By  WILSON MCMAKIN Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]   DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels appeared to be heading toward a third major city in eastern Congo, residents said Tuesday, as international pressure rose over the M23’s expansion in a mineral-rich region that’s critical for global technology. The M23 rebels on Tuesday attacked

If Hamas’s statement is true, this week will bring a tragic, though not unexpected, close to a painful episode: the fate of the rest of the Bibas family. Yarden Bibas was released this month by Hamas after nearly 500 days in captivity, and the terror group is claiming it will soon deliver the bodies of

A kayaker recently caused a splash in the media after a video went viral that many people believed to show a humpback whale “swallowing” the man before spitting him out after a few seconds. “I thought it had already eaten me and swallowed me,” Adrián Simancas told the Associated Press in an interview about his shock encounter

Rebel RSF forces reportedly carried out ‘field executions’ and shot at people trying to flee across the Nile. Sudanese rebels have killed hundreds of people in a three-day assault in the southern White Nile state, according to a rights watchdog. The attacks on villages near the town of al-Gitaina by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces

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Cardex, a blockchain trading card game on Ethereum layer-2 network Abstract, mishandled its private keys, according to Abstract network core contributors, leading to over $470,000 worth of Ethereum being drained from wallets that interacted with it. Cardex offered tokenized digital versions of “high-end trading cards,” like a 1st Edition Shining Charizard Pokémon card, which could

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Khanyi Ngcobo BBC News, Johannesburg AFP The execution-style killing of an openly gay imam, Muhsin Hendricks, in South Africa has left people in the LGBTQ+ community fearful for their safety – but also determined to forge ahead with the campaign to end their marginalisation in religious circles. Reverend Toni Kruger-Ayebazibwe, an openly gay Christian cleric