Macron Urges World Leaders to Speed Aid to Lebanon After Explosions
PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron of France called on world leaders to fast-track financial and humanitarian aid to Lebanon on Sunday after explosions last week...
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After Beirut Explosion, Protests Erupt as Lebanon’s Anger Boils Over
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Clashes between demonstrators and security forces broke out near Lebanon’s Parliament on Saturday at a protest fueled by the vast public anger...
As Lebanon Reels, Long-Awaited Hariri Assassination Verdicts Loom
The blast ripped off balconies along the Mediterranean, smashed windows blocks away and echoed across Beirut, leaving a city shattered by the immeasurable loss. It...
Lebanon Faces Humanitarian Crisis After Beirut Explosion, U.N. Says
As rescue workers continued to comb the debris for survivors of the deadly explosion in the port of Beirut, and as the United Nations warned...
UN plane crash-lands in Mali, injures 11
A United Nations plane careened off the runway while touching down in the northern Malian city of Gao on Monday, the international organisation said, injuring...
South Africa will not have universal basic income grant this year – minister
South Africa will not implement a universal basic income grant until at least March, Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu said in an interview on Friday,...
Cameroon army kills three armed separatists in repelled attack in restive Anglophone region
Cameroon army said Friday its troops have killed at least three armed separatists who launched coordinated attacks on a military patrol team in the country’s...
Congo soldier shoots dead 12 in drunken rampage
A soldier shot dead 12 people and injured nine others during a drunken rampage in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday evening, regional authorities...
Omar Hassan al-Bashir Is Gone, but the Killing Goes On in Darfur
CAIRO — On camels, horses and motorbikes, dozens of Arab militiamen stormed into the remote village in Darfur, in western Sudan, firing wildly, witnesses said....
West Africa proposes plan to resolve Mali crisis; opposition unimpressed
West Africa’s regional body ECOWAS on Monday proposed a four-point plan to resolve Mali’s political crisis that it says should be implemented within 10 days,...