Police break up Calais migrant camp, biggest since 'the Jungle'CALAIS: French police on Tuesday dismantled a camp of 700 to 800 migrants in the port city of Calais, the biggest such operation since the sprawling "Jungle" shantytown was broken up four years ago.Calais continues to attract migrants from the Middle East and Africa who set up makeshift camps along ....
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When politicians use hate speech, political violence increaseby James Piazza, Pennsylvania State UniversityPoliticians deepen existing divides when they use inflammatory language, such as hate speech, and this makes their societies more likely to experience political violence and terrorism. That's the conclusion from a study I recently did on the connection b....
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Exiles return to rebuild post-Bashir SudanKHARTOUM: After 33 years in exile, El Sadig Mohamed gave up the easy life in Canada to return to help rebuild Sudan as it emerges from three decades of autocratic rule."After the revolution... I thought it's the right time to come back... despite the luxury people enjoy in the West," said Mohamed, w....
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Sudan needs 'deep' debate before any Israel deal: PMSudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has said that normalising ties with Israel was a "complicated" issue needing wide debate within society, media reported Sunday.....
The US Must Support Sudan's Path to DemocracyIn the aftermath of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain formalizing diplomatic relations with Israel on August 13 and September 11, respectively, many experts predict that Sudan will be the next Arab state to follow suit. The main reason for this pertains to the fact that the Trump administration h....
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Sudan says U.S deal on embassy attacks reparations 'close'GENEVA: Sudan's foreign minister said Thursday that a compensation agreement for the families of victims of two 1998 attacks on U.S embassies in Africa is within sight."We are very close to getting that signed and done with," Omar Qamareddin told reporters during a visit to Geneva to meet United Nat....
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Sudan discusses Arab-Israeli peace and terrorism list with USSudan and the United States have discussed how Khartoum could advance Arab-Israeli peace, authorities said on Wednesday, adding the talks also covered the removal of the former hardline foe of Israel from a U.....
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US seeks breakthrough on Sudan before electionWASHINGTON: With weeks to go before US elections, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is racing to make a breakthrough with Sudan that he hopes could also benefit Israel.Sudan's new civilian-led government is urgently seeking to be removed from the US blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism, and is seen....
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Sudan's Bashir trial adjourned to Sept. 22The trial of Sudan's deposed strongman Omar al-Bashir over his role in the 1989 military coup that brought him to power was adjourned to September 22, the judge said Tuesday.....
Drone footage shows unrelenting floodsSudan has been hit by unrelenting floods as the government says the level of water is the "highest" for a century. CNN's Nima Elbagir reports.....
India secures its east after western Himalaya clashes with ChinaIndia has moved troops to its eastern stretch of border with China since clashes erupted between the nuclear-armed rivals on the western part of their border in the Himalayas in June, a government official said.
The June clash in the Ladakh region, in the western part of their border, was the wor....
Sudan, rebel alliance reach deal in efforts to end warsJUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Sudan's transitional authorities and a rebel alliance signed a peace deal on Monday following months of tortuous negotiations aimed at ending the country's decades-long civil wars, but other powerful armed groups have thus far declined to join them.
The deal was reached....
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Three Years On, Still No Accountability for Our Son's DeathThree years ago today, we suffered the most painful experience a family can endure. Our son Christopher Allen was murdered on the other side of the world, reporting on the civil conflict in South Sudan. A freelance journalist and dual US-UK citizen, Chris was only 26 years old and had a bright futur....
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The Latest: RNC airs Trump hosting naturalization ceremonyWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump hosted a naturalization ceremony at the White House in a video that aired Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf administered the oath to five people as Trump looked on.
Afterward, Trump welco....
Pompeo tours Middle East as more details of UAE-Israel peace deal emergeSecretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Sudan on Tuesday for the second leg of a multi-country tour of the Middle East and Africa, as the Trump administration intensifies efforts to promote the normalization in the region of ties with Israel.....
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Pompeo in Sudan visit pushes normalizing ties with IsraelCAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Sudan on Tuesday to push for normalizing ties with Israel, building on momentum from the recent historic agreement to establish relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
The Sudanese transitional government said, however, tha....
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Sudan PM tells Pompeo he's not authorized to normalize ties with IsraelSudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok told US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Tuesday that he was not mandated to normalize ties with Israel and the issue should not be linked to Sudan's removal from a US state sponsors of terrorism list.....
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Pompeo in Sudan, top US official to visit since uprisingCAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Sudan on Tuesday, the most senior U.S. official to visit the African country since last year's ouster of its autocratic leader, Omar al-Bashir.
Pompeo is the first U.S. secretary of state to visit the African country since 2005, when C....
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Sudan military, civilian rulers trade blame for economyPrime Minister Abdalla Hamdok
Sudan's economic woes, which fuelled the overthrow of veteran strongman Omar al-Bashir last year, are driving a wedge between military and civilians....
Pompeo in Jerusalem after UAE-Israel deal, will push for other Arab states to follow suitUS State Secretary Mike Pompeo visited Jerusalem on Monday to start a five-day Middle East tour focused on Israel's normalising of ties with the United Arab Emirates and pushing other Arab states to follow suit.
Pompeo, wearing a face mask in the colours of the American flag, met Prime Minister B....
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Pompeo heads to Mideast as part of Trump's Arab-Israeli pushWASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is on a trip to the Middle East, the first of two senior U.S. officials to travel to the region this week as the Trump administration presses an ambitious Arab-Israeli peace push that President Donald Trump hopes will burnish his foreign policy cred....
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Pompeo, Kushner to Mideast as US presses Arab-Israeli peaceWASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will send two top officials to the Middle East this week in a bid to capitalize on momentum from the historic agreement between Israeli and the United Arab Emirates to establish diplomatic relations.
Three diplomats say Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a....
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Seven killed in South Sudan plane crashFour passengers and three crew were killed on Saturday when a cargo plane belonging to a local operator crashed near South Sudan's capital Juba, the....
UAE-Israel agreement followed many years of discreet talksSecret talks and quiet ties — that's what paved the way for last week's deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel to normalise relations.
Touted by US President Donald Trump as a major Mideast breakthrough, the agreement was in fact the culmination of more than a decade of quiet links ro....
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Sudan fires spokesman after comments on peace with IsraelCAIRO (AP) — Sudan on Wednesday fired the spokesman for the country's foreign ministry, a day after he remarked that the African country was looking forward to making a peace deal with Israel.
The development comes after last week's bombshell announcement of a deal between the United Arab Emira....
Officials say Israel, Sudan close to peace agreementIsrael and Sudan on Tuesday said they are close to reaching a peace agreement - setting the stage for a second dramatic diplomatic breakthrough for Israel with its Arab neighbors in a matter of days.....
UAE, Israel establish phone serviceDUBAI: The UAE and Israeli foreign ministers held their first publicly-acknowledged call on Sunday after the Gulf state opened telephone lines to Israel as part of a normalisation of ties.
Israel and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday announced their US-sponsored rapprochement, which promised ....
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Israel says it expects Bahrain and Oman to follow UAE in formalising tiesBahrain and Oman could be the next Gulf countries to follow the United Arab Emirates in formalising ties with Israel, Israel's intelligence minister said on Sunday.
"In the wake of this agreement [with the UAE] will come additional agreements, both with more Gulf countries and with Muslim countri....
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Flooding and heavy rainfall leave over 60 dead in SudanCAIRO (AP) — Flash floods have ravaged swaths of Sudan for weeks, leaving at least 60 people dead and destroying thousands of homes since late July, authorities and the U.N. humanitarian agency said Sunday.
The flooding also injured two dozen people, and has destroyed or damaged more than 30,00....
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Hunger, squalor mar South Sudan post-war unification effortsBOR, South Sudan (AP) — Here in crowded camps in South Sudan, former enemies are meant to be joining forces after a five-year civil war so they can help the shattered country recover.Read more on NewsOK.com....
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Pope calls for dialogue between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over Nile damPope Francis called for dialogue between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on Saturday, urging them not to let a dispute over a dam on the Nile lead to conflict. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is being built some 15 km (9 miles) from Ethiopia’s border with Sudan, has become a.......
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Silence from Saudi Arabia as UAE hails Israel accordAs media and people in the United Arab Emirates hailed the Gulf state's deal to normalise relations with Israel as a diplomatic victory — which they say helps the Palestinians — silence reigned in Saudi Arabia, longtime figurehead of regional policy towards Israel.
Analysts see the surprise U....
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The dam that Egypt has threatened to go to war overThe Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Ethiopian border with Sudan is challenging a century-old rights question over access to the waters of the Nile.....
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Why Belarus' suddenly arrested 33 men it says are Russian mercenariesAssociated Press
Belarus arrested 33 men it says are mercenaries affiliated with Russian private security firm the Wagner Group.
But the amount of available information about Russian mercenaries using Minsk as a way station en route to destinations like Syria, Libya and Sudan raises questions ab....
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Displaced Sudanese seek shelter amid deadly floodAt least 10 people were killed and more than 3,300 homes ruined by flooding triggered by torrential rains across much of Sudan this week, the country's civil defence organisation said.....
Father John Lee Tae-seok gained national attention when a documentary on his work in war-ravaged South Sudan was released in 2010. In one of the poorest countries in the world, the Korean priest nicknamed....
