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Gabonese Presidential Guard forces stormed the headquarters of opposition candidate Jean Ping early on 1 September as violence flared following the declaration on 31 August of a narrow election victory for incumbent president Ali Bongo.

Ping told Reuters in an interview that two people were killed and others wounded when the presidential guard assaulted his party headquarters overnight.

Gabon’s presidential guard attacked the opposition party headquarters overnight, killing one person and injuring at least 20, opposition representatives said Thursday following protests against the re-election of this central African country’s president.

By nightfall, Syrian rebels backed by the Turkish forces seized seven villages from IS, according to local journalist Ahmad al-Khatib. The new incursion is unfolding about 55 kilometers (34 miles) west of Jarablus, where Turkish forces first crossed into Syria 10 days ago.

Defense Minister Reymi Ferreira broke down in tears on television describing how miners allegedly bludgeoned Deputy Interior Minister Rodolfo Illanes to death Thursday after he tried to hold talks with them at a roadblock they had set up in the western highland town of Panduro.

“Racists don’t plant bombs and don’t kill people”, the owner of Le Cénacle restaurant, which is in Tremblay-en-France, responded.

The United States and China have both formalized their ratification of the Paris Agreement, a key step by the world’s two biggest polluters that aims to help bring the climate change accord into force this year. The papers certified the US and China have taken the necessary...

The tanks were backed by artillery, which fired on IS positions in the area, Turkish media said.

“It feels incredible to be among Seve Ballesteros and Thomas Bjorn to win two Omega European Masters titles”, said Noren.

“The joint announcement between the USA and China means that the commitments contained in the Paris Agreement are set to become real laws in major economies”, said Nigel Topping, CEO of the We Mean Business coalition of green business groups.

India on Sunday raised its concern with China over the CPEC which runs through PoK and terrorism “emanating from the region” as Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Chinese President Xi Jinping the two countries need to be “sensitive” to each other’s...

Hermine is presently being deflected by a massive area of high pressure in the Great Lakes, slowing the northern advancement of the storm.

AMRITSAR SAHIB, Punjab-Giving an end to the speculations about Navjot Sidhu’s induction into AAP fold, his wife Dr. Navjot Kaur Sidhu has posted a Poster on her Facebook account announcing the launch of a new political platform in Punjab.

The Kurdish YPG militia fighting in northern Syria claimed on Sunday on its Twitter account that “tens of civilians” were “massacred” in Turkish air and artillery attacks on Bir Al-Kusa, a Syrian village near the Turkish border, in the fifth day of...

At some point, officers deployed a Taser on Vang, but Vang still refused to surrender.