International

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” ...

At least 18 people have been killed and more than 360 wounded in Afghanistan in military clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan since Oct. 10, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in a statement on Thursday, reports Reuters. “UNAMA calls on all parties to bring a lasting end to hostilities to protect civilians,” the statement added.

A total of 20 people have died in Senegal in a Rift Valley fever outbreak which began in late September, the west African country’s health ministry said, reports AFP. The viral disease, which mainly affects animals but also humans, has hit the northern Saint Louis region particularly hard, with 159 of 171 recorded cases occurring in the area, according to ...

At least 20 people lost their lives after a bus carrying over 50 passengers caught fire in the western Indian state of Rajasthan on Tuesday, according to local media and officials. The tragic incident occurred as the bus was traveling between Jaisalmer and Jodhpur, shortly after departing Jaisalmer around 3:00 pm (0930 GMT). “Nineteen passengers died in the bus and ...