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A Tunisian judge has ordered a freeze on the financial assets of the former speaker of the country’s dissolved parliament, Rached Ghannouchi, former prime minister Hamadi Jebali, and several other people. He added that the list of people included Ghannouchi’s son Moadh Ghannouchi and son-in-law...

Myanmar’s military government hosted its first high-level regional meeting since the army took power last year, with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and counterparts from Mekong Delta nations attending. State broadcaster MRTV reported that Wang met with his colleagues from Myanmar, Laos, Thailand...

West African leaders lifted sanctions on Mali's military regime, accepting a March 2024 return to civilian rule and agreed to allow Burkina Faso two years for its transition back to democracy. Heads of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met in Ghana's capital Accra to assess...

Sudan’s coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said the army would make way for a civilian government, a demand made for months by street protesters and repeatedly called for by the international community. Burhan said the military would no longer participate in national talks facilitated by the UN and...

Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the namesake son of an ousted dictator, was sworn in as Philippine president Thursday in one of the greatest political comebacks in recent history, but which opponents say was pulled off by whitewashing his family’s image. His rise to power, 36 years after an army-backed...

Four people were reported killed as huge crowds took to the streets of Sudan amid a communications blackout and tight security to rally against the country’s military leadership that seized power eight months ago. The Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said in a tweet that the four were fatally shot...

Two senior Libyan officials began two days of talks on constitutional arrangements for elections, the latest United Nations effort to bridge gaps between the country’s rivals. Aguila Saleh, the influential speaker of the country’s east-based parliament, and Khaled al-Meshri, head of the...

More than 1,000 people have been killed and 2,000 injured in what has been recorded as Afghanistan’s worst earthquake in 20 years. According to the country’s Ministry of Public Health, 35 entire villages have been destroyed or damaged. In Gayan alone, at least 250 people have died. Families affected...

The Indigenous organization leading protests in Ecuador has agreed to hold talks with the government, as the South American nation has been rocked by mass demonstrations over the last two weeks. The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) said in a statement that it expected to...

Priceless artifacts removed and looted from African nations during Germany’s colonial period will be permanently returned, officials said. The Berlin-based Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which manages the German capital’s many museums, said it had entered into negotiations on the returns of...