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Kampala (AFP) Jan 17, 2026 - Uganda's army denied claims on Saturday that opposition leader Bobi Wine had been abducted from his home, as counting continued in an election marred by reports of at least 10 deaths amid an internet blackout.
Jan 17, 2026
Washington, United States (AFP) Jan 17, 2026 - China on Friday proposed to host the secretariat of a new treaty governing the high seas, a surprise bid that underscores Beijing's desire to have greater influence over global environmental governance.
Jan 17, 2026
London (AFP) Jan 17, 2026 - Hundreds of people on Saturday rallied in London against Beijing's controversial new mega embassy, days ahead of a decision on the plan.
Jan 17, 2026
Vienna (AFP) Jan 17, 2026 - An avalanche killed three Czech skiers in central Austria, police said, bringing the total to eight killed in the country's Alps on Saturday.
Jan 17, 2026
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Jan 16, 2026 - US President Donald Trump's demands to take over NATO ally Denmark's territory Greenland have thrust alliance chief Mark Rutte into an uncomfortable position.
Jan 16, 2026
Sydney (AFP) Jan 16, 2026 - Australia's emergency services warned people Friday to stay prepared for sudden downpours and dangerous bushfires in the country's east after a flash flood swept cars into the sea.
Jan 16, 2026
Jakarta (AFP) Jan 16, 2026 - Indonesia's government has filed multiple lawsuits seeking over $200 million in damages against six firms, after deadly floods wreaked havoc across Sumatra, killing more than 1,000 people last year.
Jan 16, 2026
Giyani, South Africa (AFP) Jan 16, 2026 - Authorities in South Africa on Friday recovered two more bodies from widespread flooding that has cut access to the famed Kruger National Park and put parts of neighbouring Mozambique under water.
Jan 16, 2026
Washington, United States (AFP) Jan 16, 2026 - US President Donald Trump told Egypt on Friday he was ready to reopen diplomacy to press Ethiopia into sharing water from a mega-dam that has angered Cairo.
Jan 16, 2026
Ndjamena, Chad (AFP) Jan 16, 2026 - Chad said Friday seven of its soldiers had been killed in a clash at the Sudanese border, with an official blaming the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the group locked in a brutal civil war in Sudan.
Jan 16, 2026
Damascus (AFP) Jan 16, 2026 - Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa issued a decree on Friday declaring Kurdish a national language, in an apparent gesture of good will towards the minority following clashes in recent days.
Jan 16, 2026
Minneapolis (AFP) Jan 16, 2026 - US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an emergency law that allows the domestic deployment of the military, after federal agents killed one person and injured another in Minnesota, sparking mass protests.
Jan 16, 2026
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 15, 2026 - An international research team involving the University of Cologne has developed a new way to reconstruct how landscapes evolved tens of millions of years ago and to determine how long sediments rem
Jan 15, 2026
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2026 - A new seafloor study of the Japan Trench is shedding light on why the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami grew into one of Japan's deadliest modern disasters and how similar events might unfold in th
Jan 15, 2026
Kedougou, Senegal (AFP) Jan 15, 2026 - Michel Tama Sadiakhou's future dramatically changed course some 15 years ago thanks to a clan of spear-wielding apes: instead of the dangerous work in informal gold mines that is the fate of many in Senegal's far southeast, he now researches rare chimpanzees.
Jan 15, 2026
Nairobi (AFP) Jan 15, 2026 - Kenya has secured zero-duty access for almost all its exports to China in a preliminary deal, its trade minister said Thursday, as Nairobi seeks to offset the impact of higher US tariffs.
Jan 15, 2026
