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10/18/2022 5:51:36 PM
French cement giant Lafarge SA will pay a $778 million fine to the US Justice Department for supporting terror groups including Islamic State group during the Syrian civil war, the company announced Tuesday.
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Africa
10/17/2022 1:53:44 PM
Ethiopia's government on Monday recommitted to peace talks over Tigray but did not address African Union appeals for a ceasefire, vowing instead to carry out "defensive measures" including seizing airports and other federal facilities in the region.
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10/15/2022 6:04:17 PM
The International Rescue Committee said Saturday one of its aid workers was among three civilians killed in an attack in Tigray where Ethiopian and Eritrean forces have launched an offensive.
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10/6/2022 10:42:52 AM
Babies in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region are dying in their first month of life at four times the rate before the war cut off access to most medical care for over 5 million people, according to the most sweeping study yet of how mothers and children are suffering.
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9/22/2022 10:26:17 PM
UN-backed investigators said Thursday they have turned up evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity by Ethiopian government forces, Tigray forces and Eritrea's military _ including rape, murder and pillage _ over the nearly two-year war centering on Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.
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9/18/2022 10:45:23 AM
Eritrean authorities have called on their armed forces to mobilise in response to the renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia, the British and Canadian governments said.
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9/14/2022 10:29:14 AM
Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray was hit by an air strike on Wednesday, local officials said, its second bombing in as many days which came shortly after authorities in the rebel-held region said they were ready for a ceasefire.
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9/13/2022 10:03:19 PM
In a sign of growing concern in Washington about the Civil War in Ethiopia, the US special envoy to the Horn of Africa region arrived last week in Addis Ababa, reports Haitham Nouri
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9/13/2022 3:21:13 PM
Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray erupted in violence nearly two years ago when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent in troops to topple rebels he accused of attacking federal army bases.
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9/3/2022 9:21:45 PM
The United States on Friday dispatched an envoy to Ethiopia to seek an end to renewed fighting, and condemned neighboring Eritrea for re-entering the conflict in the northern region of Tigray.
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International
9/1/2022 4:16:39 PM
Taiwanese soldiers on a tiny islet just off China's mainland shot down an unidentified commercial drone on Thursday as a local tycoon vowed to train millions of "civilian warriors" to defend the island.
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8/30/2022 8:13:00 PM
Thousands of fighters including former rebels from rival camps in South Sudan's civil war were integrated into the country's army in a long-overdue graduation ceremony on Tuesday.
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8/25/2022 9:08:59 PM
The World Health Organization chief made a passionate appeal for his embattled home region of Tigray in Ethiopia on Thursday, saying he has relatives he cannot communicate with or send money to amid a blockade by government forces.
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8/24/2022 1:34:25 PM
Fighting erupted between government forces and Tigrayan rebels in northern Ethiopia on Wednesday, with the warring sides blaming each other for shattering a five-month-old truce.
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8/4/2022 5:50:41 PM
Parties to the peace deal ending South Sudan's devastating civil war have again delayed the country's first elections since independence by extending the transitional period by two years. The vote meant for early next year has been pushed to December 2024.
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6/16/2022 7:01:41 PM
Yemen's Houthi rebels are still recruiting children into their military ranks to fight in the country's grinding civil war, despite an agreement with the United Nations in April to halt the practice, Houthi officials, aid workers and residents told The Associated Press.
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6/8/2022 1:00:00 PM
A former US school teacher who became a high-ranking Islamic State official and organized an all-female IS military battalion, pleaded guilty Tuesday to supporting a foreign terrorist group, the Justice Department said.
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6/1/2022 1:56:54 PM
A pipeline rupture in Libya is spewing thousands of barrels of oil into the desert, as workers scramble to seal off the leak, authorities said Wednesday.
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5/20/2022 5:52:21 PM
The number of people with disabilities is soaring in Yemen after seven years of civil war, with amputations in particular rising from attacks on urban areas, the aid group Handicap International said Friday.
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5/16/2022 10:38:10 AM
The first commercial flight in six years took off from Yemen's rebel-held capital on Monday, officials said, part of a fragile truce in the county's grinding civil war.
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