Botswana’s president defends electoral body as nation votes
Botswana’s president defends electoral body as nation votes
Voters queue outside a polling station in Thamaga, Botswana, west of Gaborone, on Oct. 30, 2024.
Botswana’s president defends electoral body as nation votes
Voters queue outside a polling station in Thamaga, Botswana, west of Gaborone, on Oct. 30, 2024.
Britain identifies its first case of new mpox variant
FILE – A test tube labeled “mpox virus positive” is held in this illustration taken Aug. 20, 2024.
US airstrikes target multiple sites in Syria, killing up to 35 Islamic State militants
FILE – Smoke rises after an airstrike hit territory held by Islamic State militants in a desert in Syria, Feb. 19, 2019. U.S. strikes in late October 2024 have hit Islamic State group camps in Syria, killing up to 35 militants, the U.S. reports.
Indians mark Diwali by lighting record number of earthen lamps
A record 2.51 million earthen oil lamps are lit along the Saryu River during celebrations on the eve of Diwali, creating a new Guinness World Record in Ayodhya, India, on Oct. 30, 2024.
UN: ‘Decisive action’ needed to halt fighting in Sudan
FILE – A man walks by a house hit in fighting in Khartoum, Sudan, an area torn by violence between the military and the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, April 25, 2023.
Bolivia government says ex-President Morales fired upon anti-narcotics patrol
Bolivia’s former President Evo Morales speaks during a press conference, in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Oct. 8, 2024.
Pakistan, Afghanistan launch polio vaccination drives as cases resurge
A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in a school in Karachi, Pakistan, Oct. 28, 2024.
Iran executes Iranian German dissident
Jamshid Sharmahd attends the first hearing of his trial in Tehran on Feb. 6, 2022. (Koosha Mahshid Falahi/Mizan News Agency)
Explainer: Where do Harris and Trump stand on social welfare?
FILE – This combination of photos shows Vice President Kamala Harris, left, on Aug. 7, 2024, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump on July 31, 2024.
Biden casts 2024 election ballot near his Delaware home
President Joe Biden, right, holding an “I Voted Early” sticker, reaches to shake the hand of a poll worker upon exiting the voting booth after casting his early-voting ballot for the 2024 general elections, in New Castle, Delaware, Oct. 28, 2024.