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Clashes between police and protesters disputing Mauritania's presidential election result kill 3
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP (AP) — Clashes in Mauritania between security forces and protesters rallying against the reelection of President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani left three people dead, authorities said Tuesday. An unspecified number of people were reported injured. Following the...
2 aid workers killed in the latest violent attack in eastern Congo’s conflict
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Two staff members of the foreign aid group Tearfund were killed when their convoy was attacked in eastern Congo, the organization said, the latest in a series of attacks targeting aid groups and residents in the region. The aid workers were killed on Sunday after...
Haiti's gang violence has displaced 300,000 children, the UN says
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Gang violence in Haiti has displaced more than 300,000 children since March, the U.N. children's agency said Tuesday as the Caribbean country struggles to curb killings and kidnappings. Children are more than half of the nearly 580,000 people who have...
Court orders white nationalists to pay $2M more for Charlottesville Unite the Right violence
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Four years after violence erupted during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, a jury ordered white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay a total of more than $26 million in damages to people with physical or emotional injuries from the event. ...
Turkey's president accuses opposition of stoking racism after anti-Syrian rioting erupts
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused opposition parties of stoking xenophobia and racism on Monday, a day after residents in a neighborhood in central Turkey set Syrian-owned shops on fire. The rioting erupted in the Melikgazi region of central...
Mauritania's President Ghazouani wins reelection, the electoral commission says
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has been reelected for a second term, the country's electoral commission said on Monday, after positioning the country as a strategic ally of the West in a region swept by coups and violence. Ghazouani,...
Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani on track for reelection, provisional results show
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani is on track to secure a second mandate after positioning the country as a strategic ally of the West in a region swept by coups and violence, provisional results showed on Sunday. Ghazouani, who is seeking...
Polls close in Mauritania, with the incumbent ally of the West favored to win
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Polls closed in Mauritania's presidential election on Saturday, with the incumbent Mohamed Ould Ghazouani widely expected to win after positioning Mauritania as a strategic ally of the West in a region swept by coups and violence. Ghazouni, who is...
Mauritania's President Ould Ghazouani seeks reelection amid regional security crisis
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani — who is seeking a second term in office in a vote on Saturday — is promising more economic growth and social programs to eradicate poverty and prevent extremism in the vast West African desert nation, even though...
Feds investigating violence during pro-Palestinian protest outside Los Angeles synagogue
LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday that federal officials are investigating a weekend demonstration against the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza that spiraled into violence outside a Los Angeles synagogue. Fighting between pro-Palestinian demonstrators...
