4+ hour, 52+ min ago  (942+ words) Diesel, which powers the majority of Africa's roughly 500, 000 telecommunications towers, has become more expensive and sometimes harder to secure in recent weeks as global fuel markets tightened following the conflict. Several African countries that rely heavily on imported fuel have…...

1+ hour, 35+ min ago  (459+ words) The U. S. Air Force has finished modifying and testing a Boeing 747 jet donated by Qatar for temporary use as Air Force One and expects to have it ready for President Donald Trump to use this summer, the service announced late Friday....

11+ hour, 47+ min ago  (190+ words) Protests marking International Workers" Day, a national holiday in Turkey, are frequently marred by clashes with authorities, which have declared Istanbul"s central Taksim Square a no-go area for protesters on security grounds. More than 30 people were killed in violence…...

10+ hour, 41+ min ago  (868+ words) Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins this week attributed a multimillion-person drop in the number of participants receiving food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to the tamping down of fraud and an improved economy. But experts discount those factors, saying…...

11+ hour, 13+ min ago  (554+ words) The China deal covers Africa's 20 largest economies, including South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Algeria and Kenya. China had already dropped tariffs on 33 poorer African countries, meaning 53 of the continent's 54 nations are now eligible for "tariff-free treatment" for their goods, according to…...

3+ hour, 6+ min ago  (638+ words) Trump had threatened to withdraw some troops from the NATO ally earlier this week after Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the U. S. was being "humiliated" by the Iranian leadership and criticized Washington's lack of strategy in the war. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell…...

6+ hour, 47+ min ago  (1718+ words) In what Gov. Gavin Newsom hailed as a major milestone, his $20 billion Delta tunnel largely cleared another chokepoint last week " but it still faces obstacles of a different magnitude. For more than half a century, California's leaders have debated rerouting…...

4+ hour, 31+ min ago  (461+ words) Arnold Kavaarpuo, executive director of Ghana's Data Protection Commission, said the scope of data access requested "went far beyond what would typically be required for the purpose for which it's stated." The U. S. State Department did not immediately respond to AP's…...

4+ hour, 49+ min ago  (216+ words) Barr is facing former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron in the May 19 Republican primary, and would have faced entrepreneur Nate Morris. In a Truth Social post just before his endorsement of Barr, Trump announced that he'd asked Morris to "step…...

6+ hour, 7+ min ago  (683+ words) Pope Leo XIV announced Friday the appointment of the Most Rev. Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, an auxiliary bishop in Washington, D. C. , as the new leader of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, which comprises West Virginia, one of the nation's least racially diverse states. Nonetheless,…...