Two men close to Benin’s president jailed after alleged coup plot
Two men close to Benin’s president who were arrested last week on suspicions of plotting a coup in the small West African country were remanded in custody ahead of ...
Plenty of sunshine in the forecast today with temperatures becoming a tad warm
Good Wednesday morning! Starting off the midweek clear and calm with temperatures dipping into the mid to upper 60s. A few locations will start in the mid 60s, but a ...
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Women’s role in Catholic Church tops agenda as Pope Francis opens second phase of big reform project
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis opened the second phase of his big Catholic reform project Wednesday, with widespread calls for women to take up more positions of responsibility in the church topping the ...
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Israel warns people to evacuate another 24 villages in southern Lebanon
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military has warned people to evacuate another 24 villages across southern Lebanon. The warning on Wednesday came days after the military launched what it ...
2 predawn explosions rock the area around the Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen but no one is injured
Police in the Danish capital said two predawn explosions took place Wednesday in the vicinity of the Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen, prompting the nearby Jewish school to ...
Lebanese emergency services are overwhelmed and need better gear to save lives in wartime
When Israel bombed buildings outside the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, Mohamed Arkadan and his team rushed to an emergency unlike anything they had ever seen. About a dozen ...
Typhoon bringing heavy rain slowly heads toward Taiwan, where 4,000 have evacuated
A typhoon bringing strong winds and torrential rainfall slowly advanced Wednesday toward Taiwan, where thousands of people have been evacuated from vulnerable low-lying or ...
Mexico’s Sheinbaum will keep doing mañanera briefings, though her style is unlike her predecessor’s
Mexico’s new President, Claudia Sheinbaum, will start her day Wednesday much like her political mentor, ex-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, began most of his: with ...
Swine fever sweeps Italy’s north, threatening production of prized prosciutto and livelihoods
One of Giovanni Airoli’s sows turned up positive for African swine fever in late August. Within a week, all 6,200 sows, ...
Online voting in Alaska’s Fat Bear Week contest starts after an attack killed 1 contestant
Let the chunk-off begin. Voting starts Wednesday in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their favorite ...
11 workers at a Tennessee factory were swept away in Hurricane Helene flooding. Only 5 were rescued
As the rain from Hurricane Helene came down harder and harder, workers inside a plastics factory in rural Tennessee kept working. It wasn’t until water flooded into the parking lot and the power ...
Push to map Great Lakes bottom gains momentum amid promises effort will help fishing and shipping
Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean ...