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President Ali Bongo returned to Gabon on Monday after a three-month medical leave during which a coup attempt was thwarted, two government sources told Reuters. His return comes a week after a small military group took over the state radio station.

China will launch a probe to collect samples from the moon around the end of this year, a space official said on Monday, weeks after Beijing hailed the successful touch down on the far side of the moon. The Chang’e-4 lunar

The newly-appointed United Nations special envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen is scheduled to arrive in Damascus for a three-day visit on Tuesday, according to a U.N. source and Syrian media. The visit will be the Norwegian diplomat’s first to the war-torn

Jordanian King Abdullah II met Iraqi President Barham Saleh in Baghdad on Monday, according to state television, in the monarch’s first trip to Iraq in more than a decade. The visit is the latest in a string of top-level diplomatic encounters

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that a rift between Qatar and its Arab Gulf neighbors had gone on for too long. “We are all more powerful when we are working together and disputes are limited. When we