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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa quit his Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party on Thursday, two years to the day after its formation, saying it had been hijacked by the ruling ZANU-PF in a power grab. “Fellow citizens, this is to officially and under my hand inform you that, with immediate effect […]

GAZA/GENEVA – In battered, hard-to-reach north Gaza, rare aid deliveries get mobbed by desperate, hungry Palestinians and aid workers report seeing people thin and visibly starving with sunken eyes. Hunger stalks the entire Gaza Strip, the tiny enclave where 2.3 million people have been living under Israel’s bombardment since Oct. 7 as it battles Hamas […]

An Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer was sent hurtling to the ground when an SUV slammed into a vehicle during a traffic stop, dash camera video shows. In the video, captured Jan. 18, Trooper Jesse Gregory can be seen talking with a driver pulled over along Interstate 40, according to a highway patrol news release. Neither […]

WASHINGTON — Each of them has sat behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, signed bills into law, appointed judges, bartered with foreign leaders and ordered the armed forces into combat. They both know what it is like to be the most powerful person on the planet. Yet the general election matchup that seems […]

Editor’s note: We have chosen a mugshot of the suspect as the primary image, as law enforcement believes he may have contacted additional victims. An El Paso-area man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman after posing as a cosmetic surgeon in a Facebook lure, police officials said. Tito Villareal, 43, is accused of […]

LONDON — When David Cameron, Britain’s foreign secretary and onetime prime minister, visited Washington last month, he took time out to press the case for backing Ukraine with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right Georgia Republican who stridently opposes further American military aid to the country. Last week, Boris Johnson, another former prime minister, argued […]

JERUSALEM – Over more than 100 days of the Gaza war, Rami Nabulsi’s antique shop in the Old City of Jerusalem has been virtually empty of customers. Still, he walks the cobble-stoned alleyways to open it every day. The Old City, surrounded by ancient walls and home to sites sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, […]

Issued on: 25/01/2024 – 15:14 In mid-January, a gang carried out a series of deadly attacks on the Solino neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. One of our Observers, who lives in this neighbourhood, filmed the devastation after the attacks. His footage shows burned out homes, shops, cars and a school— and even a charred body. He was […]

BERLIN – German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Thursday he was not aware of a swap offer that would see German Taurus cruise missiles going to Britain and Ukraine receiving British Storm Shadow systems in return. “I am not aware of this offer. If there are talks about it, then not in my house,” […]

Florida woman gives birth in back seat of Lyft ride A newborn baby girl is healthy and with her mother after her delivery didn’t go as planned. The baby came into this world in the back seat of a Lyft. The South Florida mother called the ride service when she went into labor. Read: New […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will announce a $5 billion investment in transportation projects around the country during a visit Thursday to the election battleground state of Wisconsin, part of a push to promote the Democratic president’s economic policies. The visit will highlight a $1 billion investment to replace the Blatnik Bridge in […]