NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan doctors have stopped providing emergency services at public hospitals, as they escalated a national strike that entered its second week.
ALGIERS, Algeria —Algerian officials are chiding television stations over the content choices they’ve made since the start of Ramadan.
NAIROBI— Ethiopia’s biggest bank is reportedly attempting to recover more than $40 million after a technical glitch allowed customers to withdraw more than they had in their accounts.
CAPE TOWN — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is taking the independent electoral body and a rival political party fronted by the country’s former leader to court. It's underscoring a fractious buildup to what could be the country's most pivotal election in 30 years
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The incoming Palestinian prime minister says he will appoint a technocratic government and establish an independent trust fund to oversee Gaza’s reconstruction.
WASHINGTON— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to send a team of Israeli officials to Washington to discuss with Biden administration officials a prospective Rafah operation, according to White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa— South African rescue services searching for a missing charter boat captain are concerned about possible foul play after they discovered his boat burned and abandoned on a beach in neighboring Mozambique.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands— Israel is urging the top United Nations court to reject the latest request by South Africa for interim orders to prevent starvation in Gaza.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country won’t relent in its invasion of Ukraine while announcing plans for a buffer zone along the border to protect against long-range Ukrainian strikes and cross-border raids.
TEL AVIV, Israel— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sharply protesting against growing criticism from top ally the United States over his leadership amid the war with Hamas.
According to Russia’s Central Election Commission, Putin had some 87% of the vote with about 60% of precincts counted. The extraordinary early results were another reflection of the preordained nature of the election.
GUATEMALA CITY — A number of government and aid agencies in Haiti have reported their facilities and aid supplies have been looted as Haiti spirals into another wave of gang violence.
LONDON— Vaughan Gething has won the Welsh Labour Party leadership contest and is set to become the first Black leader of Wales’ semi-autonomous government. Gething is currently Welsh economy minister.
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT— Two Associated Press journalists aboard an American aid flight to Gaza observed the wreckage to the strip's north as the plane delivered much-needed food aid to Palestinians below.
BEIRUT— Syrian state media say Israeli airstrikes have hit several sites in southern Syria wounding a soldier.
Lagos, NIGERIA — The head of the African Development Bank is calling for an end to loans given in exchange for oil or critical minerals used in smartphones and electric car batteries.
WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip — The Israeli military says a ship has delivered 200 tons of food, water and humanitarian supplies to Gaza, inaugurating a sea route from Cyprus.
NAIROBI — Doctors at Kenya’s public hospitals began a nationwide strike Thursday, accusing the government of failing to implement promises from a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2017 after a 100-day strike that saw people dying from lack of care.
MONROVIA — Liberians gathered this week to mark a decade since the country was hit by a devastating Ebola outbreak that killed more than 10,000 people in West Africa, adding to the region’s economic and political troubles.
WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling on Israel to hold new elections.
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