Health officials from 45 African countries met Wednesday to coordinate a continent-wide response to an Ebola outbreak that has killed nearly 5,000 people in DR Congo and spread to Kenya and Nigeria, as an assessment presented at the meeting showed only three of 31 countries evalu...
Tanzania and Angola have agreed to connect railways serving ports on opposite coasts of Africa, Tanzania’s president said. The move brings together multibillion-dollar infrastructure backed by Western governments and China.
Brazil’s main stock index sold off further on Wednesday amid mounting fears over the country’s fiscal picture following the surprise election defeat of Flávio Bolsonaro, who then fled to the US.
SELMA, Texas — James Talarico and Ken Paxton are both attacking one another as outsiders more beholden to California than Texas in the closing days of their competitive Senate race.
China’s Communist Party began a secretive four-day meeting that will likely pave the way for Xi Jinping to secure a new term as the country’s leader, further a long-running anti-corruption drive, and intensify his transformation of the world’s second-largest economy.
Most voters want AI safety measures and think favoring them is a political asset in states Republicans are trying to hold onto in the Senate, according to a new poll shared first with Semafor.
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Israel’s parliamentary polls looked neck-and-neck ahead of voting on Tuesday, with opposing camps painting apocalyptic images of what the future holds if they lost. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who won a renewed endorsement from US President Donald Trump over the we...
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu asked lawmakers to approve a $22 billion borrowing plan to fund infrastructure projects to be undertaken if he secures a second term in January’s election. The request came as the president and his chief rivals stepped up campaigning in major Nigeri...
Two emotionally charged symbolic wins for democratic movements occurred hours apart on opposite sides of the globe Sunday, but both face structural impediments in translating momentum into lasting change, a prominent political scientist argued.
South Korean chip giant SK Hynix reported a sevenfold increase in third-quarter profits from a year ago, the latest sign of a tech boom driving nationwide economic growth. The earnings, which were powered by surging demand from the AI infrastructure buildout, come after official ...
Private equity giant TPG has already invested nearly one third of a $10 billion climate-focused fund it closed less than a month ago, executive chairman Jim Coulter told Semafor. The fund, Rise Climate II, invests in companies in clean power, energy services and technology, low-c...
More investors are looking to hedge against a potential downturn in the AI boom, driving up the cost of credit default swaps tied to hyperscalers.
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Saudi Arabia has canceled in-person attendance at its flagship investment conference in Riyadh after Wall Street executives privately relayed safety concerns to organizers, including the boss of the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, people familiar with the matter said.Organizers ...
When ABC News removed a story about Donald Trump’s sons from its website without explanation on Thursday, an unnamed company source told media reporters the article had been published “prematurely.” Nathan Lee, the investigative reporter who wrote the original piece, used the sam...