New ​Zealand's national censor said on Friday it would be unable to block the planned livestreamed execution ‌of a former Army major in the United States, as rights groups pressed governments to protest the decision with Washington.

South Africa has experienced recurrent outbreaks of violence, often targeting migrants from neighbouring countries.

South Africa's Department of Home Affairs said on Friday it had withdrawn a directive allowing the intake of asylum applications, ​a day after anti-migrant protests turned violent in Johannesburg and ‌Durban.

Ethiopia's government said it had no option but to defend itself against ​what it called an "all-out invasion" by Eritrean forces, in ‌a letter to the UN Security Council shared with Reuters on Friday.

Anti-migrant protests in South Africa turned violent on Thursday, one in the coastal ​city of Durban and another in ‌Johannesburg's Soweto township, with cars torched at both and gunshots fired in Soweto, local media reported.

The US will provide $1.5bn (£1.1bn) under the deal that was negotiated after Trump cut USAID funding.

The Mapocho river has burst its banks after an unusually large amount of rain fell in recent days.

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

Local opposition has exacted a much higher cost for developers than has been previously understood, according to new Heatmap Pro survey of public records and financial information.

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The amount of oil in storage that is accessible to the global market is running low, ‌industry executives said at a forum in London this week, making the market more fragile and putting upward pressure on prices.

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In a first-of-its-kind pilot, Nolla Health lets AI diagnose and issue prescriptions.

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