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Gabon's military ousts president in latest coup in Africa

By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn, Zeba Warsi

In the last two years, six countries across western and central Africa suffered what the UN has called an epidemic of coups. That number is now seven. Wednesday, soldiers in Gabon seized power immediately after election results were announced. Gabon…

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PHOTOS: Blue supermoon beams around the world

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

The closest full moon of the year is dazzling stargazers on Wednesday night.

Japanese ministers eat Fukushima fish to show it's safe after nuclear wastewater is discharged into ocean

By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press

The release of the treated wastewater into the ocean, which began Thursday and is expected to continue for decades, has been strongly opposed by fishing groups and by neighboring countries.

India and Malaysia protest China's land claim in a newly published map ahead of G20 summit

By Ashok Sharma, Associated Press

An Indian foreign ministry official said his country has lodged a protest over a new Chinese map that lays claim to India's territory.

Pope heads to Mongolia in centuries-old diplomatic exchange

By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press

In some ways, he will be completing a mission begun by the 13th- century Pope Innocent IV, who dispatched a series of emissaries east with letters to ascertain the intentions of the expanding Mongol Empire.

U.S. approves military aid to Taiwan under program usually reserved for sovereign nations

By Matthew Lee, Associated Press

The package is modest at only $80 million, but the implications of using the so-called Foreign Military Financing program to provide it will likely infuriate China.

Kremlin says 'deliberate wrongdoing' is a possible cause of the plane crash that killed Prigozhin

By Associated Press

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that "different versions" of what happened exist and "are being considered" by Russian investigators, including, "let's put this way, deliberate wrongdoing."…

North Korea launches missile toward the sea hours after U.S. flies bomber during drills with South Korea

By Associated Press

The launch came hours after the United States flew at least one long-range B1-B bomber to the Korean Peninsula in a show of force against North Korea as part of its annual drills with South Korea.

Gabon's president deposed in coup, republican guard chief appointed as head of state

By Yves Laurent, Sam Mednick, Associated Press

Mutinous soldiers in Gabon announced late Wednesday that the head of the country’s elite republican guard would lead the Central African country, hours after saying they had placed the country’s newly re-elected president under house arrest.