After being encircled by Ukrainian forces, Russia pulled troops out from the strategic eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman – the latest victory for Kyiv’s counteroffensive that has humiliated and angered Moscow. The announcement on Saturday came a day after President Vladimir Putin proclaimed the annexation […]
The army officers who seized power in Burkina Faso said toppled military leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was planning a counteroffensive from a “French base”. Gunshots rang out Saturday in the capital Ouagadougou amid signs of lingering tensions a day after the officers overthrew the man […]
Burkina Faso has now witnessed two military coups in nine months. Leader Paul-Henri Damiba was overthrown by some of the same soldiers who backed him in the first takeover in January. They accused Dambia of failing to stop attacks by armed groups. Similar takeovers in Guinea […]
Venezuela freed seven Americans in exchange for the release of two nephews of President Nicholas Maduro’s wife jailed for years by the United States on drug smuggling convictions. The swap of the Americans on Saturday, including five oil executives held for nearly five years, is […]
An attack by armed separatists on a police station in a southeastern city killed 19 people, including four members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps. The assailants in Friday’s attack hid among worshippers near a mosque in the city of Zahedan and then stormed the […]
Rescuers searched for survivors among the ruins of Florida’s flooded homes from Hurricane Ian while authorities in South Carolina began assessing damage from its strike. Now weakened to a post-tropical cyclone, Ian was expected to move across central North Carolina on Saturday then move into […]
Dozens of Iraqis were injured after violence erupted when thousands of Iraqis gathered in Baghdad to mark the third anniversary of nationwide protests against corruption. Protesters waved the Iraqi flag and chanted “we want to overthrow the regime” as they met on Saturday in Baghdad’s […]
Russian forces shelled a civilian evacuation convoy in Ukraine’s northeast killing 24 people on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said. Bombardments have intensified after Moscow illegally annexed a swath of Ukrainian territory in a sharp escalation of the war. “In the Kupyansk district, a shot-at convoy of […]
Russian troops detained the director general of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and whisked him away to an unknown location, reigniting fears over the facility’s security. Ihor Murashov was arrested on his way from the nuclear facility, Europe’s largest, to the town of Enerhodar at […]
The death toll from a suicide bombing at an education centre in the Afghan capital has risen to 35, according to the United Nations mission to the country, as women reportedly took to the streets to protest against the targeting of the Hazara ethnic minority. […]
