President Kais Saied, accused of suppressing democracy, only has two challengers and one is in jail.
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New hurricane threatens Florida as it reels from devastation
It comes just 10 days after Storm Helene – the deadliest mainland storm since Katrina in 2005.
One dead after explosion near Karachi airport in Pakistan
The blast happened close to Jinnah International Airport on Sunday night.
Climbers rescued after three days missing in Himalayas
Fay Manners says she is “mentally destroyed” after a battle for survival 20,000ft up a mountain.
Rwanda starts vaccine trials against deadly Marburg virus
The health ministry says there are at least 46 cases in the east African country.
‘I felt like my heart was going to explode’: Beirut reels from heaviest night of strikes
A doctor tells the BBC of the moment she found out her clinic was next to an Israeli target building.
Bowen: Year of killing and broken assumptions has taken Middle East to edge of deeper, wider war
Twelve months on from the 7 October attacks which led to Israel’s war in Gaza, our international editor says the region is on the edge of something even worse.
‘Bags of sweets amid rubble of flattened Beirut building’
‘Bags of sweets amid rubble of flattened Beirut building’
Three arrested in South Africa over massacre of 18 relatives
Police say a fourth suspect in connection to the mass shooting will be arrested soon.
Maldives president in Delhi to seek aid and reboot ties
Mohamed Muizzu is expected to seek a bailout worth hundreds of millions of dollars during his India visit.