The leader of the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, accused Egypt of being involved in airstrikes on the group's troops. The Egyptian foreign ministry denied the accusations.

Hurricane Milton brought floods and damaging wind to central and northern Florida Thursday, destroying homes and leaving at least four people dead and more than 3 million without power. The storm weakened and was moving away from Florida’s Atlantic coast Thursday morning.

The southeastern U.S. state of Florida braced Wednesday for the arrival of powerful Hurricane Milton amid warnings of heavy rains, strong winds and life-threatening storm surge. The center of the storm was expected to make landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday.

Japan: New Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba dissolved Japan's lower house of parliament Wednesday to set up an October 27 election and seek a mandate from voters for his 9-day-old government.

Mozambique: Voters cast their ballots Wednesday for a new president and parliament, with the Frelimo party, ruling for 49 years, expected to hold on to power. The election comes as the southern African nation struggles with persistent poverty and inequality.

Burkina Faso: The junta has suspended Voice of America for three months over comments about a jihadist insurgency in West Africa's Sahel region, and temporarily banned local news outlets from using any international media reports, authorities said late on Monday.

Floridians continue to evacuate ahead of powerful Hurricane Milton. The storm center is expected to come ashore Wednesday in the Tampa Bay region. Over half a million people were ordered to evacuate, in the state's largest evacuation since 2017.

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning, commonly referred to as artificial intelligence.