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Noori with his “tambo-guitar” with him arms out near Port Sudan in Sudan In our series of letters from African journalists, Sudanese writer Zeinab Mohammed Salih samples some rhythms with a political agenda from Sudan’s Red Sea state. Short presentational grey line Noureddine Atta Al-Mawla Jabar’s new album, Beja Power!, […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s former national security director was arrested Saturday over a suspected cover-up surrounding North Korea’s killing of a South Korean fisheries official near the rivals’ sea boundary in 2020. Suh Hoon’s arrest early Saturday came as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s conservative government investigates his […]

Caesarean section rates are significantly higher in Egypt than other parts of the world, with some doctors accused of deliberately steering expectant mothers to choose this for their own convenience – and as a way of making money. “The doctor chose C-section not to interrupt his annual leave,” Mai Shami […]

JOE McDONALD November 30, 2022, 6:24 PM Virus Outbreak China Vaccine Campaign FILE – An elderly woman wearing a mask walks on a street of Beijing, China, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File) ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING (AP) — A campaign to vaccinate the elderly has sparked hopes […]

Nov. 29—The 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference that ended last week in Egypt, brought mostly disappointing results. One piece of progress — rich countries agreeing to establish a global fund to compensate poor nations for climate change damage they are suffering — was something long sought by poor nations. […]

The foreign ministers of seven Nordic and Baltic counties vowed Monday to provide more military, economic and humanitarian aid to help Ukraine withstand Russian attacks not only on the battlefield but against civilian targets, which account for most of the Kremlin’s aims. With winter approaching and temperatures already dipping below freezing in […]

By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING, Nov 28 (Reuters) – China posted another record high COVID-19 infections on Monday, after an extraordinary weekend of protests across the country over restrictive coronavirus curbs, in scenes unprecedented since President Xi Jinping assumed power a decade ago. In Shanghai, demonstrators and police clashed on […]

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ABUJA, Nigeria—Russia’s infamous Wagner Group has abandoned dozens of former Central African Republic (CAR) rebels in Ukraine’s Donbas region after recruiting them to fight Vladimir Putin’s war, two former CAR fighters told The Daily Beast. The CAR sources, who were recruited by Wagner […]

Vladimir Putin said he empathizes with the mothers of Russian soldiers he sent to die in an unprovoked attack on Ukraine. With cameras rolling, the embattled Russian leader addressed a carefully curated gathering of more than a dozen grieving moms at the Kremlin Friday. The 70-year-old president said nothing can […]

A student taking notes in class, Kisoro, Uganda It might seem like Christmas is coming early for students in Uganda as millions of them head home early for the school holidays on Friday. Yet the decision to close schools nationwide two weeks before the end of term has been taken […]