WASHINGTON - Growing geopolitical fragmentation around the world, including the US-China trade war and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, could cut global growth by two percent, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Wednesday.
CONAKRY - Three doctors in Guinea were on Tuesday found guilty in the death of a young woman who was raped in hospital in a case that has shocked the nation, an AFP journalist saw.
LONDON - Racism has been experienced by players at all levels of elite rugby in England, according to a survey published by the Rugby Football Union.
BERLIN - Germany's anti-cartel watchdog said Wednesday it had placed US computing giant Apple under closer surveillance for any possible abuse of its market position.
UPDATED WITH KREMLIN REACTION: PALM BEACH , FLORIDA - Donald Trump offered a full-throated defense of his conduct Tuesday in his first public remarks since being charged over hush money payments to a porn star, blasting the criminal prosecution as "an insult to our country."
HARARE - Civic activists in Zimbabwe said on Tuesday they would take legal action after voters' phone numbers were apparently leaked, with many claiming to have received pro-ruling party messages.
HARARE - Zimbabwe's government said on Tuesday it will investigate allegations of fraud and corruption raised by a documentary on gold smuggling and money laundering in the country.
LONDON - Britain's data regulator said Tuesday that it had fined TikTok £12.7 million ($15.9 million) for allowing up to 1.4 million children under 13 to use its social media platform in violation of its own rules.
DAKAR - Swooping over a cloud of seagulls off Senegal's sparkling shores, a French military airplane veers past a fishing trawler, the naval officers onboard keeping a watchful eye out for illegal activity.
WASHINGTON - Virgin Orbit, the satellite launch company founded by Richard Branson, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will sell the business, the firm said in a statement Tuesday.
RIYADH - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler on a brief visit late on Sunday, state media said, as the North African country grapples with severe economic difficulties.
TUNIS - Tunisia's main opposition coalition pressed the government on Monday to explain a days-long public "absence" of President Kais Saied, saying it had information that he was sick.
BRUSSELS - Finland's flag will be hoisted outside NATO headquarters on Tuesday when it becomes the newest member of the Western alliance, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
GENEVA - UN rights chief Volker Turk called Monday for Libyan authorities and the international community to step up accountability efforts in the conflict-ravaged country, as a probe into war crimes wrapped up.
VIENNA -Crude futures surged almost eight percent at one stage after multiple members of the OPEC+ exporters' alliance unexpectedly slashed production by a total of more than one million barrels per day in a bid to stabilize the market.
GENEVA - A panel of UN rights experts on Monday named several high-ranking South Sudanese officials they say warrant criminal investigation and prosecution for their part in grave atrocities against civilians.
PARIS - The first DNA recovered from members of the medieval Swahili civilization has revealed that Africans and Asians were intermingling along the East African coast more than a thousand years ago, a study said Wednesday.
LONDON - Legendary spy James Bond faces a race against time to save King Charles III's upcoming coronation in a new story to be released ahead of the May 6 ceremony, it was revealed Friday.
NEW YORK - A rare, vividly rosy-purple diamond, called the Eternal Pink and valued at $35 million, is set to be auctioned off by Sotheby's as part of its Magnificent Jewels sale in New York in June.
HARARE - Lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa cuts a short figure, but she appears fearless in her work as Zimbabwe's best-known human rights lawyer and a thorn in the side of an authoritarian government.
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