Next year's Eurovision Song Contest will be held in the Swiss city of Basel, public broadcaster SRG said on Friday, setting it up for an economic boost from the hundreds of thousands of fans expected to flock to its restaurants, hotels and bars.
The new school year is still days away, but student protesters have already made a noisy return to Columbia University's New York campus, the epicenter of a pro-Palestinian protest movement that spread to schools around the world this spring.
An Algerian court has released Fethi Ghares, a prominent opposition figure, on Thursday under strict judicial supervision while he awaits trial for allegedly insulting President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, according to his lawyer.
Libya's central bank governor Sadiq al-Kabir said he and other senior bank staff had been forced to leave the country to "protect out lives" from potential attacks by armed militia, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
Since floods swept away their home in eastern Sudan, Ahmed Hadab and his family have survived by drinking water mixed in with milk from his last surviving goat.
Israel's defense minister on Thursday called for the expansion of the stated goals of the war in Gaza to include enabling residents to return to communities in northern Israel that have been evacuated due to attacks by Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.
European Union foreign ministers agreed on Thursday they would not recognise the "democratic legitimacy" of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro following the country's disputed election, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.
Serbia on Thursday signed a landmark agreement with France's Dassault Aviation for the purchase of 12 new Rafale fighter jets for 2.7 billion euros ($2.99 billion).
The Israeli military and Palestinian militant group Hamas have agreed to three separate, zoned three-day pauses in fighting in the Gaza Strip to allow for the vaccination of some 640,000 children against polio, a senior WHO official said on Thursday.
In a recent phone conversation with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, King Abdullah of Jordan emphasized the urgent need to stop Israeli attacks in the West Bank and called for a comprehensive truce to prevent the further escalation of conflict in the region.
Iran's production of highly enriched uranium continues and it has not improved cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog despite a resolution demanding this at the agency's last board meeting, watchdog reports seen by Reuters showed on Thursday.
Egypt's biggest ever wheat tender, nearly 20 times its usual size, stemmed from food security concerns sparked by an intelligence briefing given to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, according to three security and government sources.
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