How a surgeon kept Sudan hospital functioning on war's front line

OMDURMAN, Sudan (AP) – For three years, Dr. Jamal Eltaeb made excruciating choices. Who should live and potentially die? Should he operate without the right medicines if it might save someone’s life? How would he find fuel to keep the hospital’s lights on?

Oil prices higher, but US stocks hold near their records

NEW YORK (AP) - More jumps for oil prices sent tremors through the bond market. The S&P 500 edged down by less than 0.1%, a day after slipping from its latest all-time high. The Dow dropped 0.6%, while the Nasdaq composite inched up less than 0.1%. The price for a barrel of Brent crude jumped nearly 6%.

Clashes over water access kill at least 42 people in Chad

N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) – Clashes between two families over access to water have killed at least 42 people in eastern Chad, the government says, as resources are stretched in a region where hundreds of thousands of refugees from neighboring Sudan have poured in.

Supreme Court weakens a key tool of the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court has weakened a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than half a century in a case concerning a Black majority congressional district in Louisiana. The court’s conservative majority found that the district, represented by Democrat Cleo Fields, relied too heavily on race.

Energy shock ripples through kitchens, forests in Africa and South Asia

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Before sunset, a blue flame used to spring to life in Brenda Obare’s kitchen with a quick turn of the knob as she started dinner. Now, her stove is often cold as she crouches over a charcoal burner, coaxing a smoky fire to cook for her family outside her tin-roofed home in Kibera in Kenya’s capital Nairobi

Elon Musk tells his side of OpenAI's trial pitting him against Sam Altman

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – Elon Musk took the stand for the second day Wednesday in the landmark trial that pits the world’s richest man against Sam Altman, a fellow OpenAI co-founder he accuses of betraying promises to keep the company as a nonprofit dedicated to humanity’s benefit.

Gunmen attack orphanage in northern Nigeria and abduct 23 pupils

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) – Gunmen raided an orphanage in north-central Nigeria and abducted 23 pupils, authorities said Monday. Fifteen have since been rescued.

Editorials from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post and others

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Plane crashes on the outskirts of South Sudan's capital, killing 14 people

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) – A Cessna aircraft crashed Monday on the outskirts of South Sudan’s capital, killing all 13 passengers and the pilot, the civil aviation authority said. The authority said preliminary reports indicate that the plane arriving from Yei town may have crashed due to weather conditions that caused poor visibility.