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By Portia Crowe Reuters | Posted by TOE Jihadists killed more ​than 100 soldiers in central Mali this month, two sources said, while the army ‌said it had evacuated troops from the camp under attack and struck enemy positions during a retaliatory operation lasting more than a week. The September 10 attack in the town of Dioura and another on the airport ​in the town of Sevare were the latest by al Qaeda-linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam ​wal Muslimin (JNIM) against Mali’s military rulers who seized power in coups in ⁠2020 and 2021. In April, JNIM joined forces with the Tuareg-led separatist group the FLA to carry ​out nationwide attacks that killed Mali’s defence minister and hit the main airport, highlighting lack of progress ​by pro-government fighters against the insurgents. A security source said 130 soldiers died in the September 10 attack in Dioura with more than 100 taken hostage. A diplomatic source said around 120 soldiers were killed. ...

By Camille BAS-WOHLERT AFP | Posted by TOE Denmark on Saturday hailed a “binding” deal announced by US President Donald Trump to give Washington “permanent control” over Greenland’s security and bar Russian and Chinese bases from the Arctic territory. Since returning to the White House in January 2025, Trump has repeatedly insisted that Washington needed to control Greenland for strategic reasons, alarming NATO ally Denmark and sparking fierce pushback from the alliance. Denmark and Greenland — an autonomous Danish territory — both hailed the deal and said they would sign it on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York next week. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said Saturday that the potential signing meant “next week could be a good week”. “A long period of uncertainty will hopefully be replaced by a binding agreement that strengthens security in the Arctic and North Atlantic,...

By AFP | Posted by TOE Authorities imposed an overnight curfew in Nigeria’s central city of Minna on Friday after security forces opened fire as hundreds of people took to the streets to protest against the deaths of 37 detainees in the ‌custody of a paramilitary force. Survivors of a Nigerian disaster that saw 37 suspected illegal gold miners die while in the custody of a paramilitary civil defence group recounted their panic on Friday as they struggled to breathe inside the cell. Police fired shots to disperse protests as tensions spilled onto the streets of Minna, the capital of mineral-rich Niger state in central Nigeria. It was not immediately clear whether police were firing anti-riot pellets or live ammunition in Minna, where mobs blocked a main street and attacked a transport depot, a bank, political party offices and private businesses. Government has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew to curtail the unrest. Nigeria’s government suspended a civil...

By Olivia Le Poidevin Reuters  At least 112,000 people have been displaced inside Yemen within the last two weeks as fighting continues along the country’s west ​coast amid a renewed conflict, while nearly 3,000 have fled by sea to ‌Djibouti, the United Nations migration agency said on Friday. Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have stepped up attacks on Saudi cities and energy infrastructure while advancing along Yemen’s Red Sea coast towards the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a ​key shipping route. Responding to the Houthi offensive, the Saudi and Yemeni air ​forces have bombarded Houthi targets. Nearly 3,000 people have crossed the Gulf of ⁠Aden to Djibouti in the Horn of Africa in less than a week as ​escalating violence have forced more families to flee, Sandrine Desamours, the representative for the UN’s ​refugee agency, UNHCR, told reporters in Geneva via video link from Djibouti. The government of Djibouti is preparing for the arrival of up to 10,000 re...

By Reuters and Posted by TOE U.S. President Donald Trump said he hoped an end to the war against Iran was near, as the conflict, in its seventh month, escalated with Saudi aircraft pounding Yemen and Houthi fighters launching drones and missiles at Saudi cities. The Iran-backed Houthis’ lightning advance ‌in Yemen along the Red Sea and their attacks on Saudi Arabia, along with attacks that damaged Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline, have extended Tehran’s ‌reach in the war and heightened global oil-supply risks. As the war expands into a new theatre, the United States tightened its travel warning for Saudi Arabia, banning government employees from travelling within 20 miles (30 ​km) of the Yemen border. Still, just hours after reports of the Houthis and Saudi Arabia fighting, Trump told reporters on Wednesday evening: “Well, hopefully we are towards the end of the war.” TRUMP SAYS IRAN WANTS A DEAL, OIL PRICE STILL ELEVATED ...

By Jana Choukeir and Nayera Abdallah Reuters Saudi warplanes pounded Yemen, the Houthis said on Wednesday, as the Iran-backed fighters solidified their gains after a lightning advance that has extended Tehran’s reach in the Middle East war and further disrupted global oil supplies. In a sign of ‌the worsening conflict in a new theatre, the United States tightened its travel warning for Saudi Arabia, banning government employees from travelling within 20 miles ‌of the Yemen border. The Houthis, who since last week have swept through Yemeni towns along the Red Sea coast and seized islands in the Bab el-Mandeb strait at its mouth, released battlefield video overnight ​of fighters seizing armoured vehicles from Saudi-backed forces. Warplanes flew overhead and huge explosions billowed into the sky from desert dunes, the video showed. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the Houthis had shot down a Saudi F-15 fighter jet. No immediate evidence was presented and S...