Opposition leader Machado says she will stay in Venezuela
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado vowed Monday to remain in Venezuela a day after her colleague and presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia took up asylum in Spain claiming…
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Nigerian officials warn people off church's 'miracle' water
Nigeria’s drug approval agency has warned people not to buy “miracle” products produced by a church with popular Nigerian Christian televangelist Jeremiah Fufeyin at the helm. Nafdac said…
Austria will not accept people rejected at German borders
Austria opposes the recently unveiled plans of the German government to resume passport controls along all German land borders in a bid to sharply curb the number of people entering the…
Peter Nygard sentenced to 11 years for sexual assaults
Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been sentenced to 11 years for sexually assaulting four women in Toronto, Canada in a series of incidents from the late 1980s to 2005. The 83-year-old…
Germany expands controls at borders to stem irregular migration and extremism risks
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's government ordered temporary controls at all land borders on Monday as a response to irregular migration and to protect the country from extremist threats. Interior…
Crowded market shelled in Sudan killing more than 20
At least 21 people have been killed and more than 70 others wounded by shelling at a busy market in south-eastern Sudan, a doctors' union says. The Sudan Doctors Network said the…
Flooding kills more than a dozen people in Morocco and Algeria
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Torrential downpours hit North Africa's normally arid mountains and deserts over the weekend, causing flooding that killed more than a dozen people in Morocco and…
Tanzania leader condemns killing of opposition figure doused in acid
Tanzania's Presdident Samia Suluhu Hassan has denounced the brutal killing of a senior member of the main opposition party Chadema, who was kidnapped, beaten and doused with acid. On…
Radisson Hotel Group rebrands prizeotel to Prize by Radisson
Radisson Hotel Group has announced the rebranding of prizeotel to Prize by Radisson, alongside new hotel signings in Central Europe. The rebranding is expected to align the affordable…
Angola dog-meat bust pictures falsely linked to anti-immigrant rhetoric in South Africa
A blurred screenshot of the false X post, taken on September 4, 2024 The post had amassed hundreds of likes before the X account was suspended. The claim has circulated in different…
Chinese tanks pictured pulling back from contested border region, not 'invading Indian territory'
Screenshot of the false X post, captured on September 9, 2024 Nuclear-armed rivals China and India have long competed for strategic influence across South Asia (archived link). The world's…
Video of Pakistan policemen's funeral falsely linked to Balochistan attacks
A video showing rows of coffins racked up thousands of views in X posts that falsely claimed it showed last rites for "130 soldiers" who died in separatist attacks in Pakistan's restive…
Video shows pope at ceremony, not 'visiting Vatican embassy in Jakarta'
A video filmed in July 2024 in the Vatican was shared with a false claim that it showed Pope Francis visiting the Holy See's diplomatic post in Indonesia's capital in August 2024. The…
Forty-eight killed in Nigeria fuel tanker crash
At least 48 people have been killed in the central Nigerian state of Niger, after a fuel tanker collided with a lorry carrying passengers and cattle, the country's disaster agency said.…
Three Israeli civilians killed at crossing between West Bank and Jordan
Three Israeli civilians were killed on Sunday by a Jordanian gunman who opened fire at the Allenby Crossing connecting the West Bank and Jordan, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a…
Felittese Festival wraps up in Old Forge
OLD FORCE, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — After a weather hiccup on Saturday, conditions could not be better for the final day of a festival in Old Forge. The Felittese Festival took…
Drought sinks longest Polish river to record-low level
Poland's longest river, the Vistula, on Sunday hit a record-low water level in the capital because of drought, the national weather agency said. Its level at one Warsaw measuring station…
Initial results show Algeria's Tebboune wins second presidential term
Algeria's incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has gained a clear win in the North African country's presidential election and secured a second five-year term in office, preliminary…
NASA Telescope Finds 'Distorted' Galaxy That Looks Like a Question Mark
Astronomers in Canada used the James Webb Space Telescope — and a third time-and-space-bending galaxy cluster — to capture an image of two galaxies millions of lightyears away NASA has…
Ethiopia warns against invasion amid regional tensions
Ethiopia's Prime Minister has warned that anyone planning on invading his country should "think 10 times" before doing so because, he said, any attack would be repelled. Abiy Ahmed did not…
Ferrari Purosangue Splits in Half in High-Speed Crash in China
Read the full story on Modern Car Collector A Ferrari Purosangue was recently involved in a catastrophic crash in China, resulting in the supercar splitting in half. Dramatic images shared…
German Chancellor Scholz calls for faster progress toward ending Russia's war on Ukraine
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agree that Russia should be included in a future peace conference aimed…
Super typhoon Yagi wreaks havoc in Asia, with global supply chain affects likely to follow
The News Key manufacturing and shipping hubs in China and Vietnam are grappling with widespread disruptions and closures in the wake of super typhoon Yagi, one of most formidable storms to…
Sudan rejects UN call for peace force to protect civilians
Sudan's military-led government has rejected a call by a UN fact-finding mission for the deployment of an international force to protect civilians from the country’s ongoing civil war.…