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Women in Darfur report rape, lost children amid Sudan violence, UN says
By Mike Heuer UPI Women fleeing El Fasher in western Sudan are subjected to rape, starvation and deadly bombing, the United Nations ...Taiwan evacuates 3,000 ahead of arrival of Typhoon Fung-wong
Taiwan issued a land warning on Tuesday and evacuated more than 3,000 people ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Fung-wong which, while ...Iraqis vote in general election in rare moment of calm
By Roba EL HUSSEINI AFP Iraqis elect a new parliament on Tuesday in a vote that comes at a pivotal time for ...Hundreds missing as boat sinks near Malaysia-Thailand border
A boat carrying members of the Rohingya community from Myanmar has sunk near the Thai-Malaysian border, with hundreds missing, seven dead and ...Russia’s Kaliningrad puts on brave face as isolation bites
By Guillaume DECAMME AFP Standing in the centre of rainy Kaliningrad, the isolated Russian exclave surrounded by NATO countries, Russian factory worker ...Philippines evacuates hundreds of thousands as Fung-wong intensifies into super typhoon
Nearly a million people have been evacuated and floodwaters were rising in the Philippines on Sunday before Typhoon Fung-wong’s expected late-night landfall ...Russian attacks target nuclear substations, kill seven, Ukraine says
By Olena Harmash Reuters Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles in overnight attacks on Ukraine, targeting substations that supply two nuclear ...Thousands of US flights cancelled or delayed over government shutdown cuts
By Alex PIGMAN AFP More than 1,000 flights were canceled across the United States on Friday after the Trump administration ordered reductions ...Ukraine says more than 1,400 Africans from dozens of countries fighting for Russia
More than 1,400 citizens from three dozen African countries are fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, Kyiv’s foreign minister said on Friday. ...Sudan’s RSF paramilitaries agree humanitarian ceasefire
By Fatma Khaled, Associated Press The Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that has been at war with the Sudanese military for ...














