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9/20/2023 12:38:09 PM
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday praised the “positive results” of negotiations with Yemen's Houthi rebels after they visited the kingdom for peace talks, though Riyadh released few details on their discussions to end the war tearing at the Arab world's poorest nation.
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9/19/2023 11:08:12 PM
A delegation of Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels returned Tuesday to Sanaa after five days of talks in Saudi Arabia, media and officials said, without yet reporting any progress towards ending their eight-year war.
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9/15/2023 3:27:38 PM
Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels said they hoped to overcome "challenges" on Friday as they head into unprecedented talks in Saudi Arabia aimed at ending their devastating eight-year war.
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9/14/2023 6:24:52 PM
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels are to fly to Saudi Arabia for the first publicly announced visit since a Saudi-led military intervention against them in 2015, government and diplomatic sources said on Thursday.
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Africa
9/12/2023 10:16:57 PM
Armed groups from northern Mali on Tuesday claimed they captured the key town of Bourem, between Gao and Timbuktu, before pulling out, fuelling fears of the collapse of a peace deal between the ex-rebels and government forces.
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8/29/2023 5:10:03 PM
Former rebels in northern Mali on Tuesday accused the armed forces of carrying out new strikes on their positions, reflecting mounting tensions in the flashpoint region.
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8/27/2023 4:57:17 PM
Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Sunday killed 10 Yemen army soldiers from a southern separatist faction in a "surprise attack" after more than a year of relative calm, military sources said.
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Africa
8/26/2023 11:26:16 AM
Libyan troops led by General Khalifa Haftar (Libyan National Army) launched an airborne assault on a Chadian rebel headquarters in the southern desert late Friday, his office said.
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Economy
8/1/2023 1:35:11 PM
Saudi Arabia has approved a $1.2 billion grant to Yemen's internationally recognised government, two officials told AFP on Tuesday, the latest attempt to prop up the war-scarred country's flagging economy.
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International
7/24/2023 5:02:32 PM
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday underscored his administration’s resolve to defend the country’s territory through diplomacy in a key speech but did not mention China, with which it has had an escalating series of conflicts in the disputed South China Sea.
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Africa
7/16/2023 8:04:12 PM
At least 11 men were found dead in eastern DR Congo on Sunday, according to sources in Rutshuru territory who accused M23 rebels of killing them.
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International
7/15/2023 5:50:47 PM
Azerbaijan and Armenia held a fresh round of EU-mediated peace talks on Saturday, as Baku accused Armenian separatists in its breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region of using radio interference against passenger aircraft.
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War in Ukraine
6/25/2023 1:18:47 PM
From the rise of the former KGB officer to the Kremlin to his invasion of Ukraine and a mutiny by the Wagner rebels who backed him, AFP looks at key moments in Vladimir Putin's rule.
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War in Ukraine
6/24/2023 6:07:53 PM
Rebel mercenaries advanced north towards Moscow after seizing a key military base Saturday, just as Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin's vowed to defeat the revolt and head off the threat of civil war.
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6/18/2023 4:38:06 PM
Yemen's government and Iran-backed Huthi rebels are locked in talks in Jordan to set the ground for a possible prisoner exchange, a Red Cross official told AFP on Sunday.
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Africa
6/7/2023 2:38:09 PM
Government forces and rebels clashed for a week in a desert region of northern Chad, according to conflicting tolls from both sides.
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Africa
5/17/2023 3:56:38 PM
Rebels from Ethiopia's Oromia region on Wednesday accused the government of launching a large-scale military offensive against them after peace talks between the two sides ended without agreement.
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5/3/2023 3:32:10 PM
Initial talks between Ethiopia's government and the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) rebel group ended on Wednesday without yielding any agreement, but both sides are willing to continue the dialogue, Addis Ababa said.
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4/16/2023 11:35:32 AM
Yemeni rebels and government forces freed scores of prisoners Sunday on the last of a three day exchange of nearly 900 detainees, boosting hopes of ending their protracted civil war.
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4/15/2023 10:47:00 AM
Scores of prisoners of war, including Saudis, were freed on Saturday as part of a cross-border exchange between a Saudi-led military coalition and Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
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