World
Macky Sall Quits the UN Secretary-General Race After the Sixth Deadlocked Ballot
The withdrawal nobody announced in advance — but everybody saw coming Macky Sall is out. The former president of Senegal announced on Saturday that…
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World
France’s “Yellow and Youth” Protests Turn Violent: 550,000 Marched, 400 Arrested, Macron Vows Punishment
The day of action France’s protest movement had been building toward for weeks finally arrived on Saturday — and by nightfall, it had turned…
Climate
Too Much Sun for Its Own Good: Sri Lanka’s Whole Grid Went Dark for Six Hours
COLOMBO — On Saturday afternoon, an island nation of 22 million people discovered that too much of a good thing can switch off the…
World
17 Killed in Kolkata Durga Puja Stampede; Modi Announces Rs 2 Lakh Compensation
Seventeen people are dead and at least 25 injured after a crowd crush at a Durga Puja pavilion in Kolkata on Saturday evening —…
Health
Kenya’s Ebola Count Jumps to Seven — Three Health Workers Who Treated the First Patient Are Now Infected
Kenya’s Ebola outbreak has more than doubled in a day. The health ministry confirmed on Saturday that four more people have tested positive for…
Health
Kenya Confirms a Third Ebola Case — a 65-Year-Old Woman Caught While Already in Quarantine
Kenya’s health ministry confirmed on Friday that a third person has tested positive for Ebola — a 65-year-old woman who was already in quarantine…
World
Sisi Says He Will Step Down in 2030 — and Wants Egypt Ready to Defend Saudi Arabia
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi picked a military graduation ceremony, in front of cadets and generals, to say the words Egypt has been waiting a decade…
World
Iran Offers to Mediate the Saudi-Yemen War — “No Military Solution,” Says Araghchi
BAGHDAD — Iran is offering to sit down as a mediator to end the war between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthis, Tehran’s top diplomat…
World
IRGC Claims a Second Supertanker Hit a Naval Mine in the Strait of Hormuz
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Saturday that a second supertanker had struck a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz and…
World
Pope Leo XIV Is Leaving the Hospital — and He Will Lead Sunday’s Blessing From His Window
Pope Leo XIV is going home. Four days after surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung, the 71-year-old pontiff has been declared…