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• April 11, 2023

  Mali Journalist Found OK

  BAMAKO — A Malian journalist who vanished following a press conference he organized last week has been found "safe and sound", according to a crisis group set up by colleagues after his disappearance.

• April 11, 2023

  Britain's NHS Doctors Walk Out

  LONDON - Doctors working in England's public health service on Tuesday launched what has been billed as the most disruptive strike in its history, in a dispute over pay and working conditions.

• April 11, 2023

  Nigeria Rehabs Jihadis

  MAIDUGURI - On an arid plot of land in northern Nigeria, veiled women and men idle outside tents in what, at first glance, appears to be a camp for displaced people. In reality, Hajj Camp in Borno State is a center for processing tens of thousands of jihadists and their families.

• April 11, 2023

  Twitter Takes a Revenue Dive

  SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter's income from advertising will fall by 28 percent in 2023, a closely watched forecast said Tuesday, as the platform struggles under the ownership of Elon Musk.

• April 11, 2023

  UN Chief Sees Somalia

  MOGADISHU - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Mogadishu on Tuesday to kick off a brief visit to Somalia, a country scarred by protracted armed conflict and climate disasters.

• April 10, 2023

  Algeria's Upper House Debates Media Ownership Bill

  ALGIERS — Algeria's parliament on Monday moved closer to passing a law further restricting press freedom in the North African country by tightening media ownership rules and preventing journalists from protecting sources.

• April 10, 2023

  Now Online Has 'De-influencers'

  WASHINGTON - Looking straight into the camera, Valeria Fride holds up a tube of lip gloss. But instead of saying how amazing it is, the young brunette trashes it as "so sticky" and "really expensive," with not enough color.

• April 10, 2023

  New Hani Murder Probe Sought

  JOHANNESBURG - South Africa on Monday commemorated slain anti-apartheid activist Chris Hani amid calls for a fresh probe into the murder that almost plunged the country into a race war 30 years ago.

• April 10, 2023

  World Bank, IMF Meeting This Week

  WASHINGTON - The World Bank and International Monetary Fund's spring meetings get underway later this week with an ambitious reform and fundraising agenda likely to be overshadowed by concerns over high inflation, rising geopolitical tension and financial stability.

• April 09, 2023

  Gaining Ice 'Clues' Before it Melts

  PARIS - Scientists camped in the Arctic are set to start drilling to save samples of ancient ice for analysis before the frozen layers melt away due to climate change, mission organizers said on April 3.

• April 09, 2023

  NASA Launches Air Pollution Monitor

  WASHINGTON - A Falcon 9 rocket successfully blasted off from Florida into space on Friday carrying a new NASA device that can track air pollution over North America down to the neighborhood level.

• April 08, 2023

  Water Holds Banned Pesticide Traces: Study

  France's public health watchdog said Thursday mass testing of drinking water revealed traces from a banned pesticide in half the samples, showing how potentially harmful chemicals persist in the environment.

• April 08, 2023

  AI Beats Humans in Heart Testing: Study

  PARIS - Artificial intelligence is better than humans at assessing heart ultrasounds, the main test of overall cardiac health, the most rigorous trial yet conducted on the subject found on Wednesday.

• April 07, 2023

  DRC Docks Soldiers for Activist Deaths

  LUBUMBASHI, DRC - Two DRC soldiers appeared in court Friday accused of killing party activists in the southern city of Lubumbashi, an AFP journalist reported.

• April 07, 2023

  Moscow Threatens End to Grain Deal

  ANKARA - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday threatened to abandon a landmark grain deal with Ukraine if obstacles to Moscow's exports remained.

• April 07, 2023

  New Slaughter in North-Central Nigeria

  KANO - Gunmen have attacked a rural village in northern central Nigeria killing dozens of people in the latest in a string of deadly assaults in the region, local government officials said Friday.

• April 07, 2023

  Togo Extends Northern 'State of Emergency'

  LOME - Togo's parliament has extended for 12 months the state of security emergency in the Savanes region, in the far north of the country, to help prevent incursions by jihadist groups across the border with Burkina Faso.

• April 07, 2023

  Migrant Intercepts Grow Fivefold+: Tunis

  TUNIS - Tunisia's coastguard said Friday it had intercepted over 14,000 migrants trying to reach Europe from January to March, more than five times the number of those who attempted the trip in the first quarter of 2022.

• April 07, 2023

  Cool Pilot Counters Cockpit Cobra!

  JOHANNESBURG - A South African pilot who made an emergency landing after a venomous snake crawled into his seat was praised by the authorities Friday for "displaying impeccable bravery."

• April 07, 2023

  DRC Imposes Life Terms on Envoy Killers

  KINSHASA - A military tribunal in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa on Friday sentenced six men accused of murdering Luca Attanasio, Italy's ambassador to the country in 2021 to life in prison.

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