Politics
North Korea’s Kim lauds ruling party as foreign delegations visit for 80th anniversary
By Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has praised the legacy of the country’s ruling party in a ...Hamas says it handed over list of Israelis and Palestinians for swap deal
By Tala Ramadan, Jana Choukeir and Nidal al-Mughrabi SHARM EL-SHEIKH (Reuters) -Hamas said on Wednesday it had exchanged a list of the ...Putin says Russia has captured nearly 5,000 square km in Ukraine this year
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russian forces had captured almost 5,000 square km (1,930 square miles) of land in ...Ukraine’s Donetsk region seen as Russia’s gateway, not the ultimate prize in war
BY HANNA ARHIROVA AP From a bunker in eastern Ukraine, the 33-year-old soldier asks her comrade to fly a reconnaissance drone over ...Surging Nile waters inundate Egypt and Sudan, revive row over Ethiopian mega-dam
By Dina Sakr and Mohamed Ezz CAIRO (Reuters) -Rising Nile waters inundated homes and fields in northern Egypt over the weekend, forcing ...Hamas readies for Gaza talks that US hopes will halt war, free hostages
By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Alexander Cornwell and Jasper Ward CAIRO/JERUSALEM/CAIRO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hamas officials arrived in Egypt on Sunday ahead of talks with Israel ...Israel strikes Gaza as Palestinians pin hopes on Trump’s Gaza plan
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Israeli planes and tanks pounded areas across the Gaza Strip overnight and on Sunday, destroying several residential ...Somali forces fighting al Shabaab attack on high-security prison
Somali government forces were fighting on Saturday to repel al Shabaab militants who stormed a high-security underground prison in the capital Mogadishu, ...Trump tells Israel to stop bombing Gaza as Hamas agrees to release hostages
By Wafaa Shurafa, Bassem Mroue and Joseph Krauss, Associated Press US President Donald Trump has ordered Israel to stop bombing the Gaza ...Thousands flee to Cameroon as Boko Haram seizes Nigerian border town
By Ahmed Kingimi Reuters More than 5,000 people have fled Nigeria’s northeast into neighbouring Cameroon after Boko Haram militants seized the border ...