A Colombian rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN) announced a 10-day, unilateral ceasefire with government forces to allow voters in the South American country to cast ballots for a new president on May 29. As Al Jazeera reported, the ELN is the largest remaining insurgent...
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang held a large nationwide teleconference this week with more than 100,000 local officials to bolster the country’s economy which has been deeply impacted by the government’s restrictive anti-Covid measures, CNBC reported Thursday. Li told the officials during the "emergency meeting" that the...
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The Gambia will prosecute former President Yahya Jammeh for a series of crimes committed during his decades-long regime, a decision that many human rights advocates and victims described as “unprecedented,” Al Jazeera reported Thursday. The Gambian government said this week that it accepted all but two...
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A hospital fire in western Senegal killed 11 newborn babies this week, a tragedy that has prompted outrage over the country’s poor medical facilities, NBC News reported Thursday. The fire took place in the neonatology department of the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital in the...
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Russia reduced interest rates on Thursday as the rising ruble, supported by high oil and gas profits, and government assistance, is relieving some of the strain on the country's shaky economy, CNN reported. At an extraordinary meeting, the Russian central bank reduced interest rates...
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Most depictions of saber-tooth cats show the animals always displaying their big canine teeth. That wasn’t always the case, though, according to a new study. Scientists found that at least one species of the extinct predator did not sport its sharp teeth in the open, the...
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