Military coups were a regular occurrence in Africa in the decades after independence and there is concern they are starting to become more frequent. There were two takeovers in Burkina Faso in 2022 as well as failed coup attempts in Guinea Bissau, The Gambia and the...
The Kremlin said on Friday it was extremely concerned about a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile that was shot down after flying into the air space of its close ally Belarus on Thursday. Belarus' defence ministry said on Thursday its air defence forces had shot down a Ukrainian...
President Joe Biden on Tuesday was heading to a place very familiar to him — the US Virgin Islands — to enjoy some downtime and warmer weather and to ring in a new year with family. The White House announced late Monday that the president and...
The congressional panel investigating last year's attack on the US Capitol has accused former President Donald Trump of a "multi-part conspiracy" to overturn his election defeat three months earlier. The panel has released its final 845-page report on the attack. It places the blame for the 6...
Much of the world has watched the war in Ukraine unfold with horror for ten months, but to Russian President Vladimir Putin, it wasn't a "war" at all — at least until this week. Putin on Thursday publicly acknowledged the situation as a "war" for the...