At least 15 people have been killed and two seriously injured in an attack on a mosque in northern Burkina Faso, according to a BBC report. Gunmen entered the Grand Mosque in the village of Salmossi on Friday evening as those inside were praying. The attack prompted many locals to flee the village which is […]

Hagibis, which made landfall in the Izu Peninsula, hitting the Tokyo region Saturday evening, also injured more than 120 people, broadcaster NHK reported. Rescue operations are underway in many parts of the country which were hit by landslides and widespread flooding. Overnight, more than 4.4 million people were ordered to evacuate their homes in eastern […]

United States President Donald Trump said Saturday that he hopes the Kurds in Syria will “back up” from the Turkish border with Syria as Turkey has launched an offensive in the area. “It’s very hard to beat a force where they have planes and they don’t,” Trump said, referring to Turkey and the Kurds during […]

The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine on Friday told a House of Representatives impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump that Trump ousted her based on “unfounded and false claims” after she had come under attack by his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Marie Yovanovitch, the ambassador who was abruptly recalled from Kyiv in May, spent more […]

At least ten Kenyan police were killed when their vehicle struck a homemade bomb near the border with Somalia on Saturday, according to a police report seen by Reuters. Police believe the device, for which no one immediately claimed responsibility, was planted by Islamist group Al Shabaab, the report said. Police said in a separate […]