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At least nine people were killed and more than 30 others were injured in fresh fighting that erupted in Debark and Dabat towns of the North Gondar zone in Ethiopia's Amhara region between ...

A cyclist is demanding change after a wire strung across Lincoln Memorial Drive by an Orthodox Jewish group fell and struck him in the neck. Rabbi Yisroel Lein, of Chabad of the East Side ...

This poem explores the themes of jealousy and rivalry through the relationship between a queen and a beautiful, mesmerizing flower. One of Naidu’s most famous poems, it celebrates the ...

If you opened Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, and asked it to write a poem about anti-wokeness like an angsty middle schooler, you'd likely still get something better than the drivel the multi ...

(AP video: Yidnek Lemma) Religious leaders and Ethiopians celebrate Meskel, meaning the Cross in Amharic, is an annual religious holiday among Orthodox in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Thursday, Sept. 26, ...

In celebrations of Meskel — a word in the local Amharic language for "cross" — bonfires are burned across the country. In Meskel square Thursday, the patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox ...

Ties between Egypt and Somalia have grown this year over their shared mistrust of Ethiopia, prompting Cairo to send several planeloads of arms to Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, after the ...

Somalia's minister of foreign affairs has said Somalia will consider establishing contacts with and support rebels fighting in Ethiopia if the Ethiopian government attempts to implement the deal ...

As the filling of Ethiopia's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, or GERD, approaches its final phase, regional tensions are also reaching a high-water mark. Egypt, a downstream country of the Nile ...

በቅርቡ በዋነኝነት ሊስፋፋ በሚችል አዲስ የኮቪድ ዝርያ የሚያዙ ሰዎች ቁጥር እየጨመረ መሆኑን ሳይንቲስቶች ገለጹ። በሰ ...