Russia fired dozens of missiles and drones at Ukraine overnight and early Saturday, killing 13 people, Kyiv said.Ukraine also accused Russia on Saturday of striking a boarding school sheltering civilians in the Ukrainian-occupied town of Sudzha in Moscow’s Kursk region, where Kyiv launched a major cross-border assault last August.A spokesman for Kyiv’s military command said …
The conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo risks escalating into a broader regional war, Burundi’s president said Saturday, as Africa’s top health agency warned the fighting could spark new outbreaks of serious diseases.The Rwanda-backed armed group M23 has vowed to march on the capital Kinshasa after capturing eastern DRC’s biggest city of Goma earlier …
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President Donald Trump is due to unleash fresh tariffs Saturday on major US trading partners Canada, Mexico and China, threatening upheaval across supply chains from energy to automobiles.Trump promises 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico, pointing to what he said was their failure to halt illegal immigration and the flow of fentanyl across US …
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told his US counterpart Donald Trump on Saturday that the world was relying on him “to reach a permanent and historic peace agreement” to end the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.Saturday’s phone call was the first between the two leaders since Trump repeatedly floated a plan to relocate Palestinians from …
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Russia fired dozens of missiles and drones at Ukraine killing 12 people, Kyiv said Saturday, as Moscow claimed its forces were pressing in on the key city of Toretsk.The city in the eastern Donetsk region has been in the Kremlin’s sights for months, as its capture would enable Russia to obstruct vital Ukrainian supply routes.Russia’s …
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Artillery shelling and air strikes killed at least 56 people across greater Khartoum on Saturday, according to a medical source and Sudanese activists.Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a battle for power since April 2023 that has intensified this month with the army fighting to take back …
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Mohamed Salah scored twice to take Liverpool nine points clear at the top of the Premier League by beating Bournemouth 2-0 on Saturday, while third-placed Nottingham Forest smashed Brighton 7-0.Salah’s double took him above Frank Lampard as the sixth highest goalscorer in Premier League history with 178 goals on another significant day in the Reds’ …
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Music world A-listers took the stage Friday to honor the Grateful Dead at an annual pre-Grammys benefit gala, which this year raised millions for musicians impacted by the recent wildfires that devastated Los Angeles.The 34th annual MusiCares Person of the Year gala — which benefits the charitable wing of the Recording Academy, behind the Grammys …
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The death toll from the crash of a medical jet carrying a Mexican child home from a hospital in Philadelphia has risen to seven, officials said Saturday, with 19 others wounded.The crash — the second major aviation disaster in the United States this week — occurred Friday when the twin-engine Learjet 55 plummeted towards a …
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Près de 1.500 manifestants ont défilé samedi à Paris pour dénoncer le manque de soutien international face à l’offensive du groupe armé M23 soutenu par le Rwanda dans l’Est de la République démocratique du Congo, a constaté un journaliste de l’AFP.Les manifestants, pour l’essentiel membres de la communauté congolaise, ont marché de la place de la Bastille à celle de la Nation, arborant de nombreux drapeaux congolais ou des pancartes sur lesquelles on pouvait notamment lire “Stop à la guerre” ou encore “Nos richesses, notre droit”.”Le Rwanda, c’est des voleurs, l’UE des receleurs. On veut pas de bla-bla, à l’Union européenne de prendre des décisions de sanctions” à l’égard de Kigali, a affirmé à l’AFP un manifestant Valéry Kanu.Kinshasa accuse le Rwanda voisin de vouloir faire main basse sur les ressources minières de l’Est congolais. L’UE a conclu en février 2024 un partenariat sur les matières premières critiques, suscitant l’ire du président Félix Tshisekedi.Au milieu de nombreux slogans hostiles au Rwanda et à son président Paul Kagame, qu’ils accusent d’entretenir un conflit depuis 30 ans dans l’Est du Congo, plusieurs manifestants ont fait état de leur désarroi devant le manque de réaction de la communauté internationale.”La Belgique, la France, on a besoin de votre aide, vous vous cachez derrière les Rwandais…. On n’est pas soutenus”, s’est indignée une manifestante qui n’a pas voulu donner son nom.Dans ce conflit qui dure depuis plus de trois ans, la RDC accuse le Rwanda de vouloir piller ses nombreuses richesses naturelles dans la région. Le Rwanda affirme, lui, vouloir éradiquer des groupes armés, notamment créés par d’ex-responsables hutu du génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda en 1994, qui menacent selon lui sa sécurité.Â
