5+ hour, 28+ min ago   (419+ words) Allegations of homosexual prostitution and obscenity made against LGBTQI+ groups in Muslim-majority Turkey saw 26 people detained since Friday with offices of six allied associations also targeted in a series of police raids. Reuters reports the protection of family values is…...

8+ hour, 36+ min ago   (605+ words) Two people were killed in Russia’s Tatarstan, according to local officials, while Ukrainian authorities reported Russian drone attacks on the Black Sea port of Odesa and a fire near a border crossing with Poland. Russia has ramped up its air…...

14+ hour, 42+ min ago   (710+ words) Donald Trump turns his focus Sunday to golf and promoting his business interests, as he wraps up a two-day Ireland visit so far marked by his off-the-cuff diplomacy causing another stir. The US president caught his Irish hosts and neighbouring…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (416+ words) A firefighter fired a verbal fusillade of big-city-honed F-bombs to excoriate a pro-Palestinian agitator wearing an Elmo costume not far from where the city’s solemn 9/11 memorial was taking place at Ground Zero Friday. Called by one X account an “absolute…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (557+ words) QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa fully aligned his administration with Washington’s aggressive strategy to dismantle transnational criminal organizations. This week, Noboa welcomed high-level U.S. support and reinforced warnings from the United States government that foreign drug-trafficking cartels will…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (360+ words) The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is spreading rapidly beyond its epicenter, according to Africa’s top health body. In recent weeks, new cases and deaths have declined in Ituri province, the outbreak’s epicenter, but risen sharply in neighboring North Kivu…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (486+ words) A fire ripped through a school in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Bukavu on Thursday, sparking a stampede that killed at least 14 children, local and health sources said. The blaze began while the children were in lessons,…...

3+ day, 34+ min ago   (319+ words) Sept. 10 (UPI) — Florida is expected Thursday to execute a man believed to be the so-called Hog Trail Killer, who is suspected to have killed as many as 13 men along the state’s Gulf Coast in the 1990s. Daniel Owen Conahan Jr., 72, is…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (842+ words) Donald Trump’s pitch to send Americans $5,000 checks should Republicans prevail in the November midterms is drawing scorn from some members of Congress — the very people who have constitutional authority over federal spending. Economists and other political observers are voicing concerns…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1433+ words) President Donald Trump has pledged to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections. The dubious promise would likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval, and would further exacerbate…...