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The United States has imposed sanctions against Mali’s defence minister and two military officials, accusing the trio of helping to facilitate the Russian mercenary group Wagner’s rise in the West African nation. US Secretary of State…

Israeli doctors have began a 24-hour strike over the hard-right government's ratification of initial judicial changes that critics fear will endanger independence of the courts. The Israel Medical Association ordered doctors to strike…

Demonstrations have taken place in the streets of Botswana's capital, Gaborone, against legislation to make same-sex relations legal. Backed by religious groups, the demonstrators marched across the city to voice their opposition to a…

The state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission has urged officials to pay closer attention to the tensions and violence in the Oromia region. The commission, which made the call in its annual report this month, said there have…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been hospitalised and is under observation in the cardiac ward of a Tel Aviv-area hospital after being fitted with a pacemaker for a heart arrhythmia. "The implant went smoothly without any…

A Russian air attack on Ukraine's Odesa city early on Sunday has killed one person, injured 19 others and badly damaged a Russian-linked Orthodox cathedral. "Odesa: another night attack of the monsters," Oleh Kiper, governor of southern…

Four people, including two children, are missing as the heaviest rain to hit the Atlantic Canadian province of Nova Scotia in more than 50 years triggered floods causing "unimaginable" damage. Officials said the storm, which started on…

Kenyan President William Ruto has met with Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, with both sides pledging to deepen Belt and Road cooperation. Ruto noted that Kenya-China…

Ghana's sanitation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has resigned over reports staff found and stole stashes of local and foreign money from her home. Dapaah made headlines on Friday after two former household staff appeared in court…

Eleven people were killed in a suspected arson attack on a bar in the northern Mexican border city of San Luis Rio Colorado after an expelled patron set it ablaze with a Molotov cocktail. Sonora state prosecutors said preliminary…