LISBON — 47 young footballers, including 36 minors, have been rescued by Portuguese police in a crackdown on human trafficking linked to a training camp in the north of the country, the Immigration and Borders Service (SEF) said Thursday.
NEW YORK — Shoes worn by National Basketball Association legend Michael Jordan in the famous "Flu Game" of the 1997 NBA Finals were sold at auction for $1.38 million, Goldin memorabilia marketplace announced Thursday.
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune pledged to deepen their two countries' "strategic partnership" as the Kremlin seeks to pivot Russia towards Asia and Africa.
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS — The International Criminal Court said Thursday it will examine allegations of war crimes by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile east - after Kinshasa made a new formal referral to the tribunal.
WASHINGTON — Retail sales in the United States grew at a slower pace in May but still came in stronger than expected, according to government data released Thursday.
BUSHUSHU, DRC — Little remains of the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi, on the lush shores of Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, which were buried by a thick wall of mud and rock on May 4.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, 86, will be discharged on Friday from the Rome hospital where he underwent abdominal surgery last week, the Vatican said.
WASHINGTON — Nine women have accused Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting them decades ago in a lawsuit filed in Nevada Wednesday, after that U.S. state dropped its statute of limitations on civil sexual abuse cases.
KHARTOUM — Sudan's devastating war raged on into a third month Thursday as the reported death toll topped 2,000 and after a provincial governor was killed in the remote Darfur region.
NAIROBI — Kenyan President William Ruto's government presented its maiden budget to parliament on Thursday but was met with a walkout by protesting opposition MPs.
ABUJA — Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has suspended the country's anti-corruption chief as part of an investigation into allegations of abuse of office, the government said, and he was later questioned by domestic security services
NAIROBI — Eight Kenya police officers were killed when their vehicle was blown up by an improvised explosive device in a suspected attack by Somalia-based jihadist group al-Shabab, police said.
RABAT — A Moroccan court on Wednesday sentenced Mohamed Baassou, a leader of the kingdom's principal Islamist movement, which rejects the king's authority over religion, to a year in prison for "sexual harassment," an official in the movement said.
BASEL, SWITZERLAND — Perspectives on Africa, climate change, migration, artificial intelligence, and combating nationalism take center-stage this year at Art Basel, the world's top contemporary art fair.
WASHINGTON — U.S. wholesale prices shrank more than expected in May, according to data released Wednesday by the Labor Department, due largely to a steep drop-off in energy demand.
WASHINGTON — Former U.S. President Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, insists he is being targeted for prosecution by a Justice Department weaponized by Democratic President Joe Biden.
LONDON — King Charles III on Wednesday received the sons of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa to mark the 70th anniversary of the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. The king also received the daughter of the expedition's chief.
WASHINGTON — Marvel Comics artist John Romita Sr., primarily known for his work on "The Amazing Spider-Man," has died, his son said Tuesday. He was 93 years of age.
CAIRO — Egypt on Wednesday executed a man sentenced to death for the murder of a fellow student who rejected his advances, authorities said, in the culmination of a case that sparked outrage.
BRUSSELS — The European Commission accused Google on Wednesday of abusing its dominance of the online ad market and recommended the U.S. company sell part of its ad services to ensure fair competition.
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