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Damage in the aftermath of Houthi strikes on the Red Sea port city of Mocha, Yemen, last month. The Yemeni armed forces were unable to push back the Houthi offensive on Mocha on 10 September 2026. - Reuters/Al Joumhouriya TV

Capture of Mocha marks turning point in Yemen war, with ripples across Red Sea

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Houthi forces captured the strategic city of Mocha, as well as the nearby Hanish Islands and the island of Perim in the ...

Kenyan athlete Ferdinand Omanyala at the Paris Olympics on 3 August, 2024. - TeamKenya

Pride and joy as Kenya chosen to host 2029 World Athletics Championships

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World Athletics announced the decision on Tuesday following a meeting of its ruling council in Budapest, where Nairobi w ...

Pope Leo XIV arrives for his weekly audience in St Peters Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, 16 September 2026. - AP Photo/Andrew Medichini

Abuse survivors set out demands before meeting Pope Leo in France

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The group will meet the Pope privately in Lourdes, in south-western

People march during a protest organised by opposition parties against constitutional changes proposed by President Flix Tshisekedi, in Kinshasa, DR Congo, 15 September 2026. - Samy Ntumba Shambuyi / AP Photo

DRC opposition condemns violence at protests over constitutional changes

15 hours ago |

Hundreds took to the streets across the

A protester holds a placard reading, If changing gender is a crime, then this body is a crime scene, during a demonstration against the Turkish governments crackdown on LGBTQ+ groups in Ankara on 15 September 2026. - REUTERS - Efekan Akyuz

Turkey arrests dozens in ongoing crackdown on LGBTQI+ groups

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At least 31 people were arrested pending trial on Tuesday as part of the operation. They included five transgender women ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers her State of the European Union address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on 16 September, 2026. - REUTERS - Yves Herman

EU chief calls for European Security Council and closer Canada ties

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Europe was facing an openly hostile world , von der Leyen told the European Parliament in Strasbourg in her annual Stat ...

Congolese children read an Ebola awareness poster in Bunia, Ituri province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. - REUTERS - Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

Ebola outbreak slows in parts of DR Congo but crisis remains severe

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Since the outbreak was officially declared on 15 May, 7,258 cases have been confirmed, including 3,510 deaths, while 1,7 ...

Rachida Dati left the government as culture minister in February this year and plans to take up her former career as a magistrate. - AFP - LUDOVIC MARIN

Former justice minister Rachida Dati goes on trial in Paris over corruption

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The case centres on a contract signed in October 2009 between Dati and Carlos Ghosn, then head of the Renault-Nissan all ...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to the media at a cabinet retreat in Banff, Alberta, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. - Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP

Canada's Carney seeking closer EU ties, to attend State of the EU address

Sep 16, 2026 |

Carney will be in Strasbourg on Wednesday to attend the State of the Union address delivered by European Commission Pres ...

Canadian singer Celine Dion waves to fans as she arrives at Hotel Le Royal Monceau in Paris on 28 August 2026, ahead of her series of concerts in the French capital. - AFP - THOMAS SAMSON

Céline Dion fever grips Paris as fans prepare for comeback concerts

Sep 15, 2026 |

Since Dion arrived in Paris on 28 August, there has been a constant buzz of excitement outside the Royal Monceau Hotel i ...

People take part in amapiano dance challenges shared on TikTok, helping South Africas township-born music reach audiences around the world. - Screenshots from the TikTok accounts of kalascentral, mogyass and Phenyo Mokgweetsi

From townships to TikTok, South Africa's amapiano gets the world dancing

Sep 15, 2026 |

Amapiano, whose ...

Bruce Springsteen performs during the annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York on 11 September 2021. - AFP - CHIP SOMODEVILLA

How music became a 'balm' for New York in the aftermath of 9/11

Sep 15, 2026 |

The Twin Towers had long been part of New York's visual identity, appearing in films, music videos and on album covers. ...

A manta ray in Palau in the Pacific Ocean. The proportion of shark and ray species threatened by ocean warming rose from 24 percent in 2014 to 37 percent in 2021. - Flickr CC BY 2.0 amanderson2

How 100 days of record ocean heat is reshaping life in and around the seas

Sep 15, 2026 |

Fish and other marine organisms are highly sensitive to even small changes in temperature. If they shift from one area t ...

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