Russian opposition party leader and vocal Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny is believed to have been poisoned Wednesday night, his spokeswoman said. Navalny fell ill on a flight back to Moscow and his condition devolved at the hospital, where he is unconscious and in intensive care, according to a tweet from his press secretary, Kira […]

Thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes across California, on Wednesday, as nearly two-dozen wildfires continued to blaze amid a record-breaking heatwave in parts of the western United States. Firefighters were battling 367 known fires throughout the state on Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted, with 23 of them major blazes. “CA (California) has […]

Mali’s new military junta on Wednesday urged citizens to return to normal life and warned against acts of “vandalism” after rebel officers took power. “The committee calls on the people to… resume their activities in a healthy manner,” said Ismael Wague, the spokesman for the self-described National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP). […]

The government of Ivory Coast said Wednesday that it had officially set the first round in upcoming presidential elections for October 31, pressing ahead even after deadly protest clashes. Official campaigning will start on October 15 and end on October 29 according to a decree adopted by the cabinet, confirming the timetable authorities have been […]

Pope Francis on Wednesday called the bishop of Mozambique’s city of Pemba, capital of the insurgency-hit Cabo Delgado province, to express support for his assistance to victims of recent violence, the bishop said. Government supporters last week accused Bishop Luiz Fernando Lisboa — a Brazilian national who heads the Muslim-majority province’s Catholic Church — of […]