Two men close to Benin’s president jailed after alleged coup plot
Two men close to Benin’s president who were arrested last week on suspicions of plotting a coup in the small West African ...
UK leader Starmer is on a 1-day visit to EU headquarters hoping to heal ties battered by Brexit
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer traveled to Brussels on Wednesday on a mission to try to improve ties with the European ...
Women’s role in Catholic Church tops agenda as Pope Francis opens second phase of big reform project
Pope Francis opened the second phase of his big Catholic reform project Wednesday, with widespread calls for women to take up ...
Two predawn explosions rock the area around the Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen but no one is injured
Police in the Danish capital said two predawn explosions took place Wednesday in the vicinity of the Israeli Embassy in ...
Sex workers find themselves at the center of Congo’s mpox outbreak
It’s been four months since Sifa Kunguja recovered from mpox, but as a sex worker, she said, she’s still struggling to regain ...
Vance and Walz keep it civil in a policy-heavy discussion: VP debate takeaways
Vice presidential hopefuls Tim Walz and JD Vance focused their criticism on the top of the ticket on Tuesday as they engaged ...
Lebanese emergency services are overwhelmed and need better gear to save lives in wartime
When Israel bombed buildings outside the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, Mohamed Arkadan and his team rushed to an emergency ...
Typhoon bringing heavy rain slowly heads toward Taiwan, where 4,000 have evacuated
A typhoon bringing strong winds and torrential rainfall slowly advanced Wednesday toward Taiwan, where thousands of people ...
Ukraine’s military will pull out of Vuhledar in the east after 2 years of intense fighting
Ukrainian forces are withdrawing from the front-line town of Vuhledar, perched atop a tactically significant hill in eastern Ukraine, after more than two years of grinding ...
Push to map Great Lakes bottom gains momentum amid promises effort will help fishing and shipping
Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand ...
Harris, Trump’s approach to Mideast crisis, hurricane to test public mood in final weeks of campaign
A trio of new trials — a devastating hurricane, expanding conflict in the Mideast and a dockworkers strike that threatens the ...
11 workers at a Tennessee factory were swept away in Hurricane Helene flooding. Only 5 were rescued
As the rain from Hurricane Helene came down harder and harder, workers inside a plastics factory in rural Tennessee kept ...