Sudan’s army rejected a call to return to peace talks with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces following a conversation between General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that American weapons being delivered to Kyiv were helping stabilise the front line in Ukraine amid intensifying Russian attacks and that Washington would “adapt and adjust” its support.

Iran fires the starting gun this week on an election to replace President Ebrahim Raisi.

Republican former presidential contender Nikki Haley wrote “Finish Them!” on an Israeli artillery shell during a recent visit to Israel, amid an ongoing assault on Gaza that has left tens of thousands dead in the past eight months.

A volcano in southwestern Iceland sent glowing hot lava shooting more than 50 metres into the air, its fifth eruption since December and the most powerful one since its volcanic system became active three years ago.

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape on Wednesday blamed “extraordinary rainfall” and changes to weather patterns for multiple disasters in the Pacific Island nation this year, including a landslide last week which may have killed thousands.

South Africans voted on Wednesday in the most competitive election since the end of apartheid, with opinion polls suggesting the African National Congress could lose its parliamentary majority after 30 years in government.

Georgia’s parliament voted to override a presidential veto of a bill on “foreign agents” that has plunged the South Caucasus country into crisis, ignoring criticism from the West which says the legislation is authoritarian and Russian-inspired.

Algeria proposed a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that demands a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

Haiti’s transition council have tapped former Prime Minister Garry Conille, who briefly led the country over a decade ago.

Colombia’s Congress banned bullfighting following seven years of failed attempts to prohibit the activity, which some political and social groups have vowed to maintain citing its cultural value.

A New York prosecutor told jurors that the hush money payment at the heart of former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial was an attempt to “hoodwink the American voter” during the 2016 election, as lawyers made their closing arguments.