Partial results from the parliamentary elections reappeared on the electoral commission's website Friday after going blank due to an apparent technical glitch. The results show the governing African National Congress party ahead with 42.1% of the vote from about 55 percent of polling stations.

U.S. President Joe Biden has given Ukraine approval to use U.S. weapons for the limited purpose of defending Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed on Friday at a news conference in Prague.

Former president Donald Trump was found guilty Thursday on all 34 felony counts in his criminal trial, where he was accused of falsifying internal business records to cover up hush money payments tied to an alleged scheme to bury stories that might hurt his 2016 White House campaign.