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‘No one could stop it’: Fleeing Sudanese describe mass rapes
AFP, Published on 05/11/2025
» TAWILA, Sudan - Sudanese mother Amira wakes up every day trembling, haunted by scenes of mass rapes she saw while fleeing the western city of El-Fasher after it was overrun by paramilitaries.
Young leftist Trump foe elected New York mayor
AFP, Published on 05/11/2025
» NEW YORK - New Yorkers elected leftist Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor Tuesday broadcasters projected, on a day of key local ballots across the country offering the first electoral judgement of Donald Trump's tumultuous second White House term.
Two killed as violence flares in Morocco protests
AFP, Published on 02/10/2025
» RABAT - Two people were killed when officers opened fire on a group of people attempting to “storm” a police station in Morocco on Wednesday, state media said, as protests — sometimes violent — roil the north African nation.
Chile, Argentina football fans trade blame over stadium violence
AFP, Published on 22/08/2025
» BUENOS AIRES (ARGENTINA) - Argentine and Chilean football fans traded blame on Thursday after a pitched battle in a Buenos Aires stadium involving knives, sticks and stun grenades, which left 19 people injured, three seriously.
Trump envoy to visit Gaza as pressure mounts on Israel
AFP, Published on 01/08/2025
» JERUSALEM - President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff held talks in Israel on Thursday ahead of a rare US visit to aid distribution sites in Gaza, where nearly 22 months of grinding war and dire food shortages have sparked an international outcry.
France eyes social media ban for under-15s
AFP, Published on 11/06/2025
» PARIS - French authorities have announced plans to ban social media for under-15s and the sale of knives to minors after the murder of a teaching assistant by a 14-year-old boy plunged the country into shock.
Germany mass stabbing suspect has 'psychological illness': police
AFP, Published on 25/05/2025
» BERLIN - A German woman accused of a mass stabbing attack that wounded 18 people at a train station in Hamburg suffers from mental illness, police said Saturday.
First deadly attack in Israel since Gaza truce began
AFP, Published on 03/03/2025
» HAIFA (ISRAEL) - A stabbing in the Israeli city of Haifa on Monday left one person and the attacker dead, authorities said, in the first such fatal attack since the Gaza ceasefire began in January.
Tunisian on trial in France over deadly 2020 Nice church attack
AFP, Published on 10/02/2025
» PARIS - A Tunisian man goes on trial Monday for stabbing three people to death in a church in the southern French city of Nice in 2020 as part of a "terrorist" plot.
Chad says bid to storm into presidential palace foiled, 20 dead
AFP, Published on 10/01/2025
» N'DJAMENA - Two dozen armed men tried to storm into Chad's presidential palace but 18 of the attackers and two soldiers were killed in the failed attack, the national prosecutor said Thursday.