Congo’s presidential candidates kick off campaigning a month before election | AP News

Congo’s presidential candidates kick off campaigning a month before election | AP News

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and a politician hoping to unseat him next month launched their campaigns Sunday as the incumbent leader faces ongoing violence in eastern Congo and a divided field of opposition candidates.Opposition party representatives who met in South Africa in recent days failed to unite behind a single challenger

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DeSantis won’t condemn Musk for endorsing an antisemitic post. ‘I did not see the comment,’ he says | AP News

DeSantis won’t condemn Musk for endorsing an antisemitic post. ‘I did not see the comment,’ he says | AP News

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is refusing to condemn Elon Musk ‘s post endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory, maintaining Sunday that he wasn’t familiar with the post despite it prompting major companies to pull advertising from the billionaire’s X social media platform. “I did not see the comment,” DeSantis, the governor

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32 people killed during reported attacks in a disputed region of Africa | AP News

32 people killed during reported attacks in a disputed region of Africa | AP News

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least 32 people, including a U.N. peacekeeper, were killed Sunday following heavy fighting in the disputed Abyei administrative region, an area claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, authorities said.Local media reported that the civilians and a Ghanaian soldier serving with a peacekeeping force died when unknown gunmen attacked two

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An orphaned teenager who was taken to Russia early in the Ukraine war is back home with relatives | AP News

An orphaned teenager who was taken to Russia early in the Ukraine war is back home with relatives | AP News

An orphaned Ukrainian teenager who was taken to Russia last year during the war in his country returned home after being reunited with relatives in Belarus on his 18th birthday Sunday.Bohdan Yermokhin was pictured embracing family members in Minsk in photographs shared on social media by Russia’s children’s rights ombudswoman, Maria Lvova-Belova. Andrii Yermak, the

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Yemen’s Houthi rebels hijack an Israeli-linked ship in the Red Sea and take 25 crew members hostage | AP News

Yemen’s Houthi rebels hijack an Israeli-linked ship in the Red Sea and take 25 crew members hostage | AP News

JERUSALEM (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels seizef an Israeli-linked cargo ship in a crucial Red Sea shipping route on Sunday, officials said, taking over two dozen crew members hostage and raising fears that regional tensions heightened over the Israel-Hamas war were playing out on a new maritime front. The Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they hijacked

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