LONDON (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday Britain’s plan to send illegal migrants to Rwanda was a deal between two free nations which are safeguarding the safety of the people, adding it was wrong to call it a deportation. Meloni, who heads a right-wing government in Rome, was talking to reporters …
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By Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) – Thanasis Pagoulatos kept the family-run Acropole Hotel in Khartoum open throughout all the coups, wars and uprisings that Sudan has periodically endured – until the war that tore through the capital this month finally forced him out. “It’s as if a part of mine is taken from us,” said …
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TUNIS (Reuters) -Coastguards have retrieved 41 bodies from Tunisian waters, a national guard official said on Friday, raising the number of victims of migrant shipwrecks off the country’s coast to 210 in 10 days. The bodies were in a decomposed state, suggesting they had been in the water for several days, said Houssem Eddine Jebabli …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – German troops will take part in a small European Union training mission in Niger after the parliament in Berlin gave its final approval on Friday, deploying to a country seen as at risk of violence spilling over from neighbouring Mali. Islamist militants have been gaining ground in Mali following the withdrawal of …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shot at a Turkish evacuation plane as it was landing at Wadi Seyidna airport outside Khartoum on Friday, damaging its fuel system, Sudan’s army said. Hundreds have died and tens of thousands of people have fled in two weeks of conflict between the army and its …
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By Souleymane Camara CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea’s national sports stadium buzzed with people seeking a different kind of workout this week, as minds flexed and stretched in pursuit not of muscle gains, but literary enrichment. The 15th edition of Guinea’s “72 Hours of the Book” festival unfolded in venues across the capital Conakry, bringing together …
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By Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The situation in Sudan could worsen at any moment and Americans should leave within the next 24 to 48 hours, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said on Thursday. The administration was deeply concerned by an increase in ceasefire violations in Sudan on Wednesday, and the U.S. …
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By Khaled Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudan’s two warring factions said on Thursday they would prolong a ceasefire agreement by 72 hours, but violence again rocked the capital Khartoum and the western region of Darfur as the U.S. said ceasefire violations were worrying. Hundreds have died and tens of thousands of people have …
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -An attack on a military detachment in east Burkina Faso on Thursday left 33 soldiers dead and 12 injured, the military-led government said, the latest bout of violence in a country locked in fighting against a jihadist insurgency. The attack on Thursday morning targeted the military detachment of Ougarou, in Burkina Faso’s Est …
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By Simon Jessop and Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) – The leaders of France, Spain, Barbados and Sierra Leone were among those to back a new coalition on Thursday aiming to accelerate the flow of climate-related finance to the world’s poorest countries. The “Power Our Planet: Act Today. Save Tomorrow” campaign led by non-profit group Global Citizen, …
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