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Africa Launches Its Own Credit Rating Agency to Take On the 'Big Three' and Cut Borrowing Costs
The African Union inaugurates the Africa Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA) in Port Louis, Mauritius — a decade in the making — aiming to give the continent fairer, context-specific sovereign ratings and chip away at borrowing costs that eat into health and education budgets.
North Korea Missile Launches: Tracker and Latest Tests
An evergreen tracker of North Korea's missile tests in 2026: the October 3 AI-guided intermediate-range launch, the September hypersonic Hwasong-11M-1 test, the September 12 joint strike drill, what the missiles are, and how Seoul, Tokyo and Washington are reacting.
Air Ambulance With Six Aboard Vanishes Off Nantucket; US Coast Guard Launches Massive Search
A Canadian-registered Gulfstream G100 air ambulance carrying six people — two pilots, two medical staff, a patient and a relative — disappeared from radar on a Bermuda-to-Boston flight early Saturday. The US Coast Guard is searching waters off Nantucket after the jet plunged from 23,500 feet to 11,000 feet in three minutes.