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A blue tarp covered a mother and her newborn daughter from the incessant rain on their boat journey. Jahanara Khatoon, 25, had just given birth on the boat on their way to a health care center, surrounded by the raging floodwaters of the Brahmaputra River. “I am very happy,” said
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The number of people killed in a wave of coordinated attacks in Russia’s southern Dagestan region last month has risen to 22, the regional head said Monday. Gunmen simultaneously attacked two churches, two synagogues and a police checkpoint in two cities in Dagestan on June 23. On Monday, regional
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France’s far right was on Sunday eyeing a historic chance to form a government and claim the post of prime minister after winning the first round of legislative elections with the centrist forces of President Emmanuel Macron coming in only third. But it remained unclear if the far-right National
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A divided France braced Saturday for high-stakes parliamentary elections that could see the anti-immigrant and euroskeptic party of Marine Le Pen sweep to power in a historic first. The candidates ended their frantic three-week campaigns at midnight Friday, with political activity banned until the first round of voting on Sunday.
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An attorney for the publisher of The Sun tabloid Thursday accused Prince Harry of engaging in “shocking” and “extraordinary” obfuscation by destroying evidence it was seeking in his lawsuit claiming that the newspaper violated his privacy by unlawfully snooping on him. Attorney Anthony Hudson said at High Court that the
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Two Bolivian army leaders were arrested Wednesday after soldiers and tanks took up position in front of government buildings in what President Luis Arce called an attempted coup. The troops and tanks entered Plaza Murillo, a historic square where the presidency and Congress are situated, in the afternoon, prompting global
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A Tunisian soldier was shot dead on Wednesday in an attack on an army patrol in a desert area bordering Libya, the country’s defense ministry said. “At dawn, a military patrol operating in Remada, which was carrying out its normal duties in the border buffer zone, was targeted by
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A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has spread to an eighth poultry farm near Melbourne, the government of Australia’s Victoria state said on Tuesday, taking the total number of infected facilities in the country to 10. Australia is dealing with three parallel outbreaks of bird flu, two near
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President Emmanuel Macron on Monday warned that the policies of his far-right and hard-left opponents could lead to “civil war,” as France prepared for its most divisive election in decades. French politics were plunged into turmoil by Macron calling snap legislative elections after his centrist party was trounced by the
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One person died and dozens were injured during a stampede at President Paul Kagame’s campaign rally, Rwanda’s national broadcaster reported, ahead of a vote widely expected to extend the incumbent’s 24-year iron-fisted rule. Kagame has been Rwanda’s de facto ruler since the end of the 1994
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French President Emmanuel Macron’s ascendancy is “over,” former head of state Francois Hollande told AFP Saturday, after his former protege called a snap election likely to hand massive gains to the far right. “I have no scores to settle at all. That’s all in the past,” Hollande said
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A forest fire on the Greek tourist island of Hydra, near Athens, was started by fireworks launched from a yacht, firefighters said Saturday, sparking widespread anger. The fire, which started on Friday evening, has been brought under control, authorities said. The blaze was “caused by a fireworks launched from a
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Somalia’s government is seeking to slow the withdrawal of African peacekeepers and warning of a potential security vacuum, documents seen by Reuters show, with neighboring countries fretting that resurgent Al-Shabab extremists could seize power. The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia, a peacekeeping force, is committed to withdrawing by
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More than 800 asylum seekers arrived in Britain via small boats on Tuesday, the highest single-day figure since late 2022, adding to pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of a July 4 national election. Provisional data from Britain’s interior ministry showed 882 migrants arrived on Tuesday, taking the
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Nigerian health officials are issuing warnings over a cholera outbreak that has killed at least 30 people, many of them in the commercial capital Lagos, since the start of the year. Cholera is an acute intestinal infection that spreads through contaminated food and water. It typically causes severe diarrhea, vomiting
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Protesters took to the streets for the second day Monday in Algeria’s northern Tiaret region, social media reports said, in rare demonstrations against severe shortages of drinking water. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune had vowed to address the issue by the Eid Al-Adha holiday which began Sunday. According to several social