Widespread floods in the Republic of Congo have pushed hundreds of thousands of people to be in urgent need of assistance, said the United Nations Friday.Unusually heavy rainfall has caused nine of the countries 12 departments to be affected with floods damaging health facilities and schools and submerging farmland, said…

Six Turkish soldiers were killed Friday in an attack on a military base in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. Authorities blamed Kurdish militants.Five died in the assault and another soldier succumbed to his wounds later. Another seven soldiers were wounded, two of them seriously, when…

China’s exports likely grew more quickly and for a second month in December, a Reuters poll showed, adding to signs global trade is starting to recover thanks to an upturn in the electronics industry and expectations of lower borrowing costs in 2024.Outbound shipments from the world’s second-largest economy are expected…

Deforestation has surged in Brazil’s Cerrado, a vast tropical savanna region, by nearly 45% compared to 2022 levels, according to data released Friday by the government’s monitoring agency.The National Institute for Space Research reported that 3,000 square miles of vegetation had been torn down in the Cerrado biome between January…

Former Suriname dictator Desi Bouterse, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison last month for the killings of 15 political opponents, has vanished after not turning himself in to authorities on Friday as planned.His wife, Ingrid Bouterse-Waldring, told reporters that she did not know where he was and firmly…

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The Vatican has revealed plans for a yearlong restoration of the monumental baldacchino over the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica.The restoration project, which will cost about $770,000, is funded entirely by the Knights of Columbus and involves the expertise of Vatican Museums’ restorers.This marks the first comprehensive work on…

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