Egypt beat defending champions Ivory Coast 3-2 in their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final match on Thursday, with striker Mohamed Salah scoring a goal that brings him one step closer to adding the Africa Cup of Nations winners medal to his trophy cabinet.
The US carried out a fresh wave of attacks against the Islamic State group in Syria in Saturday response to a December attack by a member of the militant group that killed two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter.
Supporters of Venezuela's ousted leader Nicolas Maduro protested in Caracas on Saturday one week after his shock capture by US forces. Meanwhile US President Donald Trump signed an emergency executive order to protect US-held revenues derived from sales of Venezuelan oil, preventing them from being seized by courts or creditors, the White House said.
The owner of the bar where 40 people died at a New Years eve party in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, told police a service door had been locked from the inside during the blaze. Jacques and Jessica Moretti, co-owners of the Constellation bar, are suspected of homicide in relation to the incident.
Nigeria secured a 2-0 victory over Algeria in their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final match on Saturday, with striker Victor Osimhen scoring one goal and setting up the second. Nigeria will next face tournament hosts Morocco in the semi-finals.
Activists are set to attend hundreds of rallies in cities across the US on Saturday and Sunday to protest the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday. The agent who shot Good said he acted in self-defence but local officials say footage of the incident shows Good did not pose a threat to him.
Syrian security forces began deploying Saturday in a neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo after days of intense clashes with Kurdish fighters that killed and wounded dozens. Despite the army's claims that it has assumed control of Sheikh Maqsoud, "limited clashes" are still ongoing, FRANCE 24's Dana Alboz said, citing local sources.
Major Iranian cities were gripped overnight by new mass rallies denouncing the Islamic republic, as activists on Saturday expressed fear authorities were intensifying their suppression of the demonstrations under cover of an internet blackout. “The determination on the streets of Iran and across the country is unprecedented... this is really essentially people fighting for their lives, feeling they have nothing to lose,” said Azadeh Pourzand, Senior Fellow at the Centre for Middle East and Globa
Protests sweeping across Iran neared the two-week mark Saturday, with the country’s government acknowledging the ongoing demonstrations despite an intensifying crackdown and as the Islamic Republic remains cut off from the rest of the world.
US President Donald Trump pressed top oil executives to invest in Venezuela's reserves at a White House meeting on Friday, but was met with a cautious reception -- with ExxonMobil chief executive Darren Woods dismissing the country as "uninvestable" without sweeping reforms.
