Less than half of Algeria's eligible voters cast a ballot in the country's presidential poll, preliminary figures from electoral authorities showed early September 8, despite…
Five people were shot along a highway in the southern US state of Kentucky, US media reported September 7, as police hunted for a suspect…
A total of 21 boys were confirmed dead on September 7 after a blaze tore through a school dormitory in central Kenya, a tragedy that…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on September 7 made the first visit by a British leader to Ireland in five years, vowing to "reset" damaged…
Kosovo on September 7 reopened two of its four border crossings with Serbia after protests on the Serbian side blocking cross-border traffic ended, the interior…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said September 5 he supported Kamala Harris in November's US presidential election, an apparent wry remark a day after the United…
French President Emmanuel Macron on September 5 named the European Union's former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as new prime minister, following almost two months of…
Colombian President Gustavo Petro criticised on September 4 the purchase of Israel-made Pegasus spyware by the country's police to "intercept communications" of political leaders and…
Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, threatened with arrest for insisting he was the rightful winner of July presidential elections, urged prosecutors September 4 not…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said September 4 his government needed "new energy" during a major reshuffle that saw Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and several others…
A 14-year-old boy killed four people, including two students, and wounded nine more when he opened fire at a high school in the US state…
A student shot and wounded a fellow student at a Stockholm school on September 4, but the motive was not immediately clear, authorities said. The…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer defended September 4 his government's partial suspension of arms exports to Israel over fears they could be used in a…
Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei died in Kenya on September 5, four days after being set on fire by her boyfriend, medics and Ugandan athletics officials…
Scores of prisoners were released from a notorious Bahrain prison on September 5 following a royal pardon of more than 450 inmates, including dissidents detained…
A Russian strike on west Ukraine's Lviv, hundreds of kilometers from the front, killed seven people on September 4, authorities said as Moscow claimed advances…
The World Health Organization said on September 3 more children had been reached than expected at the start of an emergency polio vaccination campaign in…
At least 12 migrants died off the northern French coast on September 3 trying to cross the Channel to England in the deadliest such disaster…
Poland on September 3 announced new military deals worth several hundred million dollars, the latest in the NATO member's drive to beef up its defence.…
Greta Thunberg and a group of activists were arrested on September 4 after occupying a University of Copenhagen building to call for an academic boycott…
Lebanon's former central bank governor Riad Salameh was arrested September 3 after being questioned over alleged embezzlement, a judicial official told AFP. The public prosecutor…
Former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn denied the charges against him as his "dieselgate" trial began, his lawyer said September 3, nine years after the scandal…
Iran's foreign ministry said it had summoned the Australian ambassador on September 3 to "strongly condemn" a social media message posted by the embassy supporting…
Botswana will hold general elections on October 30, the president of the stable and diamond-rich southern African country announced September 3. President Mokgweetsi Masisi, who…
A former official who worked as an aide to the governor of New York state was arrested and charged with working as an agent of…
