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By Reuters | Posted by TOE Militants linked to al Qaeda and a Tuareg-led separatist group ambushed a military convoy in northern Mali over the weekend, and a source close to the rebels said more than 50 soldiers and allied Russian fighters were killed and others taken hostage.  The attack marked the latest in a series of escalating assaults by the two groups, which joined forces for nationwide attacks in April that killed the defence minister and hit the airport in the capital Bamako, and launched a second wave this month aimed at seizing the town of Anefis. The incident occurred on Saturday between Anefis and the city of Gao in the north, according to statements from Mali’s armed forces, the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), and the al Qaeda-linked group Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM). Mali’s army said the ambush happened in the Tabrichat area and was followed by retaliatory airstrikes that killed at least 20 insurgents. The FLA statement said ...

By AFP | Posted by TOE Russian strikes killed one person and wounded 13 others in Ukraine’s capital on Sunday after Kyiv launched a deadly wave of drones that struck e-commerce warehouses in Russia. The latest bombardment highlights a dual challenge for Ukraine in its fifth year of war, facing almost daily Russian attacks alongside rare domestic political instability triggered by a sudden wartime shakeup of its military leadership. AFP journalists in Kyiv heard explosions moments after the Ukrainian air force warned residents via Telegram of incoming ballistic missiles. One of the explosions was so powerful it set off alarms of cars parked in the city centre, an AFP journalist said. Ukraine’s state emergency services said on Telegram that one person was killed and 13 others wounded in the attack that police said had targeted six districts. According to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko and local authorities, an apartment building in the Solomianskyi distri...

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Enas Alashray Reuters An Israeli airstrike killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded 20 attending a funeral in Nuseirat in the ​central Gaza Strip on Friday for a person killed by another Israeli strike on ‌the area earlier in the day, Gaza health officials said. Those deaths, along with at least three Palestinians killed in separate Israeli airstrikes elsewhere in the enclave, brought Friday’s toll to at least 12, medics said. Hamas condemned the ​Nuseirat strike as a “brutal massacre” against mourners and urged mediators, as well as the ​United Nations, to act to halt Israeli attacks in Gaza. Asked about the attack ⁠in Nuseirat, the Israeli military said it struck a cell belonging to the Islamic Jihad ​militant group, which holds sway in parts of the enclave along with Hamas. The military said it was “aware ​of the claims that several uninvolved individuals were harmed as a result of the strike”. ISRA...

By DPA | Posted by TOE Uganda discharged its last Ebola patient – a citizen of the Democratic Republic of Congo who has fully recovered – the Ugandan Health Ministry said on Thursday on X. It said the Congolese patient can now return home. The discharge triggered a 42-day period required under international guidelines after which Uganda can declare the Ebola outbreak over, provided no new cases occur. Still, the health ministry urged the public to remain alert for possible Ebola symptoms such as fever, vomiting, diarrhoea or unexplained bleeding. Situation in the Congo While Uganda is hoping for an end to the outbreak, the virus continues to spread in neighbouring Congo. Since mid-May, more than 2,000 people there have been confirmed to have contracted Ebola. The Congolese Information Ministry said the number of confirmed cases currently stands at 2,073, including 796 deaths. At present, 737 patients are being treated in hospitals and isolation centr...

By Reuters | Posted by TOE Two boats carrying more than 500 people may have capsized off the coast of Myanmar in recent days, ​UN agencies said on Thursday, as refugees from the ‌war-torn country continue to make perilous maritime journeys in search of safety and better opportunities. “According to preliminary information, the two vessels departed from ​Myanmar’s Rakhine State in late June carrying mostly Rohingya ​passengers, reportedly including some who had travelled from refugee ⁠camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh,” the International Organization for Migration ​and the UN Refugee Agency said in a joint statement, saying ​more than 500 were feared dead. Two boats carrying more than 500 people may have capsized off the coast of Myanmar in recent days, ​UN agencies said on Thursday, as refugees from the ‌war-torn country continue to make perilous maritime journeys in search of safety and better opportunities. “According to preliminary inform...

Nine killed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir clashes By Tariq Maqbool Reuters | Posted by TOE Clashes between security forces and supporters of a ‌banned protest group in Pakistan-administered Kashmir killed ‌nine people on Tuesday, officials said, a day before ​the group planned a march against controversial electoral arrangements ahead of regional elections later this month. The violence stems from a dispute over 12 seats ‌reserved in the ⁠regional assembly for refugees who live elsewhere in Pakistan, a system protesters ⁠say dilutes local representation. Poonch Divisional Commissioner Waheed Khan said protesters blocked a security convoy and attacked ​officials in ​the Poonch sector. “Police ​and security officials responded ‌in self-defence,” Khan told Reuters. Six protesters and one police officer were killed in Tararkhal, while a protester and a security official died in a separate clash in Rawalakot, he said. The Joint ‌Action Committee (J...