Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Heavy fighting rocked Khartoum Sunday as a former prime minister warned of the “nightmare” risk of a descent into full-scale civil war. Army forces clashed with paramilitaries in Khartoum as deadly hostilities have entered a third week despite the latest ceasefire, which was formally set to expire at the end ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – At least seven militants and three Pakistan Army soldiers were killed during clashes in the country’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said on Friday. According to a statement by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a media wing of the Pakistan Army, security forces repulsed three attacks in the ...
Pekanbaru, Indonesia (AFP): Eleven people drowned in western Indonesia after a passenger boat carrying dozens overturned, an official said Friday. Rescuers saved 62 people and found the bodies of mostly women and children after the accident off the coast of western Riau province on Thursday afternoon, local search and rescue agency official Ku...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Fighting raged in Sudan on Friday, despite rival forces agreeing to extend a truce aimed to stem nearly two weeks of warfare that has killed hundreds and caused widespread destruction. In the capital Khartoum, where foreign nations are scrambling to organise mass evacuations of their citizens, Turkey’s defence mini...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – Migrants who risk their lives to arrive in the UK on small boats are “criminals,” British Home Secretary Suella Braverman said in a televised interview on Wednesday as the government presses ahead with its crackdown on Channel crossings. Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, said in a speech on ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – A court in Tehran on Wednesday ruled that the US must pay $312.9 million in damages to the families of victims of ISIS attacks in 2017 that killed at least 17 people. In a statement, the Iranian judiciary’s international affairs and human rights department said the ruling was made in response […]
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): A US-brokered ceasefire between Sudan’s warring generals entered its second day Wednesday but remained fragile after witnesses reported fresh air strikes and paramilitaries claimed to have seized a major oil refinery and power plant. “The pause was not fully upheld, with attacks on headquarters, attempts to g...
YORUBA, South Sudan (AA) – Over 10,000 people have arrived in South Sudan since fighting broke out between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan. The returnees and refugees have reportedly arrived in the border town of Renk in Upper Nile state and Aweil North County in Northern Bahr El Ghazal state. Kak […]
Moroni, Comoros (AFP): Comoros has said that it refused to allow a boat carrying migrants from Mayotte to dock because French authorities have announced a controversial operation against illegal migrants. It also said it suspended passenger traffic at a port where deported migrants usually land. “As long as the French side decides to do ...
Paris, France (AFP): France has evacuated 538 people from Sudan, President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday, as a ceasefire came into force after 10 days of urban combat. French citizens made up 209 of the total number of evacuees, Macron said at the start of a defence council at the Elysee palace. Macron also said that […]
