UN aid chief says six months of war in Sudan has killed 9,000 people | AP News

UN aid chief says six months of war in Sudan has killed 9,000 people | AP News

CAIRO (AP) — Six months of war between Sudan’s military and a powerful paramilitary group has killed up to 9,000 people and created “one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history,” the United Nations humanitarian chief said Sunday.Sudan has been engulfed in chaos since mid-April, when simmering tensions between military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan

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Greece’s ruling conservatives suffer setbacks in regional, municipal elections | AP News

Greece’s ruling conservatives suffer setbacks in regional, municipal elections | AP News

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s ruling New Democracy party suffered a setback in Sunday’s runoff elections for regional governors and mayors, losing the country’s two largest cities and five of the six regional contests.Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had explicitly said that his goal was to win all 13 regions plus the cities of Athens, Thessaloniki

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DeSantis says US shouldn’t take in Palestinian refugees from Gaza because they’re ‘all antisemitic’ | AP News

DeSantis says US shouldn’t take in Palestinian refugees from Gaza because they’re ‘all antisemitic’ | AP News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said the United States should not take in any Palestinian refugees if they flee the Gaza Strip because they “are all antisemitic” and he dismissed international entreaties for Israel to provide clean running water and utilities to the 2.3 million civilians in the territory.DeSantis’ comments were a

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Israeli rabbis work around the clock — even on the Sabbath — to count the dead from Hamas attack | AP News

Israeli rabbis work around the clock — even on the Sabbath — to count the dead from Hamas attack | AP News

SITRIYA, Israel (AP) — Rarely do rabbis spend the Sabbath counting bodies. But on Saturday, a week after Hamas militants blew easily past Israel’s fortified security fence and gunned down hundreds of Israelis — at music festivals, in their homes, in cars while trying to flee — Israel’s military rabbinate made an exception.At Shura military

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Myanmar’s military seeks to keep ethnic minority allies on its side with anniversary of cease-fire | AP News

Myanmar’s military seeks to keep ethnic minority allies on its side with anniversary of cease-fire | AP News

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government hosted representatives from ethnic rebel groups Sunday to mark the eighth anniversary of the signing of a multilateral cease-fire agreement. But the event was boycotted by three of the signatories that oppose the current army-installed regime.The event in the capital Naypyitaw was the first such formal gathering of the

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Russian governor has been reported to police after saying there’s ‘no need’ for the war in Ukraine | AP News

Russian governor has been reported to police after saying there’s ‘no need’ for the war in Ukraine | AP News

A Russian governor was accused by critics on Sunday of “discrediting Russia’s armed forces” after telling residents in her region that the country had “no need” for its war in Ukraine.Natalya Komarova, the governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk region and a member of President Vladimir Putin’s governing United Russia party, made the remarks during a meeting

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