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The Weeknd and BTS hope to raise billions for Global Citizen

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NEW YORK — The Weeknd, BTS and Billie Eilish will take part in Global Citizen Live, a 24-hour event on Sept. 21 that's intended...

Ethiopia says all aid flights to Tigray must be searched

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s government on Friday said all flights carrying aid to its embattled Tigray region must go through its capital for inspection...

Ethiopia denies it’s trying to ‘suffocate’ Tigray region

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s government on Friday rejected accusations that it’s trying to “suffocate the Tigray people” by denying them urgently needed food and...

Up to 900,000 in Ethiopia’s Tigray face famine, US says

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NAIROBI, Kenya — The United States estimates that up to 900,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region now face famine conditions amid a deadly conflict,...

Ethiopia finally set to vote as PM vows 1st fair election

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KAMPALA, Uganda — Ethiopians will vote Monday in a landmark election overshadowed by reports of famine in the country’s war-hit Tigray region and beset...

Ethiopia urges Tigray rights inquiry to ‘immediately cease’

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s government is urging an African Union body to “immediately cease” a new commission of inquiry into allegations of abuses in...

Ethiopia envoy: Eritrean troops in Tigray will `leave soon’

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UNITED NATIONS — Ethiopia’s U.N. ambassador said Tuesday that Eritrean troops who have been fighting with his country’s forces in a war against the...

Pope demands food aid reach starving people of Tigray

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ROME — Pope Francis demanded Sunday that humanitarian aid reach hungry people in the war-torn Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, where Ethiopian and Eritrean...

UN official: Key committee says 350,000 in famine in Tigray

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UNITED NATIONS — A high-level U.N.-led committee that focuses on rapid responses to humanitarian crises estimates that some 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray...

Report on Tigray: 350,000 face famine, 2 million a step away

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UNITED NATIONS — A report issued Thursday warns that over 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray province are facing famine and over 2 million are...