DAKAR, Senegal (AP) – The funeral was held on Thursday of Mali ‘s former defense minister Gen. Sadio Camara, a key architect of the military government’s security partnership with Russia.
NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. stock market set more records Friday after Apple, Estee Lauder and others joined the list of companies delivering fatter profits for the start of the year than analysts expected. The S&P 500 climbed 0.3%. The Dow Jones dipped 152 points, or 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite added 0.9% to its own record.
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) – Khaled Abdulgader noticed children using an unusual object as a football and tried to stop them. He grabbed it, and it exploded in his hand. He lost two fingers, and shrapnel sliced into his chest.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Two people were killed after a Russian drone attacked a minibus in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, local officials said Saturday, in the latest barrage of civilian areas, a hallmark of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Hundreds of South Africans took to the streets of Johannesburg on Wednesday to protest high levels of illegal immigration, which has fueled tensions between locals and foreign nationals.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Spirit Airlines, an impish upstart that shook the industry with its irreverent ads and deep discount fares, announced Saturday that it has gone out of business after 34 years. The ultralow cost airline that once operated hundreds of daily flights said it had “started an orderly wind-down of our operations.
Fashion trends are notoriously fickle but some things, like Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci, never go out of style. So you can see why making “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” two decades after the original, was hard to resist. The cast, led by Anne Hathaway, have hardly aged. The then-little-known Emily Blunt has turned into a star.
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) – Mali’s junta leader met with Russia’s ambassador to Bamako on Tuesday, authorities said, his first public appearance since the West African nation saw a massive, coordinated attack by Islamic militants and separatists over the weekend. Russia, the junta’s key ally, called the attack a coup attempt.