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- Niger drops French place names to honour local heroes
Avenue Charles de Gaulle in Niamey is now Avenue Djibo Bakary after the city’s first post-independence mayor.
- Man rescued after 67 days adrift speaks of his survival
A Russian whale watcher is found alive, along with two dead relatives, two months after he set off.
- Fire kills 147 people after fuel tanker crash in Nigeria
People who had rushed to the scene to collect the leaking petrol were engulfed in flames.
- Kenyan deputy president’s impeachment trial begins
The Senate trial decides whether or not Kenya’s deputy president will be removed from office.
- Are North Korean troops joining Russia’s war in Ukraine?
Russia says no, but Ukraine and South Korea point to a deepening relationship between Pyongyang and Moscow.
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- Morgan Stanley shares pop 7% after beating estimates for third-quarter profit and revenue
Morgan Stanley has several tail winds in its favor, from high stock values to a rebound in investment banking and strong trading activity.
- United shares head for pre-pandemic high after airline forecasts strong finish to 2024, plans buyback
United Airlines said it authorized a $1.5 billion share buyback, its first share repurchase since before the Covid-19 pandemic.
- U.S. crude oil falls below $71 per barrel, continuing sell-off
Israel reportedly told the U.S. that it will not strike Iran’s oil facilities.
- Generative AI startups get 40% of all VC investment in cloud amid ChatGPT buzz
Venture capital firm Accel says that funding for cloud startups is set to rise 27% in 2024 thanks to a boost from AI — the first year of growth in three years.
- Bitcoin hits highest level since July, boosting other coins and crypto-related stocks
The price of bitcoin neared $68,400 on Wednesday, its highest since July, sparking a rally in other cryptocurrencies and related equities.
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- Lions kill zookeeper as she went to clean cages, officials say
The employee died after she “went to clean a cage with three lions, without shutting the bolt of a door between two rooms of the enclosure,” investigators said.
- Saudi cartoonist jailed for 23 years for insulting leaders, group says
A Saudi court has sentenced a cartoonist to more than two decades in prison for insulting the kingdom’s rulers, his family and a rights group say.
- Israel launches new strikes in Beirut despite U.S. warning
The Biden administration said it opposed Israel’s recent tactics against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, but the airstrikes keep coming.
- Search ends for remains of soldier abducted and killed in 1977
Robert Nairac was killed and secretly buried almost 50 years ago. The location of his remains has been a mystery ever since.
- What to know about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza amid U.S. warning to Israel
Avril Benoit from Doctors Without Borders, which has teams on the ground in Gaza providing medical assistance, speaks with “CBS Mornings” about the humanitarian crisis amid the war.