MADRID (Reuters) – Dozens of migrants took advantage of a thick mist to swim to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco on Sunday and early on Monday, local police said. Spain’s two enclaves on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast, Ceuta and Melilla, share the only land borders of the European Union with Africa. The enclaves …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian President Kais Saied announced on Sunday a broad cabinet reshuffle of 19 ministers that included those for defence, foreign affairs and the economy, ahead of a presidential election on Oct. 6. The presidency said in a statement that Khaled Shili would be the new defence minister and Mohamed Ali Nafti the …
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BAMAKO (Reuters) -At least 21 people, including 11 children, were killed by drone strikes on Sunday on the town of Tinzaouaten in north Mali, near where the army suffered a heavy blow last month, Tuareg rebels said. Mali had already carried out airstrikes on insurgent targets in and around Tinzaouaten shortly after Tuareg and Islamist …
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By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian police said two of its officers were killed and three left unconscious after an attack involving knives and explosives by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria in capital Abuja on Sunday. “The proscribed organisation attacked the police checkpoint unprovoked, wielding machetes, improvised explosive devices and knives,” police spokesperson Josephine …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – American rapper Macklemore said he has cancelled his October show in Dubai in protest over the United Arab Emirates’ support for Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a warring party in the country’s civil war. “The current situation in Sudan is urgent, horrific and it’s going largely unnoticed globally. I’m following the …
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LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Renewed fighting between Democratic Republic of Congo’s army and M23 rebels broke out on Sunday around a densely populated town in eastern North Kivu province, where the rebels are waging an insurgency, the army and M23 said. The M23 captured the town of Kirumba, the economic hub of …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned America’s top general during a meeting on Sunday of the dangers of a major conflict in Lebanon. U.S. Air Force General C.Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Egypt hours after a significant missile exchange between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah. Hezbollah launched …
TRIPOLI (Reuters) -The United Nations Libya mission said late on Thursday it was concerned about reports of forces mobilising in Tripoli and threats of force to resolve a crisis over control of the central bank. The mission’s deputy head, Stephanie Koury, told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that the political and military situations in …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – A Hamas delegation headed by its senior official Khalil al-Hayya will arrive in Cairo on Saturday to hear from mediators on the latest round of Gaza ceasefire talks that took place in the Egyptian capital, the Palestinian group said in a statement. Two Egyptian security sources said that U.S. and Israeli delegations …
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By Ahmed Kingimi LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian police authorities have secured the release of 20 students who were kidnapped on their way to a convention in the north-central state of Benue last week, they said on Saturday, in a post on X. The victims, who are medical and dental students, were headed to the southeastern …
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