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US will know within weeks if Russia is serious about peace, Rubio says
U.S. President Donald Trump, who has promised to bring a quick end to the three-year-old war, has for weeks said he believes Russia's Vladimir Putin is committed to peace.
Myanmar quake struck mosques as minority Muslims gathered for Ramadan prayers
His home collapsed along with part of the mosque, trapping half his body with the rubble of a wall that buried two of his aunts. Residents raced to pull the aunts out, he said, but only one survived.
AstraZeneca investing Ksh.323B in China as drugmaker seeks to recover from scandals
Chief Executive Pascal Soriot was in Beijing and met with the city's mayor to reveal the investment, along with two licensing deals with Chinese companies, and a joint venture with a third Chinese firm on vaccines, saying they all showed the company's commitment to the world's No. 2 economy....
Israeli airstrike kills nine people in north Gaza town, medics say, amid ceasefire disputes
Several were critically injured as the strike hit a car, with casualties inside and outside the vehicle, health officials told Reuters.
Russia awaits details from US on Ukraine ceasefire plan
After Russian forces made gains in 2024, U.S. President Donald Trump reversed U.S. policy on the war, launching bilateral talks with Moscow and suspending military assistance to Ukraine, demanding that it take steps to end the conflict.
Nigeria strikes $200 million deal to power rural areas with renewable mini grids
The project will develop and operate 400 mini-grids and 50 MetroGrids across Nigeria's mostly rural areas to improve electricity access to an estimated 1.5 to 2 million people and boost local economies.
Trump says US talking to four different groups on sale of TikTok
TikTok's fate has been up in the air since a law requiring its owner ByteDance to either sell it on national security grounds or face a ban took effect on January 19. Trump, after taking office on January 20, signed an executive order seeking to delay by 75 days the enforcement of the law....
SpaceX's Starship explodes in space, again raining debris over Caribbean
Several videos on social media showed fiery debris streaking through the dusk skies near south Florida and the Bahamas after Starship broke up in space shortly after it began to spin uncontrollably with its engines cut off, a SpaceX live stream of the mission showed.
Musk orders US federal workers to report on work by Monday or resign
The emails came shortly after Elon Musk, the billionaire head of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, posted on the social media site X that not responding to the email request would be viewed as a resignation.
Congo frees opposition leader and former president's ally Kabund
The one-time vice president of parliament and lawmaker had a falling out with President Felix Tshisekedi in 2022, after which he launched his own political party. He was arrested in August of that year and sentenced to seven years in prison.