Presidential succession debates intensify in Uganda as the military chief and president's son drives high-level arrests and political friction.
The 2026 El Niño has been officially named "Super El Niño," following ocean temperatures that exceeded 2.0°C above average in the Niño 3.4 zone in the Pacific Ocean for three straight months—the second time since 2015-16.
Investigations are ongoing to find out why the tanker named Atlantic Asphalt "lost control" and collided with an anchored river cruise ship in New Orleans on Friday, resulting in the overturning of the cruise ship and passengers being dumped into the Mississippi River.
More than 100 years after women were granted the right to vote in the US Constitution, a coalition of MAGA extremists wants women to go back to a time when men vote for their households.
US negotiators have raised the idea of Ukraine withdrawing from the eastern Donbas region in exchange for NATO membership, President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday, the first time such a proposal has been put forward in peace talks.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards navy said a tanker carrying liquefied natural gas struck a naval mine and suffered an explosion in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday while using what they described was an "unauthorised and dangerous route", state media reported.
One person was killed and multiple others wounded on Thursday in an active shooting in Washington, DC, with the shooter barricaded inside a building and personnel in tactical gear arriving on scene, according to local media.
In a historic upset, Democrat Scott Colom has won his US Senate race in traditionally conservative Mississippi, networks projected Wednesday, making him the first African American elected to the chamber from the southern state in more than 140 years.
Britain said on Tuesday that its military bases were safe, after the US removed huge refuelling aircraft from a British airbase following a reported threat from Iran, the second such apparent evacuation in three months.
Vessels at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, October 12, 2026.
