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Remember how the West laughed at Russia’s ‘biolabs’ claims? Here are the facts

Passengers evacuated from Hantavirus-affected cruise ship

Passengers plead for clarity as virus-hit cruise remains stranded off Cape Verde

Djibouti counts votes as leader seeks sixth term

Toumba Diakité, principal figure in 2009 massacre in Guinea, has died

China tightens border controls as global mpox risk rises with new strain

Remember how the West laughed at Russia’s ‘biolabs’ claims? Here are the facts

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has confirmed that her team is investigating more than 40 US-funded pathogen laboratories in Ukraine. Here’s what you need to know about the story that was written off as “Kremlin propaganda” in 2022. In a statement to the New York Post on Tuesday, Gabbard said that her department had identified more than 120 biological laboratories in 30 countries that had been funded by the US taxpayer for decades. More than a third of thes

Djibouti counts votes as leader seeks sixth term

Djibouti began counting votes Friday in a presidential election expected to hand a sixth term to 78-year-old Ismail Omar Guelleh, who faces just one little-known opponent in the small but highly strategic Horn of Africa nation. Guelleh has ruled the east African country of about one million people for 27 years with an iron grip, leveraging its key location to turn it into an international military and maritime hub. Its mere 23,000 square kilometres (8,900 square miles) host m

Senegal prime minister says country will not seek debt restructuring

Senegalese prime minister Ousmane Sonko said his government would not seek a deal to restructure its debt despite facing repayment difficulties. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said the west African country's debt reached 132% of GDP at the end of 2024. The Fund has since paused a $1.8 billion lending programme, leaving Dakar struggling to meet its financing needs. Speaking at a joint press conference with Mauritania's prime minister on Thursday, Sonko said there was a

Australia's Northern Territory braces for Tropical Cyclone Fina

SYDNEY, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Residents in parts of Australia's Northern Territory were urged on Saturday to prepare for a tropical cyclone forecast to bring destructive winds and potential flooding to the city of Darwin. Fina, a category three cyclone sitting in the Van Diemen Gulf with wind gusts up to 165 kph (102 mph), was predicted to pass to the north of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, later on Saturday as a "severe tropical cyclone", the nation's Bureau of