NAIROBI, Kenya — Sudan’s nightmare scenario is coming to pass. Fighter jets screamed over Khartoum, the capital, on Sunday, firing rockets into a city of millions. Artillery barrages slammed into the military headquarters, reducing it to a tower of flames. Civilian planes were bombed at the city’s airport, where terrified passengers cowered on the terminal floors. […]
Month: April 2023
Your Monday Briefing: Fighting in Sudan
Also, an extrajudicial killing on live TV in India.
Killing on Live TV Renews Alarm About India’s Slide Toward Extrajudicial Violence
When the police in India’s largest state put a notorious mobster-politician’s associates in their sights, they unleashed a take-no-prisoners campaign that at times mirrored the brutality of their underworld targets, who had been implicated in a brazen murder. In three separate raids, officers in the state of Uttar Pradesh shot dead four of those associates, […]
Fighting Intensifies as Generals Battle For Control of Sudan : Live Updates
Before rival factions of the army began clashing, the people of Sudan were already facing multiple crises: rising inflation, escalating unemployment levels and mounting hunger. And then on Saturday, they woke up to heavy gunfire and explosions as the army battled with a large paramilitary force in areas across the capital, Khartoum, and other cities. […]
Fumio Kishida, Japan’s Leader, Safely Evacuated After Blast
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan was safely evacuated on Saturday from a site where he had been scheduled to give a speech and shortly before an explosion was heard, according to the police. An object was thrown, prompting Mr. Kishida’s removal. By the time of the explosion, the prime minister had been taken away […]
Fighting Rages in Sudan as Rival Military Factions Battle for Control
NAIROBI, Kenya — Fighting raged on Saturday across the capital of Sudan and in a handful of other cities as months of rising tensions between rival factions of the armed forces suddenly spiraled into an all-out battle for control of one of Africa’s biggest countries. Clashes at a military base in the capital, Khartoum, quickly […]
Deadly Fighting Erupts in Sudan’s Capital: Live Updates
The fighting that erupted on Saturday in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, was the culmination of months of rising tensions between two military leaders who only 18 months ago came together to seize power in a military coup. The gunfire, explosions and chaotic scenes across the capital dashed the once heady hopes stirred by the […]
At Christianity’s Holiest Site, Rival Monks Struggle to Turn Other Cheek
JERUSALEM — As Orthodox Christians descended on Jerusalem this Easter week to visit the holiest site in their religion, a more earthly concern hovered over the holiday: Would rival monks keep the peace this year or again engage in clashes? In a centuries-long conflict, Egyptian Coptic monks and Ethiopian Orthodox monks have competed for the […]
Macron’s Plan to Increase the Retirement Age Clears Key Legal Test
President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to increase the legal retirement age in France was approved by the country’s Constitutional Council on Friday, clearing the way for the measure to be gradually introduced in the fall but doing little to quell the seething popular anger against it. In a highly anticipated ruling, the council, which reviews legislation […]
Jack Teixeira: The Airman Who Wanted to Give Gamers a Real Taste of War
Follow the latest news on the leak of classified intelligence documents. The 21-year-old National Guard airman was frantic as he joined a call with members of a small online gamer community that has improbably ended up at the center of a federal investigation into a major U.S. security breach. It sounded as if the airman, […]