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Britain urges accountability at UN for rights abuses in Sudan

GENEVA (Reuters) – Britain urged the U.N. Human Rights Council to push for accountability over violence in Sudan at an emergency meeting in Geneva on Thursday but Sudan pushed back, saying the events unfolding there were an “internal affair”. Britain’s minister of state for development and Africa Andrew Mitchell urged the 47-member council to “send …

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Battles shake Sudan’s capital, ceasefire talks reported to make progress

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Aidan Lewis DUBAI (Reuters) – Fighting in Sudan’s capital escalated on Wednesday with fierce clashes and air strikes, but rival military factions were reported to be close to a ceasefire agreement in talks in Saudi Arabia. Residents reported ground battles in several neighbourhoods of Khartoum between the army and the paramilitary …

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Two dead, many injured in riots in Guinean anti-government protests

CONAKRY (Reuters) -Two people died and many were injured during clashes on Wednesday between riot police and anti-government protesters in Guinea’s capital Conakry, two doctors who worked in a city clinic and a human rights advocate told Reuters. Demonstrators threw stones and burned makeshift barricades on Wednesday, the latest in a string of protests since …

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Dollar in holding pattern, inflation data provides little clarity on rates

By Laura Matthews NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar remained stable against a basket of currencies on Wednesday as data showed inflation slowed slightly more than expected last month but gave traders little clarity on the U.S. monetary policy outlook. A U.S. Labor Department report on Wednesday showed the annual increase in consumer prices dipped …

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Thousands still missing as Congo flood survivors search for relatives

By Djaffar Sabiti NYAMUKUBI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -The death toll from flooding in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo crept higher on Tuesday as aid workers found more bodies among the muddy devastation and wounded residents succumbed to their injuries in an underequipped local clinic. The floods, in a remote, mountainous area of South …

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Six dead after Tunisia synagogue shooting, president blames ‘criminals’

By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisia’s president on Wednesday blamed “criminals” seeking to harm the tourism sector for a synagogue shooting on the island of Djerba that killed six people in the country’s deadliest attack in years. The attacker, a National Guard member, killed a colleague at a naval installation on Tuesday and drove to …

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