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US national security adviser, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince meet to discuss ‘semi-final’ security deal

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- President Joe Biden's national security adviser met early Sunday with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss what the kingdom described...

Zoo Atlanta will return its pandas to China this year

The Atlanta zoo will return its four pandas to China late this year,...

ECB board member Schnabel cautions against back-to-back rate cuts

The European Central Bank exterior.Daniel Roland | AFP | Getty ImagesEuropean Central Bank...

Tunisians stage anti-migrant protest as the number of stranded in transit to Europe grows

JEBENIANA, Tunisia -- Hundreds of Tunisians marched through the streets of Jebeniana on...

Namibia scraps black ownership rules for mining exploration licenses

Namibia has scrapped a requirement for companies seeking mining exploration licenses to be partly owned and managed by black Namibians, the country’s mining industry...

Rhythms of slavery draw tourists to Moroccan village

In a village hut in Morocco’s southwestern desert, a group of white-clad locals sat and played the music of the slaves they are descended...

When do-gooders do harm: Liberia rape scandal shifts aid sector spotlight

A rape scandal at a U.S. charity in Liberia has exposed the dangers of small, unregulated organizations escaping scrutiny over sexual abuse in the...

Libyan wealth fund asks Britain to halt IRA compensation bill

The Tripoli-based head of Libya’s sovereign wealth fund has urged Britain not to pursue a demand that some of its $67 billion worth of...

Vivendi’s Canal+ backs African TV dramas as European sales suffer

 On a muddy side-street in Abidjan, Alex Ogou directs his cast of young locals in a TV drama about gangsters in Ivory Coast that...

South Africa’s top court ruling curtails power of chiefs to cut mining deals

South Africa’s top court ruled on Thursday that a platinum miner that has a deal with a tribal chief could not evict a group...

Three days of violence that emptied an Angolan town of Congolese

Residents of Kapende, a Congolese neighborhood in the Angolan town of Lucapa, scrawled messages on their homes to keep the looters away, but it...

Ethiopia’s parliament approves Sahle-Work Zewde as first female president

Ethiopia’s parliament has approved senior diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde as the country’s first female president, proceedings on state television showed, cementing another shift in the...

Over 50 reported killed in clan clashes in breakaway Somali region

 Fighting between clans in Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland region has killed more than 50 people, a witness at the scene and an official in neighboring...

Ethiopian migrants die off Tanzania coast trying to sail to South Africa

Seven Ethiopian migrants drowned after a boat carrying 13 people capsized off the coast of Tanzania while en route to South Africa, Tanzanian police...

Train in deadly crash in Morocco was traveling at twice the speed limit

A train that crashed in Morocco on Oct. 16, killing at least seven people, was traveling at more than twice the speed limit on...

Vandalism and neglect haunt Libya’s ancient heritage sites

 Graffiti covers the ruins of Cyrene in eastern Libya, a city founded by Greeks more than 2,600 years ago that once attracted tourists but...

Warring parties in South Sudan abducted hundreds of women and girls

 Government and rebel forces in South Sudan abducted hundreds of women and girls this year and many have been raped and forced into sexual...

Ethiopia’s new Cabinet 50 percent women, including defense

Ethiopia's new Cabinet is now a record 50 percent female, including the country's first woman defense minister, after lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously approved the...

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