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Top U.S. Officials, Citi and Cybastion, U.S. Tech Leaders Formally Announce 0M EXIM Financing Guarantee in Africa’s Digital Sector

Top U.S. Officials, Citi and Cybastion, U.S. Tech Leaders Formally Announce $100M EXIM Financing Guarantee in Africa’s Digital Sector

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NEW YORK — EXIM-Backed Financing Guarantee Unlocks Capital, De-Risks U.S. Entry Into Africa’s Fast-Growing Digital Market Top U.S. officials, Citi, U.S. tech leader Cybastion and a consortium of U.S. tech companies announced the Export-Import Bank’s first-ever $100 million financing guarantee in Africa’s digital sector for a national data center and digitalization project in Côte d’Ivoire….

Israeli strikes on Gaza City kill at least 14, Palestinian officials say

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Israeli strikes killed at least 14 people overnight in Gaza City, said Palestinian health officials, as Israel ramps up its offensive there and urges Palestinians to leave. Dr. Rami Mhanna, the managing director of Shifa Hospital, where some of the bodies were brought, said the dead included six people from the same family after a…

Powerful earthquake rocks Afghanistan, killing more than 800 and destroying villages, officials say

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Kabul, Afghanistan — A strong earthquake in far eastern Afghanistan killed more than 800 people and left at least 2,500 wounded as it destroyed numerous villages, a spokesman for the country’s Taliban government said Monday. Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told journalists in Kabul that the vast majority of the casualties were in Kunar province, but that 12…

Guyana blames Venezuela for attack on election officials ahead of vote

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Security forces in Guyana say a boat carrying election officials and ballot boxes was shot at “from the Venezuelan shore” in the contested Essequibo region. Police and the Guyana defence force said in a joint statement that the incident occurred on Sunday, ahead of the South American nation’s general election on Monday. The patrol that…

Massive Russian attack on Ukraine’s capital leaves several dead and dozens wounded, officials say

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Kyiv, Ukraine — A massive Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital early Thursday, including a rare strike in the center of the city, killed at least 12 people and wounded some 48, local authorities said. It was the first major Russian combined attack on Kyiv in weeks as U.S.-led peace efforts to end…

Israeli strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital kills at least 20 people, including 5 journalists, health officials say

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Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip — Israel struck one of the main hospitals in the Gaza Strip with a missile Monday and then fired another as journalists and rescue workers rushed to the scene, killing at least 20 people and wounding scores more, local health workers in Hamas-run Gaza said. At least five journalists were among those killed, health…

Four journalists among 15 killed in Israeli strike on hospital, Gaza officials say

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At least 15 people, including four journalists working for the international media, are reported to have been killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip. A Reuters cameraman and an Associated Press journalist were among those killed in the attack at Nasser Hospital. Another journalist is reported to have worked…

Bus crash kills dozens of migrants just back in Afghanistan after Iran deported them, officials say

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Seventy-six people were killed in a collision between a bus carrying Afghan migrants and two other vehicles in western Afghanistan, a provincial official said Wednesday. “Seventy-six citizens of the country … lost their lives in the incident, and three others were seriously injured,” Mohammad Yousuf Saeedi, Herat provincial government spokesman, said in a statement. Map…

Man fleeing immigration raid in California fatally struck by vehicle, officials say

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A man was hit and killed on a Southern California freeway Thursday while he was running from an immigration raid at a Home Depot, authorities said. Dylan Feik, the city manager of Monrovia, in Los Angeles County about 10 miles northeast of Pasadena, said a police officer saw the raid after the police department received…

The US is “active in protecting Israeli officials” from “any accountability”

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Wadie Said, a professor of law at University of Colorado, explains how the US is shielding Israel from being held accountable for the crimes it's accused of committing in Gaza.