WASHINGTON - The slump in U.S. manufacturing activity deepened in May, marking a seventh straight month of contraction amid greater business uncertainty, according to survey data released Thursday.
CAIRO - Dissident Egyptian songwriter and poet Galal al-Behairy, who has been on hunger strike for three months in protest at his prison conditions, stopped taking water Thursday, a rights group said.
WASHINGTON - Private sector employment in the United States eased in May according to data from payroll firm ADP released Thursday, but slowed less than anticipated despite efforts to cool the economy.
Paris - The upper house Senate of France's parliament was expected Thursday to pass a law that will better regulate social media influencers by limiting and regulating their ability to endorse products and encourage betting.
GENEVA - The World Meteorological Organization voted in Argentina's Celeste Saulo on Thursday to become its first woman leader and steer the WMO's critical global role in tracking climate change.
PARIS - Five French environmental NGOs are suing the French state for its alleged negligence in regulating the use of pesticides, with a first court audience set for Thursday.
ADDIS ABABA - Local authorities and regional forces continued a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in western Tigray despite a peace deal ending the war in northern Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday.
NAIROBI - Bipartisan talks aimed at resolving differences between Kenya's opposition and the government of President William Ruto have been suspended indefinitely, the co-chair leading the talks said on Wednesday.
STOCKHOLM - The European Union and the United States said Wednesday that they would soon release a voluntary code of conduct on artificial intelligence, hoping to develop common standards among democracies as China makes rapid gains.
WINDHOEK - Fifteen members of a family in rural Namibia have died after eating toxic porridge, in one of the country's worst cases of suspected food poisoning, police said on Wednesday.
PARIS - Curbing global heating at 1.5 degrees Celsius will avert runaway climate change but not mass suffering in developing nations, a consortium of 50 researchers warned Wednesday.
BANJUL, GAMBIA - Chronic over-fishing, especially by foreign-owned industrial trawlers, is having a "devastating" impact on the tiny West African state of The Gambia, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
DAKAR - A rape case putting a 23-year-old woman against Senegal's most prominent opposition leader has dismayed feminists in the country, who fear their cause has taken a blow. The West African state is bracing for potential violence on Thursday when the trial verdict is expected to be announced.
HARARE - Zimbabwe will hold nationwide elections on August 23, the government gazette said Wednesday, ending months of speculation over the date.
NAIROBI - Anti-LGBTQ bills in Kenya and Uganda have unleashed an unprecedented wave of online disinformation targeting the community, with experts accusing political leaders of spreading falsehoods that put lives at risk.
PARIS - Five European sports ministers called on Wednesday for "all stakeholders to swiftly find an arrangement" for TV broadcast of the women's football World Cup in July-August.
UPDATED WITH WEDNESDAY FIGHTING: KHARTOUM - Sudanese army forces blasted paramilitary bases with artillery in Khartoum on Wednesday after pulling out of U.S. - Saudi-brokered cease-fire talks, accusing their paramilitary foes of failing to honor their commitments.
BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC — President Faustin Archange Touadera of the Central African Republic said Tuesday that he would call a referendum on a new constitution that would allow him to seek a new term.
LONDON - Five men in the U.K. who illegally streamed English Premier League football matches to tens of thousands of people were jailed on Tuesday, the league announced.
DAR ES SALAAM - The U.N.'s World Food Program (WFP) said Tuesday that more than 200,000 refugees in Tanzania would receive only half rations from next month because of a lack of donor funding.
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