SpaceX Ready To Retry Launching NASA's Next Space Station Crew
Two NASA astronauts will be joined by a Russian cosmonaut and an astronaut from the United Arab Emirates for a six-month science mission made up of experiments ranging from human cell growth in space to controlling combustible materials in microgravity.
African Migrants Suffer Under Crackdown In Tunisia
Social media has, meanwhile, filled with accounts by darker-skinned people in Tunisia, including migrants with and without valid visas, African students and Black Tunisians, of ill treatment and fear.
China's President Xi, Poised For Third Term, Urges 'Intensive' State And Party Revamp
The meeting of the largely rubber-stamp parliament opens at the Great Hall of the People in the heart of Beijing on Sunday, where Xi is widely expected to secure his third five-year term as president.
FTX's Singh Pleads Guilty As Pressure Mounts On Bankman-Fried
Nishad Singh, the former director of engineering at now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, pleaded guilty to U.S.
ICC's Top Prosecutor In Ukraine To Probe Russian Attacks On Power Grid
ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan was in Ukraine to investigate Russia's campaign of missile and drone attacks on power and other infrastructure that killed hundreds of civilians and left millions with no electricity or water.
Exclusive-Ethiopia Seeks To End UN-ordered Probe Into Tigray War Abuses
The Ethiopian government's two-year conflict with forces in the northern Tigray region ended last November with thousands dead and millions uprooted.
Italy Urges 'Stop' To Migrant Boats As Shipwreck Death Toll Hits 63
Many of the victims washed ashore close to where the vessel sank near Steccato di Cutro, a seaside resort on the eastern coast of Calabria, while some of the bodies were recovered from the sea.
Ukraine War, US-China Tensions To Dominate G20 Foreign Ministers Meet
The outcome was similar to a G20 summit meeting in Bali last November, when host Indonesia also issued a final declaration acknowledging differences.
Russia Fights To Encircle Ukraine's Defenders In Bakhmut
Russia is trying to cut the Ukrainian defenders' vulnerable supply lines into the city and force them to surrender or withdraw.
Nigerian Parties Criticise Slow Pace Of Weekend Election Count
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has so far released official results from only one of 36 states.
IMF Flags Debt Restructuring Hurdles, Says Banning Crypto Should Be An Option
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said there were no "deliverables" from the meeting, which was mostly organisational.
Financial Crime Watchdog Adds South Africa To 'Grey List'
Being added to the list is a reputational setback for Africa's most advanced economy, which has been trying to address shortcomings identified by the FATF.
Fleeing Drought, Somalis Face Malnutrition And Cholera In Kenya
After five consecutive failed rainy seasons, parts of Somalia are on the verge of famine and the rest of the country is faring little better.
Any China Lethal Aid To Russia Would Come At 'Real Costs,' US Says
China has not moved forward in providing that aid, but neither has Beijing taken that option off the table, Sullivan said in a separate interview on ABC's "This Week" program.
Microsoft Unveils Suite Of Cloud Tools For Telecom Firms
Microsoft first entered the 5G arena after its acquisition of cloud networking companies Affirmed Networks and Metaswitch in 2020.
Ukraine's Ground Forces Commander Visits Besieged Bakhmut To Talk Strategy, Boost Morale
Military analysts expect that Ukraine's forces will put their "maximum effort" in coming days into defending Bakhmut, which in recent months has seen some of the bloodiest attritional fighting of Russia's year-old invasion.
Burkina Faso Buries Exhumed Remains Of Murdered Ex-leader Sankara
Compaore, who ruled for almost three decades, before being toppled in 2014, was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment last year for complicity in Sankara's murder.
IMF Lays Out Crypto Action Plan, Recommends Against Legal Tender Status
The top recommendation was to "safeguard monetary sovereignty and stability by strengthening monetary policy frameworks and do not grant crypto assets official currency or legal tender status."
Blinken Says India, South Africa Are On Slow Trajectory Away From Alignment With Russia
Blinken said that he understood the reasons for South Africa's ties with Russia while acknowledging regret for Washington's "sympathetic" approach to the apartheid-era regime in South Africa.
Nigerian Senate Candidate Killed Three Days Before Election
A senatorial candidate from Nigeria's opposition Labour Party was killed late on Wednesday by unknown gunmen in southeastern Enugu State, a local party official said on Thursday, the latest violent incident ahead of a momentous national election.
Exclusive-Some Investors Offering Ethiopia Maturity Extension On 2024 Bond - Sources
An informal group of international bondholders has proposed to Ethiopia's government to extend the maturity of the country's $1 billion eurobond issue coming due in 2024, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Nigerian States Sue Over Withdrawal Of Old Banknotes Before Elections
In a country where most people rely on cash for everything from taxi fares to buying food from markets, the shortages of naira bills has riled citizens, some of whom have attacked banks and burned cash-dispensing machines.
New York Sues CoinEx, Says Crypto Exchange Failed To Register With State
In papers filed with a New York state court in Manhattan, James accused CoinEx of having "engaged in repeated and persistent fraudulent practices."
Biden Says Putin's Decision Doesn't Show He's Thinking Of Using Nuclear Weapons
"It's a big mistake to do that. Not very responsible. But I don't read into that that he's thinking of using nuclear weapons or anything like that," Biden told ABC News in an interview.
UN To Mark One Year Of Ukraine War With Vote To 'Go Down In History'
Marking one year of war, Ukraine and Russia lobbied countries at the United Nations on Wednesday for backing ahead of a vote by the 193-member General Assembly that the United States declared will "go down in history."
Nigeria Presidential Election To Test Dominant Parties
All three candidates have made roughly similar promises to tackle these issues.
Putin Suspends Nuclear Pact, Biden Says Support For Ukraine 'Will Not Waver'
Biden went on to say that "there should be no doubt: Our support for Ukraine will not waver, NATO will not be divided, and we will not tire."
Six Killed In Russian Rocket Attack As Putin Delivers Speech, Ukraine Says
At least one Russian rocket slammed into a busy street in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson killing six people, officials said, as Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a speech marking a year of war in Ukraine.
Zelenskiy Says Ukrainian Forces Holding Line, Russia Claims Advance
Russian troops trying to take Avdiivka, the second focal point of attacks in Donetsk region, were even using tear gas grenades, he said.
Putin Accuses West Of Stoking Global War To Destroy Russia
Flanked by four Russian tricolour flags, Putin told Russia's political and military elite that Russia would "carefully and consistently resolve the tasks facing us."
