Washington and Beijing are vying for influence in Africa, where Chinese banks are major lenders.

Several Arab countries outside the Gulf have seen currency devaluation and rising inflation.

State-owned energy firm Eskom has failed to keep pace with demand in recent decades, leading to outages.

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, has divested from the two firms over sales of weaponry to Myanmar.

Berlin says it will send Leopard 2 tanks and allow re-exports from other nations, prompting fury in the Kremlin.

Here is a look at the key controversies and surprises in the nominations for the Academy Awards.

Kinshasa denies Kigali’s claim calling the incident a ‘deliberate act of aggression that amounts to an act of war’.

Anti-Putin activists try to slow down Russia’s war in Ukraine and say they are willing to step up their violence.

Former US secretary of state says in his book that Washington’s timely intervention prevented an escalation.