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May 18, 2026 - World

A new and deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda is the latest health emergency forcing African governments to break free of dependency on global donors like the United States as international support has been slashed in half over the past five years.

May 18, 2026 - World

Iran and the U.S. exchanged new proposals for reaching a lasting peace in the Middle East conflict, the Foreign Ministry in Tehran said Monday.

May 18, 2026 - World

Civilians left increasingly exposed as a dangerous new front opens up in the country’s decades-old conflictAs night fell over southern Colombia, and a group of children began their weekly Tuesday football match, a drone appeared overhead.The children looked up, and the drone dropped a grenade, its blast killing a 10-year-old boy and injuring 12 more civilians. The child’s death, in southern Cauca in 2024, marked the first known time a person in the country had been killed in a weaponised drone attack. Continue reading...

May 18, 2026 - World

Pope Leo XIV and the co-founder of artificial intelligence company Anthropic will launch the pontiff's first encyclical on May 25, a document on the care of human dignity in the era of AI, the Vatican said Monday.

May 18, 2026 - World

The Nigerian military says a new operation with U.S. forces has killed over 20 Islamic State militants in Borno state