The Sudanese army suspended its participation in US- and Saudi-brokered ceasefire talks Wednesday accusing its paramilitary foes of failing to honour their commitments.. The RSF, led by Burhan's deputy-turned-foe Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, said they will "exercise their right to defend themselves" and accused the army of violating the truce.
Asian markets sank Wednesday on worries that hardline Republicans could vote down a crucial bill to hike the US borrowing limit and risk a catastrophic default that could hammer an already fragile global economy.. But with the House vote due later Wednesday, nervous investors were shifting out of risk assets, sending Asian markets into the red.
North Korea has fired what it claims is a "space launch vehicle", the South's military said early Wednesday, prompting confusion in Seoul as the city briefly issued an evacuation warning in error.. Japan briefly activated its missile alert warning system for the Okinawa region early Wednesday, lifting it after about 30 minutes.
An American man on trial for massacring 11 Jewish worshippers in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history methodically tracked down victims at a synagogue, prosecutors said in opening arguments Tuesday.. Bowers "methodically" tracked down his victims and shot many of them multiple times and at close range, a federal prosecutor told the court, according to US media.
Russia has focused near-daily attacks on the Ukrainian capital recently, sending missiles and drones overhead in the early hours and even broad daylight.. The Ukrainian defence ministry said it had repelled 29 out of 31 attack drones around and in Kyiv in the early hours of Tuesday.
From tiny quadcopters buzzing over front-line trenches with cameras and grenades to flying bombs lugging warheads weighing dozens of kilogrammes (pounds) into Kyiv and Moscow, drones have marked the Ukraine war like none before it.. - Front lines - The vast majority of drones are smaller models used on the front lines for both reconnaissance and attack.
South Africa's leading opposition party said on Tuesday it had taken legal action to force the government to arrest Vladimir Putin if the Russian President were to attend a planned summit in the country.. On Tuesday, the Democratic Alliance (DA) party said it launched a court application to ensure the government detains the Russian leader and hands him over to the ICC "should President Putin set foot in South Africa."
A swarm of drones hit Moscow on Tuesday in an unprecedented attack, while Russian drones struck Kyiv for a third straight day as Ukraine gears up for a major offensive against Russian forces.. - 'No fear' - Moscow also said it believed the attack was a "response" by Kyiv to a recent Russian hit in Ukraine.
Fighting flared again in Sudan on Tuesday despite the latest ceasefire pledges of the two warring generals that are meant to allow desperately needed aid to reach besieged civilians.. - Malnourished children - Sudan was already poverty-stricken before the war, with a third of its 45 million-strong population relying on aid.
The situation in northern Kosovo remained tense Tuesday as ethnic Serbs continued to gather in front of a town hall in Zvecan after violent clashes with NATO-led peacekeepers left 30 soldiers injured.. Three armoured vehicles of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo police -- whose presence always stirs controversy in Serb-majority northern areas -- remained parked in front of the town hall.
