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A group of senior Gabonese military officers appeared on national television in the early hours of Wednesday and said they had taken power, minutes after the state election body announced President Ali Bongo had won a third term. Military declares election results cancelled, all borders closed and state institutions dissolved …

It took just over 24 hours for Idalia to strengthen from a Category 1 hurricane to a Category 4, before it finally lost some steam as it ran into the Florida Panhandle. The rapid intensification of hurricanes, which is being fuelled by warming oceans, is becoming a major concern. Idalia …

Hurricane Idalia strengthened to a Category 2 storm with 165 km/h winds on Tuesday evening as it barrelled toward Florida's Gulf Coast. Storm expected to make landfall Wednesday where the Panhandle meets the peninsula Hurricane Idalia strengthened to a Category 2 storm with 165 km/h winds on Tuesday evening as …

Florida residents loaded up on sandbags and evacuated from homes in low-lying areas along the Gulf Coast as Tropical Storm Idalia intensified Monday and forecasters predicted it would hit in days as a major hurricane with potentially life-threatening storm surges. States of emergencies declared in dozens of counties as state …

A federal judge has set a March 4, 2024, trial date for Donald Trump in the case where he is accused of plotting to overturn results of the last presidential election. Earliest trial date set so far in former U.S. president's 4 criminal indictments A federal judge has set a …

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis — who is running for the GOP nomination for president, who has loosened gun laws in Florida and who has antagonized civil rights leaders by deriding "wokeness" — was loudly booed as he addressed the vigil. Three Black people were shot and killed Saturday by a …

Russian investigators said on Sunday that genetic tests had confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner mercenary group who led a short-lived armed rebellion against Russia's military, was among the 10 people killed in a plane crash last week. Crash came 2 months after mercenary leader led mutiny against …

In the first moments of the Maui fires, when high winds brought down power poles, slapping electrified wires to the dry grass below, there was a possible explanation why the flames erupted all at once in long, neat rows — those wires were bare, uninsulated metal that could spark on …

A white man fatally shot three people inside a Jacksonville, Fla., Dollar General store on Saturday in a predominately Black neighbourhood in an attack that the local sheriff called "racially motivated." The shooter then killed himself. 'He hated Black people,' Jacksonville sheriff says of white shooter who killed himself A …

Soccer's world governing body, FIFA, suspended Spanish federation chief Luis Rubiales from all football-related activities for three months on Saturday as it investigates allegations he gave a player an unwanted kiss on the lips after Spain's women won the World Cup. Luis Rubiales remains defiant amid uproar after he kissed …