Fans gathered in Kenya to celebrate a genre born far away but that more and more Africans are coming to appreciate.

Saudi Arabia has not commented on the claims by the Houthis, who are backed by Iran and have vowed to close “all access routes” to Saudi oil shipments.

The aircraft crashed while battling a wildfire northwest of Athens, as Greece fought more than 200 fires in the past week.

President Trump said he agreed to requests from Iran and other Middle Eastern countries to cancel planned attacks, citing what he said was progress in reaching the “perimeters of a deal” with Tehran.

Most of the people who surged into Spain on Thursday have since returned to Morocco. A small minority are holed up on a seafront, tired, hungry and vowing to stay.

Three bodies, including that of an American climber, from a group of 10 were recovered a day after the avalanche struck on Thursday, officials said. The fate of renowned mountaineer Nirmal Purja was still unclear.

The president misleadingly blamed the Biden administration’s weapons transfers to Ukraine for current concerns over munitions stockpiles, among other claims about the Iran war.

Wildfires in France have forced tens of thousands of people from their homes and left entire towns deserted along the southwest coast. We visited Claouey, an empty beach town, and found a handful of residents who chose to stay, including one man who’s made it his mission to care for all the village pets.

With none of President Trump’s aims accomplished and the Strait of Hormuz closed, U.S. allies see dysfunction and vulnerability from the war.

Facing a long prison sentence or a forced trip to the front line of a war he opposes, Artyom Vovchenko believed it was worth taking a risk.

Most of those who surged into the territory, a Spanish exclave in Africa, have returned across the border to Morocco. At least 67 people died trying to enter, the authorities said.

The geometric earthwork structures, carved into the ground with embankments and ditches, are in some cases more than 2,500 years old, researchers said.

A group of dissidents this week were each sentenced to 37 years in prison for a peaceful protest against an election widely derided as a sham.

Northern Ireland’s Protestant loyalists have long felt their identity was under siege. Now anti-immigrant ideology has found a new toehold here.

The Cockroach Janta Party called an end to weeks of protests after the education minister resigned, a win for that movement even as deep-seated anger among young people remains.

Firefighters were racing to contain blazes that were moving closer to Madrid and Bordeaux.

U.S. forces did not announce new overnight attacks on southern Iran for the first time in about two weeks, but tensions remained high as the Houthis and Saudi-led forces in Yemen said they had traded strikes.

The world’s largest exporter of crude oil stands to benefit from diversifying its energy sources — and freeing up more oil to sell.

The “threat is empty,” the ambassador, Danny Danon, said in an address to the U.N. General Assembly.

At a conference on reconstruction, the focus shifted to private investment, not donor assistance.

The Pentagon said a service member was killed in northern Iraq while troops disposed of an Iranian drone. It also said “unidentified remains” were found in Jordan, where an earlier attack had left two soldiers dead and another missing.