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Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Wednesday in support of the military junta after an alleged coup attempt and comments by an American official criticizing junta leader Ibrahim Traore

U.S. national laboratories and several American universities that are engaged in Pentagon-funded research are using Chinese supercomputers in ways that endanger U.S. national security, according to a former Air Force intelligence analyst.

A Palestinian college student has been released on a judge's order after weeks of detention by immigration authorities.Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi was released from federal custody on Wednesday morning after a Vermont judge ruled that he should be released under certain conditions, reported WPTZ-TV.“I am saying it clear and loud,” Mahdawi said after his release. “To President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you.”Mahdawi will be allowed to keep his permanent residence in Vermont and allowed to travel to New York City to finish his studies at Columbia University, where he took part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration."Protests of the type led by Mahdawi potentially undermine the peace process underway in the Middle East," said secretary of state Marco Rubio in a court filing justifying his detention, saying his activism was "reinforcing antisemitic sentiment."The judge who ordered his release compared the detention of migrants and immigrants who took part in campus protests to the infamous McCarthy era "Red Scare." — (@)

Kuwait has released an additional 10 American detainees, bringing to nearly two dozen the total number freed by the country in the past two months, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

At least 16 civilians and security officials killed in Druze-majority areas around capital on WednesdayMiddle East crisis – live updatesAt least 16 civilians and security officials have been killed in clashes in a town near Damascus, Syria’s interior ministry reported, the second consecutive day of fighting in Druze-majority areas around Syria’s capital.Reports on Wednesday said fighting had started overnight in the town of Ashrafiah Sahnaya, south-west of Damascus, after unknown gunmen attacked a security checkpoint. An attack on the Druze-majority Damascus suburb of Jaramana a day earlier left at least 10 people dead, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Continue reading...

A wildfire shut the main highway linking Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Wednesday, sending at least a dozen people to the hospital and turning skies over Jerusalem gray.

Dozens of people are swimming and wading across Haiti’s longest river in a desperate attempt to flee gangs

Hundreds of stranded Congolese soldiers and police officers, along with their families, were being transferred from the rebel-controlled city of Goma in eastern Congo to the capital, the International Committee of the Red Cross announced Wednesday.