South Sudan is close to securing a loan of $13 billion from United Arab Emirates company Hamad Bin Khalifa Department of Projects, according to United Nations experts.
Chileans are experiencing their coldest autumn in over 70 years, with temperatures dipping near freezing in Santiago, as a sudden cold front from Antartica has gripped parts of South America.
Six people, including a mayoral candidate and a young girl, were killed in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas after gunmen opened fire at a campaign rally; two others were injured.
Canadian police have linked the deaths of 4 women in the 1970s to now-deceased U.S. fugitive Gary Allen Srery, who hid in Canada from the 1970s to 1990s.
Lawmakers in Croatia have voted into office a new government, which now includes hard-right party Homeland Movement, ahead of the EU's parliamentary election next month.
Senegal's new PM Ousmane Sonko, who was released from jail weeks prior to this year's presidential election and drove his party to victory, has criticized France's military presence in the country.
Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico remains in serious condition and has undergone another operation after being shot multiple times earlier this week in the town of Handlova.
Subway commuters in Argentina's capital have been hit by a 360% increase in fares, a dramatic price hike in President Javier Milei's budget austerity campaign.
A Taliban spokesman said that at least 4 people were killed, including three foreign nationals, after gunmen opened fire in Afghanistan's Bamyan province; four suspects have been arrested.
Lawmakers in Taiwan began to physically fight on Friday as they disagreed over reforms proposed by the opposing party of the new president taking office on Monday.
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