MINA, SAUDI ARABIA — Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims walked or rode buses Monday to a giant tented city near Mecca for the climax of the annual hajj that Saudi officials say could break attendance records.
FREETOWN — Vote tallying was underway in Sierra Leone on Sunday, the electoral commission said, following fiercely fought elections that were mostly calm despite significant delays in some areas.
PARIS — The supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is not as dormant as had been thought, a new study published in "Nature" shows.
WASHINGTON — The historic U.S. Supreme Court "Dobbs" about-face on abortion a year ago has created a nightmare for women seeking the procedure, a legal morass for the courts and a challenge for the Republican Party.
BRUSSELS — Media representatives have warned that a proposed law designed to bolster journalistic freedom across the European Union left open the possibility of spying on journalists in the name of national security.
PARIS — Chemicals giants have agreed to pay billions of dollars to end lawsuits over contamination from toxic "forever" chemicals found in everyday products such as non-stick frying pans and waterproof clothing.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. government has charged four Chinese companies and eight Chinese individuals with trafficking in chemicals used in manufacturing fentanyl, Attorney General Merrick Garland has announced.
BAMAKO — Malian voters overwhelmingly approved changes to the constitution in a referendum, marking a key step in the ruling junta's declared plans to restore civilian rule, provisional results showed Friday.
MIAMI — The United States will host a new-look expanded 32-team Club World Cup in 2025, governing body FIFA announced Friday
RABAT — Morocco said Friday it has postponed a meeting of Arab allies of Israel it had been due to host this summer in response to mounting bloodshed in the occupied West Bank.
NEW YORK — "Young Thug" fans awoke Friday to a new stack of tracks from the Atlanta rapper Jeffery Williams, who is embroiled in a sprawling gang conspiracy trial and has been imprisoned since May 2022.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court, in a victory for the Biden administration, on Friday upheld the federal government's right to decide which undocumented migrants should be targeted for deportation.
PARIS — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Friday that resentment towards the West still lingers over the treatment of African countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
PARIS — Senegal's foreign minister on Friday slammed as "childish and ridiculous" a lawsuit that opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has filed in Europe against President Macky Sall.
MECCA — Enormous crowds of worshippers thronged Mecca, Islam's holiest city, on Friday for the biggest hajj pilgrimage in years, with more than two million expected to brave the scorching Saudi Arabian heat.
GENEVA — The United Nations voiced deep concern Friday that the crackdown on freedoms in Tunisia was now targeting journalists, as it urged the Tunisian authorities to change course.
PARIS — French police have raided the homes of two high-ranking officials in the organizing committee of the 2024 Paris Olympics in an ongoing investigation, a source in the probe told AFP on Friday.
MADIGURI, NIGERIA — Camps for people fleeing jihadist conflict in northeast Nigeria have become overwhelmed after the authorities closed a dozen of the sites over the past year to try to prompt families to return home.
JOHANNESBURG — At least 31 people, suspected to be illegal miners, are believed to have died last month in an abandoned South African gold mine, the government said on Friday.
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