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Raiders in Mali killed at least 20 civilians in attacks on villages near the northern town of Gao over the weekend, while a landmine killed a U.N. peacekeeper in the troubled region.
Members of 'illegal tour' are arrested by 'morality police,' judicial official says
The United States hit 11 Hong Kong and Beijing officials with sanctions two years ago after a sweeping national security law was imposed to snuff out dissent in the semi-autonomous city following the massive, sometimes violent democracy protests of 2019
Otherwise, he warns, world risks "greatest victory for aggression" since World War II
Former world No. 1 tennis player, Naomi Osaka, pulled out of Wimbledon for the second successive year Saturday, blaming an Achilles injury
South Africa haiils WTO agreement to allow developing countries to start producing their own COVID vaccines following a near two-year battle
Lotfi Hidouri, editor-in-chief of Achahed, arrested over alleged links to a company accused of conspiring against the state
The Watergate scandal that would topple the presidency of Richard Nixon, the only US leader ever to resign
Online personality used sites like Instagram to pitch Cartier jewelry to followers, then provided links to counterfeit versions on Amazon, one of two lawsuits alleged
The plane tried to travel to neighboring Uruguay but was denied entry and returned to Ezeiza outside Buenos Aires where it has been grounded since last Wednesday
The United Nations estimated that 10,000 people had fled their homes over the last week
From the moment Russia attacked on February 24, the railways were essential for getting people to safety
A Chinese member of staff at the US news outlet's bureau in Beijing, Fan was detained in December 2020, a few months after Australian TV anchor Cheng Lei was detained on similar charges
In the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, home to 300 million, crippling lung and heart disease caused by so-called PM2.5 pollution reduces life expectancy by eight years, and in the capital city of New Delhi by a decade
Truck drivers staged an eighth day of protests over rising fuel costs that have further snarled global supply chains, with government warning their actions had caused more than $1 billion in losses
A court in Senegal on Monday sentenced a fugitive rebel leader and two other men to life in prison for murder and armed insurrection over a massacre that claimed 14 lives.
Felicien Kabuga, an alleged financier of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, is fit to stand trial, a U.N. tribunal ruled Monday, saying it must begin "as soon as possible" in The Hague.
Clashes in Sudan's Darfur between Arab and non-Arab groups have killed more than 100 people, adding to a toll of hundreds in the region over recent months.
Case arose from 2018 incident when 14 men were rounded up and executed
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