CNA : The United States on Wednesday (Aug 14) pleaded with Sudan’s army to join talks on ending the devastating...
Agency : President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that Ukrainian troops had “advanced well” in Russia’s Kursk region, as Kyiv’s biggest cross-border attack stretched into a second week.The Ukrainian army entered the Kursk region on August 6, capturing dozens of settlements in the biggest offensive by a foreign army on Russian soil since World War II.“Today we have advanced well in the Kursk region. We are achieving our strategic goal,” Zelensky said in his evening address.He had also spoken of gains...
AFP : At least 1.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban returned...
Aljazeera : Pakistan’s military has said it arrested three retired officers in connection with the investigation into former spy chief...
AFP : Fifteen civilians were killed and several others injured early this week in multiple “terrorist” attacks on villages in western Niger near the Burkina Faso border, the army said in a statement late Wednesday.“In the area of Mehana, terrorist elements perpetrated several heinous acts of violence against the defenceless civilians, with a heavy and tragic toll,” it said, citing 14 casualties on an unspecified date, which followed the death of at least one other civilian Tuesday in the same...
BBC : More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israeli military action in Gaza since the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel, the Hamas-run health ministry says.That number – 40,005 on Thursday – equates to about 1.7% of the 2.3 million population of the territory – another sobering indication of the human cost of the war.Alongside the fatalities, satellite image analysis suggests nearly 60% of buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed since the beginning...
AFP : Donald Trump will tear into the Biden administration’s economic record Wednesday, just days before Kamala Harris unveils her...
AFP : The Yemeni government has called on the United Nations to move to second city Aden after Huthi rebels...
AFP : Soldiers in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir battled insurgents on Wednesday, the army said, with a captain killed in...