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Militants aligned with the Daesh group ambushed Nigerian security forces in northeastern Borno state, killing two soldiers and two anti-militant militia members, sources said Saturday. Fighters from Daesh-West Africa Province (DaeshWAP) opened fire Friday with heavy guns on a motorcycle convoy of Nigerian troops, anti-militant militia and local hunters on
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Ethiopia on Friday confirmed its first Marburg outbreak after nine cases were identified in a southern region of the country that borders South Sudan. The World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised the Ethiopian government’s fast action, saying it showed a “commitment to bringing the outbreak under control
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The situation at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine remains stable after one external power line had been switched off, the RIA news agency reported on Saturday, citing the plant’s representative. The Dneprovskaya power line supplying electricity to the plant was switched off as a result of
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A prominent Tunisian opposition figure has been hospitalized due to severe dehydration after over two weeks on hunger strike, his family said on Friday. Jawhar Ben Mbarek, co-founder of the National Salvation Front, Tunisia’s main opposition alliance, has been detained since February 2023. His relatives have warned that his
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A landslide on Indonesia’s Java island has killed at least 11 people, an official said Saturday, updating a previous tally as rescuers scrambled to find 12 others who are still missing. The landslide, caused by heavy rainfall, hit three villages in Central Java province on Thursday, burying some houses
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Almost every district in Kyiv came under “massive” attack Friday morning, the Ukrainian capital’s mayor said, with a death reported hours after AFP journalists heard explosions in the city center. Moscow, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, has intensified its attacks on infrastructure, particularly targeting Ukrainian
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It took 16-year-old Mounir Abderahmane 11 days to reach the Tine refugee transit camp in Chad, crossing arid plains after fleeing the bloodshed in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher. When the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) entered the city in late October, Abderahmane was at the Saudi hospital, watching over his
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Following Iraq’s parliamentary election this week, the complex and often lengthy task of choosing the country’s next leader is set to begin. Incumbent Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani claimed victory for his coalition after preliminary results showed it was the largest bloc — though it still falls short of
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Syria will play an active role in assisting the United States in fighting armed groups including Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Hamas and Hezbollah, US special envoy Tom Barrack said on Thursday. Interim President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, himself a former militant, became the first Syrian leader to visit the White House since
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Lobbyists tied to the fossil fuel industry have turned up in strength at the UN climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon, an NGO coalition said Friday, warning that their presence undermines the process. A total of 1,602 delegates with links to the oil, gas and coal sectors have headed
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The United States has approved $330 million-worth of parts and equipment in its first military sale to Taiwan since US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the island’s foreign ministry said Friday. While the United States does not recognize Taiwan’s claim to statehood, Washington is
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President Volodymyr Zelensky visited troops near Ukraine’s southeastern front on Thursday, warning of the need to shore up the lines after losing ground in increasingly high-intensity battles far from Russia’s main offensive in the east. Zelensky, whose government is reeling from a corruption scandal, said the situation near
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Israel received the body of one of the last four hostages held in Gaza from the Red Cross on Thursday as part of the ceasefire deal with Hamas, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. The coffin was handed over in the Gaza Strip to the Israeli army and
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Europe’s top development banks and Ukrainian energy firm Naftogaz signed a deal on Thursday to provide hundreds of millions of euros to secure Ukraine’s natural gas supply amid the ongoing attacks on its infrastructure by Russia. Ukrainian gas imports have risen as the war with Russia batters the
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Turkiye’s president on Thursday defended “the coexistence of two states” on Cyprus, as he hosted the new leader of the island’s Ankara-backed self-proclaimed republic who had backed reunification. In October, the breakaway territory of northern Cyprus — recognized by only Turkiye — voted overwhelmingly for former prime minister Tufan Erhurman
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A riot broke out late Wednesday at a migrant detention center in northern Greece, leaving two police officers injured and 30 migrants arrested, authorities said. The facility where the unrest erupted was holding about 750 migrants of various nationalities, police said. Two officers were treated for injuries after being hit