TUNIS — Five prisoners convicted of "terrorism" escaped Tunisia's largest prison on Tuesday, the interior ministry said in a statement.
NAIROBI - A move by Kenyan authorities to tax travellers on new or used goods brought into the country has caused an outcry, with lawmakers and even a government minister denouncing the scheme.
DAKAR — Footage said to show a gay man's body being dug up from a grave and burned has shocked Senegal, triggering an investigation in the conservative country where homophobia is rife.
BAMAKO — Separatist rebels in northern Mali on Tuesday claimed to have taken over a camp just evacuated by the U.N. in the strategic town of Kidal, a significant development in an ongoing battle for territory.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — Nigerian football star Victor Osimhen Wednesday was named among 30 nominees for the Confederation of African Football’s 2022-23 men's African Player of the Year award.
KANO - Jihadists affiliated to the Islamic State group killed 17 people in a raid on a remote village in northeast Nigeria after villagers refused to pay an illicit tax, anti-jihadist militia and a resident told AFP Tuesday.
PARIS, FRANCE — Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Wednesday joined the list of leaders that addressed their nation's colonial past — developments happening after Britain's King Charles III spoke on the same matter during his visit to Kenya.
BLETCHLEY PARK — The world's first major summit on artificial intelligence (AI) safety opened in the UK on Wednesday, with political and tech leaders meeting to discuss possible responses to the society-changing technology.
CAIRO, EGYPT — An Egyptian official that spoke on condition of anonymity said the first ambulances carrying wounded Palestinians from war-torn Gaza entered the North African nation on Wednesday via the Rafah crossing.
WASHINGTON - Senators voted Tuesday to confirm President Joe Biden's nominee for US ambassador to Israel, filling a crucial posting that had been vacant for months as America's closest ally in the Middle East battles Hamas militants.
LONDON - Britain will host the world's first global artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit this week to examine the risks of the fast-growing technology and kick-start an international dialogue on regulation of it. It will take place at Bletchley Park - where Britain's World War Two code-breakers worked - in southern England on Nov. 1-2. Here's what we know about the gathering:
NAIROBI — King Charles III began a four-day visit to Kenya Tuesday at the invitation of President William Ruto. The visit comes as some Kenyans are demanding an apology and reparations for ill treatment of Kenyans during British colonial rule — an era that ended with a years-long struggle by the Mau Mau uprising of the Kikuyu people.
BAMAKO — United Nations soldiers Tuesday left a camp in the strategic town of Kidal in Mali's volatile north, which has been wracked by jihadist and separatist violence, several sources in the peacekeeping mission told AFP.
JERUSALEM — Israel said Tuesday its forces battled Hamas inside Gaza overnight and struck 300 targets after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu categorically ruled out a cease-fire as a "surrender" to the Palestinian militant group.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the world Monday to "stop the madness" of climate change as he visited Himalayan regions struggling from rapidly melting glaciers to witness the devastating impact of the phenomenon.
TEHRAN - Since the Israel-Hamas war broke out, Iran has issued near-daily warnings of a widening conflict to its arch foes Israel and the United States but appears keen to steer clear of direct confrontation, analysts say.
WAD MADANI, SUDAN - The Red Cross said Monday it had facilitated the release of 64 Sudanese soldiers held by paramilitaries, as the rival sides meet in Saudi Arabia over six months into war.
WASHINGTON - A 71-year-old man accused of murdering a Palestinian-American boy in an attack in Illinois, which police have linked to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, pleaded not guilty on Monday.
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden issued an executive order Monday on regulating artificial intelligence, aiming for the United States to "lead the way" in global efforts to manage the technology's risks.
MAKHACHKALA, RUSSIA — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ukraine and the West of instigating anti-Israel rioting at Dagestan's Makhachkala airport the previous day, an accusation that Washington has called absurd.
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