All 10 million residents of Cuba were hit with another total power outage on Wednesday, as Hurricane Rafael made landfall on the island’s western coast as a powerful Category 3 storm with sustained winds of 115 mph (185 kph). The hurricane had swept by the Cayman Islands as a Category 1 storm before quickly strengthening to a powerful hurricane on its way to southwest Cuba.

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has announced he may travel to Iran in the coming days to discuss unresolved questions about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and long-suspected intention to build an atomic bomb, Reuters reports.

The north-central African country of Chad is struggling to fight the increasingly strong presence of jihadist terrorists in its midst, the US State Department has reported. Most of the terrorism in Chad is perpetrated by the Boko Haram Islamic extremist insurgency group that is also active in the neighboring countries of Sudan, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Libya, Nigeria, and Niger.

Germany’s three-party ruling coalition collapsed late Wednesday after Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his Finance Minister Christian Lindner, adding to uncertainty in Europe’s largest economy.

World leaders braced Wednesday for a Trump era as Donald J. Trump emerged like a phoenix from the ashes to win the U.S. presidential race again after surviving two assassination attempts and facing defeat in a previous election.

At least 60,000 people viewing themselves as “pro-life” have signed a petition urging Britain’s leftist prime minister to halt a crackdown on those praying silently outside abortion clinics, Worthy News learned Tuesday.

Scientists say they have discovered that the world’s oldest known map refers to the likely location of Noah’s Ark, as mentioned in the Bible.

The US military announced Monday that American forces in the Middle East killed 163 Islamic State group militants and captured another 33 during more than 95 operations carried out in Iraq and Syria since the end of August, the Hill reports.

With much of the Western world’s attention focused on Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, North Korea fired multiple short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missiles toward its eastern sea, the South Korean military said.

As Americans focused on the U.S. presidential elections, outgoing President Joe Biden was trying to prevent the Russia-Ukraine from escalating into a broader conflict with reports that at least 11,000 North Korean troops moved toward Ukrainian positions.

Britain was reeling Monday from a weekend of massive anti-Israel protests tainted by violence and expressed support for terrorism, prompting British Jews to say they “feel no longer safe” in the nation they called home.

Armed with mops, buckets, and brooms, thousands of volunteers have been trying to help rescuers deal with Spain’s deadliest flooding in decades that killed at least 217 people amid mounting anger over the government’s response.

Iran executed early Monday a 20-year-old Iranian Jewish man, despite international calls for a lesser penalty, Israeli sources say.

In what has been described as having a “force multiplier effect,” the Chinese navy for the first time deployed both of its active aircraft carriers to conduct dual-carrier combat drills in the South China Sea last week, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports. The drills took place amid heightened tensions between China and Taiwan, the small independent island nation the Chinese government considers part of China.

Moldova’s pro-Western incumbent Maia Sandu claimed victory at Sunday’s closely-fought presidential election, narrowly defeating her pro-Russia-rival Alexandr Stoianoglo at a time when Russian forces still control a separatist region of the Eastern European nation.