DAKAR — Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of Mali's junta, Colonel Assimi Goita, discussed security and economic relations between their two countries, both sides reported on Wednesday.
PARIS — Some of the commentary on this month's European Athletics Team Championships will be generated by Artificial Intelligence, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) announced on Tuesday.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, who has been recovering from abdominal surgery in a Rome hospital, will be discharged "in the next few days", the Vatican said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — Analysts and traders broadly expect the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to vote to hold rates where they are, while leaving the door open to another rate hike in July if needed.
KANO — The death toll from a Nigeria riverboat disaster has risen to 106 people as rescue teams continued to search for more survivors, police said on Wednesday.
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it would jointly lead a conference on the humanitarian response to the war in Sudan next week, without specifying the location.
NAIROBI — The death toll in an investigation linked to a Kenyan cult that practised starvation to "meet Jesus Christ" has surpassed 300 after 19 new bodies were found Tuesday, a senior official said.
KINSHASA — The Rwandan-backed M23 militia has committed murder, rape and "other war crimes" in the Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile east in recent months, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday
UNITED NATIONS HQ, NEW YORK — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Tuesday for maintaining but streamlining a peacekeeping mission in troubled Mali, whose military leaders have clashed with the West and turned to Russia.
BRAZZAVILLE — Republic of Congo police, often accused of torture and ill-treatment, will receive a three-year training program funded by five million euros ($5.4 million) from the European Union, officials said Tuesday.
GENEVA — The United Nations Tuesday condemned the use of firearms to quell protests in Senegal, calling for an independent probe and punishment for the perpetrators.
WASHINGTON — Consumer inflation in the United States cooled for an 11th straight month in May, the Labor Department said Tuesday, in an encouraging sign for policymakers seeking to rein in price increases.
JOS, NIGERIA — Gunmen have killed at least 23 people in separate attacks in central Nigeria, police said on Tuesday, in the latest violence in an area struggling with clashes between herders and local farmers.
PARIS — Kylian Mbappe's future at Paris Saint-Germain is once more in doubt after he told the French champions that he will not be taking up an option to extend his contract beyond next year, raising the specter of him following Lionel Messi out of the club this summer.
KAMPALA — The United States said it has updated its travel warning for Uganda following the adoption of draconian anti-gay legislation last month, a move Kampala branded "blackmail."
GENEVA — The Gavi vaccine alliance said Tuesday that it had helped provide routine vaccines to over one billion children since it was established 23 years ago, saving millions of lives.
DOUALA — John Fru Ndi, a long-time opponent of autocratic Cameroonian President Paul Biya, has died at age 81 after a long illness, his party said on Tuesday.
NAIROBI — Kenya's President William Ruto vowed Monday to arrange a "face to face" meeting between Sudan's warring generals to end the crisis roiling the country after multiple cease-fires have failed to hold, the Kenyan presidency said.
HARARE — Zimbabwean authorities charged 39 opposition activists with political violence over the alleged "demolishing" of a ruling party office on Monday, as tensions grow ahead of national elections in August.
UNITD NATIONS HQ, NEW YORK — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday he is working to extend an agreement that allows grain from war-torn Ukraine to reach the global market and prevent shortages.
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