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October 31, 2019

Ethiopian unrest death toll rises, government urges order

Ethiopia says 78 civilians died in last week's unrest that was sparked when a prominent activist said the government had ...

October 29, 2019

Senators grill Boeing CEO over plane involved in 2 crashes

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg faced withering questions from senators Tuesday about two crashes of 737 Max jets and whether ...

October 26, 2019

67 killed in days of unrest in Ethiopia, police say

Police in Ethiopia say 67 people have died in several days of unrest that have led the army to deploy troops to restore calm.

October 25, 2019

The Latest: Lion Air report says various issues led to crash

The Latest on the final report by Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee on the Oct. 29 crash of a Lion Air ...

October 24, 2019

Deadly Ethiopia unrest poses fresh challenge to Nobel winner

Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed faced the most serious political challenge of his short rule ...

October 22, 2019

Ethiopia's Nobel-winning leader warns Egypt over dam

Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister warned Tuesday that if there's a need to go to war over a dam project ...

October 19, 2019

Ethiopia's Nobel-winning leader launches million-copy book

Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister is launching a book of his ideology, with one million copies already ...

October 11, 2019

A look at the Ethiopia-Eritrea war whose end brought a Nobel

It was a war that killed some 80,000 people and sputtered to life again and again over two decades, pulling in soldiers ...

October 11, 2019

The Latest: UN council to say well done in person to Ahmed

The Latest on the Nobel Prizes (all times local): 12:40 p.m. The president of the U.N. Security Council says its 15 members ...

October 08, 2019

Airline went into records after Max crash, engineer says

Ethiopian Airlines' former chief engineer says in a whistleblower complaint filed with regulators that the carrier went into ...

October 06, 2019

The Latest: Ethiopia's Desisa wins marathon

The Latest on the world track and field championships early Sunday (all times local): 3:00 a.m. Lelisa Desisa has won the ...

October 02, 2019

Athletes united, but rival fans show Ethiopia's divides

The Ethiopian supporters are the loudest in the stadium at the track world championships — because they're trying to drown ...

September 30, 2019

The Latest: Warholm wins 400 hurdles, host Qatar gets medal

The Latest on the track and field world championships Monday (all times local): 10.50 p.m. Norway's Karsten Warholm has ...

September 11, 2019

Relatives of passengers killed in Boeing crash protest in DC

Families of the passengers who died in one of the Boeing 737 Max crashes lobbied Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on ...

September 08, 2019

Ethiopian church-affiliated group urges action against gays

A group affiliated with Ethiopia's Orthodox Church is condemning what it calls the government's silence on homosexuality in ...

August 28, 2019

Ethiopian fossil reveals face for ancestor of famed 'Lucy'

A fossil from Ethiopia is letting scientists look millions of years into our evolutionary history — and they see a face ...

July 29, 2019

Ethiopia plants more than 200 million trees in 1 day

Ethiopians planted more than 200 million trees on Monday, which officials stated will be a world record. The ambitious ...

July 17, 2019

Men who lost family members in Max crash seek safety changes

Two men who lost family members in the crash of a Boeing 737 Max airliner in Ethiopia called on Congress to change Federal ...