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Map: our own drawing from Natural Earth country shapes (public domain). Stories are placed by the region tag on each story; “North America” covers stories we tagged North America or United States. Global stories are under Global.

Africa

Malawi's inquiry into the crash that killed Vice-President Chilima erupts as a witness withdraws his claim to have found the wreck

Fire destroys much of the cancer unit at Maputo Central Hospital, which RTP África calls Mozambique's only cancer treatment centre

Gunmen seize about 14 Islamic school pupils helping harvest maize in Nigeria's Niger State, police say

Uganda's plan for a backup internet route through Tanzania turns into a deal to run a state fibre line

Kenyan herders who handed in their guns say bandits drove off more than 1,700 of their animals

Burundi farmers block a highway with tree trunks over who gets scarce fertilizer

Ethiopia's prime minister puts his cabinet through military training, drilling alongside ministers at the Hurso centre

CFA franc coins issued from 1958 to 1985 stop being legal tender in six Central African countries, with one year to exchange them

Kenya calls Saudi Arabia's Ebola travel ban "punitive" as it prepares to release its last quarantined contacts

Kenya's power company tells Tana River families to leave before El Niño rains, as 302 households are already flooded out

Ghana's courts lock their gates as judicial staff strike over unpaid 2026 pay, and the Finance Ministry approves arrears hours later

Chad makes dengue care free as patients overwhelm hospitals, with 4,600 suspected cases in six provinces

Middle East

Yemen's war spills toward Saudi Arabia as government forces push into Houthi-held al-Jawf

Bread up tenfold: two years after Assad, Syrians say they're poorer than ever

Houthis push to within 80 km of Aden, their closest to Yemen's government capital since 2015

UN rights worker dies in Houthi custody, and his family learned only weeks later

Israeli forces withdraw from Hebron after a 10-day siege that displaced or affected 3,300 Palestinians, governor says

Turkey moves jailed PKK founder Ocalan to a new section of his island prison as Kurdish politicians say peace talks have stalled

Yemen's Taiz under Houthi siege: governor says the city is being sent "back to the stone age"

Egypt convicts editor Lina Attalah and orders independent outlet Mada Masr shut

Europe

Footage of dogs dumped in pits near a Tbilisi cemetery sparks protests and a criminal probe in Georgia

"Traitors in every family": Hungary will publish the names of tens of thousands of communist-era informants on Wednesday

"My life has been on hold": Poland's migrants wait up to two years for residence permits under a wartime law that never ended

A Spanish island of 11,000 people has seen nearly 3,000 migrants arrive since October

Latvia told residents near its Russia and Belarus borders to take cover as a suspected drone entered its airspace

Iotova wins Bulgaria’s presidential runoff in initial results as drone attacks hit ships off its Black Sea coast

Gen Z protests over cost of living spread to Germany, ending in looting in Frankfurt

Hackers hijack Ukraine's and Russia's air raid apps, sending fake nuclear and radiation alerts

"We came back from hell": hundreds escape Russian-occupied Oleshky in a rare joint evacuation, then the truce ends

"They chose to strangle us": Russia's Novaya Gazeta shuts down after 30 years

Riot police deployed at Poland's top court as Tusk moves to prosecute its judges

Serbia’s student movement, under two years old, ousts Vučić in a landslide, using Hungary’s playbook

Asia

Rescuers dig two bodies out of avalanche snow on India's Kedartal trek; six people still missing

Floods, landslides and a burst river levee near Indonesia's Mount Semeru hit more than 1,500 families after a father and his child died in a landslide

Indonesian police say 58 citizens were lured with job offers and recruited to fight for Russia; 13 suspects named

Mongolia's president tells the government to pay Oyu Tolgoi mine dividends straight into citizens' accounts

Kazakhstan starts phasing in a mandatory e-entry permit for visitors from 85 visa-free countries

Assam demolishes the homes of more than 640 Bengali Muslim families in Dhubri, displacing over 4,000 people

Hanoi will pay women VNĐ4 million (about $154) for having two children before 35 as its birth rate stays below replacement

Bali glamping landslide: missing foreign guest identified as a 56-year-old German; 76 rescuers search as neither man is found

Hackers claim they stole the personal data of 27 million Uzbeks, and the government has not said whether it is true

Cambodia's "waiting villages" for 20,000 people still displaced by the Thai border conflict will become permanent, Hun Manet says

Sri Lanka sends soldiers to protect elephants from snares, explosive bait and illegal electric fences

India's election "consultants" sell bots and shadow pages to campaigns from Kenya to Suriname, and now the U.S.

Central Asia

Tajikistan says no one was hurt when water burst into a Rogun Dam tunnel; witnesses told RFE/RL more than five workers were injured

A UN report holds up Kazakhstan's revival of the Northern Aral Sea, whose water volume has nearly doubled

Central Asia's shared power grid ran up to 23% over safe limits last winter, and Kyrgyzstan is freezing new crypto-mining licenses

Oceania

The Marshall Islands gets $11 million in fast World Bank money as El Niño and dengue hit at once

Pacific groups say the EU's new nickel deal with New Caledonia shuts out the Kanak people whose land holds the ore

A Sri Lankan woman has been stuck in the Cook Islands for three years because no country will let her transit home

Smoke from Indonesia's fires has hung over Papua New Guinea's capital for weeks, with no air-quality data to show how harmful it is

Nearly half of Fiji's public water sources hit critical levels as El Niño drought leaves 24,600 people on trucked or rationed water

Solomon Islands' government plans constitutional curbs on party-hopping while its prime minister recovers in an Australian hospital

Australia now makes asylum seekers pay A$1,863.50 upfront to appeal a refused protection visa

Five people, including two children, are found alive in Kiribati after drifting about 5,400 km for nearly three months

Samoa's rugby union suspends itself from World Rugby's council after the prime minister raised governance concerns

Fiji's military tells Parliament it no longer wants immunity for its three coups and asks for a truth commission instead

Tuvalu replaces its 100-year-old public health law

Police in Western Australia scanned 1.38 million faces with live facial recognition vans in five months

Latin America

Uruguay mourns three young soldiers who drowned during a night training swim in the Uruguay River

Four decades on, Peru's Supreme Court upholds rape convictions of seven ex-soldiers in the Manta and Vilca case, but only two are in custody

Brazil orders ranchers out of the forest home of two of the last Piripkura, an Indigenous people living in isolation

Barbados is certified by WHO for eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission, with no infant infections in three years

Illegal gold miners leave cyanide ponds in Brazil's Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous territory, with no cleanup estimate

Brazil sends federal forces to Indigenous villages after alleged threats to poison their water following Lula's re-election

About 500 Indigenous people flee their village on Colombia's Pacific coast as two armed groups fight over the territory

Colombian armed group allegedly takes over a school in an Indigenous area of southern Venezuela, and teachers and families leave

Mayo-Yoreme fishers take their fight against a giant ammonia plant on a sacred Sinaloa bay to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Peru's dengue outbreak has killed 23 children this year, more than in all of 2024 or 2025

Argentina's state workers' union plans protests at 27 airports Friday, warning underfunding is putting flight safety at risk

Nearly 100 Argentine intellectuals break ranks on the Falklands as Milei's clash with Britain over offshore oil heads to court

Caribbean

A year after Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica's prime minister says Black River's shoreline will be redeveloped on a new economic model, not abandoned

Caribbean hotels push back as Booking.com moves to charge commission on the taxes they collect for governments

Barbados is certified by WHO for eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission, with no infant infections in three years

Caribbean forecasters warn a very strong El Niño could widen or deepen drought across the islands from November to January

Guyana's opposition leader is jailed on a cybercrime charge over leaked police video, and a second officer is now charged

Grenada votes Thursday in a three-way race that could produce its first female prime minister

North America

A rural South Carolina county closed the only polling places in five precincts, and the state says it won't step in

A 65-year-old Yup'ik grandmother traveled to more than 25 Alaska villages by snowmachine and boat to get people to vote

An Eastern Kentucky mayor asks residents to save water as the lake that supplies Campton and Wolfe County falls to critical levels

Mississippi voter inactivations surged before Election Day after the state adopted unverified Experian data, Mississippi Today finds

A flood buyout offers some Ruidoso, N.M., homeowners a way out, but mobile home residents can't apply

The Forest Service ordered a cabin tied to a top Trump appointee's former company off Idaho public land. Two years later it still stands.

Microplastics are falling with fresh snow even in remote parts of the Sierra Nevada, a UC Riverside study finds

Mississippi's rural hospitals remain under financial strain despite new federal money, and some have cut surgery and obstetrics

America's top farm county will have no farmer on its Board of Supervisors for the first time since the mid-1950s

Montana's elections office warned of "historically high" ballot rejections without telling counties a judge had found the birth-year rule unconstitutional

Rural Indiana families still rely on wells or haul water; Perry County seeks $11.2 million to reach about 560 more homes

Alaska lets a contractor stage heavy equipment at a contested Juneau-area ferry terminal site weeks before Gov. Dunleavy leaves office

Global

Nearly 200 nations strike a nature deal in Armenia, but the world is on track for just one of 24 targets