UPDF More than 200 civilians held captive in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo by an armed group linked to the Islamic State have been rescued in an army operation, the military in neighbouring Uganda has said.
Ugandan soldiers, working with their Congolese counterparts, targeted a camp controlled by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a militant group that has its origins in Uganda.
The ADF
Getty Images US actor and producer Patrick Muldoon, known for his roles in the famous soap Days of Our Lives and the movie Starship Troopers, has died at the age of 57, according to US media reports.
Muldoon, who also starred in another hit 1990s US TV show, Melrose Place, died at home of a heart attack on Sunday, his manager confirmed to .
He played Austin Reed in NBC daytime show Days of Our Lives, a boxer who becomes romantically involved with Carrie Brady (
Getty Images The Trump administration has begun processing refunds for billions of dollars in tariffs that the US Supreme Court struck down in February.
In what is to be the biggest repayment programme in history, companies can apply online for money they were charged under the so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs - plus interest - .
The US Court of International Trade in March ordered customs officials to refund the more than $160bn (£121bn) the government had collected, putting roughly 330,
Reuters There has been widespread condemnation after an image of an Israeli soldier apparently hitting a statue of Jesus with a sledgehammer in southern Lebanon went viral.
Israel's prime minister said . Its foreign minister said: "We apologise for this incident and to every Christian whose feelings were hurt."
Locals say the statue was on a crucifix outside a family home on the edge of Debel, one of the few villages where residents have remained during
Etinosa Yvonne/Goldman Environmental Prize A Nigerian scientist's "personal experience" with a wildfire, its threat to endangered bats she discovered just days before, and her campaign to protect them, has won her the global Goldman Environmental Prize.
Found in the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary in south-eastern Nigeria, Iroro Tanshi said seeing the short-tailed roundleaf bat for the first time in almost 50 years, should have been "big
Philip Fong / AFP via Getty Images Officials in Japan have warned of an increased risk of a "huge" earthquake in the next week after a 7.7 magnitude quake struck off the north-east coast, triggering an evacuation order and warnings of 3m tsunami waves.
Thousands of people were told to leave coastal areas for higher ground after the quake in waters off Iwate prefecture,
AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk has not attended a voluntary interview he was summoned to appear at in Paris, according to French authorities probing his platform X.
The company's offices were raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit in February over suspected criminal offences related to content on the platform.
Musk was given the date of 20 April for an interview as part of an investigation first launched in 2025 but later widened over concerns about X's chatbot Grok being used to create non
Avaaz via Getty Images US authorities have arrested an Iranian woman for trafficking arms to Sudan on behalf of her country, federal prosecutors have said.
Shamim Mafi, 44, was arrested at Los Angeles airport on Saturday and is accused of "brokering the sale of drones, bombs, bomb fuses, and millions of rounds of ammunition manufactured by Iran and sold to Sudan", First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli said on X.
The alleged sales were to Sudan