PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hundreds of inmates have fled Haiti’s main prison after armed gangs stormed the facility overnight in an overnight explosion of violence that engulfed much of the capital. At least five people are dead.
JOHANNESBURG — A South African soldier deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo has shot dead a colleague and then turned the gun on himself.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — A senior U.S. official says Israel has essentially endorsed a framework of a proposed Gaza cease-fire and hostage release deal, and it is now up to Hamas to agree to it.
DAKAR, Senegal — In Senegal's capital, Nicaragua is a hot ticket among travel agents serving people who want to live in the United States. Many migrants take various flights to eventually arrive there legally and then journey illegally by land to the U.S. border with Mexico.
TEL AVIV, Israel — An Israeli official says a top Israeli Cabinet minister's trip to Washington has angered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The dispute between Netanyahu and Benny Gantz underscores widening cracks in the country’s wartime government and rifts between Israel and the U.S. as the conflict in Gaza drags on.
CAIRO — A German charity has accused the Libyan coast guard of threatening its crew members who were rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, causing at least one migrant to drown.
WASHINGTON — The United States has begun airdrops of emergency humanitarian assistance into Gaza. White House national security spokesman John Kirby says the U.S. is working on collecting and distributing the aid on the ground.
HARARE, Zimbabwe — The low turnout Saturday at the burial of activist Moreblessing Ali and clashes among party members highlighted the decline of the opposition. It once posed a challenge to the ruling Zanu-PF but is now saddled with infighting and alleged state repression.
Iris Apfel, a textile expert, interior designer and fashion celebrity known for her eccentric style, has died. She was 102.
VICKSBURG, Mississippi — A Civil War battlefield in Mississippi is providing more information about Black history. Recent ceremonies honored the memory of 18 Black soldiers and two white officers who fought for the Union and were killed or wounded in 1864 by irregular Confederate soldiers.
FILE —The biggest day of this year’s primary campaign is approaching. Fifteen states — plus American Samoa — vote in contests known as Super Tuesday.
MOSCOW—Under a heavy police presence, thousands of people bade farewell to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at his funeral in Moscow. It came two weeks after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony.
ALGIERS, Algeria— Algeria is looking to cast itself as a critical supplier of natural gas for European countries seeking to lessen their dependence on Russia as it welcomed Thursday envoys from energy rich nations to a key summit.
A survey of 24 democratic countries by the Pew Research Center has found that while representative democracy remains a favorite system of governance around the globe, its appeal is slipping on the eve of elections worldwide.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Haiti’s prime minister has arrived in Kenya to try to salvage a plan to have the African country deploy 1,000 police officers to the troubled Caribbean nation to help combat gang violence.
ACCRA, Ghana — A bill which criminalizes LGBTQ+ people in Ghana and their supporters has drawn international condemnation after it was passed by parliament, with the United Nations calling it “profoundly disturbing” and urging for it not to become law.
HARARE — Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema Thursday declared the country’s debilitating drought a national disaster and emergency, saying it has devastated food production and electricity generation as the nation battles to recover from a recent deadly cholera outbreak.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip— Aid convoys carrying food reached northern Gaza this week, Israeli officials said.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Dozens of Burundian troops have been detained for refusing to be deployed to eastern DRC in the fight against the M23 rebel group. That's according to army officers, prisons officials and other witnesses.
THE HAGUE — Judges at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday granted reparations of more than 52 million euros ($56 million) to thousands of victims of a convicted commander in the shadowy Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army.
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