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Here is the situation on Saturday, August 5, 2023....

The Bahamas would send 150 defense agents to Haiti if the United Nations (UN) approves such an offer. The news was released by the Bahamas Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a communiqué....

Saturday marks four years of India scrapping the special status of Indian-administered Kashmir, New Delhi’s most far-reaching move against the disputed region in seven decades....

Spicemas has started this August 1st with a festive enthusiasm, which exalts the culture of Grenada in all its cultural, artistic and gastronomic richness....

Global prices for food commodities like rice and vegetable oil have risen for the first time in months after Russia pulled out of a wartime agreement allowing Ukraine to ship grain to the world, and India restricted some of its rice exports, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has said....

A six-month ceasefire between the Colombian government and the country’s largest remaining armed rebel group has entered into force, in the largest victory for President Gustavo Petro in his push to end decades of armed conflict....

West Africa’s defense chiefs were wrapping up a meeting in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Thursday where they discussed the possibility of a military intervention if diplomatic efforts fail to reinstate Niger’s ousted president, Mohamed Bazoum....

Ethiopia’s military has clashed with fighters from a militia in the Amhara region, residents said on Wednesday, in an escalation of a simmering feud between the two former allies that a doctor said had caused more than a dozen injuries....

Protesters have pushed down the gate of Nigeria’s National Assembly in Abuja as a nationwide strike called by labour unions got under way to protest the removal of a petrol subsidy and demand a new minimum wage....

Israel Adesanya advises Dricus du Plessis to prepare for a possible UFC fight.

South Africa recorded a slight decline in the number of rhinos killed for their horns in the first half of 2023, authorities said on Tuesday....

Nearly six months after deadly earthquakes devastated southern Türkiye, thousands of survivors are still displaced, while President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised a rapid reconstruction....

Some 150 people have been arrested and 6.7 tons of drugs seized in Ecuador since the State of Emergency decreed by the Government on July 24 in three coastal areas of the country....

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Its balmy beaches have been vacation spots for Russian czars and Soviet general secretaries. It has hosted history-shaking meetings of world leaders and boasts a strategic naval base. And it has been the site of ethnic persecutions, forced deportations and political repression....

When it comes to exchanges between the United States and China, we’ve all probably got used to their tough talk and fiery rebuttals....

US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo is planning to visit China in late August, according to people familiar with the matter, part of the Biden administration’s effort to reduce tensions between the world’s two largest economies....

On Sunday, the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro commemorated the 23rd anniversary of the general elections in which Commander Hugo Chavez was re-legitimized as president....

On average, the archipelagic country experiences 20 typhoons yearly, some intense and destructive....

The protest at Akbelen is the latest stand-off in Turkey between environmentalists and developers uprooting green areas for mines, quarries and other projects....

As climate change and rising sea levels threaten the island of Gardi Sugdub, leaders in the local Indigenous community are increasingly worried that the Panamanian government will fail to follow through on promises to help with relocation....