PARIS - Undersea kelp forests generate some $500 billion in fishing revenue and other benefits while absorbing five million tons of carbon dioxide a year, scientists estimated in a study published by the publication Nature.
AL-JAZIRAH, SUDAN - Sudanese families who have fled fighting in Khartoum celebrated on Friday the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, trying for a sense of normalcy, the sound of explosions still ringing in their ears.
KHARTOUM - One of the first accounts from medics since fighting erupted in Sudan provides a harrowing report of the conflict's "catastrophic" impact.
PRETORIA - South African police on Friday evicted more than a hundred asylum seekers camping for over three years outside the UN High Commissioner for Refugees offices in Pretoria.
PARIS - A viral AI-generated song imitating Drake and The Weeknd was pulled from streaming services this week, but did it actually breach copyright as claimed by record label Universal?
CONAKRY - More than 50 fishermen in the West African state of Guinea have been hospitalized with a unknown skin ailment, the government's spokesman said on Friday, a day after the authorities launched a probe into the incident.
BERLIN - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned on Friday against Tunisia backtracking on the fundamentals of its democracy, after the arrest of opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi this week.
MORONI, COMROS - The Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros vowed Friday not to accept migrants expelled from the neighboring French island of Mayotte in a looming operation that has caused a diplomatic spat.
LOS ANGELES - Elon Musk's long-promised move to strip free blue ticks from Twitter users swung into action on Thursday, dividing the "have-paids" from the "have-nots."
WINDHOEK - Descendants of victims of genocide in Namibia will gather at the site of an infamous concentration camp this weekend to commemorate the killing of tens of thousands of people by German colonial settlers.
OUAGADOUGOU - Burkina Faso's trades union federation on Thursday urged the release of all those forcibly conscripted into the army as the country battles a jihadist insurgency.
WASHINGTON - The US military said Thursday that it had released an Algerian held at the Guantanamo prison for two decades, leaving 30 men still held extrajudicially at the US navy base in Cuba.
RABAT - Morocco's navy has intercepted 552 migrants attempting to reach Europe over 10 days in both the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, a military source told state media on Thursday.
WASHINGTON - Sales of existing homes in the United States slowed in March, the Commerce Department said Thursday, returning to a downward trend that was briefly broken by a surprise surge in February.
BAMAKO - The chief of staff of the head of Mali's junta was among four people killed in an attack on Tuesday, a document from the presidency said Thursday.
GANGES, FRANCE - Police fired teargas Thursday in a village in southern France where President Emmanuel Macron visited a school, a day after he was booed and heckled over his unpopular pension reform.
KHARTOUM - Trapped inside their homes for days as intense street battles rage between Sudan's rival generals, Khartoum's residents have banded together on social media offering aid, advice and support.
UPDATED WITH UGANDAN LAWYERS ADVISING PRESIDENT NOT TO SIGN BILL: KAMPALA - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has summoned ruling party lawmakers to a meeting Thursday to discuss draconian anti-gay legislation that has been roundly condemned by the international community and rights campaigners.
CAPE TOWN - Africa's first mRNA vaccine hub was ceremonially launched on Thursday to acclaim from the UN's global health chief, who hailed it as a historic shift to help poor countries gain access to life-saving jabs.
ABIDJAN - Regional and municipal elections will take place in Ivory Coast on September 2, a government spokesperson said Wednesday, ahead of presidential elections set for 2025.
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