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World
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Region
4/26/2025 6:16:59 PM
Syria's Kurdish parties held a conference on Saturday aimed at presenting a unified vision for the country's future following the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, a high-ranking participant told AFP.
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World
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War in Ukraine
4/25/2025 6:13:28 PM
US envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on Friday to tout Washington's plan to settle the Ukraine conflict, a day after Donald Trump issued a direct appeal to the Russian president to halt his offensive.
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Opinion
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4/25/2025 6:08:41 PM
LAGOS – We are entering a new era marked by profound geopolitical shifts, shrinking development assistance, rising trade barriers, and escalating global conflicts.
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World
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War in Ukraine
4/23/2025 8:56:52 PM
US President Donald Trump said a deal to halt the Ukraine war was "very close" Wednesday but hit out at Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky over his refusal to formally cede Crimea to Russia.
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World
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Region
4/23/2025 8:12:16 PM
A symbolic Syrian political forum that was banned under Bashar al-Assad relaunched on Wednesday, declaring its determination to work for democracy and freedoms, months after the former ruler's overthrow by rebel forces.
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World
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Africa
4/23/2025 7:25:18 PM
A media rights monitoring group condemned on Wednesday the detention of three Ethiopian reporters working for one of the country's most widely read outlets, and urged the return of seized equipment.
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World
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War in Ukraine
4/22/2025 9:00:35 PM
Ukraine will only hold direct talks with Russia once a ceasefire is in place, its President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday, as his US counterpart Donald Trump pushed for a speedy deal to end the three-year Ukraine conflict.
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World
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Africa
4/22/2025 3:14:36 PM
The World Food Programme said Tuesday that it was suspending aid for 650,000 malnourished women and children in Ethiopia because of a lack of funding.
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World
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War in Ukraine
4/22/2025 2:19:27 PM
The Kremlin on Tuesday warned against rushing talks over the Ukraine conflict, days after US President Donald Trump said some kind of "deal" between Moscow and Kyiv could be agreed this week.
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World
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War in Ukraine
4/19/2025 6:10:38 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a temporary Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, citing humanitarian reasons, the Kremlin said Saturday.
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World
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War in Sudan
4/16/2025 8:56:32 PM
The United Nations fears that worsening conflict in Sudan could "deepen the fragmentation" of the country, the spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, one day after paramilitaries announced the formation of a rival government.
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World
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War in Sudan
4/15/2025 10:33:25 AM
Senior international officials gather in London on Tuesday aiming to chart a pathway to peace for Sudan on the second anniversary of its brutal civil conflict, but without the presence of the warring parties.
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World
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Region
4/15/2025 9:05:18 AM
A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are still living in fear, with dozens killed in more minor attacks since the start of April.
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World
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Region
4/14/2025 9:58:32 PM
Syrian ministers and the country's central bank chief are to take part in the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's spring meetings in Washington next week, two sources told AFP on Monday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
4/14/2025 6:16:23 PM
Russian missiles struck the heart of the Ukrainian city of Sumy as people gathered to celebrate Palm Sunday, killing at least 34 people, officials said, in the second large-scale attack to claim civilian lives in just over a week.
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World
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Africa
4/14/2025 4:04:09 PM
Ethiopia is conducting forced evictions on an "unprecedented" scale, Amnesty International said on Monday, urging authorities to "immediately pause" urban renewal projects.
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World
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Africa
4/13/2025 2:28:04 PM
At least 50 people were killed in weekend attacks in Congo’s conflict-battered east, authorities said Saturday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
4/12/2025 6:26:56 PM
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry, in partnership with the Danish Embassy in Cairo, UNDP, and the Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (CCCPA), signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Cairo on Tuesday to launch the new phase of the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Initiative (DEDI), the ministry announced in a statement on Friday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
4/12/2025 3:20:15 PM
Diplomats attending a high-level meeting in Turkey warned on Friday that the continued absence of progress toward a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is driving extremism and instability across the Middle East.
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World
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Region
4/11/2025 7:09:36 PM
World leaders and diplomats gathered in southern Turkey on Friday for the fourth Antalya Diplomacy Forum, as conflict and geopolitical rifts continue to deepen worldwide.
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