#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 104 police, 30 journalists among injured in Bangladesh clashes: TV
#UPDATE Protesters in Bangladesh set fire to several government buildings during a day of deadly nationwide clashes between students and riot officers, a police statement said.
"The miscreants have already torched, vandalised and carried out destructive activities," on the offices of state broadcaster BTV and the national disaster management agency along with "various" police and government buildings, said the statement, issued after a nationwide internet shutdown
Bangladesh wakes to torched government buildings, internet blackout.
This week's unrest has killed at least 39 people including 32 on Thursday, with the toll expected to rise further after reports of clashes in nearly half of the country's 64 districts
#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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