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China on Saturday urged India and Pakistan to avoid an escalation in fighting, Beijing’s foreign ministry said, as the conflict between its two nuclear-armed neighbors spiralled toward full-blown war. “We strongly call on both India and Pakistan to give priority to peace and stability, remain calm and restrained, return
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Drone strikes hit Port Sudan for a sixth straight day Friday, an army source said, blaming the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the regular army since April 2023. “Our air defenses intercepted some of the enemy drones which were targeting sites in the city,” the source said, speaking
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At least 33 people have been killed in Sudan in attacks blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the army since April 2023, first responders said Saturday. The attacks came after six straight days of RSF drone strikes on the army-led government’s wartime capital Port Sudan
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A Sri Lankan Air Force helicopter crashed during a graduation ceremony on Friday, plunging into a reservoir and killing six of the 12 people on board, a military official said. The personnel were preparing for a grappling demonstration when their Bell 212 careened into the reservoir at the Maduru Oya
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will visit Saudi Arabia and Qatar on Saturday and will participate in the Iran-Arab World Dialogue summit in Doha, a ministry spokesperson said on Friday, ahead of possible US-Iran talks on Sunday.
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Drone strikes hit Port Sudan for a sixth consecutive day on Friday, an army source said, blaming the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which have been at war with Sudan’s regular army since April 2023. “Our air defences intercepted some of the enemy drones which were targeting sites in
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The UN Security Council on Thursday urged an immediate halt to the fighting in South Sudan and renewed its peacekeeping mission in the warring country for another year. The UNSC “demands all parties to the conflict and other armed actors to immediately end the fighting throughout South Sudan and engage
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Martha Karua, among the first to declare a run for the Kenyan presidency in 2027, told AFP the country is in “total disarray” due to corruption, police killings and economic decline. Karua served in government in the 2000s and, as a lawyer, has lately represented jailed opposition figures in neighboring
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Ukraine’s parliament voted on Thursday in favor of ratifying a minerals deal signed with the United States, an agreement Kyiv hopes will secure future military assistance from Washington in its fight to repel Russian troops. Despite misgivings by some Ukrainian lawmakers over whether the government had provided them with
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Lebanon said heavy Israeli strikes on the country’s south on Thursday killed one person as the Israeli army said it struck Hezbollah “infrastructure,” the latest raids despite a fragile ceasefire. Israel has continued to launch regular strikes on its neighbor despite the November truce which sought to halt more
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Access to the X account of jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, has been blocked in Turkey in response to a legal demand, a message on his social media account said on Thursday. Police detained Imamoglu on March 19, triggering Turkey’s largest
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Israel will do to Iran what it has done to Hamas in Gaza, Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Thursday, days after an attack on Ben Gurion airport by Iran-backed Houthi militia. “I warn... Iranian leaders who finance, arm and exploit the Houthi terrorist organization: the proxy system is terminated and
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An Australian jury on Thursday found two men guilty of murdering Cassius Turvey, a 15-year-old Indigenous boy whose killing sparked nationwide anti-racism protests. Turvey was attacked and beaten with a metal pole in October 2022 in the western city of Perth, the court heard. He died 10 days later in
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Six Bulgarians, members of a sophisticated spy network dubbed “The Minions,” were before court Wednesday for sentencing, facing up to 14 years in prison for spying for Russia. The four men and two women either pled guilty or had been convicted of charges of conspiracy to spy at Russia’s
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Afghanistan’s Taliban government warned India and Pakistan on Wednesday that further escalation was not “in the interest of the region” after they exchanged artillery fire along their contested frontier. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on the social media platform X that “it urges both sides
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An upcoming meeting between China and US trade representatives in Geneva was requested by the US side, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday. China announced earlier that Vice Premier He Lifeng will visit Switzerland from May 9 to 12 during which He will also have a