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Marathon runner dead at 36 after suffering medical emergency while training
Melese enjoyed a productive running career dating 15-plus years, winning several notable races and ranking as high as No. 6 in women's marathon runners and No. 37 overall.
News of the World: What you missed this week internationally
The iconic French baguette is in danger, Africa's largest airport is being built in Ethiopia for $12.5 billion, and more news from around the world.
Jewish restaurateur closes Ethiopian-Israeli eatery after anti-Zionist harassment
The owner of the city's only Ethiopian-Israeli kosher eatery in Harlem claimed she was forced to close because of harassment over the Jewish state's war with Hamas, prompting calls for...
Mystery owner of 3-million-year-old fossilized foot in Africa ID'd: study
The foot's grasping big toe suggested Au. deyiremeda spent more time dwelling in trees.
Long-dormant volcano erupts for the first time in 12,000 years, blanketing village in ash
“It felt like a sudden bomb had been thrown with smoke and ash,” resident Ahmed Abdela said.
Boeing must pay $28M to family of UN consultant killed in Ethiopia crash, jury rules
A federal court jury has awarded over $28 million to the family of a United Nations consultant who died in the crash of a Boeing 737 Max jetliner in Ethiopia...
2.65 million-year-old fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia opens up current understandings of human evolution
The teeth also confirm that there were at least four types of hominins throughout East Africa at the time, with a fifth roaming in southern Africa.
To fix gender relations, log off, winning by losing slowly and other commentary
Gen Z has seen a “breakdown in basic trust between young women and men,” notes Spiked’s Georgina Mumford.
At least 66 people dead after truck plunges into river in Ethiopia
The accident took place Sunday when an old, overcrowded truck that was contracted by wedding guests fell off the Gelan Bridge, where villagers said traffic crashes have happened before.
How Bono, Sting, George Michael and more banded together for 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' 40 years ago
In 1984, Bob Geldof led a who’s who of British and Irish hitmakers — from Sting, Bono and George Michael to Phil Collins, Duran Duran and Boy George — in...
Harris' boom might end with a bust, Kam and Tim are no moderates and other commentary
With polls showing “booming” support for Kamala Harris, “GOP strategists might take heart in what could be called the Harris boom-and-bust cycle," notes the Washington Examiner's Byron York.
US federal contractor charged with espionage for sharing classified intel with foreign spy
A government contractor with the State and Justice departments who had top security clearance was charged Thursday with aiding a foreign government spy. Abraham Teklu Lemma, 50, a naturalized US...
Fighting in Ethiopia's Amhara region leaves 183 dead: UN watchdog
Fighting between Ethiopia's military and militiamen in the Amhara region has killed at least 183 people, the UN human rights office said on Tuesday.
Parties to war in Ethiopia's Tigray region agree to stop fighting
The Ethiopian government and regional forces from Tigray agreed on Wednesday to cease hostilities, a dramatic diplomatic breakthrough two years into a war that has killed thousands, displaced millions and...
Russian rockets kill one in Ukraine as concerns mount over nuclear power plant
A Russian diplomat called on Kyiv to offer security assurances so international inspectors could visit the Zaporizhzhia plant, which is held by Moscow's forces but still operated by Ukrainians.
Witnesses: more than 200 killed in Ethiopia ethnic attack
It is one of the deadliest such attacks in recent memory as ethnic tensions continue in Africa’s second most populous country.
Millions left in peril as severe drought decimates livestock in Ethiopia
The Somali Region, a regional state where 80 percent of the local population's livelihood depends on livestock, is among the places suffering great losses.
WHO Chief: World’s worst health crisis is in Ethiopia
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the situation in Tigray from where he hails was “catastrophic.”
‘I just cry’: Dying of hunger in Ethiopia’s blockaded Tigray
NAIROBI, Kenya — In parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, people now eat only green leaves for days. At a health center last week, a mother and her newborn weighing just 1.7 pounds...
Report: 150 starved to death in Ethiopia’s Tigray in August
The starvation deaths occurred in six communities as well as in camps for hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people in the town of Shire.