Kenya’s electoral commission announced William Samoei Ruto as the fifth president of the East African nation.
Former US President Donald Trump claimed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took his three passports during a raid of his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida last week as they searched his property for classified documents.
Human rights group Global Witness published a report accusing Facebook of failing to combat election disinformation ads ahead of what is expected to be a tense Brazilian election in October.
A Turkish traveler, Muammer Yilmaz, made a breakthrough, completing an over 100-mile, 11-day Tour du Mont-Blanc hike in Europe without any food supplements.
The US has held direct talks with the Syrian regime in an effort to secure the release of detained American journalist Austin Tice, the State Department announced.
The UN proposed to expand and extend the truce in Yemen beyond Oct. 2 with a four-point plan, including the opening of additional roads in Taiz and the regular flow of fuel to the port of Hudaydah.
Canada came under criticism for the slow pace in bringing Afghan refugees into the country as the Taliban marks one year since taking back control of the beleaguered nation.
China renewed its calls for the international community to engage with the Taliban, Afghanistan’s de facto rulers, one year after the group’s takeover of Kabul.
Five Nordic countries — Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Iceland — announced that they will deepen their security and defense cooperation in the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Ukraine expects to receive another $12 billion to $16 billion from its Western partners by the end of this year, the country’s finance minister said.
Russia is calling on the US, EU and other countries to stop the intrigue around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and force Kyiv to stop the shelling of the station, said the country’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
Former US President Donald Trump sent a secret letter to then Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorizing his controversial annexation plan of Palestinian territories to Israel’s sovereignty, according to Israeli media.
Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed Russian weapons, saying some are “decades ahead of foreign analogues.”
France pulled the last of its troops out of Mali, bringing the country’s Operation Barkhane to an end.
A junta court sentenced Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to six more years in prison.
Amid recent border tensions with Kosovo, Serbia’s president said he is planning to go to Brussels to maintain peace and stability before an upcoming meeting with the Kosovar premier.
Iran said the US administration “verbally agreed” to two Iranian demands for reviving the 2015 nuclear agreement.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman denied his country’s involvement in the recent attack on author Salman Rushdie, saying Tehran knows nothing about the attacker other than what has been reported in American media.
Afghan refugees who sought asylum in the UK after the Taliban took over Afghanistan a year ago have been told to look for private accommodation as the government-funded accommodation scheme winds down.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has admitted that Poland was slow to react to an ecological disaster unfolding in the Oder River, firing two top officials.
A Palestinian man was killed by Israeli police in the town of Kafr Aqab in occupied northern Jerusalem.
South Korea’s president offered economic incentives to rival North Korea in return for denuclearization and vowed to set on track bilateral relations with Japan, local media reported.
Source: Anadolu Agency
