The United Arab Emirates said on Saturday it will invest $1 billion to expand AI infrastructure and AI-enabled services across Africa, with the aim of helping countries meet national development priorities.

An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon killed one person on Saturday, the Lebanese health ministry said, in the latest attack on the area despite a nearly year-long ceasefire between Israel and militant group Hezbollah.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said 21 people were killed and dozens more wounded in multiple Israeli air strikes on the Palestinian territory yesterday, further straining the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas.

World governments yesterday agreed to a compromise climate deal at the COP30 conference in Brazil that would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming but omit any mention of the fossil fuels driving it.

After months of trading insults, US President Donald Trump and incoming New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani smiled at each other, swapped compliments and pledged to collaborate on tackling crime and affordability in the nation’s biggest city at an unexpectedly friendly meeting at the White House on Friday.

Gunmen have kidnapped more than 300 students and teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria, a Christian group said yesterday, as security fears mounted in Africa’s most populous nation.

US lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, an influential right-wing figure and MAGA acolyte who recently broke with President Donald Trump, announced she is quitting her seat in Congress, prompting him to double down yesterday on accusations she is a “traitor.”

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, on trial over a botched coup bid and under house arrest since August, was taken into custody yesterday, according to his lawyer and a court document.

The G20’s role in fixing economic crises is threatened by geopolitical fractures and competition, leaders warned yesterday at a summit in South Africa boycotted by the United States.

Ukraine and its European allies yesterday scrambled to come up with counter-proposals after US President Donald Trump gave Kyiv a tight deadline to approve a deal to end the war that accepts some of Russia’s hardline demands.

Bolsonaro was placed under house arrest in August

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Nigeria is still scarred by the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls by Boko Haram jihadists

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"We agree on a lot more than I would have thought," Trump said

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said yesterday that the United States, Britain, Germany and France were pursuing a path of “escalation” following the passage of a new resolution by the UN nuclear watchdog.

Israel’s military yesterday carried out a wave of attacks across central and southern Gaza, including in eastern Khan Younis, central Gaza’s Bureij and Maghazi camps and the southern city of Rafah.

Miss Mexico was crowned Miss Universe in Thailand yesterday, strutting to victory after several dramatic missteps before the final round, including staging a walkout when an organiser of the beauty pageant chastised her.

COP30 summit president Brazil released a draft text for a proposed deal for this year’s UN climate summit early yesterday, dropping a proposal to develop a global plan to shift away from fossil fuels that had been included in an earlier version.