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Veronica Macamo, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation smiles at the end of the annoucemment of the results of the 2024 presidential elections in Maputo on December 23, 2025. - AFP

Mozambique’s top court confirms ruling party win

MAPUTO: Mozambique’s top court on Monday confirmed the ruling party Frelimo’s victory in an October election, which has sparked massive protests by opposition groups who say the vote was rigged. The Constitutional Council has the final say over ...

TOKAR, Sudan: A Sudanese doctor performs a medical check on a patient at a hospital in Red Sea State in eastern Sudan on Oct 10, 2024.- AFP

Sudan’s doctors bear brunt of war

CAIRO: Sudanese doctor Mohamed Moussa has grown so accustomed to the constant sound of gunfire and shelling near his hospital that it no longer startles him. Instead, he simply continues attending to his patients. “The bombing has numbed us,” th...

This combination of pictures shows Rwanda's President Paul Kagame (left) and President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix Tshisekedi. - AFP

DR Congo and Rwanda peace talks cancelled

LUANDA: Talks due Sunday between the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to end conflict in the eastern DRC were called off after negotiations deadlocked, officials said. Since 2021 a Rwanda-backed rebel militia has seized swathes...

MAYOTTE: This photograph shows a pile of debris of metal sheets and wood after the Cyclone Chido hit France’s Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on December 14, 2024. - AFP

14 killed as Cyclone devastates Mayotte

SAINT-DENIS DE LA REUNION: At least 14 people were killed in Mayotte when a fierce cyclone battered the French Indian Ocean territory, authorities said Sunday, with officials warning it will take days to know the full toll. Rescue workers and suppli...

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176 killed in two days of intense Sudan battles

PORT SUDAN: At least 176 people were killed in two days of army and paramilitary strikes across Sudan, according to an AFP tally of tolls provided by officials, activists and lawyers on Tuesday. In Omdurman, part of the Sudanese capital, paramilitar...

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Kuwait nationality law amended

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Kuwaiti pastor Emmanuel Gharib, Chairman of the National Evangelical Church Kuwait and Pastor of the Kuwait Presbyterian Church, leads a Christmas mass at a church in Kuwait City on December 24, 2018. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait’s unity seen through the eyes of its first pastor

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Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in this file photo.

Bangladesh tells India it wants Hasina back for ‘judicial process’

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RIYADH: Minister of Interior Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Saud Al-Sabah tours key security facilities accompanied by officials during an official visit to Saudi Arabia on Monday, December 23, 2024. — KUNA photos

Deputy Prime Minister visits key security facilities in Saudi Arabia

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UAB: 7 Kuwaiti banks among top 100 banks