Between now and September, a massive explosion 3,000 light years from Earth will flare up in the night sky, giving amateur astronomers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to witness this space oddity.
Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye named a "breakaway" government on Friday, appointing a host of fresh faces to top roles following his landslide election win last month.
US President Joe Biden on Friday asked Egyptian and Qatari leaders for help in getting Hamas to agree to a deal with Israel, an American official said, ahead of negotiations in Cairo.
According to Rwanda, hundreds of genocide suspects remain at large, including in neighbouring nations such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
The bloodiest-ever Gaza war began on October 7 with an unprecedented attack from Gaza by Hamas militants resulting in the death of 1,170 people, mostly civilians, Israeli figures show.
Jamilah Habsaoui, mayor of Avallon since 2021 and also a regional councillor, was one of several targets for police raids after an investigation into drug trafficking.
It is not known whether Isak or his family were at home at the time of the burglary.
The regional force sent soldiers to North Kivu province in December to help Kinshasa regain ground from the M23 militia in the lawless east.
Zuma, who is running for a new opposition party, has appealed a decision by electoral officials to bar him from the vote over a 2021 conviction.
The day died and was reborn a few minutes later Monday in U.S. There were hugs, tears, and gasping as people watched the Moon fully eclipse the Sun and briefly plunge the world into darkness.
Former American footballer OJ Simpson dies aged 76, family says; he was in 1995 acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife, and in 2008 sentenced to 33 years in prison for armed robbery.
The ZiG - short for Zimbabwe Gold - officially started trading on Monday.
Goma has a resident population of one million, with another million displaced by the war crammed into desperate, temporary camps that have become the frontlines.
The commission said in a statement that it had lodged an "urgent and direct" appeal to the Constitutional Court to provide "certainty".
Niger's military government agreed in January to step up military cooperation with Russia, after expelling French forces.
Aid workers say a year of war between rival generals in Sudan has led to catastrophe.
The celebration with bank notes, known locally as "spraying", is common at Nigerian weddings and parties, but prohibited by law.
Fighting around the trading town of Myawaddy erupted earlier this week.
A Rwandan woman expelled to her homeland three years ago from the United States has been given a life sentence for her role in the country's 1994 genocide.
Dozens of Israeli fighter jets are currently operating to intercept "all aerial threats" approaching Israel.
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