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A British man on a quest to run the length of Africa is set to complete his mammoth challenge later Sunday in Tunisia.

Pellegrini, 48, will take over from Zuzana Čaputová, who served as the country's first female head of state.

The Israel-Hamas war that has devastated the Gaza Strip entered its seventh month on Sunday, with talks towards a truce and hostage release deal expected to resume in Cairo.

The war between Israel and Hamas entered its seventh month on Sunday as US and other negotiators were expected to join the protagonists in Cairo in a renewed push for a ceasefire and hostage release deal.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Chinese Premier Li Qiang sounded a hopeful note on bilateral relations at the start of their Sunday meeting in Beijing.

Arsenal leapfrogged Liverpool at the top of the Premier League with a 3-0 win at Brighton on Saturday after Kevin De Bruyne scored twice in Manchester City's victory at Crystal Palace.

Just a single, unguarded glance at a solar eclipse can result in a lifetime of vision loss, eye health experts warn.

Thousands of people turned out Saturday to see Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo announce his bid to return to office even though he is ineligible.

In the past century, Mexico has opened its doors to revolutionaries, Spanish exiles, and persecuted Latin American leaders -- a tradition that has been dealt an unprecedented blow by a police invasion of its embassy in Ecuador.

Donald Trump is holding a major fundraising event in Florida on Saturday, hoping to lay down a new marker in a swaggering, high-stakes race for large donations with Joe Biden.

The World Health Organization said Saturday that Gaza's largest hospital had been reduced to ashes by Israel's latest siege, leaving an "empty shell" with many bodies.

A fjord in the east of Denmark received last rites on Saturday from a group of local activists in an effort to draw attention to the poor health of the country's coastal waters.

A series of Russian attacks on Ukraine's second city of Kharkiv killed seven people and wounded a dozen more, Kyiv said on Saturday.

Despite six months of war, multiple endeavors to secure a second truce have faltered, following a week-long hiatus at the end of November when hostages and Palestinian prisoners were swapped.

In the suburbs of Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou, lucrative strawberry farming is supplanting traditional crops like cabbage and lettuce and has become a top export to neighbouring countries.

Sitting in a steamy kitchen, Ukrainian soldier Anton was ready to go on a new rotation to defend Chasiv Yar, a strategic town for troops fighting for control of the eastern Donbas region.

Ecuadoran authorities stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito on Friday to arrest former vice president Jorge Glas, who was taking refuge there, prompting Mexico to sever diplomatic ties after the "violation of international law".

Slovakians began voting Saturday to choose a new president with the outcome determining whether the EU and NATO member shifts further towards Russia.

American and Israeli negotiators were expected in Cairo over the weekend for a renewed push to reach a ceasefire-hostage deal in a war that has raged for nearly half a year.

Netflix's blockbuster "3 Body Problem", an adaptation of the crown jewel of Chinese sci-fi, has sparked passionate debate and divided opinions among fans in the country despite it not being available to watch there.

President Joe Biden has stood firmly by Israel amid months of mounting domestic and international outcry over the humanitarian toll in Gaza, but the killing of seven aid workers in an Israeli strike seems to have brought him the closest yet to a breaking point.

Mexico on Friday granted political asylum to Ecuador's former vice president Jorge Glas, who is sheltering at the Mexican embassy in Quito, deepening a diplomatic dispute between the two Latin American nations.

A 91-year-old retired Guatemalan general went on trial Friday for genocide in the second such case linked to the massacre of Indigenous people during the country's 1960-1996 civil war.

UN Security Council diplomats were shaken in their chairs, planes got briefly grounded, and furniture rattled across New York Friday when an earthquake jolted the city that never sleeps.

Global food prices rose in March, the first increase since July, pulled higher by cooking oil prices despite the cost of grains continuing to ease, the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization said Friday.

France's President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that schools should be protected from "a form of uninhibited violence" among some youths, after two violent assaults against teenagers in recent days.

The European Union on Friday pledged a 270-million-euro ($290 million) financial package for Armenia as Brussels and Washington push to boost ties with Yerevan while its relations with Russia crumble.

On Day 182 of the war in Gaza, pressure on Israel is piling up as the world monitors how it will change its military campaign in the enclave following the Israeli army airstrike that killed seven humanitarian aid workers, six of them foreign nationals.

Residents wearing hard hats and carrying large backpacks stood outside a building Friday with a crumbling facade in Hualien, the epicentre of Taiwan's biggest earthquake in 25 years, waiting to be allowed in to collect their belongings.