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Mozambique's presidential election: Here's what to know

Oct. 08, 2024 00:16 AM EDT

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambicans are expected to turn out in large numbers on Wednesday for an election that will choose a successor to President Filipe Nyusi after his two terms. Close to 17 million voters in the southern African nation of 31 million people are registered to...

Michigan university president's home painted with anti-Israel messages

Oct. 07, 2024 19:06 PM EDT

WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit house owned by the University of Michigan president and the sidewalk were spray-painted Monday with the words “intifada” and “coward” on the first anniversary of the attack on Israel by Hamas. West Bloomfield police didn't...

Mozambique headed for crucial elections amid jihadist insurgency and drought-induced hunger

Oct. 07, 2024 03:24 AM EDT

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambicans will vote this week for a new president who many hope will bring peace to an oil- and gas-rich northern province that has been ravaged by a jihadist insurgency for nearly seven years. Close to 17 million voters will vote for the next...

Indian troops kill 31 suspected Maoist rebels in forest battle

Oct. 05, 2024 02:47 AM EDT

PATNA, India (AP) — At least 31 suspected Maoist rebels were killed in a battle with Indian troops in central India, police said Saturday. The fighting erupted on Friday when counterinsurgency troops, acting on intelligence, cornered nearly 50 suspected rebels in the Abhujmaad...

Libya to resume oil production at two of its major fields

Oct. 03, 2024 16:56 PM EDT

CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s state-run oil company said Thursday it was restarting full oil production, almost two months after shutting down operations in two of its major fields amid a political crisis. The National Oil Corporation said in a statement that it would resume production at...

Albanian opposition MPs try to disrupt Parliament to protest a colleague's imprisonment

Oct. 03, 2024 06:47 AM EDT

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian opposition lawmakers on Thursday protested in Parliament, burning effigies and clashing with bodyguards, after one of their colleagues was convicted of slander and imprisoned. The conservative Democrat lawmakers, who had called for a boycott of...

Pakistani security forces kill 6 insurgents in a raid in the southwest

Oct. 02, 2024 03:50 AM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani security forces have killed at least six insurgents in a raid on their hideout in the country's restive southwest, officials said Wednesday. The raid targeted members of the Baloch Liberation Army in Harnai, a district in Balochistan province, which...

Myanmar's military government begins a census seen as a way to gather information about opponents

Oct. 01, 2024 22:43 PM EDT

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government began a nationwide census Tuesday, saying it will be used to compile voter lists for a general election promised for next year, even though much of the country is engulfed in civil war. The census is widely seen as an effort to gather...

Rebel group in Congo generates $300,000 monthly in seized mining area, UN official says

Oct. 01, 2024 09:40 AM EDT

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A rebel group in Congo generates around $300,000 a month in revenue through its control of a mining area in the east of the country, a U.N. official said. In April, the M23 — a rebel group with alleged links to Rwanda — seized the Rubaya mining area in...

Gunmen storm a house and kill 7 workers in Pakistan’s southwest

Sep. 28, 2024 17:19 PM EDT

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen stormed a house and killed seven laborers and wounded an eighth in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province, a police official said Saturday. The workers were all from the same town in Punjab, which is in Pakistan’s east. There...