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Where South Africa’s Crunch Election Will Be Won and Lost
(Bloomberg) -- The 56,000-seat Moses Mabhida Stadium in the South African port city of Durban was jammed for the unveiling of the ruling African National Congress’s election manifesto launch.Most...
Millions More Trees Isn’t the Climate Fix New Zealand Thought
(Bloomberg) -- Of all the solutions for a warming world, “plant more trees” seems pretty obvious.Most Read from BloombergBut in New Zealand, which tested that premise by linking incentives...
State Department says it is in contact with Israel after Rafah strike
Following the deadly airstrikes by Israel near Rafah in the Gaza Strip, the US government says it is in dialogue with the Israeli army and partners on the ground...
Putin pledges energy cooperation on visit to Uzbekistan
Russia is to increase cooperation on energy with Uzbekistan by building a gas pipeline and several hydroelectric and nuclear power stations in the country, President Vladimir Putin announced while...
Deadly strike on Rafah a tragic mishap, Netanyahu says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the strike which killed scores of displaced Palestinians in Rafah on Sunday was a "tragic mishap", amid growing international condemnation of the blast.At...
South Africa’s surprise election challenger is evoking the past anti-apartheid struggle
DURBAN, South Africa (AP) — The 59-year-old Dumisani Ndlovu has voted in every South Africa national election since he and the rest of the Black majority finally won the...
Outrage after 45 reportedly killed in Israeli strike near Rafah
The Hamas-run health authority in Gaza on Monday said 45 people were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli airstrike that hit tents housing displaced people near the southern...
Russia to build a small nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Uzbekistan leader Shavkat Mirziyoyev held talks on Monday and signed a number of agreements aimed at deepening bilateral relations, including one...
Confessed Russian spy in German military sentenced to 3.5 years
A 54-year-old German army officer who confessed to spying for Russia has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a court in Dusseldorf.The man, a...
German spokesman: Israeli airstrike in Rafah presumably a ‘mistake’
The German government has described a deadly Israeli airstrike near Rafah that killed at least 35 Palestinians as presumably "a mistake" and again defended Israel's "right to defend itself...
