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Sudan's powersharing government and a major rebel group active in southern borderlands have agreed to hold new peace talks hosted by South Sudan, both sides said on Friday, days after Khartoum signed a peace deal with other groups.

South Korea's top medical body faced a rift on Friday after trainee doctors rejected a deal by its leader to end a twoweekold strike, although the government backed down from reform plans aimed at averting future epidemics.

An Eritrean man running away from a residence for asylumseekers in Sicily was struck and killed by a car, which also injured three police officers who were pursuing the migrant on a highway early Friday.

The Kremlin said on Friday that it wanted dialogue with Germany over the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny and that Russian doctors who treated him initially were much more transparent than the German doctors treating him now.

President Donald Trump has urged Iran not to execute a popular wrestler who authorities say killed a man during 2018 antigovernment rallies.

Seven human rights experts affiliated with the U.N. raised concerns over Hong Kongs national security law in a letter addressed to Chinese authorities, saying that the law infringed on certain fundamental rights.

Ethiopia's northern Tigray region will head to the polls on Wednesday in defiance of the federal government, the latest challenge to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed from a slew of regional leaders flexing their muscles ahead of next year's national elections.

Mayors of major U.S. cities on Thursday blasted President Donald Trump's threat to cut federal funding to cities facing ongoing protests as a violation of the U.S. Constitution, and New York state said it would challenge any move to defund the city in cou...

A Black journalist quit his job at a Kenosha, Wisconsin, daily newspaper after disputing a headline for a story about a rally organized by the family of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was shot by a police officer.

The president of Puerto Rico's elections commission announced Thursday that he is resigning immediately, nearly a month after botched primaries forced a second round of voting in an unprecedented event for the U.S. territory.

Nigerian authorities are disturbed by the low level of coronavirus test sample collections, a senior government official said on Thursday.

German prosecutors said Thursday they have closed an investigation into two journalists with the Financial Times that was launched following reports last year about allegations of irregularities at nowbankrupt payment company Wirecard.

Turkey risks military confrontation in the eastern Mediterranean because it prizes power over diplomacy, a former prime minister who championed a less confrontational policy in the first decade of President Tayyip Erdogan's rule told Reuters.

Ethiopias government says it is thankful to Saudi Arabia for accepting Ethiopian migrants entering the country, but it is barely commenting on the squalid conditions they face in some Saudi detention centers, after a media report showed migrants crowded i...

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko promoted hardline loyalists to top posts in his security apparatus on Thursday in an effort to strengthen his grip on the former Soviet republic after weeks of mass protests and strikes.

Montenegro's president, Milo Djukanovic, says his proWestern party is ready to go into opposition after three decades in power if three political alliances can form a coalition following their success in a parliamentary election.