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Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, vowed Friday to more openly embrace his Muslim identity after facing what he called “racist and baseless” attacks from former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his allies. Surrounded by interfaith leaders outside a Bronx mosque, Mamdani delivered an emotional speech reflecting on the “indignities” endured by Muslim New Yorkers. Fighting back ...

At least 25 people were killed when a passenger bus caught fire after colliding with a motorcycle in Kurnool district of India’s Andhra Pradesh early Friday, according to police and local media reports. The tragic accident occurred around 3:30 a.m. in Chinnatekuru area when a Hyderabad-bound bus heading to Bengaluru hit a motorcycle on National Highway 44. The impact caused ...

Nigeria’s military said on Thursday it had killed 50 jihadists using drones to carry out multiple attacks on army bases in the volatile northeast. The authorities in Africa’s most populous country and one of its powerhouses, have been fighting the Boko Haram jihadist group and its Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) splinter for 16 years. The groups are seeking ...

President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday that Venezuela has 5,000 Russian man-portable surface-to-air missiles to counter US forces deployed in the Caribbean. Washington has deployed stealth warplanes and Navy ships in the Caribbean as part of what it calls counter-narcotics efforts, and destroyed at least eight vessels it said were smuggling drugs from Venezuela toward the United States. Venezuela has denounced ...

At least 63 people were killed and several others injured in a tragic road accident involving two buses on Uganda’s Kampala-Gulu highway early Wednesday, police have confirmed. According to a statement released on X by the Uganda Police, the collision occurred just after midnight when the two buses collided head-on during an overtaking maneuver. All occupants of the vehicles involved ...

Japan’s parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichias the country’s first female prime minister Tuesday, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner expected to pull her governing bloc further to the right. Takaichire places Shigeru Ishiba, ending a three-month political vacuum and wrangling since the Liberal Democratic Party’s disastrous election loss in July. Ishiba, who ...

Rodrigo Paz of Bolivia’s center-right Christian Democratic Party (PDC) has been elected as the country’s new president, marking the end of nearly two decades of rule by the leftist Movement for Socialism (MAS) party. According to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), with 97% of votes counted from Sunday’s runoff election, Paz secured 54.5% of the vote—well ahead of his right-wing ...

The Louvre Museum in Paris was closed on Sunday after a theft occurred inside the world-renowned institution, France’s culture minister confirmed. “A robbery took place this morning at the opening of the Louvre Museum,” Culture Minister Rachida Dati wrote on X, adding that she had visited the site and that an investigation was underway. The museum announced it would close ...

Israel returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza on Saturday, bringing the total number handed over to 135, the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said. Under a ceasefire deal brokered by US President Donald Trump, Israel was to turn over the bodies of 15 Palestinians for every deceased Israeli returned. Late on Friday, Hamas handed over the body ...

US President Donald Trump said Thursday he will soon meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine, following a “productive” phone call between the two leaders, reports AP. Trump, who is set to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday, wrote on social media that “great progress” ...