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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa led Freedom Day celebrations in Pretoria on Saturday (April 27) marking the 30th anniversary of the elections that effectively ended apartheid and paved the way for Nelson Mandela's leadership as the country's first Black president.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters at Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday (April 26) that he had invited President Biden to debate him on national television.

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump hosted former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso at Trump Tower in New York on Tuesday (April 23).

Tensions flared in front of Paris' prestigious Sciences Po university over the war in Gaza on Friday, echoeing similar demonstrations on U.S. campuses. This report produced by Freddie Joyner.

The debris from a missile that landed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Jan. 2 was from a North Korean Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile, United Nations sanctions monitors told a Security Council committee in a report seen by Reuters on Monday (April 29). Angela Johnston reports.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris hosted reality-television star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian at the White House on Thursday (April 25) to discuss criminal justice reform, after President Joe Biden granted clemency to more people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses.

A live stream caught the moment a Lufthansa Boeing airplane performed a touch-and-go landing in Los Angeles on Tuesday (April 23).

Firefighters responded to a massive fire that broke out at Oceanside Pier in California on Thursday (April 25).

Student protests in the U.S. over the war in Gaza have intensified and expanded over the past week, with a number of encampments now in place at colleges including Columbia, Yale, and New York University. Lucy Ha explains why.

Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction for sexual assault and rape was overturned by New York's highest court on Thursday (April 25), reopening the landmark case that fueled the #MeToo movement and highlighting the challenges of holding powerful men accountable. #MeToo movement founder Tarana Burke spoke to Reuters.

Hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Tuesday (April 23) in an anti-government march against budget cuts to public universities, the biggest protest yet against President Javier Milei's painful austerity measures.

Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said the country will continue to build overwhelming and the strongest military power to protect its sovereignty and regional peace, the North's KCNA news agency reported on Wednesday. Devi Rajaram reports.

A bus crash in the Andean mountains of northern Peru killed 25 people and injured 13 more, local authorities said on Monday (April 29).

Dust from the Sahara desert covered the city of Athens in Greece on Tuesday (April 23).

Pro-Palestinian student protesters were arrested by campus police at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia on Sunday (April 28).

Omar Assad's 81-year-old widow still hopes to see justice served against the Israeli soldiers she blames for his death two years ago in the occupied West Bank, but isn't pinning hope on any action the United States might take against their battalion. Rachel Faber reports.

On an April morning at a popular beach in Japan’s Yokohama, volunteers pluck a strand of eelgrass from a tray. Around 100 volunteers gathered to plant seedlings, contributing to Japan's broader environmental goals such as achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, which includes eelgrass restoration efforts. Syakir Jasnee reports.

Four law enforcement officers were killed and another four were shot and wounded in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a suspect was found dead, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department chief Johnny Jennings said on Monday (April 29).

Parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a young Israeli-American man who has been held captive in Gaza since Hamas' October 7 attack, made a plea to negotiating parties. Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin told their son to "stay strong" after seeing him in a Hamas-released video on Wednesday (April 24).

A deadly tornado left a large tyre warehouse torn apart in China's Guangzhou, footage aired on state broadcaster CCTV showed on Monday (April 29).

Sweltering heat in the Philippines can curb farm production, disrupt water and power and weigh on businesses, but it also takes a toll on students, hampering the Southeast Asian nation's efforts to catch up to its neighbors in education. Laila Shahrokhshahi reports.

Donald Trump is “lucky” a $10,000 fine being considered by the judge in his hush money trial for violating a gag order is not more severe, Vida Johnson, an associate law professor at Georgetown University, told Reuters on Tuesday (April 23).

Columbia University on Monday began suspending pro-Palestinian activists who refused to dismantle a tent encampment on its New York City campus after the Ivy League school declared a stalemate in talks seeking to end the polarizing protest. Laila Shahrokhshahi reports.

Four pods of pilot whales were stranded at Toby Inlet, about 236 km (146 miles) south of state capital Perth, the Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions said.

At least four people died, including a four-month-old baby, in Oklahoma this weekend, after dozens of twisters swept the U.S. Southern Plains. The White House said on Sunday (April 28), President Joe Biden has pledged federal support for Oklahoma as well as other states hit by severe storms. Diane To reports.