NEW YORK - Elon Musk has put the current value of Twitter at $20 billion, less than half the $44 billion he paid for the social media platform just five months ago, according to an internal email seen by American news media.
STRAUSBOURG - A new immigration bill in the UK that aims to stop migrants crossing the Channel illegally on small boats from France is "incompatible" with Britain's international obligations, Europe's top rights body said on Monday.
NAIROBI — Kenya's police chief announced Sunday a ban on fresh opposition demonstrations called for Monday, after protests last week degenerated into riots.
GENEVA - Environmentally friendly products like electric cars and wind turbines have bucked the current downward trend in overall global trade, continuing to show strong growth, the United Nations said March 23.
JOHANNESBURG - Mahatma Gandhi's 21 years in South Africa stand out. Gandhi lived in Britain's southern African colony from 1893 to 1915. He created the hallmark of his campaign of peaceful protest -- the Transvaal March, contesting a ban on Indian immigration.
KIGALI — Fiercely outspoken Rwandan government critic Paul Rusesabagina, whose efforts to save people during the 1994 genocide inspired the Hollywood film "Hotel Rwanda," has been freed from prison after more than 900 days behind bars.
BRUSSELS - The European Union's executive arm has waded into the forest of dubious green labels, fairy tale carbon footprints and false eco-friendly advertising, proposing ways to clean up the "greenwashing" of consumer products.
N'DJAMENA - Chad has announced it has nationalized a former subsidiary of US oil and gas giant ExxonMobil, whose sale to a British company last year it had contested.
KANO, NIGERIA - A bus leaves as smoke is seen at a bus park in Abuja, Nigeria, February 1, 2017.
TRIPOLI - The blast of a cannon booms across Tripoli, but it doesn't signal another round of fighting in the Libyan capital - rather, the revival of a long-lost Ramadan tradition.
GENEVA - The UN said Friday that its refugee operations were seeing swelling funding through a dedicated Islamic philanthropy platform aimed at collecting the charity payments required of Muslims under the religion.
WASHINGTON - Orders of big-ticket manufactured items ticked down in February on a slump in defense aircraft and parts, according to US government data released Friday.
UPDATED WITH PM MELONI COMMENTS: MILAN - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni urged greater support Friday for crisis-torn Tunisia, warning at Brussels summit of the risk of a "migratory wave" towards Europe if the situation deteriorated. He call followed a similar one by Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.
KINSHASA - DRC President Felix Tshisekedi has appointed former militia leader Jean-Pierre Bemba as minister of defense in a cabinet reshuffle on Friday, as the country grapples with armed conflict in its restive east.
LONDON - The brother of Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu on Thursday lost a legal challenge against the British government over his sibling's continued detention in Nigeria.
WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said talks were still underway on an intervention force for crisis-ravaged Haiti, with discussions expected with Canada during President Joe Biden's visit starting Thursday.
TUNIS - Almost 300 Ivorians were repatriated on Thursday from Tunisia, where migrants say they no longer feel safe after President Kais Saied had said they represented a demographic threat.
OUAGADIOUGOU - Four soldiers and 10 volunteers with the military were killed in northern Burkina Faso, in a jihadist attack that coincided with a visit by the country's military leader, a security source said Thursday.
GENEVA - The World Health Organization on Thursday warned against "fake news" after Twitter boss Elon Musk tweeted that countries should not "cede authority to WHO" amid negotiations over a new pandemic treaty.
WASHINGTON - TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew battled for the survival of the hugely popular video-sharing app in the United States on Thursday, as he faced skeptical Washington lawmakers over the company's alleged ties to the Chinese government.
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