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Zambia's long-delayed external debt restructuring will save the southern African country $7.65 billion by 2026, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a report after it approved the latest payout from a $1.3 billion rescue loan.

The Health Department is taking action as more of the animals enter urban areas in search of food

Hungary's Paks nuclear power plant cut output at three of its four reactors by a combined 240 MW due to the rising temperature of the Danube river, the plant's operator said late on Thursday.

Technologies to capture CO2 emissions are no substitute for a drastic cut in fossil fuels and their use should be limited, a group of countries warned on Friday, as tensions grow over the role of climate technologies ahead of this year's COP28 summit.

Republican contenders for president will address a gathering of social conservatives in the early nominating state of Iowa on Friday, but the event will be most notable for the 2024 candidate who will not be there: the front-runner, Donald Trump.

North Korea on Friday denounced the United Nations Security Council for holding a meeting over its recent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), saying it will continue to push for "the most overwhelming" nuclear deterrence until the United States drops its hostile policy against Pyongyang, state media reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had proposed to Wagner Group fighters that a senior mercenary known as Sedoi, which means "grey hair" in Russian, command them instead of Yevgeny Prigozhin.

The Netherlands will go to the polls on Nov. 22, caretaker Interior Minister Hanke Bruins Slot said on Friday, the first election since 2006 in which outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte won't be leading his conservative VVD party.

Egypt risks fuelling its record inflation and putting more pressure on the Egyptian pound if it does not slow an expansion of the money supply which bankers and analysts say has been used to plug widening budget deficits.

Spaniards will interrupt their summer holidays to vote for a new parliament on July 23, after an election campaign in which no one party has established a decisive lead and featuring irate exchanges between the main candidates for prime minister.