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US strikes on Yemen migrant centre kill 68

SANAA, Apr 28 (AFP): Huthi rebel-controlled media in Yemen said Monday that US strikes hit a migrant detention centre in the movement's stronghold of Saada, killing at least 68 people.The US military has hammered the Iran-backed Huthis with near-daily strikes since March 15 in an operation dubbed "Rough Rider", seeking...

Desperate Gazans scramble for food

GAZA CITY, Apr 28 (AFP/AP): At the break of dawn, 10-year-old Youssef al-Najjar races barefoot, clutching a battered pot, to a community kitchen in Gaza City, only to find hundreds of others already queueing."People push and shove out of fear of missing their turn. There are little children who fall,"...

Germany's next cabinet takes shape

BERLIN, Apr 28 (AFP): Germany's conservatives under chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Monday announced their cabinet ministers, including an outspoken Ukraine backer as foreign minister, before they are set to take power next week.Merz's CDU/CSU alliance, winners of February 23 general elections, named Johann Wadephul, a 62-year-old former soldier and trained...

Nobel laureates urge Trump, Putin to meet on denuclearisation

GENEVA, Apr 28 (AFP): Three Nobel Peace Prize-winning groups campaigning to eliminate nuclear weapons joined forces on Monday to urge the US and Russian presidents to meet and agree on significant denuclearisation.The joint appeal came from Japan's atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo, which won last year's Nobel; 2017 laureate...

N Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia

SEOUL, Apr 28 (AFP): North Korea confirmed for the first time it had deployed troops to Russia, with state news agency KCNA on Monday reporting that Pyongyang's soldiers helped Moscow reclaim territory under Ukrainian control in the border region of Kursk.The admission comes just days after Russia confirmed the North's...

Trump calls to investigate 'fake' low approval polls

WASHINGTON, Apr 28 (AFP): US President Donald Trump hit out Monday at "fake polls" showing dismal approval ratings for the Republican less than 100 days after returning to the White House.A Washington Post-ABC News survey last week revealed just 39 percent of Americans approved of Trump's job performance, while a...

Trump tells Putin to 'stop shooting' and make a deal

BEDMINSTER, Apr 28 (AFP): US President Donald Trump said Sunday he wanted Russia's Vladimir Putin to "stop shooting" in Ukraine and sign a peace deal, one day after the US leader met Ukraine's president at the Vatican.Trump, who boasted before his inauguration that he could halt Russia's invasion of Ukraine...

Uganda opposition says HQ 'sealed off' by security forces

KAMPALA, Apr 28 (AFP): Uganda's opposition said on Monday that security forces had "sealed off" its headquarters in the capital Kampala to stop the party launching a protest campaign ahead of national polls next year.Security forces have in recent years frequently targeted the opposition party of the National Unity Platform...

Iranian president visits Azerbaijan as ties warm

BAKU, Apr 28 (AFP): Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian Monday met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, on a rare visit to Baku, marking the latest sign of a thaw in relations between the neighbouring countries.Tensions between the two have run high for years, largely due to Baku's close ties with Iran's...

Eight migrants die off Tunisia, 29 rescued

TUNIS, Apr 28 (AFP): Eight migrants from various countries died and 29 others were rescued after their boat capsized off the coast of Sfax in central Tunisia, the Tunisian National Guard told AFP on Monday.The migrants were "all foreigners", including some from sub-Saharan Africa and others of different nationalities, said...