AP World News

Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of Para over heavy metal contamination found in the bodies of Xikrin Indigenous people

A sweeping power blackout left most of Chile in darkness for several hours

U.K. authorities are punishing Rwanda over its support of the rebels who now control two major cities in eastern Congo

Local officials in Central African Republic say that nine people have been killed and more than 700 houses burned down

Supporters of separatist Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik have rallied as tensions soared on the eve of a scheduled court verdict that could order the pro-Russia Serb leader banned from politics or even sentenced to prison

The Botswana government has signed a new diamond sales agreement crucial to its economy with the De Beers mining company after seven years of negotiations

Palestinian medics say at least six infants have died from hypothermia in the last two weeks in the Gaza Strip

An international aid worker says all roads around Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam camp in North Darfur are blocked and the security situation there has become “unbearable.”

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the U.K. will raise defense spending to 2.5% of gross domestic product by 2027

Syria’s new rulers have held a long-awaited national dialogue conference to rebuild the country after nearly 14 years of civil war and the fall of former President Bashar Assad