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Decaying Tanker in Mideast Is Emptied of Oil, Averting Catastrophic Spill

A U.N. operation to transfer more than one million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker into another ship off the coast of Yemen has been completed, officials said, averting a catastrophic spill that could have devastated marine life and communities across the Red Sea.

Fresh Fighting in Ethiopia Leads Israel to Evacuate More Than 200

Fighting between Ethiopia’s military and a local ethnic militia in the northwestern Amhara region has intensified in recent weeks, pushing the government to block the internet and declare a state of emergency.

Jacob Zuma Released After Brief Return to Prison in South Africa

Former President Jacob Zuma of South Africa returned to prison early Friday morning to continue serving a sentence for contempt, but was released almost immediately under a program to relieve overcrowding in the country’s jails, the authorities said.

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