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This unprecedented move in Senegal is the first time a direct universal suffrage presidential election has been postponed since 1963.

Its walls collapsed and its minaret cut short, Gaza’s Omari mosque remains standing but vastly diminished. Around it, the historic old city is also in tatters. The 7th-century mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Gaza, was Gaza’s most famous and its surroundings a focal point of the Palestinian enclave’s history and...

Namibia’s long-time leader Hage Geingob, 82, succumbed to cancer on Sunday morning, leaving Vice President Nangolo Mbumba to lead the country until the end of the year elections.

Senegal’s president, Macky Sall, has announced the indefinite postponement of a presidential election scheduled for 25 February a few hours before official campaigning was due to start, provoking anger from opposition figures and a ministerial resignation....

A demonstration by wives of soldiers fighting in Ukraine was disrupted by the police on Saturday, who arrested at least 20 journalists who were covering the event in Moscow’s Red Square.

A member of the European Parliament has been accused of spying for Russia for over a decade—and her case could open a Pandora’s box of illicit secrets....

More than two dozen people, mostly journalists, were detained Saturday at a protest in central Moscow, as wives and other relatives of Russian servicemen mobilized to fight in Ukraine called for their return, according to independent Russian news reports....

The number of dengue fever cases in Brazil since January 1 is four times higher than the same period last year, government data showed Saturday, ahead of the launch of a vaccination campaign....

Andrzej Duda sparked row after saying he was unsure if Kyiv could regain control of Russian-occupied Crimea...

Nepal has introduced measures ranging from regulatory changes to ‘rainbow tourism’ guidelines as it targets the multi-billion-dollar LGBTQ market...

The Czech government is looking to accelerate the pace at which it is adding nuclear energy to its grid. Officials announced yesterday that it plans to build up to four nuclear reactors—instead of one—as the country tries to become more energy independent and shift away from fossil fuels....

VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — Intense forest fires burning around a densely populated area of central Chile have caused at least 46 deaths, Chile’s pesident said Saturday evening, and officials said at least 1,100 homes had been destroyed....

Thousands took to the streets across Israel Saturday night to call for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ouster and new elections, in demonstrations spanning from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to Haifa and Caesarea in the north and Be’er Sheva in the south....

Journalists who were filming an anti-mobilization protest outside the Kremlin were detained by the police, independent Russian media outlet Meduza reported on Feb. 3....

Turkish security forces have arrested seven people on suspicion of passing information to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, unnamed officials say....

The leaders of Germany’s coalition government say they have reached a final agreement on a bill to legalize marijuana, resolving outstanding disagreements that had delayed action and setting the stage for a vote in the final week of February and enactment in April....

About 200,000 people have taken to the streets of Germany in further protests against the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD)....

Hungary’s parliament will convene an emergency session on Monday to do something its western partners have waited for, often impatiently, for more than a year: to hold a vote, finally, on approving Sweden’s bid to join the NATO military alliance....