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Gunfire heard near military base in Niger capital: residents to AFP
Aug 29, 2026 (AFP)
Gunfire was heard overnight near a military base at the international airport in Niger's capital Niamey, which had been attacked twice this year by jihadists, r...
Gunfire heard near military base in Niger capital
Aug 29, 2026 (AFP)
Gunfire and explosions were heard on Saturday morning in Niger's capital, Niamey, including around a military base near the city's airport, which has been attac...
Colombian army says no rescue planned for French Foreign Legion soldier
Aug 29, 2026 (AFP)
The Colombian army currently has no plans to rescue a French Foreign Legion soldier who was kidnapped in a guerrilla zone this month, a colonel told AFP on Frid...
Heavy gunfire rocks Niger capital, state TV signal cut
Aug 29, 2026 (AFP)
Niger's national television was off air on Saturday after a night of heavy gunfire in parts of the capital, including around a military base near the city's air...
Iran's president admits sanctions impacting economy
Aug 29, 2026 (AFP)
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has admitted that US sanctions on his country are hurting its economy, despite just days ago insisting they would achieve not...
Turkey navy helps free hijacked vessel in deadly battle with pirates: Somalia
Aug 29, 2026 (AFP)
Turkey's navy, along with Somali armed forces, have freed a hijacked vessel held in Somali waters and killed 14 pirates after a battle lasting several days, Mog...
Gunfire heard near military base in Niger capital
Aug 29, 2026 (AFP)
Gunfire and explosions were heard on Saturday morning in Niger's capital, Niamey, including around a military base near the city's airport, which has been attac...
Soldiers' mutiny rocks Niger capital, but junta says back in control
Aug 29, 2026 (AFP)
Mutinying soldiers led armed clashes in Niger's capital Saturday, alarming residents, but the ruling junta said it had largely wrested back control after hours ...
Turkey navy helps free hijacked vessel in deadly battle with pirates: Somalia
Aug 29, 2026 (AFP)
Turkey's navy, along with Somali armed forces, have freed a hijacked vessel held in Somali waters and killed 14 pirates after a battle lasting several days, Mog...
CORRECTED: Israel says killed three militants in rare West Bank airstrike
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
The Israeli military said it struck and killed three militants on Friday in the occupied West Bank, a rare airstrike in the Palestinian territory that has seen ...
Israel army says conducts rare West Bank airstrike on 'several terrorists'
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
The Israeli military said it struck "several terrorists" on Friday in the northern occupied West Bank, a rare airstrike in the partly semi-autonomous Palestinia...
Tuareg rebels release Mali soldiers in prisoner swap
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Tuareg separatists released around 60 Malian soldiers in exchange for one of their own leaders detained in neighbouring Niger, security sources said on Friday.
Drones hit Zaporizhzhia power plant: IAEA
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
The UN nuclear watchdog on Friday said there had been three incidents this week involving drones at the Zaporizhzhia plant in Ukraine, injuring two employees, a...
Hezbollah chief again rejects Lebanon-Israel deal, refuses 'surrender'
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Friday again rejected a deal struck between Israel and Lebanon and said his Iran-backed group refused to "surrender" nearly six m...
Iran says still open to diplomacy as war with US hits six months
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Iran left the door open to diplomacy on Friday, six months into a war with the United States that has upended the Middle East, but only if Washington abandons i...
Ousted Ukraine defence chief accepts job advising Italian minister
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Ukraine's ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov -- whose sacking last month prompted rare wartime protests -- has on Friday said he had accepted a job workin...
China removes high-ranking officers from key military body
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
China removed two high-ranking officers from the country's main military body on Friday, state media reported, seven months after it was announced that Zhang Yo...
Greece scrambles F-16s as 'Turkish drone' flies over airport
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Greece scrambled F-16 fighter jets Friday as a drone reported to be from Turkey flew over one of the country's airports, media and a military source said.
Swiss nuclear plant fully back online after heatwaves
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
The Beznau nuclear power plant in Switzerland, which was shut down multiple times over the last two months due to summer heatwaves, is fully operational again, ...
US judge throws out confessions of alleged 9/11 mastermind: report
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
A US military judge ruled Friday that confessions made by alleged 9/11 attacks mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to FBI agents are inadmissible and cannot be us...
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