New: #Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado was freed after a brief detention, her party said bloom.bg/4fTbgs7

WATCH: Mozambican opposition leader Venancio Mondlane has made a bold move, declaring himself the "president-elect" upon his return from exile.

This announcement comes despite the official election results, which named Daniel Chapo the winner with overwhelming 65% of the vote.

#Zambia’s former President Edgar Lungu has been barred from contesting in the 2026 election.

The Constitutional Court ruled today that he already served his first term when he succeeded late President Sata in 2015. Lungu served for a year after winning a presidential by-election that year.

More cases of a mysterious flu-like illness labeled “Disease X” were reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the WHO has dispatched a rapid response team to help investigate.

Google said that it has overcome a key challenge in quantum computing with a new generation of chip, solving a computing problem in five minutes that would take a classical computer more time than the history of the universe.

BREAKING: Arrest warrants have been issued for #Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence secretary Yoav Gallant by the International Criminal Court.

BREAKING: Ukraine has fired US-made long-range missiles into Russia's Bryansk region, Russian state media reports

With #Zimbabwe latest attempts to relaunch a home-grown currency failing fast after the gold-backed ZiG lost almost 100% of its value in just seven months, it might be time to consider adopting the rand, writes Garth Theunissen — t.co/rINNAohLCY

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