Ethiopia's prime minister recently touted the country's mining resources and said the industry could achieve a historic milestone by generating up to $2 billion in gold revenue this year. He made the comment while inaugurating a gold exploration and mining factory in the Gambella Region.
Russia targeted Ukraine with scores of drones overnight, and Ukrainian officials claimed most were downed or jammed by air defenses. At least one person was killed in Kyiv.
Ukrainian forces have lost around 593,410 troops over 2024, according to Sputnik calculations of the Russian Defense Ministry's data.
Russian forces targeted several key facilities in Ukraine over the past 24 hours, including an energy infrastructure site supporting the defense industry, military airfields and a site for assembling unmanned boats, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) reported.
U.N. human rights monitors find that almost three years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the human rights situation in the country and areas occupied by Russia is on a downward spiral, as military operations intensify, civilian casualties rise, and torture, summary executions and other gross violations proliferate.
President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) delivered his 2025 New Year's Day address Wednesday, his first since assuming the presidency on May 20.
President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) has called China the "real barrier" to cross-strait exchanges and urged Beijing to hold talks with Taipei to ease tourism restrictions.
China's President Xi Jinping has once again underscored the reunification of Beijing with Taiwan, saying no one can separate the two as they are one family.
A new report says violence has surged in Syria under the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rule, with approximately 400 kidnappings and extra-judicial killings since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad's government in early December.
The Justice Department issued the following statement from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland following the attack in New Orleans:
Today, at approximately 3:15 a.m. CST, an individual drove a pickup truck into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 10 and injuring dozens of others.
The World Health Organization has called on China to fully release crucial data surrounding the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan in 2020, although the call was dismissed by Beijing.
When Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart over the crash of a passenger jet that was damaged in the sky above Chechnya, it was an extremely rare if not unprecedented occurrence in his 25 years in power.
Russia's Gazprom has no technical and legal ability to supply gas for transit through Ukraine due to the expiration of the agreement with Ukrainian national oil and gas company Naftogaz, the Russian energy giant said on Wednesday, adding that the gas supply stopped at 8 a. m. Moscow time (5:00 GMT).
Russian gas exports crossing through Ukraine were halted Wednesday with the expiration of a transit agreement.
Authorities in northwestern Pakistan announced Wednesday that heavily armed rival Sunni and Shiite Muslim tribes in a conflict-prone district bordering Afghanistan have reached a peace deal following recent deadly clashes.
Today, Pakistan and India exchanged, through diplomatic channels, the lists of prisoners in each other's custody.
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