Editor’s Note: This article contains graphic images and descriptions. Christine Pascual’s phone started buzzing while she was at work in a hair salon with messages saying former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was about to be…
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Voters in Gabon choose a new president in the first election since the 2023 military coup
by adminVoters in oil-rich Gabon headed to polling stations on Saturday in a presidential election that the country’s military rulers hoped would legitimize their grip on power. It’s the first election since a 2023 military coup…
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‘This isn’t Russia, never was, and never will be’: Ukrainians living under occupation fear Trump’s peace talks
by adminAsked why she and other Ukrainian people choose to keep living under Russian occupation instead of fleeing, the woman paused for a moment. “I don’t know how to explain the feeling,” she said. “It’s like…
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Tanzania’s top opposition party disqualified from polls, election commission says
by adminTanzania’s main opposition party CHADEMA has been disqualified from elections due later this year, a senior election commission official said on Saturday, days after the party’s leader was charged with treason for allegedly seeking to…
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Pressures from Kyiv and Washington led to US ambassador’s resignation, sources say
by adminWhen US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink resigned her post two days ago, she was both under pressure from President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office in Kyiv, and feeling the strain of working for her ultimate boss…
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Ecuador will choose its next president on Sunday amid surging violence and crime
by adminEcuadorians will head to the polls on Sunday in a runoff presidential election, choosing between a conservative incumbent or a leftist lawyer as the country struggles with a cocaine-fueled security crisis. President Daniel Noboa is…
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The baby at the heart of an investigation into an alleged Russian cult leader in Argentina
by adminDoctors in Argentina were already on high alert when a pregnant Russian woman showed up at the hospital on March 21 with two other women to give birth. Hospital staff in the Patagonian city of…
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South Korea’s ousted Yoon moves back to apartment with 11 pets and security personnel
by adminFormer South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol moved back on Friday with his wife and their 11 dogs and cats to their apartment in an upscale district of Seoul, close to the prosecutors’ office where…
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Dissent against war grows in Israel’s military as reservists from elite unit join protest movement
by adminA small group of reservists from Israel’s elite military intelligence unit joined a call for an immediate return of the hostages in Gaza even if it requires an immediate end to the war, in a…
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Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been hospitalized after experiencing “severe abdominal pain,” his son Carlos said on X on Friday. Carlos Bolsonaro said his father was assessed for adhesions in the area of his…