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Gaza, Sudan, Iraq. (opens the original)
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GazaEight people, including a well-known journalist, were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza today in the latest breaches of an ostensible ceasefire Tel Aviv agreed with Hamas last October. An attack on a passenger van in Gaza City left six people dead, medical officials and witnesses said, and a woman was killed in a strike on an apartment building in the city. Journalist Mohammed al-Najjar was killed by a drone in Khan Younis. Footage circulated on social media showing his three children crying
Yemen, DR Congo, Africa-UN (opens the original)
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YemenChildren are going increasingly hungry in Yemen as escalating fighting disrupts access to healthcare and treatment centers, the U.N. children’s agency said. “We're very concerned about a very visible increase in acute malnutrition among children,” UNICEF’s Country Representative in Yemen, Akhil Iyer, told reporters via video link from Aden. Iyer said that more than a quarter of almost 2,900 children screened in recent weeks by UNICEF in accessible areas were acutely malnourished, inclu
DR Congo, Morocco, Ethiopia (opens the original)
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DR CongoAt least one person was killed and several wounded when security forces opened fire during unrest at the burial of an Ebola victim in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after residents demanded to see the body. The crowd wanted to confirm that the deceased had died of the virus, a member of an Ebola response team said, underlining persistent distrust from local communities as DRC battles the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record. The bodies of people who have died from the illness
Ethiopia, Myanmar, Naoero (opens the original)
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EthiopiaFighting has erupted in Ethiopia between government forces and the party that governs the country’s Tigray region, with both sides accusing the other of triggering the violence. Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) forces seized three federally controlled airports in the region, including in Tigray’s capital Mekelle. The TPLF, which led Ethiopia’s ruling coalition from 1991 to 2018, said it was launching what it called “a defensive war” after reports of government drone strikes agains
Mali, China, Nicaragua (opens the original)
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MaliRebels killed more than 100 Malian soldiers in an attack this month, two sources told Reuters, as government forces continue to face huge pressure from armed groups. Fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) launched the assault on a military camp in the town of Dioura on September 10, the sources said. A security source told Reuters that 130 soldiers were killed with more than 100 taken hostage, while a diplomatic source said about 120 soldiers were kille
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