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Muhammad Ali Pate was due to assume the helm on August 3, Gavi had announced in February, taking over from US medical epidemiologist Seth Berkley, who had been in charge since 2011
The 76-year-old pop superstar is winding down a glittering live career with a global farewell tour
There are 80 active forest fires in Quebec, according to Quebec's forest fire protection agency
Britain and nine partner nations -- Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania and the Netherlands -- opened the initiative for new volunteer recruits to the Armed Forces of Ukraine last year
The USS Ronald Reagan's port call in Danang comes as Washington and Hanoi celebrate the 10th anniversary of their ‘comprehensive partnership’
The Baltic country neighbors both Belarus and Russia and will host next month's NATO summit
An armed rebellion by mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who had vowed Friday to topple the Russian military leadership and began a march on Moscow, sparked the country's largest political crisis in decades and prompted many newsrooms to work around the clock
The vast western region on the border with Chad has seen the deadliest violence in the battle for power between Sudan’s army and paramilitary forces
The country's biggest opposition party said energy minister Gwede Mantashe had not signed an agreement on the fund, which was approved and launched anyway on Tuesday
Pope Francis offers prayers for the family of Emanuela Orlandi who went missing 40 years ago this week, an intervention her brother hails as a sign Vatican was finally engaging seriously with its most famous cold case
The USS Ronald Reagan's port call in Danang comes as the United States and Vietnam celebrate the 10th anniversary of their "comprehensive partnership."
US officials carefully avoid direct comment
Beijing criticized U.S. authorities on Saturday for charging four Chinese companies and eight individuals with trafficking chemicals used in manufacturing fentanyl, calling the arrests "arbitrary detention"
Artillery fire, airstrikes and gun battles rocked Sudan's capital Saturday, witnesses told AFP. While fighting rages, relief efforts have stalled after more than two months of conflict between rival generals
Before the Wagner mercenaries turned around on Saturday, Russia might have been facing its largest political crisis in decades, but the mood in Moscow was calm, with cafes busy and few visible signs of panic on a warm summer day
British police said Saturday they had charged an Egyptian man accused of masterminding the smuggling of migrants across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Europe, following an international investigation
Sierra Leoneans voted Saturday in a general election in which President Julius Maada Bio was seeking a second term amid a crippling economic crisis that sparked deadly riots last year
Chinese police arrested four people on Saturday linked to a restaurant explosion that killed dozens, state media reported. At least 31 people were killed and seven others injured when a gas explosion ripped through a barbecue restaurant
Hundreds of people wearing pink attended Singapore's annual "Pink Dot" LGBTQ rally on Saturday, the first to be held since the city-state decriminalized gay sex last year
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