
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Otis tore across Mexico's southern Pacific coast as a powerful and dangerous Category 5 hurricane Wednesday, unleashing massive flooding in the resort city of Acapulco, sending sheets of earth down steep...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A cruise operator that failed to cancel a voyage from Sydney that led to a major COVID-19 outbreak was ruled negligent in its duty of care to passengers in an Australian class-action case Wednesday. The Ruby...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was called to the witness stand and then fined $10,000 on Wednesday after a judge concluded that the former president had violated a limited gag order in his civil fraud trial. It was the second time in less than...
HELENA, Montana (AP) — The first major snowstorm of the season dropped up to a foot (30 centimetres) of snow in the Helena, Montana, area by Wednesday morning, cancelling some school bus routes on the western side of the city as snow...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — The estranged son of Nashville's police chief, who was wanted in the shooting of two police officers, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after leading police on a chase in a stolen car,...
ATLANTA (AP): Attorney and prominent conservative media figure Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a felony charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia, tearfully telling the judge she looks back on that time...
BERLIN (AP): Germany’s chancellor and president strongly denounced a rise in antisemitism in Germany in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war in separate appearances Sunday that stressed the same idea that it is unacceptable for such hatred to flourish...
KHAN YOUNIS (AP): For more than a week, Talaat Ghabayen, a citizen of Norway who spent his whole life in Oslo, has waited days and nights at the Gaza Strip’s land crossing with Egypt as his embassy advised, hoping to flee Israel’s bombardment and...
HUSAVIK, Iceland (AP): Schools, shops, banks and Iceland’s famous swimming pools shut on Tuesday as women in the volcanic island nation – including the prime minister – went on strike to push for an end to unequal pay and gender-based violence....
ISLAMABAD (AP): A Pakistani court has extended protection from arrest to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in graft cases while another withdrew its arrest warrant against him on Tuesday following his return home after four years of self-imposed...
PANAMA CITY (AP): Protesters blocked streets across Panama on Monday, demanding the government rescind a contract to continue copper mining in a biodiverse region. Teaching and construction unions led calls against the contract with...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): A former justice official considered one of the main suspects in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 was arrested Thursday in Haiti’s capital after being on the run for more than two years, police said....
KINGSTOWN (CMC): A Roman Catholic priest appeared in the Family Court here on Monday charged with two counts of sexual offences. The priest, a foreign national, was arraigned on two counts or rape and two counts of indecent assault and appeared...
AMIZMIZ, Morocco (AP) — Hundreds of protesters on Tuesday took to the streets of a city near the epicentre of a devastating earthquake that hit Morocco last month to express anger and frustration after weeks of waiting for emergency...
ATLANTA (AP) — Attorney and prominent conservative media figure Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a felony charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election loss in Georgia, tearfully telling the judge she looks back on...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Otis strengthened early Tuesday as it approached Mexico's southern Pacific coast and was forecast to become a hurricane before making landfall near the resort of Acapulco late Tuesday or early Wednesday...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Rapidly expanding Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip killed more than 700 people in the past day as medical facilities across the territory were forced to close because of bombing damage and a lack of power,...
BUENOS AIRES (AP): Economy Minister Sergio Massa produced a big surprise by finishing first in the opening round of Argentina’s presidential election, reflecting voters’ wariness about handing the presidency to his chief rival, a right-wing...
JAKARTA (AP): Indonesia’s top court rejected an effort to block presidential candidates who are over 70 or implicated in human-rights abuses, clearing the legal path for a septuagenarian former general’s ultra-nationalist campaign. Lawyers...
ISLAMABAD (AP): A Pakistani court on Monday indicted Imran Khan on charges of revealing official secrets after his 2022 ouster from office in another dramatic move against the former prime minister, who could now face a possible death sentence...
DAKAR (AP): France has completed the withdrawal of troops from a northern base in Niger as part of a planned departure from the West African country in the wake of July’s military coup. Nearly 200 troops, 28 trucks and two dozen armoured...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine defence chief has ordered all defence personnel and the 163,000-member military to refrain from using digital applications that harness artificial intelligence to generate personal portraits, saying...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting a 15-year-old last year was beaten by members of the teen's family during a courtroom melee in San Antonio, authorities said. Victor Rivas, 18, who is charged with murder in the May...
