#BREAKING Mali strongman Assimi Goita says elections will take place in 2022
#UPDATE Political turmoil in #Mali deepened on Tuesday as the country's interim vice president #AssimiGoita pushed out transitional leaders tasked with steering the return to civilian rule after a coup last August, as he promised elections in 2022 u.afp.com/UnVJ
#BREAKING France condemns Mali 'coup', demands president, PM freed: foreign minister
#UPDATE France's foreign minister on Tuesday condemned "with the greatest firmness" the ousting of transitional leaders in #Mali who had been tasked with steering the return to civilian rule after a coup last August
#BREAKING French President Macron condemns as "unacceptable coup d'etat" the detention of Mali's transitional president and PM, warns EU could impose sanctions
#BREAKING France calls for urgent UN Security Council meeting on Mali after ousting of transitional leaders: foreign minister
#BREAKING Britain calls for 'immediate, safe and unconditional' release of Mali president, PM: minister
#BREAKING Germany says Mali president, PM should "be released immediately"
#UPDATE On Monday, the UN, African Union (AU), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the EU and US issued a rare joint statement, attacking the detention and demanding the pair be released.
That demand was echoed by Britain and Germany u.afp.com/UnCL
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#BREAKING Biden says still considers Xi a 'dictator'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year.
"Well look he is, I mean he's a dictator in the sense that he's a guy who's running a country, a Communist country, that's based on a form of government totally different than ours," Biden said at the end of a news conference when a reporter asked if he would still use the term to describe Xi
#BREAKING China will not begin armed conflict with any nation, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, after a high-stakes summit with US President Joe Biden.
"China does not seek spheres of influence, and will not fight a cold or hot war with any country," he told a gathering of business leaders in San Francisco
#BREAKING Any compromise with Russia will 'destroy' Ukrainian statehood: presidential aide to AFP
#BREAKING Putin says West used grain deal for 'political blackmail'
VIDEO: Ukrainian firefighters battle flames after a Russian strike on Odesa.
Ukraine's president accused Russia of deliberately targeting grain export infrastructure in the city after Moscow ended a landmark deal and lifted security guarantees in the Black Sea
#BREAKING Putin says situation 'difficult' in Rostov in southern Russia
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday acknowledged a "difficult" situation was unfolding in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, where the Wagner mercenary group has taken control of key military sites in an effort to oust Russian military's top brass.
#UPDATE President Vladimir Putin vowed Saturday he would not allow Russia to slip into civil war, after the leader of the Wagner mercenary force seized a key military headquarters overseeing the offensive in Ukraine.
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#BREAKING Titanic sub operator believes passengers have 'sadly been lost': statement
#UPDATE The US Coast Guard now says the discovered debris from the submersible -- which was carrying five passengers down to the wreckage of the Titanic when the small vessel vanished on Sunday -- suggests 'catastrophic loss'
#BREAKING Pakistan offer condolences to family of British-Pakistan nationals on Titanic sub