Three die in Mauritanian detention after post-election protests, ministry says
NOUAKCHOTT – Three protesters have died in detention in Mauritania, the interior ministry said on Tuesday, after security forces made mass arrests in the town of Kaedi to contain unrest…
Poll predicts record win for Labour Party at UK election
LONDON – Britain’s Labour Party is set to sweep to power with a record number of seats at Thursday’s national election, a forecast by polling company Survation showed on Tuesday.…
Dominican Republic’s top diplomat to attend Haiti meetings at UN
The Dominican Republic announced that its foreign minister will travel to New York on Tuesday to participate in a United Nations Security Council meeting convened to discuss the situation in…
UN says Israel evacuation order largest in Gaza since October
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations said on Tuesday that an order by Israel for Palestinians to evacuate areas of Khan Younis and Rafah was the largest such edict in…
200 candidates quit French runoff polls, aiming to block far right, AFP tally shows
On July 7, France votes in the decisive final round of snap legislative polls called by French President Emmanuel Macron. Read More
Rebel seizure of key town sparks alarm in eastern Congo
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo – The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group’s advance into strategically important new territory in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has led to fresh clashes and food…
Israel’s next headache: who will run post-war Gaza?
JERUSALEM – The plan for post-war Gaza that Israel pitched to U.S. allies is to run the strip in cooperation with powerful local families. But there’s a problem: in a…
Argentina’s Milei doubles down on Lula criticism as war of words heats
SAO PAULO – Argentina’s right-wing President Javier Milei reiterated criticism of his leftist Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva on Tuesday in an escalation of their recent public clash…
France’s moderate voters face extreme choices in run-off vote
CREPY-EN-VALOIS, France – Denise Rollet says she faces no good options in France’s run-off legislative vote in the coming days. Read More
Wife of Pakistan’s Imran Khan gets bail in graft case, media say
KARACHI – A special court in Pakistan’s city of Rawalpindi granted interim bail on Tuesday to the wife of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a graft case, media outlet…