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BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - Soldiers are searching hills and forests near a city in northern Malawi after a military plane carrying the country's vice

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - Soldiers are searching mountainous forests near a city in northern Malawi after a military plane carrying the country's vice

A military plane carrying Malawi's vice president and nine others went missing Monday while on a short trip from the capital to a mountainous region in the country's north and a search is underway, the ...

South Africa's ANC loses majority in historic election, marking a new political path. Coalition government and coalition partners are likely.

The African National Congress party has lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago

Africa's most advanced economy has some of the world's deepest socioeconomic problems, including one of the worst unemployment rates at 32%. The lingering inequality, with poverty disproportionately affecting the Black majority, threatens to unseat the party that promised to end it by bringing down apartheid under the slogan of a better life for all.

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The United Nations top court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but stopped short of ordering a cease-fire for the enclave. Although Israel is unlikely to comply with the order, it will ratchet up the pressure on the increasingly isolated country.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The United Nations top court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but stopped short of ordering a cease-fire for the enclave. Although Israel is unlikely to comply with the order, it will ratchet up the pressure on the increasingly isolated country.

Next week's election could be South Africa's most important in 30 years, with the beleaguered ANC facing the biggest challenge to its long rule since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule in 1994.