DUBAI — King Charles III, Pope Francis and COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber might grab headlines at next week's COP28 in Dubai, but they are not the only people who will play an important role at the crunch UN climate conference.
JERUSALEM — Devoid of visitors, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City is haunted by an unusual quiet. The holiest place in Christianity has been emptied of its normal throngs of visitors by the war between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip.
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories—A doctor at Gaza's largest hospital Al-Shifa says the facility's director and several other medical personnel were arrested by Israeli forces on Thursday.
MAPUTO —Mozambique's parliament on Thursday passed draft legislation to up the minimum period of compulsory military service from two to five years, a move the government said aimed to increase professionalism in the armed forces.
N'DJAMENA —Chad's military rulers on Thursday announced a general amnesty ending prosecution and guilty verdicts over the deaths of hundreds of protesters in a 2022 anti-government rally, a minister told AFP.
Niger's neighbors, Mali and Burkina Faso — which are ruled by military leaders who seized power in 2020 and 2022, respectively — have pledged solidarity to Niger's coup leaders
All political parties in South Sudan must be able to campaign freely as the troubled eastern Central African nation moves toward holding long-overdue elections, the UN envoy urged on Thursday.
PARIS —Oil and gas firms will face a crucial choice at UN climate talks next week between contributing to the climate crisis or embracing the clean energy transition, the International Energy Agency said Thursday.
JOHANNESBURG —A prolonged heatwave that hit Madagascar in October would not have occurred without human-caused climate change, a scientific study said on Thursday.
PARIS—World leaders will face a reckoning over humanity's failure to curb climate-heating emissions and polluting fossil fuels when they meet for UN climate talks next week, as the planet swelters in likely the hottest year in human history.
JERUSALEM —Israel said a four-day Gaza truce and hostage release will not start until at least Friday, stalling a breakthrough deal to pause the war with Hamas.
A doctor at Gaza's largest hospital Al-Shifa told AFP that the facility's director and several other medical personnel were arrested by Israeli forces on Thursday.
PARIS — The hole in the Antarctic ozone layer has been getting deeper in mid-spring over the last two decades, despite a global ban on chemicals that deplete Earth's shield from deadly solar radiation, according to new research.
Kenya's President William Ruto said Thursday that his government was ready to privatize 35 state companies "trapped in government bureaucracy" in a bid to boost productivity following a change to laws.
COTONOU — Along its Atlantic coast, Benin's government has spent millions of dollars to protect coastal communities from sea erosion. But Doris Alapini can only watch as waves tirelessly eat away at her land and the large seaside restaurant she built.
WASHINGTON - US President Joe Biden spoke with the leaders of Egypt, Israel and Qatar Wednesday, the White House said, his first publicly announced talks with them since a hostage deal was announced between Israel and Hamas.
GENEVA—The United Nations heralded Wednesday the forthcoming scale-up of malaria vaccination across Africa after the first shipment of doses arrived in Cameroon.
KINSHASA — DR Congo's army has vowed to arrest and punish any soldiers in contact with the FDLR militia, citing "zero tolerance" for wrongdoers regardless of rank.
PARIS—Fifty-three journalists and media workers have been killed in the latest war between Israel and Hamas, according to a tally by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) published Tuesday.
WASHINGTON —The United States said Tuesday it was considering designating Yemen's Huthi rebels a terrorist organization after their seizure of an Israel-linked cargo vessel in the Red Sea.
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