JOHANNESBURG - President Cyril Ramaphosa said Tuesday his ruling ANC party had resolved that South Africa should quit the International Criminal Court, which last month issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
MONROVIA - Washington's ambassador to Liberia has accused lawmakers of "buttering their own bread" and "feathering their own nests" while underfunding hospitals and service centers, leaving rural citizens "destitute."
DAKAR - Guinea-Bissau has become the first country outside of Europe to join an international agreement on government accountability, human rights and the environment, the United Nations announced on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON - As expected, President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he is running for re-election in 2024, plunging at the record age of 80 into a ferocious new White House campaign "to finish the job."
MALINDI, KENYA — Update: The death toll from a suspected Kenyan starvation cult climbed to 90 on Tuesday, including many children, as police said investigators were pausing the search for bodies because the morgues were full.
GENEVA - The United Nations kicked off a campaign Monday to reverse dangerous declines in childhood vaccination due to the pandemic, sparking rising outbreaks of diseases like measles and polio.
LONDON - The UK unveiled Monday a deal for a subsea energy link with the Netherlands, tapping further into offshore wind both as renewable energy and also in response to energy instability created by the Russian attack on Ukraine.
UPDATED WITH STATEMENT FROM FRENCH GOVERNMENT: MORONI, COMOROS - Comoros said Monday it had refused to allow a boat carrying migrants from Mayotte, where French authorities have announced a controversial operation against illegal migrants, to dock.
OUAGADOUGOU - About 60 civilians were killed in a village in northern Burkina Faso by men wearing military uniforms, the local prosecutor said late Sunday, announcing an investigation into the latest bloodshed in the insurgency-hit country.
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said his government had opened dialogue with a rebel group active in the Oromia region, the country's largest and most populous region, surrounding the capital Addis Ababa.
MALABO, EQUATORIAL GUINEA - The death toll in Equatorial Guinea from an outbreak of Marburg virus, a cousin of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, has risen to 12, the health ministry said on Monday.
NEW DELHI - A cheetah brought from South Africa to India has died, wildlife officials said, the second such death within a month in a country where the big spotted cat was declared extinct seven decades ago.
MOSCOW - The chief of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said his men fighting in the flashpoint eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut would kill rival soldiers and take no more prisoners.
LONDON - Most Britons want to keep the monarchy but King Charles III lacks support from young people, a new poll suggested on Monday, less than two weeks before his coronation.
PARIS - She refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman and helped make history in the deeply segregated southern United States, but this is not the celebrated story of Rosa Parks. It's another Black woman, Claudette Colvin.
LONDON — Ethiopian-born Dutch long-distance runner Sifan Hassan staged a remarkable rally to win the women's London Marathon on Sunday in the Olympic track champion's first race over the distance as Kenya's Kelvin Kiptum won the men's race in the second-fastest time in history.
CANNES, FRANCE - The latest Pixar film, "Elemental", will get its world premiere as the closing film of the Cannes Film Festival next month, the organizers have announced.
JOHANNESBURG - Acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge's play "The Head & The Load" about Black contributions in World War One is almost ready for its much-awaited African debut.
ZURICH - An art foundation made the winning $6-million-bid for a composite Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at an auction in Switzerland this week and will put it on public display, the Koller auction house said Friday.
PARIS - Just meters from a busy train station in the heart of Paris, scientists have uncovered 50 graves in an ancient necropolis which offer a rare glimpse of life in the French capital's precursor Lutetia nearly 2000 years ago.
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