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Shelling by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed six civilians, including two children, in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman, a doctor said Monday, as the army inched closer to the capital’s presidential palace. Sunday’s attack also wounded 36 civilians, half of them children, the doctor at
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Tunisia’s national guard said on Monday its forces had rescued 612 migrants and recovered the bodies of 18 others in several operations overnight off the country’s Mediterranean coast. Sharing images of some of those rescued, including women and children, after their boats capsized, the force said they were
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North Korea condemned recent US strikes on Yemen as an act violating international law and a country’s sovereignty and said such a move could never be justified in any way, the North’s state media quoted on Tuesday its ambassador to Yemen as saying. The large-scale US strikes were
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US President Donald Trump warned on Monday that Iran would be held responsible and face “dire” consequences for any further attacks by Yemen’s Houthis after Washington launched a military campaign over the weekend in an effort to deter the group. “Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked
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The interim government in Damascus will take part on Monday in an annual international conference to gather aid pledges for Syria, facing dire humanitarian problems and an uncertain political transition after the fall of Bashar Assad. The conference has been hosted by the European Union in Brussels since 2017 — but
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The Iran-backed Houthis claimed on Monday to have twice attacked an American aircraft carrier group within 24 hours, calling it retaliation for deadly US strikes. The Houthis initially said they launched 18 missiles and a drone at the “aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and its accompanying warships” in the Red
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Kurdish-led forces that control large swathes of northern Syria said nine people from the same family were killed Sunday night in a bombing it blamed on Turkey. “A Turkish occupation aircraft bombed a farming family south of Kobani in the late hours of Sunday night,” the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
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Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces had taken the village of Stepove, in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, in a statement on Monday via its channel in the Telegram messaging app. Reuters was not able to independently verify the report.
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A Myanmar junta airstrike on a village held by anti-coup fighters killed at least 12 people according to a local administrative official, who said the bombardment targeted civilian areas. Myanmar's military seized power in a 2021 coup which has plunged the country into a fractious civil war and
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Tornadoes killed at least 33 people across several states in the US Midwest and Southeast on Saturday night, CNN reported. Missouri reported 12 fatalities spanning five counties, the state’s highway patrol posted on X. Robbie Myers, the director of emergency management in Missouri’s Butler County, told reporters that
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An Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon on Sunday killed one person, the health ministry said, the latest attack more than three months into a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. The strike, which also wounded one person, targeted a four-wheel-drive vehicle near Yater in Bint Jbeil district at around 2:
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A blast in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia killed at least 10 people on Saturday, state media reported, adding that it was triggered by a scrap dealer mishandling unexploded ordnance. SANA news agency earlier reported that “the death toll from the explosion at a hardware store” in Latakia’s
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The head of the Daesh in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with US-led coalition forces, the Iraqi prime minister announced Friday. “The Iraqis continue their impressive victories over the forces of darkness and terrorism,” Prime
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The EU is expected to sanction nine individuals in connection with violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, two EU diplomats said on Friday. They did not identify the people set to be listed, in keeping with the practice of not revealing such details before the sanctions are officially approved.
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Ukraine said Saturday it had downed 130 Russian-launched drones across the country at night, as international efforts to end the three-year war intensify. Kyiv’s air force said the Iranian-made Shahed drones were downed over 14 regions and that Moscow had also attacked with two ballistic missiles.
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Thailand on Saturday responded to a United States visa ban on officials from the kingdom involved in deporting dozens of Uyghurs back to China, saying it had “received assurances” of their safety. The Thai government has suffered intense criticism from around the world for its decision to hand over at