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The small African nation of Gabon is voting on Saturday in its first executive elections since a military coup in 2023 ended the 50-year dynastic rule of the Bongo political family.

Brice Clotaite Oligui Nguema, coup leader-turned-transition president, is the main candidate among four competitors and is widely expected to win the elections, despite controversial reforms he has put into place that experts say were tailored to make him eligible for the vote.

Located in West-central Africa, on…

Nanda Nagar, Uttarakhand — Every morning at 8am, Ahamad Hasan pulls up the brown shutter of his dry-cleaning shop on the banks of the Nandakini river, which runs through the remote Himalayan town of Nanda Nagar in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand.

He neatly hangs dry-cleaned clothes in plastic covers on the pink walls of his shop. Then the 49-year-old waits for customers.

Until September 2024, by lunchtime, he would have had between 20 and 25 customers come by, leaving their…

Still, even voters who reject Correa’s legacy might be inclined to vote for Gonzalez out of disillusionment with the status quo.

President Noboa has faced criticism for human rights abuses and executive overreach during his short term in office. Some even say he has flashed an authoritarian streak, just like Correa.

Voting is compulsory in Ecuador, and voters demonstrated their displeasure at the polls in the first round of this year’s presidential race. Null and blank votes made up nearly 9…

The administration of President Donald Trump has moved to end legal protections for thousands of Afghans and Cameroonians legally living in the United States.

On Friday, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security confirmed the decision, which will affect approximately 14,600 Afghans and 7,900 Cameroonians.

Those individuals were able to live in the US under a designation called “temporary protected status” or TPS.

The US government typically offers TPS to individuals already…

A United States federal judge has called it “extremely troubling” that the administration of President Donald Trump failed to comply with her court order to provide details on the status of a Maryland resident illegally deported to El Salvador.

At a tense hearing on Friday, US District Judge Paula Xinis demanded that the administration identify the whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to El Salvador on March 15.

She also required daily updates on the administration’s…

By Robert Inlakesh

The PNGO demanded that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the United Nations officially declare Gaza a famine zone, in addition to putting out a call for countries to intervene.

Israel has imposed a complete blockade on Gaza since March 2, blocking all humanitarian aid from entering the already unlivable occupied territory. In light of this, the leading Palestinian NGO Network has launched an…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Precision strikes on Tel Aviv and the Red Sea mark Yemen’s latest response to Israeli aggression and US intervention.

The Yemeni Armed Forces, affiliated with the Ansarallah movement, announced on Friday that their drone unit carried out a precise military operation targeting two Israeli military sites in Tel Aviv. The strikes were conducted using two ‘Yaffa’ drones.

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Israel and Turkiye have been holding closed-door meetings in Azerbaijan to work out ways to avoid direct conflict in Syria.

Both have a military presence there, and both accuse the other of threatening regional security.

Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes on Syria since Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December, destroying military infrastructure and hardware.

Turkiye says these attacks and Israel’s expansion into…