USS Savannah will dock at the port of Sihanoukville on the Gulf of Thailand on Dec. 16-20 .

The visit was scheduled after a U.S. request for a port call, Cambodia ’s Ministry of National Defense said.

The United States has not yet announced the visit, and there was no comment from the United States .

Cambodia 's foreign ministry noted “positive momentum of bilateral ties and cooperation”.

Benin 's new law grants citizenship to those who can trace their lineage to the slave trade.

The law is part of a broader effort by Benin to reckon with its own historical role in the trade.

Beninese authorities accept DNA tests, authenticated testimonies and family records.

An estimated 1.5 million slaves were deported from the Bight of Benin, a territory that includes modern-day Benin .

Vodun is an official religion in Benin , practiced by at least a million people in the country.

It originated in the kingdom of Dahomey in the south of present-day Benin .

Slavery brought it to the Americas and the Caribbean , where it became Vodou , a blend with Catholicism.

Thai police detain 2 suspects after a bomb in a border province killed 3 and injured scores.

An explosive device was thrown into a crowd during an outdoor performance at an annual festival in Umphang town in Tak province , which borders Myanmar .

Local police said at least 48 people were injured and that police have not yet pressed charges.

In 2023 , 11 EU countries received 3,263 billion in FDI - an increase since 2022 .

Germany overtook the United States as the top ultimate investing economy.

IT services, business services, transportation and logistics were the hottest areas for FDI in 2023 .

Council of Europe 's anti-torture committee criticizes Italy 's treatment of migrants in local detention centers.

Report cites cases of physical ill-treatment, excessive force and use of psychotropic drugs on detainees.

Under Italian law, these centers are aimed at hosting migrants who try to enter the country without a visa.

Italy has defended the role of these centers as a deterrent to surging illegal migration.

Pelosi, 84 , "sustained an injury during an official engagement and was admitted to the hospital for evaluation," her spokesman said.

The bipartisan delegation was slated to travel to Belgium and Luxembourg to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge .

Pelosi "conveys her thanks and praise to our veterans and gratitude to people of Luxembourg and Bastogne for their service in World War II ," spokesman says.

H.H. Stevens was one of B.C. ’s most prominent politicians from 1910 to 1940 .

As he aged, he became known as a “walking encyclopedia of Canadiana ” who took an annual birthday walk around Stanley Park .

Stevens had started his birthday tradition in 1932 , and kept it up until 1970 , when he did a 10.4 km walk in 2 hours at the age of 92 .

In 1922 , he had helped secure $ 10,000 in federal funding for the Stanley Park seawall.

Joby 's electric air taxi carries a pilot and four passengers at speeds up to 200 mph , has much less noise than helicopters and offers zero operating emissions.

Joby has already obtained such approvals in Japan and the US .

It also increased production, unveiling a fourth prototype aircraft as it works toward FAA certification.

Each side is to put up 2.5 billion ( $2.6 billion ) for Digital Package 2.0 .

Education Minister Cem Özdemir : "We have to prepare our schools for a world that is digitally shaped" Training teachers would be a focus of the new package.

The two sides had wrangled over the agreement for months .

State prosecutors say the couple were traveling in a pickup truck when they were shot and killed.

It was not immediately clear why the couple, who were married, were targeted.

Spiraling violence, much of it linked to drug trafficking, has seen more than 450,000 people murdered since 2006 .