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Sudan truce in tatters as fighting rages on
AFP, Published on 04/05/2023
» KHARTOUM: Gunfire and explosions gripped Khartoum for a 20th straight day Thursday leaving the latest ceasefire effort in tatters, a day after UN chief Antonio Guterres acknowledged the international community had "failed" Sudan.
In east Ukraine, Belarusians fight Russia's 'dictatorship'
AFP, Published on 03/05/2023
» NEAR BAKHMUT (UKRAINE) - In eastern Ukraine, a few soldiers bustle around an old Soviet mortar stuck in the mud. All Belarusian volunteers, they have taken up arms against Russia's invasion to fight for democracy.
Russia says Ukrainian drones targeted Putin
AFP, Published on 03/05/2023
» MOSCOW: Russia said on Wednesday that it had shot down two drones aimed at President Vladimir Putin's Kremlin residence in what it called a Ukrainian "terrorist" assassination attempt.
Second Russian train hit by explosive near Ukraine border
AFP, Published on 03/05/2023
» MOSCOW - An explosive device derailed a Russian freight train in a region bordering Ukraine for a second straight day Tuesday ahead of an expected counteroffensive by Kyiv.
Ukraine tank crew 'ready' for spring offensive
AFP, Published on 02/05/2023
» NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine: Near the frontline city of Bakhmut, members of a Ukrainian tank unit say they are all set for the expected spring offensive against Russian forces in the country's east.
Trench-digging Ukrainian troops targeted by Russian strikes
AFP, Published on 01/05/2023
» NEAR BAKHMUT (UKRAINE) - Shovels in hand and helmets on heads, Ukrainian soldiers jumped out of a military truck and prepare to dig a trench near Bakhmut, in the conflict-hit east of the country.
Seven killed, 44 wounded in blasts inside Pakistan police station
AFP, Published on 25/04/2023
» PESHAWAR (PAKISTAN) - At least seven people were killed and dozens injured in an attack inside a counter-terrorism police station in Pakistan on Monday, causing the building to collapse, officials said.
Stench of death engulfs Sudan hospitals, but leaving is mortal danger
AFP, Published on 24/04/2023
» KHARTOUM - Ibrahim Mohamed turned in his hospital bed to find the patient next to him had died, but fighting that had erupted in Sudan's capital hours earlier meant the body could not be moved.
Fighting in Sudan enters second week
AFP, Published on 22/04/2023
» KHARTOUM: Fighting in Sudan's capital entered a second week Saturday as crackling gunfire shattered a temporary truce, the latest battles between forces of rival generals that have already left hundreds dead and thousands wounded.
Heavy gunfire in Sudan as Eid ceasefire calls ignored
AFP, Published on 21/04/2023
» KHARTOUM - Sudan's warring forces battled Friday with heavy gunfire and explosions in the capital Khartoum and elsewhere in the country, as they ignored appeals by world powers for an end-of-Ramadan ceasefire.