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At five o’clock on Thursday, 12 March, I was drifting off after a day steeped in dread when the telephone rang. A surge of terror ran through me; it was an untimely call. Someone must have needed help—or perhaps was alone and frightened. I answered, exhausted. It was

A sacred object taken by French colonial officials over a hundred years ago has been handed back to Côte d’Ivoire in one of the most notable cultural restitutions to a former French colony in recent times. The Djidji Ayôkwé, a talking drum seized in 1916 by French administrators, arrived

Pro‑Israeli Palestinian militias have carried out repeated raids, covert assassinations and kidnappings deep inside Hamas‑held sections of Gaza in recent months, launching fresh operations even after hostilities with Iran began. All of the groups are stationed in the eastern part of Gaza that has been under Israeli administration

Record floods that have caused death and devastation in Brazil’s coffee‑growing heartland are projected to worsen if fossil‑fuel consumption continues, a new analysis indicates. In Minas Gerais, dozens of people have been buried by landslides or swept away as roads turned into streams over the past month.

At least 65 Nigerian soldiers have been slain in jihadist assaults across the country’s northeast over the past fortnight, as the West African nation strives to curb one of the world’s most lethal terror outfits. On 5 and 6 March, gunmen belonging to Islamic State West Africa Province

A drone strike in Goma killed three individuals, among them a French humanitarian employed by the UN, according to a representative of the M23 rebels. The incident occurred around 4 a.m. on Wednesday in Himbi, an upscale residential district of the city that has been under M23 control since