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The Central Bank of Libya said on Sunday it was "suspending all operations" after a bank official was abducted in the capital Tripoli, in a statement posted on social media. Musab Msallem, head of information technology at the Central Bank, "was kidnapped by an unidentified group from his house this morning," said the statement. The…

Russia said Sunday its forces had captured Svyrydonivka, another frontline village some 15 kilometres (nine miles) away from the Ukrainian-held logistics hub of Pokrovsk. In a daily briefing, the defence ministry said its army units "liberated the village of Sviridonovka" in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, using the Russian name for the village.

The Vice President of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS Commission), Damtien L. Tchintchibidja, raised the alarm over the number of people displaced by conflicts, violence, or disasters in the ECOWAS sub-region. Putting the figure of forcibly displaced persons at 7,337,979, the Vice President noted that there were also 6,526,928…

The Joint Committee of the ECOWAS Parliament, comprising committees on Administration, Finance, Budget, Public Accounts, Macroeconomic Policy, and Economic Research, has expressed the need to send a parliamentary diplomatic mission to notable parliaments with similar competences to understudy their processes. Some of the parliaments recommended include the European Union and the East African Legislative Assembly,…

Ukrainian drones attacked an oil storage facility in Russia's southern Rostov region early Sunday morning, sparking a large fuel fire, the

Priceless artworks housed in London's Somerset House, including paintings by Van Gogh and Monet, were unaffected by a fire that erupted at

Kamala Harris takes her surging US presidential campaign on a battleground bus tour Sunday, before heading to the Democratic National Conven

Is America ready to elect a Black woman as its president? Vice President Kamala Harris, who will be officially confirmed as the Democratic US presidential nominee in Chicago next week, is betting that it is. "In my entire career, I've heard people say when I ran... people aren't ready, it's not your time, nobody like…

Germany, the second largest contributor of aid to Ukraine, plans to halve its military aid to Kyiv in 2025, a parliamentary source told AFP Saturday. Instead, the government of Olaf Scholz will bank on money generated from frozen Russian assets to continue supporting Kyiv, and is not planning "additional aid" to the 4 billion euros…

Russia said Saturday it had repelled Ukrainian forces near the town of Korenevo and the villages of Russkoye and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye in the Kursk border region. Ukrainian attacks "were repelled in the direction of the settlements of Korenevo, Russkoye and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye", the Russian defence ministry said.

Indian doctors held a nationwide strike on Saturday, escalating protests after the "barbaric" rape and murder of their colleague, which has channelled outrage at the chronic issue of violence against women. The discovery of the 31-year-old doctor's bloodied body at a state-run hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata on August 9 sparked furious protests…

Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has named a former bank chief as prime minister, according to a decree published nearly three weeks after the previous government resigned after being deemed "ineffective." At the end of July the government of Manuela Roka Botey -- who was the first woman to fill the role of…