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Haiti hunger crisis deepens as almost 6 million face acute food insecurity

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Nearly 6 million people in Haiti are expected to face acute food insecurity in the coming ‌months, underscoring how gang violence, mass displacement and economic strain are ‌keeping the Caribbean nation in the grip of a deepening humanitarian crisis, according to ​a new assessment published on Thursday. About 5.8 million Haitians – more than half the population – are facing acute food insecurity, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said, with more than 1.8 million of them in the emergency phase ‌and in urgent need ⁠of food assistance. The crisis has been fueled by worsening insecurity, economic shocks and repeated disruption to markets and ⁠farming, the report said. Armed groups have expanded their control in parts of the country, while more than 1.4 million people have been displaced, straining ​food supplies ​and pushing vulnerable households deeper into ​hunger. The latest IPC projection is ‌slightly below an earlier estimate of 5.91 million people facing acut...
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Haiti gangs keep up attacks in breadbasket region after massacre

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By Harold Isaac and Sarah Morland Reuters  Armed men mounted further attacks in Haiti’s breadbasket Artibonite region on Tuesday, days after a gang’s ‌weekend assault in the area of Jean-Denis left some 70 people dead, according to human rights groups and local residents. National police said it was conducting operations in several parts of Artibonite on Tuesday. Residents of Jean-Denis counted 70 bodies on Sunday morning after an attack by the Gran Grif  gang , the National Network ​for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH) said in a report, matching the estimates of the Defense Plus rights group but ​far above official estimates, which put the death toll at around 16. RNDDH said some 30 more ⁠people were wounded, and victims included infants, pregnant women, teenagers and an 80-year-old man. Armed men withdrew from Jean-Denis on Monday, RNDDH ​said, but on Tuesday they repositioned themselves in nearby Pont Benoit and were attempting to launch another offensive in th...
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Somali army takes control of strategic city, regional leader resigns

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 Somalia’s national army ​took control of the biggest city in South West state ‌on Monday, prompting the regional leader to resign two weeks after his administration said  it was severing ties  with the federal government. The strategic city of Baidoa, ​the administrative capital of South West state, is home to ​international peacekeepers and humanitarian agencies in an area affected by ⁠drought, conflict and displacement. “Federal forces have taken over Baidoa, … it is ​now calm … but it looks like a ghost town,” local elder ​Adan Hussein told Reuters. A shopkeeper in Baidoa, Hussein Abdullahi, said federal troops were in control of his part of the city, which is about 245 km (150 miles) ​northwest of the capital Mogadishu. South West state president Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed ​Laftagareen wrote in a statement on Facebook that he had resigned, days after ‌being ⁠re-elected for another five-year term. Many residents have fled Baidoa over the past week and some aid agenc...
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US allows Russian oil tanker to reach Cuba amid blockade as Trump says island ‘has to survive’

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By Laurent THOMET AFP US President Donald Trump said Sunday that Moscow could send oil to Cuba despite Washington’s de facto fuel blockade, as a Russian tanker was expected to deliver some much-needed crude to the crisis-hit island. While the shipment would give the country some relief, Trump renewed his threats against the communist government, predicting that it would fail “within a short period of time.” The Anatoly Kolodkin, which is carrying 730,000 barrels of crude, was off northeast Cuba on Sunday evening and is expected to dock in the western port of Matanzas by Tuesday, according to shipping tracker MarineTraffic. It would be the first shipment of oil to the island since January, bringing some temporary relief to the country of 9.6 million people that has endured a deepening energy and economic crisis. “If a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now, I have no problem with that, whether it’s Russia or not,” Trump told reporters as he flew back to Washington from ...
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Yemen’s Houthis Enter Iran War With Attacks on Israel as Conflict Intensifies

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BY SAMY MAGDY, AAMER MADHANI and JON GAMBRELL AP Iranian-backed  Houthi rebels  entered the  monthlong war in the Middle East  on Saturday, claiming two missile launches at Israel. About 2,500 U.S. Marines arrived in the region. And  Pakistan’s government  said regional powers plan to meet Sunday to discuss how to end the fighting. The war  has threatened  global supplies  of oil and natural gas, sparked  fertilizer shortages  and disrupted air travel. Iran’s grip on the strategic  Strait of Hormuz  has shaken markets and prices. The United States and Israel continue to strike Iran, whose retaliatory attacks have targeted Israel and neighboring Gulf Arab states. More than 3,000 people have been killed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy  visited Gulf nations Saturday  as his country offers defense help with drones. The Houthis’ entry could further hurt global shipping if they again target vessels in the ...
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Death toll from Kenyan floods rises to 108

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Weeks of heavy rains and flooding have ​now killed 108 ‌people in Kenya, the National Police Service said on Saturday in an ‌updated ​death ⁠toll. Flash floods, which ⁠began on the evening of March 6, have caused widespread destruction ​in the East African nation, sweeping ⁠away dozens ⁠of vehicles, disrupting ​air travel, and damaging ​power infrastructure. Over 2,700 families ‌have been displaced across the country, authorities said on Friday. While ⁠the intensity of rainfall has eased in some areas, ⁠police ‌cautioned that ⁠the risk of ​flooding ‌persists due to ​overflowing drainage ⁠systems and waterlogged ground. SOURCE: REUTERS AND AGECIES from The Times Of Earth https://ift.tt/XiA3hYz
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Trump says ‘Cuba is next’ in speech touting US military successes

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By Steve Holland and Gram Slattery Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said “Cuba is next” during ‌a speech at an investment forum in Miami during ‌which he touted the successes of U.S. military action in Venezuela and Iran. While ​the president did not specify what precisely he plans to do with the island nation, he has frequently said he believes the government in Havana, facing a severe economic crisis, is on the ‌verge of collapse. His administration ⁠has opened up negotiations with elements of Cuba’s leadership in recent weeks, while Trump himself has hinted ⁠that kinetic action could be possible. “I built this great military. I said, ‘You’ll never have to use it.’ But sometimes you have to use ​it. ​And Cuba is next by the ​way,” Trump told the ‌conference on Friday. “But pretend I didn’t say that. Pretend I didn’t.” Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has acknowledged that the country is in talks with the U.S. in a bid to avert potential military confrontation. Cub...
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Philippines, France sign military pact amid South China Sea tensions

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The Philippines and France have signed a visiting forces agreement that would allow them to conduct joint military training in each other’s territory, as Manila expands defense ties amid rising tensions with Beijing in the South China Sea. Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro and French Minister for the Armed Forces and Veterans Catherine Vautrin signed the agreement on March 26 during a meeting in Paris, where they discussed regional security challenges and reaffirmed support for rules-based international order. The two also called for “the peaceful resolution of disputes” and the need to strengthen supply chain resilience in times of crisis. “The agreement will greatly bolster bilateral cooperation and offer an adequate level of legal protection to the joint activities between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the French Armed Forces,” the Philippine defense department said in a statement. Aside from France, the Philippines also has the visiting forces agreements w...
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Hungary will cut natural gas supplies to Ukraine until Russian oil deliveries resume

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BY JUSTIN SPIKE AP  Hungary will gradually cut off gas supplies to Ukraine until  Russian oil deliveries  resume through the Druzhba pipeline, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Wednesday. The transit of natural gas through Hungary plays a key role in fulfilling the energy needs of Ukraine, now in its fourth year of war with Russia. Russian  oil supplies to Hungary  and Slovakia have been halted for nearly two months after what Ukrainian officials say were  Russian drone attacks  that damaged the pipeline, which crosses Ukrainian territory, and that continuous strikes risk the lives of technicians trying to repair it. The populist leaders of Hungary and Slovakia have accused Ukraine of deliberately holding up Russian deliveries. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said earlier this month that he is  reluctant to allow Russian oil  to continue transiting his country. In a video posted on social media Wednesday, Orbán called the Russian oil sto...
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Colombian president questions use of secondhand planes by nation’s military following deadly crash

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BY MANUEL RUEDA AP Colombian President Gustavo Petro  on Tuesday questioned the use of secondhand planes by the country’s armed forces, as officials investigate the  crash of a military transport plane that killed dozens of soldiers  in southwestern Colombia. “An army cannot defend its own people with crappy gifts,” Petro wrote on X in reference to the Hercules CJ-130, which was donated to Colombia by the United States. “They give away whatever is useless to them — and the ‘gift’ ends up costing more than buying it new.” On Monday a military transport plane crashed shortly after taking off in Colombia’s Putumayo province, with the Defense Ministry reporting Tuesday that 67 members of the armed forces and two policemen were killed in the accident. Officials said that 57 soldiers were rescued alive from the crash site in the remote municipality of Puerto Leguizamo, and were being treated for their injuries in the capital, Bogota and elsewhere. The Hercules CJ-130 was do...
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Chad relocates Sudan refugees as army deploys near border

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By Mahamat Ramadane Reuters Chad has begun the emergency relocation of refugees from its border with Sudan as the ‌army prepares to deploy to the area in response to ‌cross-border attacks, an official from the country’s refugee agency told Reuters on Monday. President Mahamat Idriss ​Deby last week ordered the army to prepare to retaliate after a cross-border drone attack from Sudan killed 17 people in Chad including mourners attending a funeral service. A separate government statement last week said Chad had strengthened its ‌security presence at the ⁠border and could potentially carry out operations on Sudanese territory. Initial refugee relocation operations will involve around 2,300 people, more ⁠than half of them women and children, said Saleh Tebir Souleymane, the representative in the border town of Tine for Chad’s National Commission for the ​Reception and ​Reintegration of Refugees and Returnees. They began ​moving people further into Chad, ‌away from the frontier, on Sat...
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Russia launches first rocket from repaired Baikonur launch pad

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 Russia launched a Soyuz rocket from a repaired launch pad ‌at its Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on ‌Sunday, restoring its capability to fly to the International Space ​Station for the first time since the launch pad was damaged last year. At 1200 GMT, a Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying the Progress MS-33 cargo spacecraft ‌lifted off and ⁠was placed into orbit, Russia’s space agency said. The spacecraft is expected to ⁠dock with the International Space Station on March 24. The launch pad had been out of commission ​since it ​was badly damaged ​in November when a ‌Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft with two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut on board blasted off. No one was hurt and the crew safely reached the space station, but the incident deprived Russia ‌of its sole means ​of sending crew or cargo ​back to the ​ISS for months. While Russia has other ‌cosmodromes on its own territory ​and Baikonur ​has other launch sites, the damaged launch pad was the only one able to handle ​the So...
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Iran strikes near Israeli nuclear research center as Trump threatens attacks on Iranian power plants

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BY SAMY MAGDY, MELANIE LIDMAN and JILL LAWLESS AP  Iranian missiles struck two communities in southern Israel late Saturday, leaving buildings shattered and dozens injured in dual attacks not far from Israel’s main nuclear research center, while President Donald Trump warned the U.S. will “obliterate” Iranian power plants if it doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours. The developments signaled  the war  was moving in a dangerous new direction at the start of its fourth week. Trump — who is facing increasing pressure at home to secure the strait as oil prices soar — issued the ultimatum in a social media post while he spent the weekend at his Florida home. Trump said he’s giving Iran 48 hours to open the vital waterway or face a new round of attacks. He said the U.S. would destroy “various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!” Iran warned early Sunday that any strike on its energy facilities would prompt attacks on U.S. and Israeli energy...
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Hospital attack in Sudan kills 64, including 13 children

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 The World Health Organization ​said on Saturday ‌that a strike on a ​hospital in ​East Darfur, Sudan, killed ⁠at least ​64 people, ​including children, medical staff and patients, Director-General ​Tedros Adhanom ​Ghebreyesus said in a ‌post ⁠on X. WHO said the Friday attack on ​Al ​Deain ⁠Teaching Hospital has rendered ​the facility ​non-functional, ⁠cutting off essential medical services ⁠in ​the ​city. “As a result of this tragedy, the total number of fatalities linked to attacks on health facilities during Sudan’s war has now surpassed 2,000,” said Tedros, adding that over the nearly three-year conflict between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the WHO had confirmed the killing of 2,036 people in 213 attacks on healthcare. SOURCE: Reuters and agencies from The Times Of Earth https://ift.tt/ltJ8kr2
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Cubans queue for water in Havana amid fuel and power crisis

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Residents across the Cuban capital hauled buckets and lined up for water from tanker trucks as a combination of fuel shortages and power grid instability ​left thousands ‌of taps dry. State water utility ​Aguas de La Habana confirmed that pumping schedules and supply operations have been ‌disrupted by a lack of ⁠electricity.  “This area is now having ​water problems. People are hauling water and waiting for the water truck,” said resident Lazaro Noblet, while pushing a small handcart loaded with containers. “Since oil is not ‌coming into the country, there is no pumping, because that system runs on electricity.” The energy crunch ‌follows a spike in U.S. pressure on ‌Havana since the January capture of ‌Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Cuba’s primary benefactor.  U.S. President Donald Trump has ‌since ‌cut Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba and threatened tariffs on other suppliers, strangling the ⁠island’s fragile power infrastructure. For many, however, ‌the struggle...
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Kremlin says pause in Ukraine peace talks ‘situational’

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By Guy Faulconbridge and Dmitry Antonov Reuters The Kremlin said on Thursday that talks between Washington, Moscow and Kyiv on ending the war in Ukraine were on “situational pause” following the start of the Iran war, but Ukraine’s ‌president said new discussions were expected this weekend. U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to end the Ukraine war on his return to ‌the White House but has said efforts to resolve the conflict have been one of his biggest disappointments. The Izvestia newspaper said in a front-page story that the Kremlin ​had confirmed a pause in talks on Ukraine and that war in the Middle East could push Kyiv towards compromise. “This is a situational pause, for obvious reasons,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters when asked about the Izvestia report. Peskov said that as soon as “our American partners” could pay more attention to Ukrainian affairs, Moscow hoped that the pause could end and that a new round of talks could take place. In Kyiv, Ukrainian P...
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At least 80 insurgents killed as Nigerian troops repel base assault, army says

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By HARUNA UMAR AP Nigerian  soldiers backed by air support repelled an attack Wednesday by suspected Islamic militants on a military base in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 80 of the assailants, the army said. The militants, suspected members of Boko Haram or the Islamic State West Africa Province, were supported by multiple armed drones when they attacked the base in Mallam Fatori in the state of Borno, near the border with Niger, at around 12:50 a.m., army spokesperson Sani Uba said in a statement. Uba said the troops had anticipated the assault and repelled it with ground ​fire and ​air support, killing at least 80 fighters, including three “high-profile” commanders. The Associated Press could not independently verify the claims. A previous statement by the army put the death toll at over 60. The army spokesperson said four soldiers were wounded evacuated for treatment. He said troops recovered a large cache of weapons from suspected militants, including assault rifl...
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Colombia, Ecuador leaders clash over bomb dropped near border

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The leaders of Colombia and Ecuador sparred Tuesday over allegations that the Ecuadoran bombing of suspected criminal hideouts near their shared border had spilled into Colombian territory. Months of tension between Colombia’s leftist President Gustavo Petro and his right-wing Ecuadoran counterpart, Daniel Noboa, an ally of US President Donald Trump, spiked Monday when Petro alleged that explosives were dropped from a plane near the border. On Tuesday, Petro posted on X a photo of an unexploded “bomb” that he said had fallen on the Colombian-Ecuadoran frontier. He called for a thorough investigation, saying: “It fell 100 meters from the home of a poor family.” Local farmers speaking with AFP corroborated Petro’s account. “We were all terrified — you know, scared — and worried that those devices might suddenly explode and take our lives,” farmer Julian Imbacuan told AFP by phone. Colombian Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez implored residents to avoid the area. Noboa took to X Tuesday...
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Afghanistan says 400 killed in Pakistan air strike on Kabul hospital, Pakistan rejects claim

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By Mohammad Yunus Yawar Reuters At least 400 people were killed and 250 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a drug users rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, a spokesman of the Afghan Taliban government said on Tuesday, a sharp escalation in the conflict between the neighbours. Pakistan rejected ‌the claim as false and misleading and said it “precisely targeted military installations and terrorist support infrastructure” on Monday night. The air strike came hours after China said ‌it remained ready to continue efforts to ease tensions between the South Asian Islamic nations and urged both to avoid expanding the war and return to the negotiating table. The conflict that began last month is the worst ​ever between the neighbours who share a 2,600-km (1,600-mile) border. It had ebbed amid attempts by friendly countries, including China, to mediate and end the fighting before flaring up again. The escalation comes amid wider instability in the neighbourhood where the U.S.-Israeli str...
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Trump threatens NATO with ‘very bad’ future if they don’t join Iran war

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Donald Trump says it would be “very bad for the future of Nato” if allies don’t help secure the Strait of Hormuz – a critical waterway for global oil shipping President Donald Trump urged NATO partners and China to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the critical conduit for crude that Iran has effectively closed, as major economic players began releasing oil reserves on Monday to ward off supply disruptions. Global oil prices have surged by 40 to 50 percent after Iran choked off the waterway and attacked energy and shipping industry targets in the Gulf in retaliation for the US-Israeli war against the Islamic republic. Crude prices were hovering around $100 on Monday as the Middle East war entered its third week, with Israel saying it still has “thousands of targets in Iran”, where it was also “identifying new targets every day”. Trump said the United States was in discussions with Iran but that Tehran was not ready for a deal to end the war, although the Islamic republic’s foreign ...
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African nations tiptoe around recruitment of citizens by Russian networks

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By David Lewis and Tim Cocks Reuters Kenya’s foreign minister is visiting Russia this week under pressure back home to convince Moscow to stop recruiting Kenyans into its military, but Nairobi – like other governments in Africa – is unlikely to take too confrontational an approach. Reports in recent weeks revealed the scope and ‌scale of the recruitment of Africans into Russia’s depleted forces, often via third parties offering lucrative civilian jobs, triggering anger in countries like Kenya, Ghana and South ‌Africa. Families want more action to bring the recruits home but African governments, wary about overtly taking sides during Russia’s war in Ukraine, have avoided angering Moscow, mindful that the recruitment scandal has not yet triggered widespread public outcry or ​political heat. “We want Kenyans stopped – they should not be enlisted at all,” Musalia Mudavadi, Kenya’s minister for foreign affairs, told Reuters ahead of his trip. “We are getting a lot of pressure from some ...
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Cuban protesters ransack Communist office as energy crisis deepens

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By Dave Sherwood Reuters Anti-government protesters attacked a Communist Party office in central Cuba early on Saturday, a state-run newspaper reported, in a rare outburst of public dissent triggered by blackouts exacerbated by a U.S. oil blockade. A rally against power cuts ‌and food shortages began peacefully in the city of Moron late on Friday then turned violent in the early hours of Saturday morning, ‌Invasor newspaper said. Videos on social media showed a large fire and people throwing rocks through the windows of a building as voices shouted “liberty” in the background. Reuters was able to verify the location ​of one video in Moron, which is on Cuba’s northern coast about 250 miles (400 km) east of the capital Havana near the tourist resort of Cayo Coco. Checks showed it was recent, but could not pinpoint the exact date. The protest appeared to provoke a response from Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who said later in the day on social media that anger over the prolonged ...
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Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of targeting civilians after 6 killed in airstrikes

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By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN and MUNIR AHMED KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban government accused Pakistan on Friday of targeting homes in overnight airstrikes on Kabul and other areas of the country, saying at least six civilians were killed and more than a dozen others were injured. Pakistan denied targeting civilians, as fighting between the neighbors entered its third week. Afghan government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Pakistani aircraft also struck fuel depots belonging to the private airline Kam Air near the airport in Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan. “This company supplies fuel to civilian airlines as well as to United Nations aircraft,” he said on a post on X. Pakistan’s military carried out “successful airstrikes inside Afghanistan” as part of the ongoing operation, according to the Information Ministry. It said the strikes targeted four alleged militant hideouts and their support infrastructure in Afghanistan. The ministry said Pakistan did not target any c...
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Trump threatens Iran following new wave of attacks on Gulf states and Israel

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By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING and SALLY ABOU ALJOUD AP Iran launched multiple attacks early Friday on Gulf Arab states, including dozens of drones at Saudi Arabia, following warnings from its new supreme leader about hosting American bases, and U.S. President Donald Trump threatened major new retaliation. “Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today,” Trump wrote in a social media post. “Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth.” The comments came the day after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah  Mojtaba Khamenei  vowed to “not refrain from avenging the blood” of Iranians killed, and warned Gulf Arab nations to shut U.S. bases, saying the notion of American protection was “nothing more than a lie.” Intense airstrikes hit early Friday around Iran’s capital, Tehran, as well as outlying areas. It was not immediately clear what had been targeted...
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Moscow piles pressure on US over oil sanctions

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Moscow said on Friday that the global energy market “cannot remain stable” without its oil, piling pressure on Washington to lift more sanctions as the Middle East war strangles supplies. The United States has eased some oil sanctions on Russia imposed over its invasion of Ukraine, prompting backlash from Western allies who urged Washington to keep up restrictions as the Ukraine conflict drags into its fifth year. The US-Israel strikes on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory attacks across the Gulf region have upended the world’s energy and transport sectors, virtually halting activity in the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz. The United States is temporarily allowing the sale of oil from Russia — one of the world’s largest oil producers and exporters — that is at sea, the Treasury Department said Thursday, as nations scrambled to boost supply and bring down prices. Oil prices soared to almost $120 a barrel this week, the highest price since the pandemic. — G7 resistance — R...
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At least 64 killed, dozens reported missing in Ethiopia landslides, floods

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A landslide in the Gamo Zone ​of southern Ethiopia earlier ‌this week has killed at least 64 people, regional officials said ​on Thursday. Another 50 people could ​be missing. The landslide happened ⁠following heavy rains. “It has ​been confirmed that 64 people have ​lost their lives, and efforts are continuing intensively to locate 50 people ​whose whereabouts are unknown,” ​the Gamo Zone communications office said in ‌a ⁠statement on its Facebook page. The southern Ethiopia regional state office also gave a death toll ​of ​56. A photo ⁠posted on Facebook by the Ethiopian Broadcasting ​Corporation showed residents standing ​at ⁠the scene of the landslide, with parts of a nearby ⁠hillside ​stripped of vegetation and ​some people standing knee-deep in mud. SOURCE: REUTERS AND AGENCIES from The Times Of Earth https://ift.tt/IhM4xQc
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Russia and Ukraine both claim front-line progress with US-brokered talks on hold

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BY HANNA ARHIROVA AP Russian and Ukrainian officials made rival claims of battlefield successes in their 4-year-old war, with Ukraine saying it pushed Moscow’s forces back across places on the front line and the Kremlin insisting  Russia’s invasion of its neighbor  is making progress. At the same time, Russia’s almost daily attacks on Ukrainian civilian areas continued, killing several people, as Washington postponed its sponsored talks between the two sides due to the war in the Middle East. Russia and Ukraine tout contradictory success claims Despite being short of soldiers, Ukrainian forces have recently retaken nearly all the territory of the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk industrial region during a counteroffensive, driving Russian troops out of more than 400 square kilometers (150 square miles), Maj. Gen. Oleksandr Komarenko said in an interview published Tuesday by local media outlet RBC-Ukraine. Russian troops are poorly supplied and lack support, Andrii Kyianenko, t...
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