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Matsapha Correctional Complex is seen in Matsapha, near Mbabane, Eswatini, July 17, 2025. (AP Photo, File)

An immigrant deported by the US and held in an African prison for more than a year has been released

October 4, 2026 at 3:59 p.m.

A Laotian citizen deported by the United States to Eswatini under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown was released from a maximum-security prison in the African nation on Sunday after being...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his wife Jeanette Rubio depart the international airport Ernesto Cortissoz in Barranquilla, Colombia, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, Pool)

Trump administration hits South Africa with new sanctions over alleged discrimination against whites

September 16, 2026 at 9:22 a.m.

The Trump administration has announced that it will impose travel bans on officials it claims are responsible for discrimination against whites and other minority groups in South Africa.

A woman cries as Red Cross workers carry the coffin of a person who died of Ebola from a health center in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Residents burn an Ebola treatment center in Congo as anger grows over the outbreak

May 21, 2026 at 2:19 p.m.

People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of...

The MV Hondius cruise ship departs the port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Health officials track dozens who left hantavirus-stricken ship after 1st fatality

May 7, 2026 at 12:17 p.m.

More than two dozen passengers left a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak on April 24 without contact tracing, nearly two weeks after the first passenger died on...

FILE – In this June 15, 2010 file photo, a rat wanders the subway tracks at Union Square in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

A suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean kills 3 people, WHO says

May 3, 2026 at 4:58 p.m.

A suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has killed three people and sickened at least three others, the World Health Organization said Sunday.

CAPSAT military unit commander Col. Michael Randrianirina during an interview with The Associated Press in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/ Brian Inganga)

An army colonel who led a lightning-fast coup takes over as Madagascar’s president

October 17, 2025 at 8:19 a.m.

An army colonel who seized power in a military coup was sworn in as Madagascar’s new leader Friday in a lightning-fast power grab that ousted the president and sent him...

Leader of Madagascar’s military rebellion tells AP he is ‘taking the position of president’

October 15, 2025 at 8:24 a.m.

The leader of Madagascar’s military rebellion said Wednesday that he is “taking the position of president” in an interview with The Associated Press, adding that armed forces would be in...

FILE – President Andry Rajoelina addresses a state ceremony, Sept. 2, 2025, in Antananarivo, Madagascar. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe, file)

Madagascar’s president, hiding in an unknown location, dissolves parliament to deepen crisis

October 14, 2025 at 8:50 a.m.

Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina dissolved the lower house of parliament on Tuesday, deepening the political crisis in the Indian Ocean island nation after a military rebellion led him to flee...

Soldiers are greeted by people gathering for a ceremony in tribute to demonstrators killed during recent anti-government protest in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Mamyrael)

Madagascar president has left the country after soldiers turned against him, lawmaker says

October 13, 2025 at 12:29 p.m.

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has left the country after an elite military unit turned against the government in an apparent coup, an opposition lawmaker in the Indian Ocean country said Monday.

US deports immigrants from Jamaica, Cuba and other countries to the African kingdom of Eswatini

July 16, 2025 at 3:09 p.m.

The United States sent five men it describes as “barbaric” criminals to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s largely secretive third-country deportation program,...

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