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The health minister is confident the Ebola-like virus will not spread beyond the affected area.

North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles Wednesday, Seoul’s military said, the latest launch which comes as South Korea and the United States stage major joint… Read More »N. Korea fires several cruise missiles off its east coast, says S. Korea

Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party said Wednesday it would not field a presidential candidate in May elections, giving tacit support to Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rival in… Read More »Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party will not field candidate in election setback for Erdogan

Ethiopia’s parliament on Wednesday removed the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) from an official list of terrorist groups, a key step in the peace… Read More »Ethiopia’s parliament removes Tigray rebel party from terror list

Can Morocco become just the second African nation to host a World Cup after announcing a joint bid with Spain and Portugal?

China’s President Xi Jinping departed Moscow on Wednesday after a grandiose display of solidarity with Russian President Vladimir Putin, although he did not offer direct support… Read More »🔴 Live: China’s Xi departs Moscow after show of solidarity with Kremlin

At least 10 soldiers were killed in renewed fighting in Yemen, military sources told AFP, despite diplomatic efforts to halt the long-running war in the… Read More »At least 10 soldiers killed in Yemen as renewed fighting hinders peace efforts

President Emmanuel Macron will go live on television Wednesday, hoping to heal deep divisions across France caused by a brutal fight over his pensions reform… Read More »President Macron hopes to heal divisions after bruising pensions fight

The quake was felt over an area more than 1,000 km wide by some 285 million people in Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, the… Read More »Earthquake in Afghanistan, Pakistan kills at least 11

Humanity’s “lifeblood” — water — is increasingly at risk around the world due to “vampiric overconsumption and overdevelopment,” the UN warned in a report, published… Read More »UN warns ‘vampiric’ water use leading to ‘imminent’ global crisis