CAIRO (Reuters) – U.S. and Israeli delegations started a new round of meetings in Cairo on Thursday aimed at resolving differences over a truce proposal to end more than 10 months of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, two Egyptian security sources said. Egyptian and U.S. officials had met to seek compromises over plans …
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(Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Thursday that Africa’s Ivory Coast has reported cases of mpox Clade 2 for the first time since the start of the multi-country outbreak in 2022. (Reporting by Urvi Dugar; editing by mark Heinrich)
By Marta Di Donfrancesco ROME (Reuters) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday that he wanted more African students to come to Italy, in remarks that may exacerbate a coalition squabble over immigration and citizenship rights. Tajani’s centre-right Forza Italia party has urged the government to consider granting citizenship to foreign minors who have …
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By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Wearing a bulky protective suit and helmet, Mohamed Ahmed inches towards the truck where explosives wired to a mobile phone have been planted in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Fortunately for Ahmed, a police officer, this is a training exercise and the device is a dummy. Bombings using this technique, or …
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By Ahmed Kingimi ABUJA (Reuters) – Gunmen in Nigeria killed at least 10 farmers on Wednesday in an attack on a village in the northern Niger state, residents said. Armed gangs, known locally as bandits, have frequently raided communities in northwest Nigeria, kidnapping residents, farmers, students and motorists for ransom. Residents told Reuters on Thursday …
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By Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand on Thursday confirmed an mpox case reported this week was the clade 1b strain of the virus, the second confirmed case of the variant outside of Africa. The case is a 66-year-old European man who had arrived in Thailand last week from an unspecified African country where the …
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KINSHASA (Reuters) – The death toll from a river boat accident in western Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to at least 29 with at least 128 survivors identified and an unknown number still missing, local authorities said on Thursday. Rescue efforts have been under way for days after the boat carrying between 250 and …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – A fraction of available aid has passed through the Adre border crossing from Chad into Sudan’s hunger-ravaged Darfur region this week following a move by the Sudanese army to temporarily lift a ban on deliveries. The army’s rivals in the country’s devastating 16-month-old war control most of Darfur and the Adre crossing, …
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By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) – Five Kenyan police officers were arraigned on Wednesday, accused of helping a suspected serial killer and 12 others escape from a police station in the capital Nairobi, court documents showed. Prosecutors asked the court to detain the policemen, who were on duty during Tuesday’s jail break, for two weeks …
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BAMAKO (Reuters) -The military juntas of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have written to the U.N. Security Council to denounce what they said was Ukraine’s support for rebel groups in West Africa’s Sahel region, Mali’s foreign ministry said. Mali cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine in early August over comments by a spokesperson for Ukraine’s military …
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