Tanzanians begin casting votes in tense election
Voting in Tanzania’s presidential election began on Wednesday, with an opposition leader who survived being shot 16 times facing off against an incumbent who claims...
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Cameroon blames separatists for massacre of children
Cameroon’s government on Sunday blamed separatist fighters for the massacre of children in their classrooms in the English-speaking southwest of the country. It said there...
Emails Show How Pesticide Industry Influenced U.S. Position in Health Talks
The emails, from a pesticide industry lobbyist to employees at the Department of Agriculture, expressed alarm over proposed guidelines issued by a United Nations task...
Mali junta chief demands end to economic sanctions
Mali’s military junta leader, Colonel Assimi Goita, on Tuesday, demanded an end to potentially crippling economic sanctions imposed after last month’s coup in the poor...
Trump Scorns His Own Scientists Over Virus Data
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday rejected the professional scientific conclusions of his own government about the prospects for a widely available coronavirus vaccine and...
Can Biden Fix What Trump Broke?
PARIS — If Joe Biden moves to the White House in January, he will find across the Atlantic a very different landscape from the one...
War Crime Risk Grows for U.S. Over Saudi Strikes in Yemen
WASHINGTON — The civilian death toll from Saudi Arabia’s disastrous air war over Yemen was steadily rising in 2016 when the State Department’s legal office...
Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir trial adjourned
The trial of Sudan’s deposed strongman Omar al-Bashir over his role in the 1989 military coup that brought him to power was adjourned to 22...
More than 50 prisoners starve to death in east Congo prison
Fifty-two inmates at a prison in the northeastern Congo city of Bunia have starved to death this year because of insufficient government funding, the United...
As Both Sides Dig In, What’s the Endgame for Belarus?
MOSCOW — Viewers of a news show on Belarusian state TV got an unpleasant surprise recently when a disparaging report about protests sweeping their East...