Cape Town residents began lining up outside polling stations in the early morning hours on Wednesday, May 29, 2024, to cast their ballots in what may prove to be a sea-change general election in South Africa.
South Africans began voting Wednesday in an election seen as their country’s most important in 30 years, and one that could put their young democracy in unknown territory.
North Korean balloons dropped feces and other garbage on busy streets, in front of residences, and in other areas across South Korea on Wednesday, according to local media reports and South Korea’s military, in Pyongyang’s latest escalation of tensions with its southern neighbor.
Richard M. Sherman, one half of the prolific, award-winning pair of brothers who helped form millions of childhoods by penning the instantly memorable songs for Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang — as well as the most-played tune on Earth, It's a Small World (After All) — has died. He was 95.
The United States will provide a new $275 million military aid package for Ukraine to help the beleaguered country repel Russia’s assault on Kharkiv, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Friday.
The package includes ammunition for HIMARS, 155 mm and 105 mm artillery rounds, missiles, anti-armor systems and precision aerial munitions, the State Department said.
Ireland, Norway and Spain each announced Wednesday the recognition of a Palestinian state, citing the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and a need to achieve a two-state solution for lasting peace in the region.
Lai Ching-te was sworn in as Taiwan’s new president Monday, kicking off an unprecedented third consecutive term for the pro-sovereignty Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which has consistently highlighted the strength of the island’s democracy over the last eight years.
▶ Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other officials were found dead Monday at the site of a helicopter crash in northwestern Iran.
Search crews found the wreckage Monday, a day after the helicopter crashed in bad weather near Varzaqan in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. The Iranian officials were returning to Iran after attending a dam project inauguration at the Iran-Azerbaijan border.
🚨 Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other officials were found dead Monday at the site of a helicopter crash in northwestern Iran, state media said.
Search crews found the wreckage Monday, a day after the helicopter crashed in bad weather near Varzaqan in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. The Iranian officials were returning to Iran after attending a dam project inauguration at the Iran-Azerbaijan border.
Search crews reported finding no signs of life Monday after locating a helicopter that crashed while carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other senior officials in the country’s northwest, according to state media.
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a "hard landing" on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without immediately elaborating.
Raisi was traveling in Iran's East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi faces a new trial over accusations she made against security forces of sexually assaulting female prisoners, her family said Saturday.
▶️ While sounds of the Israel-Hamas war echo nearby, an Israeli dance group, joined by American artist and influencer Montana Tucker, performed Friday in southern Israel, in tribute to Oct. 7 Hamas attack victims.
▶️ While sounds of the Israel-Hamas war echo nearby, an Israeli dance group, joined by American artist and influencer Montana Tucker, performed Friday in southern Israel, in tribute to Oct. 7 Hamas attack victims.
Georgia’s president on Saturday vetoed the so-called “Russian law” targeting media that has sparked weeks of mass protests.
The law would require media and nongovernmental organizations to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad. Critics of the bill say that it closely resembles legislation used by the Kremlin to silence opponents and that it will obstruct Georgia’s bid to join the EU.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with AFP on Friday warned Russia could intensify its offensive and said Kyiv would only accept a "fair peace" despite the West's calls for a quick solution.
📷: Fast-moving thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas Thursday, killing at least four people, blowing out windows in high-rise buildings, downing trees and knocking out power to more than 900,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area
Australian scientists say they have discovered how an enzyme “hidden in nature’s blueprint” could help develop climate-resilient crops able to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
A combination photo obtained from Planet Labs PBC, shows the district of al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip May 1, 2023, and the tents housing internally displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi district west of Khan Younis May 15, 2024.
Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly built U.S. floating pier into the besieged enclave for the first time Friday as Israeli restrictions on border crossings and heavy fighting hinder food and other supplies reaching people there.
The U.S. military says a temporary pier is now anchored to the shore of Gaza, the final step in completing a sea route to distribute aid to 2 million Palestinians affected by the Israel-Hamas war.
A “lone wolf” unaffiliated with political groups was charged in the shooting of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, said Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok on Thursday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he traveled Thursday to the northeastern city of Kharkiv to meet with military officials amid a Russian offensive in the region.
Defiance and grief poured out Tuesday after a 28-year-old democracy activist in pretrial detention for allegedly defaming Thailand's powerful monarchy died from heart failure after a two-month hunger strike.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in a shooting and taken to a hospital Wednesday afternoon after a Cabinet meeting in Handlova, according to local media.
The 59-year-old prime minister was hit once in the abdomen after four shots were fired outside Handlova’s House of Culture, where Fico was meeting with supporters, the reports said.
Police have detained a suspect, according to TA3, a local media TV station.