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114 killed in week of attacks in Sudan's Darfur
AFP, Published on 04/01/2026
» PORT SUDAN, Sudan - Attacks by Sudan's army and its paramilitary foes on two towns in the western Darfur region over the past week have killed 114 people, medical sources told AFP on Sunday.
Former Bangladesh PM and poll favourite Khaleda Zia dies aged 80
AFP, Published on 30/12/2025
» DHAKA - Bangladesh's former prime minister Khaleda Zia, who many believed would sweep elections next year to lead her country once again, died on Tuesday aged 80, her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) said.
Bangladesh ex-PM Khaleda Zia dies aged 80
AFP, Published on 30/12/2025
» DHAKA - Bangladesh's former prime minister Khaleda Zia, who many believed would sweep elections next year to lead her country once again, died on Tuesday aged 80, her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) said.
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga dies in India
AFP, Published on 15/10/2025
» NEW DELHI - Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has died at the age of 80 during a health visit to India, local police said Wednesday — a political earthquake that could transform politics in the East African nation.
Under a drone canopy, Ukraine army medics rely on robots and luck
AFP, Published on 22/08/2025
» UNDISCLOSED (UKRAINE) - When Magician, a Ukrainian serviceman, was remotely steering a robot hauling a wounded soldier away from the front line towards safety, the worst-case scenario played out on his monitor.
Thais and Cambodians refuse to quit homes on clash frontier
AFP, Published on 28/07/2025
» SURIN (THAILAND) - Under the drumbeat of artillery fire near Thailand's border with Cambodia, farmer Samuan Niratpai refuses to abandon his buffalo herd -- stubbornly risking his life to tend his livestock.
Aid groups warn of starving children as European powers discuss Gaza
AFP, Published on 25/07/2025
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Aid groups warned of surging numbers of malnourished children in war-ravaged Gaza as a trio of European powers prepared to hold an "emergency call" Friday on the deepening humanitarian crisis.
'Mass grave': Medics appeal for aid at last working hospital in Syria's Sweida
AFP, Published on 19/07/2025
» SWEIDA (SYRIA) - In the last barely-functional hospital in Sweida, bodies are overflowing from the morgue, staff said, amid violence that has wracked the Druze-majority southern Syrian city for nearly a week.
Gaza rescuers say Israeli strikes kill 14 as Trump teases ceasefire push
AFP, Published on 02/07/2025
» GAZA CITY — Gaza's civil defence agency said that Israeli strikes killed at least 14 people on Wednesday, as United States President Donald Trump urged Palestinian group Hamas to agree to a 60-day ceasefire.
‘Horrific’ Russian strikes on Kyiv kill 14
AFP, Published on 17/06/2025
» KYIV - Russian strikes killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens in Kyiv in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday called “one of the most horrific attacks” on the capital.