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Sarkozy will ‘sleep in jail but with head held high’ after Libya conviction
ByAngelique Chrisafis in Paris September 25, 2025September 25, 2025

Former French president receives five-year prison sentence for criminal conspiracy over pact with Gaddafi regimeThe former French president Nicolas Sarkozy said he would “sleep in jail but with my head held high” after receiving a five-year prison sent…

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‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher
ByMark Townsend, video by Elena Morresi September 24, 2025

For 500 days, 260,000 people have been trapped by the paramilitary RSF. While political progress stalls, those who attempt escape are killed and those who remain inside are starving. Experts believe the city will soon fall and the endgame has begunNot …

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‘A gift from heaven’: the TikTok traders of Mauritania’s meteorites
By September 24, 2025

Growing desertification is putting traditional livelihoods at risk in western Africa and encouraging the search for rare stonesBy night, Lamine Hanoun works as a hospital guard in Bir Moghrein, near Mauritania’s border with Morocco-occupied Western Sah…

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‘A gift from heaven’: the TikTok traders of Mauritania’s meteorites
By September 24, 2025

Growing desertification is putting traditional livelihoods at risk in western Africa and encouraging the search for rare stonesBy night, Lamine Hanoun works as a hospital guard in Bir Moghrein, near Mauritania’s border with Morocco-occupied Western Sah…

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Mass grave reveals scale of unlawful killings by Egyptian army in Sinai, say campaigners
ByKaamil Ahmed September 22, 2025

Human rights group says hundreds of skeletons found exposed or buried just below ground during research into killings of civiliansHundreds of bodies could have been buried at a mass grave discovered in Egypt’s Sinai province by human rights campaigners…

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‘I was terrified of dying’: how one man survived 40 hours adrift in the sea
ByAshifa Kassam and Okba Mohammad September 21, 2025

Rafie Nadi, 23, was rescued off Spain’s coast after nearly two days floating with only an inflatable ring and flippersFor more than 40 hours he floated in the Mediterranean, buoyed only by an inflatable ring and flippers. Gripped by fear and dishearten…

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Scores killed by RSF drone strike on mosque in besieged Sudanese city
ByCarlos Mureithi in Nairobi and agencies September 19, 2025

First responders say 75 worshippers dead as paramilitaries push to capture last foothold of Sudanese army in DarfurA drone strike by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher has killed 75 people worshipping in a …

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U.S. to Cut Out Nongovernmental Groups in Refocusing Health Aid
ByEdward Wong September 18, 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States would negotiate agreements to deliver aid in new ways and would focus on the Western Hemisphere and Asia Pacific.

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U.S. to Cut Out Nongovernmental Groups in Refocusing Health Aid
ByEdward Wong September 18, 2025September 18, 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States would negotiate agreements to deliver aid in new ways and would focus on the Western Hemisphere and Asia Pacific.

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Videos appear to show people smuggling by state-linked Libyan militia in Mediterranean
ByLorenzo Tondo in Palermo September 18, 2025

Sea rescue NGO says clips and images provide evidence that smugglers ‘are part of Tripoli’s official military apparatus’Video footage and photos in the Italian press appear to show for the first time a militia allied with the Libyan government particip…

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