In the West, there has been staunch support for Israel since the attack on Oct. 7 by Hamas and its affiliates that killed about 1,400 people. It was no different in Africa, Asia or Latin America initially, with leaders expressing sympathy. That was then. Now, many in Europe,...
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Liberian opposition leader Joseph Boakai won the country’s presidential runoff Saturday, following a tightly-contested election amid economic woes and fears of post-election violence, Agence France-Presse reported. With nearly all votes counted, results showed Boakai gained nearly 51 percent of the vote, while his opponent, incumbent George...
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Guatemalan prosecutors moved to strip President-elect Bernardo Arévalo of immunity from prosecution, a move that many critics and diplomats described as the latest by the government to keep the anti-graft politician from taking office in January, NPR reported. Prosecutors asked the country’s supreme court to strip...
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Senegal’s supreme court dealt a major blow to embattled opposition leader Ousmane Sonko by effectively barring him from running for president in next year’s elections, the Associated Press reported. The high court nullified a decision by a lower court in the city of Ziguinchor – where...
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Astronomers recently discovered that a massive black hole in a galaxy far away is the oldest ever recorded, the Washington Post reported. The “supermassive” object has roughly the same mass as all the stars in that galaxy – known as UHZ1 – combined, and is believed...
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