A United States-brokered cease-fire in Sudan appeared to be on shaky ground on Tuesday as gunfire and loud explosions erupted in Khartoum, the capital, threatening continued efforts by thousands of people to flee a conflict that has ripped through Africa’s third-largest nation for more than a week. In pockets across Khartoum, residents reported low-flying warplanes […]
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No Reprieve in Sudan Even for Eid Holiday as General Rejects Calls for Cease-Fire
As people in Sudan marked the major Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr on Friday, forces led by the two warring generals vying for control of the country ignored calls for a cease-fire and clashed across the country for a seventh day. Sudanese civilian coalitions and international officials had called for a three-day pause in fighting […]
Russia’s Cease-Fire Appears to Have Little Early Effect: Live Updates
A French AMX-10 RC armored reconnaissance vehicle, the kind France plans to send to Ukraine, seen during a training exercise in 2012.Credit…Francois Nascimbeni/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Armored reconnaissance and fighting vehicles that France promised this week to send to Ukraine will not alone change the tide in the war, experts said on Thursday, nor […]
Russia-Ukraine War: Putin Orders Brief Unilateral Cease-Fire; Ukraine Calls It ‘Hypocrisy’
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia called for a cease-fire in Ukraine to celebrate Orthodox Christian Christmas. A senior Ukrainian official dismissed the move as “hypocrisy.”Credit…Tyler Hicks/The New York Times President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday ordered his military to implement a 36-hour cease-fire along the front line in Ukraine for Orthodox Christmas, […]