COTONOU, Benin (AP) – Opposition parties lost all parliamentary seats in an election in Benin weeks after a thwarted coup, according to provisional results announced by the electoral commission.
NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks sank on Wall Street after President Donald Trump threatened to hit eight European countries with new tariffs. The S&P 500 fell 2.1% Tuesday, its biggest drop since October. Technology stocks were the biggest weights. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.8%. The Nasdaq composite slumped 2.4%.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Hundreds of counterprotesters drowned out a far-right activist’s attempt to hold a small rally in support of the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown in Minneapolis on Saturday, as the governor’s office announced that National Guard troops were mobilized and ready to assist law enforcement though not yet deployed to city streets.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump wanted to recap his first year back in office. And it felt like he wanted to spend the next year doing it.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won his seventh term with 71.65% of votes, according to official results Saturday, in an election marred by internet shutdown and fraud claims by his youthful challenger, who rejected the outcome and called for peaceful protests.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump closed out 2025 with his plan to end the Israel-Hamas war in fine fettle. With an endorsement from the U.N. Security Council to form a “Board of Peace” to oversee Gaza’s future, Trump entered 2026 riding high in his self-described role as a “president of peace” who sought to end conflicts and certainly not create new ones.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled the country for 40 years, had an early lead Friday in a tense presidential election marred by an internet shutdown, voting delays and opposition allegations of ballot stuffing and detentions by security forces.
Jan. 19 – The Washington Post says Congress has dropped the ball regarding oversight of ICE, DHS. Geraldo Lunas Campos died at a Texas detention center on Jan. 3 while pleading for air as guards choked him, according to a fellow detainee. The local medical examiner’s office is considering classifying his death as a homicide, The Post reports.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) – South Africa launched an investigation Friday over the participation of Iranian warships in naval drills off its coast after reports that organizers ignored the president’s instructions that the ships only take up observer status so as not to inflame tensions with the United States.
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