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Paramilitary force pushes east in new escalation of Sudan’s war
By Khalid Abdelaziz, Eltayeb Siddig and Nafisa Eltahir Reuters The paramilitary force battling the army in Sudan’s civil war is shifting its ...Ukrainians flee southeastern front as fighting worsens
By Sergiy Chalyi Reuters Bundled in layers of clothing and clutching her cane inside an evacuation van, 84-year-old Polina Plyushchii said the ...42 migrants presumed dead after boat capsizes off Libyan coast
By Jana Choukeir and Ahmed Elumami Reuters At least 42 migrants are missing and presumed dead after a rubber boat capsized off ...Gaza families still without electricity despite ceasefire
By Mahmoud Isaa and Haseeb Alwazeer Palestinian mother Hanan al-Joujou, 31, has to feed her three children in the dark with a ...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 ...














