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AU urges restraint over 'escalating' Ethiopia-Sudan tensions
The head of the African Union Commission voiced concern on Wednesday over "escalating military tension" between Ethiopia and Sudan, calling for restraint and dialogue.
How long will it take to get over the inflation hump?
Inflation has surged back to levels not seen in many developed economies since the 1970s and 1980s. "The current levels of food and industrial goods inflation have not been seen since the mid-1980s," ECB President Christine Lagarde said in her remarks at the conference on Tuesday.
Senegal bars new demo ahead of tense poll
Authorities in the Senegalese capital Dakar have banned a demonstration announced for Wednesday at a time of mounting tension in the runup to legislative polls. It also said the demonstration would breach laws banning "disguised" propaganda taking place within 30 days of the official start of an election campaign.
Allies freeze $330 bn of Russian assets since Ukraine invasion: task force
A sanctions task force of leading Ukraine allies has frozen more than $330 billion in financial resources owned by Russia's elite and the central bank since Moscow's troops invaded, the group announced Wednesday.
For some Ukrainians, war forces dramatic career changes
Denys Zhupnyk dreams of concerts and festivals as he drives a taxi around Kyiv, picking up and dropping off passengers. "I dream of concerts, TV sets, radio streams."
Aquaculture drives aquatic food yields to new high
The amount of fish, shellfish and algae caught in the wild and farmed in aquaculture hit a record 214 million tonnes in 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization said Wednesday. The remaining 36 million tonnes was algae production.
Lockdown in Indian city after gruesome sectarian killing
Hundreds of police were deployed in an Indian city on Wednesday following the murder of a Hindu tailor allegedly by two Muslim men after comments by a ruling party official about the Prophet Mohammed that have inflamed sectarian tensions.
Kenyan pilot project to put price on nature's treasure
The bird count gets underway -- two members of the superb starling family, a Nubian woodpecker, and so on. Under it, carbon polluters can offset their greenhouse-gas emissions by "purchasing" emissions that are reduced or saved by other members in the scheme.
Mucky business: Thai prisoners clean Bangkok sewers after pandemic delay
Flecked with sewage, a Thai prisoner grapples with an overflowing bucket as he and his fellow inmates clean Bangkok's congested drains for the first time in two years. And for at least one of the prisoners, who had less than a year remaining to serve, cleaning the sewers helped him feel better about his past.
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