By MARK MENGONFIA and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian law enforcement agents burned some 4.2 metric tons of cocaine worth about $336 million on Thursday, days after authorities announced the country's largest-ever drug seizure and implicated senior police ...
By SAM MEDNICK, ISABEL DEBRE and ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The teenage boy's hands and legs were shackled to the anti-aircraft gun mounted on a pickup as Sudanese warplanes attacked. He saw another child chained to the steering wheel. As their captors sought ...
By PROSPER HERI NGORORA and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Ebola has killed more than 1,500 people in eastern Congo in the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease, data released Thursday showed, marking a 50% increase in around a week as the emergency continues to ...
By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has started documenting and screening thousands of detained Myanmar nationals as part of a repatriation program agreed with Myanmar, Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution said Thursday. Saifuddin said Myanmar had committed to ...
By SAM McNEIL Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is offering 10 billion euros ($11.4 billion) in funding for firms to erect seven AI gigafactories as it seeks to close the AI gap with U.S. and China, the 27-nation bloc's executive said on Thursday. The European Commission ...
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. companies signed roughly $60 billion in agreements and partnerships with the Iraqi government Friday, including deals intended to create alternative routes for shipping oil out of the Persian Gulf. The ...