TEHRAN - Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed Friday to restore ties and reopen diplomatic missions in a surprise, Chinese-brokered announcement that could have wide-ranging implications across the Middle East.
THE HAGUE - UN judges on Friday put Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga's trial on hold while they resolve whether he is in good enough health to remain in the dock.
BANJUL - Hundreds of young Gambians from the country's main opposition party marched through the capital Banjul on Friday in what is believed to be the first opposition protest permitted in the former dictatorship for nearly three decades.
UPDATED TO INCLUDE PRESIDENT BIDEN COMMENTS: WASHINGTON - US job gains eased less than anticipated in February, according to government data released Friday, while the unemployment rate and earnings ticked up. The numbers suggest the world's biggest economy is not cooling as quickly as policymakers hope.
BAMAKO - Mali's ruling junta will postpone a constitutional referendum but maintain a previously agreed timeline to return to civilian rule, a government spokesperson said in a statement read to the press Friday.
GENEVA - Freddy is on track to break the record as the longest-lasting tropical cyclone, the United Nations said Friday as the killer storm was set to hit Mozambique once again.
ALGIERS - Jailed Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi, accused of illegal fundraising, will remain silent during his trial which is due to start on Sunday, his defense team has said.
GOMA, DRC - Fighting erupted Friday between M23 militiamen and government troops near the eastern DRC city of Goma, sources said, hours before the expected arrival of a European mercy flight.
GENEVA - Russia and the United Nations will hold talks in Geneva on Monday on renewing the Ukraine grain export deal, with the UN saying the fate of millions rested on its extension.
MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA - Islamist militants have killed at least 25 people in an attack in a fishing town in Nigeria's Borno state, police and residents said on Thursday.
DOHA - Just $1.4 billion in new loans and grants were promised at a UN summit devoted to the world's poorest nations where UN leader Antonio Guterres had appealed for massive aid, officials said Thursday.
KINSHASA - A US investment firm has proposed to stop a controversial oil auction in DRC's rainforests, bidding to exploit carbon credits instead of drilling in the environmentally sensitive areas.
DAKAR — Rights defenders and political opponents say civil liberties in Senegal are coming under pressure ahead of the February 2024 presidential election. They claim the government has cracked down on demonstrations, used coercive measures against the press, hiked arrests and abused the justice system.
BRUSSELS - EU ministers met Thursday to wrangle once again over who should take responsibility for migrants arriving in Europe, pointing the finger at a reluctant Italy.
WASHINGTON - Burkina Faso, along with Peru, led a global deterioration in freedom last year but a number of other nations made improvements, giving hope in the fight against authoritarianism, Freedom House said Thursday.
ADDIS ABABA - Amnesty International on Thursday called on Ethiopian authorities to restore access to social media networks including Facebook, TikTok and Youtube as a blockade on some platforms entered its second month.
TUNIS - Fourteen migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have drowned off the coast of the Tunisian city of Sfax, the coastguard said on Thursday.
PARIS - Corinne Diacre has been turfed as coach of the France women's team, the French Football Federation (FFF) announced on Thursday, after her position was weakened following a revolt by leading players.
LAGOS - UPDATED WITH NEW FATALITY COUNT, DETAILS: Six people were killed on Thursday when a train ploughed into a bus in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, the emergency services said.
BENI, DRC - Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 36 people, and possibly as many as 44, in an overnight attack on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official and the head of a civil society group said on Thursday.
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