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By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) – Countries including France and Germany have helped evacuate about 100 Canadians from Sudan, and Canada is working to evacuate more civilians during a 72-hour ceasefire agreed by warring factions in the North African country, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said on Tuesday. Countries globally have rushed to extract foreign diplomats …

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(Reuters) – The death toll among followers of a Kenyan cult called the Good News International Church, who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves, has risen to 89 and could rise further, Kenyan authorities said on Tuesday. The following are some of the deadliest cult-related incidents in recent history. UGANDA, MARCH …

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – At least 57 bodies have been washed ashore after two migrant boats sank in the Mediterranean off different towns in western Libya, a coast guard officer and an aid worker said on Tuesday. One survivor, Bassam Mahmoud from Egypt, said there were about 80 passengers on one of the boats that set …

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By Eleanor Whalley (Reuters) – After more than a week of conflict in Sudan, Bandar Dowelbait said his food supplies have nearly run out and he can only go outside to look for drinking water during lulls in fighting which has turned his city into a war zone. Dowelbait, 26, said he wants to leave …

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By Carien du Plessis JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s governing African National Congress will aim to repeal the country’s membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC), President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday, the second time it has attempted to do so. The party’s decision at a weekend meeting of its national executive committee came after …

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By Cecile Mantovani and Emma Farge BERN (Reuters) – A Swiss ambassador described on Tuesday a narrow escape during a French-assisted evacuation mission from Sudan, with air strikes shaking an evacuation bus carrying diplomats to a military base. Switzerland has already shut its embassy and evacuated all Swiss staff and their families over the past …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine has rescued 138 civilians, including its own nationals and citizens of Georgia and Peru, who were trapped by fighting in Sudan, Ukraine’s military intelligence said on Tuesday. The GUR military intelligence agency said that it had evacuated 87 citizens of Ukraine, who were mostly aviation specialists – pilots and technicians – …

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NICOSIA (Reuters) – Cyprus said on Tuesday it had activated a humanitarian rescue mechanism for the evacuation of third-country civilians through the island from Sudan. “The Republic of Cyprus intends to offer facilities to friendly countries for the repatriation of their nationals through Cyprus,” the Cypriot Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Cyprus has facilitated …

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