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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United States urged the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to consider measures to halt an offensive by Rwandan troops and M23 rebel forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as a conflict there escalates. Acting U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Dorothy Shea did not specify to the …

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By Yassin Kombi and Sonia Rolley GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Rebels seized the airport of east Congo’s largest city Goma on Tuesday, potentially cutting off the main route for aid to reach hundreds of thousands of displaced people, after capturing the city in an offensive that left dead bodies lying in the streets. …

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By Angelo Amante and Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) -Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday she had been placed under judicial investigation following a government decision to release a Libyan police officer wanted by the International Criminal Court. Osama Elmasry Njeem was freed last week and flown home by an Italian state aircraft just …

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By Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s freeze on U.S. foreign aid globally has included a stop-work order to a program run by aid group Action Against Hunger helping severely malnourished children in refugee camps in Ethiopia, two sources said on Tuesday. A memo on Saturday made it clear to U.S. Agency for …

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GOMA (Reuters) – Residents of eastern Congo’s largest city of Goma greeted the arrival of Rwanda-backed rebels with trepidation on Monday, some staying indoors and others coming out to cheer in what one called a “show” of happiness. The M23 fighters swept into Goma, a lakeside city of about 2 million people, on Sunday for …

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By Benoit Nyemba and David Lewis KINSHASA (Reuters) -Rioters stormed embassies and started fires in Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa on Tuesday, drawing tear gas from police, in an eruption of protests over a Rwandan-backed rebel offensive in the east. The demonstrators targeted Western and African countries they accuse of complicity in Kigali’s support …

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By Joe Bavier JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – After three years on the run from the Rwandan-backed M23 insurgency in eastern Congo, on Sunday, with the rebels fighting their way into Goma’s city outskirts, Colleta Nzambonimpa found herself in church with nowhere left to turn. “I pray that God strengthens our soldiers,” Nzambonimpa, 54, told Reuters. “My …

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