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WASHINGTON — The leaders of the United States, Canada and Mexico are meeting Thursday for their first trilateral summit in five years, to discuss longstanding issues such as climate change,
WASHINGTON — A federal agency charged with making sure that government employees do not use their positions to influence elections released a scathing report this week, finding that at least
Fourteen activists who planned to participate in the Beijing provincial assembly election have withdrawn four days ahead of the November 5 vote, saying their personal safety is at risk.Many of
BINDURA, ZIMBABWE — Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa says he will attend COP26, becoming the first Zimbabwe leader to visit the United Kingdom since Zimbabwe was accused of human rights abuses
Protesters are taking to the streets of Sudan on Saturday to demand the restoration of a civilian government.Neighborhood committees and other activists planned Saturday’s “march of millions” under the slogan
Ethiopia’s media authority on Friday ordered a local radio and TV broadcaster to cease sharing foreign news reports.A letter from the Ethiopian Media Authority, issued to Ahadu Radio and TV
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO — Actor Alec Baldwin fired a vintage Colt pistol loaded with a live lead round in the accidental fatal shooting last week of a cinematographer on
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden held a crucial private meeting with two key senators Sunday as he races to complete the details of a pared-down social safety net and
MEKELLE, ETHIOPIA / WASHINGTON — Ethiopian forces carried out an airstrike Friday on the city of Mekelle, their fifth on the Tigray regional capital since Monday.There were no immediate reports
Protests erupted in the streets of Khartoum on Thursday over Sudan’s hybrid transitional government.Supporters of the northeast African nation’s civilian coalition, the Forces of Freedom and Change, turned out after
NAIROBI — Media controlled by rebellious northern Ethiopian forces said the government launched air strikes on the capital of Tigray region on Monday, though the government denied the reports.Tigrai TV,
JOHANNESBURG — A floundering economy, party in-fighting and ceaseless corruption allegations are plaguing South Africa’s ruling African National Congress. The nationwide local elections on November 1 will test whether loyalty
ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST — Former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo launched a new political party Saturday, formally breaking ties with those who ran his previous party while he spent years facing
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok on Friday unveiled a road map to end what he described as the country’s “worst and most dangerous” political crisis in its two-year transition.Since a
LAGOS, NIGERIA — Nigeria’s military claimed Thursday that Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the leader of an Islamic State-linked extremist group blamed for killing hundreds in the northeast, had died. There was