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US official lands in Sudan to support democratic transition

The U.S. official who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on genocide landed Saturday in Sudan, aiming to support the country’s fragile transition to democracy before travelling to Ethiopia to press the government there to allow humanitarian aid to the war-torn Tigray region. Samantha Power, administrator of the U.S. Agency for …

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Egypt army says 89 ISIS insurgents killed in restive Sinai

Egypt’s military said Sunday it has killed 89 suspected insurgents in operations in North Sinai, a region where an affiliate of ISIS has been active for nearly a decade. “Amid ongoing efforts in pursuing and defeating terrorist elements… during the previous period, the armed forces… carried out operations that killed …

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Iran Denies Involvement in Attack on Israeli-Operated Ship; UK Says Otherwise

Despite Iran’s denial of having anything at all to do with Thursday’s attack on an Israeli-operated oil tanker, the Mercer Street, off the coast of Oman, the United Kingdom says otherwise. In what is believed to have been an attack by drones, two international crewmen, one from Romania and one …

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