The Trump administration confirmed Wednesday it had fired the head of the top US public health agency after she refused to step down during a standoff with vaccine skeptic Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The escalating dispute over…

  Aliko Dangote has signed a multibillion-dollar agreement with the Ethiopian government to build a $2.5 billion fertiliser plant. Signed in Addis Ababa on Thursday, Dangote will own 60% of the facility under the agreement, while the remaining 40%…

  The 15-year-old shooter of Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe, who was attacked in June and died in August, was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in juvenile detention. The right-wing politician was shot in the head during a campaign…