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Seeking an ‘angel’: African startups face funding challenge

https://youtu.be/7sJA_tKnDhc By Aymeric VINCENOT in Addis Ababa, with Joris FIORITI in Paris ADDIS ABABA, July 7, 2023 (AFP) - Kubik…

UNESCO condemns bombing of ‘historic building’ in Lviv

PARIS, July 6, 2023 (AFP) - UNESCO on Thursday condemned the bombing of a historic building in the western Ukrainian…

Facebook alters fact-checking controls for US users

By Anuj CHOPRA WASHINGTON, July 7, 2023 (AFP) - Meta-owned Facebook has handed US users the controls over fact-checked content,…

Musk threatens lawsuit as Twitter rival Threads takes off

WASHINGTON, July 7, 2023 (AFP) - Twitter threatened to sue Meta just hours after the Instagram parent company launched Threads,…

US makes new Alzheimer’s drug more widely accessible

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- The US drug regulator gave full approval to a new Alzheimer's medicine on Thursday, a…

Climate change, El Nino drive hottest June on record

By Benjamin LEGENDRE Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- The world saw its hottest June on record last month, the…

Musk predicts Tesla self-driving cars ‘later this year’

SHANGHAI, July 6, 2023 (AFP) - Electric car giant Tesla is set to realise fully autonomous vehicles "later this year",…

Final Ariane 5 blasts off amid Europe rocket crisis

By Juliette Collen PARIS, July 6, 2023 (AFP) - Europe's workhorse Ariane 5 rocket blasted off for a final time…

Meta launches Twitter rival Threads — but not in Europe

By Alex PIGMAN with Thomas URBAIN in New York WASHINGTON, July 6, 2023 (AFP) - Facebook behemoth Meta officially launched…

Violins in the sun: Stradivari’s home workshop reopens in Italy

By Brigitte HAGEMANN Agence France-Presse CREMONA, Italy (AFP) -- For over three centuries, music lovers the world over have been…

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