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400 Mawozo gang kidnapped the missionaries: Haiti police (Al Jazeera)

A notorious Haitian gang known for brazen kidnappings and killings has been accused by police of kidnapping 17 Christian missionaries, including five children, from...

Bitcoin hovers near six-month high on ETF hopes (Al Jazeera)

Bitcoin hovered near a six-month high early on Monday on hopes that US regulators would soon allow cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to trade, while...

Gunmen kill dozens in Nigeria’s troubled northwest (Al Jazeera)

Gunmen have killed dozens in an attack on a village market in northwest Nigeria, government officials said. The attack took place on Sunday evening in...

Air strikes target capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray; 3 civilians dead (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopian military air strikes hit the capital of the Tigray region and killed at least three people, witnesses said on Monday, returning the war...

Opposition candidate Neves wins Cape Verde election (Al Jazeera)

Opposition candidate and former Prime Minister Jose Maria Neves won Cape Verde’s presidential election on Sunday, as his main rival, the ruling party’s flagbearer Carlos Veiga,...

Iran, Venezuela to sign 20-year cooperation accord (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Iran will sign a 20-year cooperation accord with Venezuela when President Nicolas Maduro visits Tehran “in the next few months”. In a joint press conference...

Iran to host multilateral conference on Afghanistan on October 27 (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Tehran will host a meeting of Afghanistan’s neighbours plus Russia next week, the country’s foreign ministry has confirmed, with the October 27 event witnessing...

Accountability for Climate Catastrophes (Vinod Thomas, Project-Syndicate)

While the evidence linking greenhouse-gas emissions to climate change has been clear for some time, public engagement with the issue remains low. But showing...

The Taiwan Triangle (Richard Haass, Project-Syndicate)

The goal of US policy toward the island should be to reduce uncertainty about America’s intentions and its ability to make good on them,...

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