Middle East & North Africa

1+ hour, 39+ min ago   (395+ words) Abednego Akok Kacuol was fired from his position as chairperson of the National Elections Commission without a reason being given publicly by Kiir. He will be replaced by Gabriel Bol Deng Majok, who served as the electoral commission’s secretary general....

1+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1058+ words) Israel's far right seeks to ban Palestinian candidates, parties 20 dead, dozens missing after war-damaged building falls in Gaza Gaza war shines new light on Australia's most secretive spy base What Greece and Israel's defence deal means for the Middle East…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago   (211+ words) Sergey Ryabkov noted that throughout the entire period of the special military operation, "colleagues from BRICS member states have put forward and promoted their ideas in various formats" - Russian Politics & Diplomacy Russian Politics & DiplomacyInto section →- Business & Economy Business & EconomyInto…...

3+ hour, 3+ min ago   (624+ words) A Russian drone struck a passenger bus in southern Ukraine, killing five people and injuring at least seven, Ukrainian officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also reported strikes on trains and rail infrastructure as Kyiv sought replacement locomotives from international partners…...

3+ hour, 1+ min ago   (623+ words) Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned on Wednesday that any European military aggression against Russia would provoke a "completely different" and "very short" war, reiterating that Moscow has no plans to attack Western countries despite ongoing tensions over NATO expansion....

3+ hour, 4+ min ago   (194+ words) Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces have reportedly struck Houthi arms depots in Marib as fighting intensifies across Yemen. The strikes come after alleged Houthi missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia left several people wounded. Riyadh-backed forces have reportedly carried out…...

3+ hour, 45+ min ago   (532+ words) The strike occurred in the Nikopol district of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, near the war's southern front line. Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the regional military administration, said all five were killed at the scene while the seven wounded were receiving medical…...

6+ hour, 42+ min ago   (409+ words) I have always wondered what happens when a country acquires the sovereignty of a state but none of the functioning institutions of one. South Sudan appears to have invented the answer: a modern charity organization with a national anthem, a…...

3+ hour, 53+ min ago   (1061+ words) “Geography is the mother of history. Nowhere in the world is this more powerfully illustrated than in Africa.” — Ali A. Mazrui, The Africans: A Triple Heritage For decades, relations between Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan have largely been reduced to a…...

4+ hour, 4+ min ago   (190+ words) VOV World UN Security Council holds emergency meeting on Yemen crisis Prolonged insecurity in the area could disrupt the flow of commercial goods and humanitarian aid. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said hostilities along Yemen’s west coast have caused…...