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Gabon election a 'smokescreen' for soldiers planning ouster of unpopular president, experts say

By Sam Mednick, Associated Press

Analysts say the ouster of Gabon's president by mutinous soldiers appears to have been well organized and capitalized on the population's grievances against the government as an excuse to seize power.

At least 73 dead after nighttime fire rips through building in South Africa occupied by squatters

By Gerald Imray, Mogomotsi Magome, Associated Press

Authorities say at least 73 people have died in Johannesburg when a nighttime fire ripped through a five-story building that had been used by homeless people and squatters.

Guatemala's president-elect and his anti-corruption party faces legal challenges. Here's what's happening

By Sonia Pérez D., Associated Press

Guatemala's election has been bogged down in court and legal challenges despite the fact the results were clear: Progressive candidate Bernardo Arévalo won about 61 percent of the vote to conservative Sandra Torres' 39 percent.

White House says Putin and Kim Jong Un traded letters as Russia looks for munitions from North Korea

By Aamer Madhani, Associated Press

The United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea and Japan are urging North Korea to halt arms negotiations with Russia following revelations Russian and North Korean talks on a weapons sale are advancing.

A look at the damage after Hurricane Idalia slammed Florida as a Category 3 storm

By Geoff Bennett, Eliot Barnhart, Solveig Rennan

Hurricane Idalia made landfall Wednesday blasting Florida with winds near 125 miles an hour and a wall of water that caused heavy flooding. Thousands chose to get out of harm's way, while others hunkered down for the first major storm…

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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.