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Ebola and hantavirus have Africa talking 'health sovereignty' as donor support fades

A new and deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda is the latest health emergency forcing African governments to break free of dependency on global donors like the United States as international support has been slashed in half over the past five years.

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Iran says it exchanged revised proposals with U.S., though enrichment remains a sticking point

Iran and the U.S. exchanged new proposals for reaching a lasting peace in the Middle East conflict, the Foreign Ministry in Tehran said Monday.

Drones reshape war in Colombia as deaths and injuries mount

Civilians left increasingly exposed as a dangerous new front opens up in the country’s decades-old conflictAs night fell over southern Colombia, and a group of children began their weekly Tuesday football match, a drone appeared overhead.The children looked up, and the drone dropped a grenade, its blast killing a 10-year-old boy and injuring 12 more civilians. The child’s death, in southern Cauca in 2024, marked the first known time a person in the country had been killed in a weaponised drone attack. Continue reading...

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Pope and co-founder of Anthropic to launch pontiff's AI encyclical on May 25

Pope Leo XIV and the co-founder of artificial intelligence company Anthropic will launch the pontiff's first encyclical on May 25, a document on the care of human dignity in the era of AI, the Vatican said Monday.

Nigeria, U.S. forces kill over 20 Islamic State group militants in new offensive

The Nigerian military says a new operation with U.S. forces has killed over 20 Islamic State militants in Borno state