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CHUIL, South Sudan (AP) — Displaced people who took refuge from conflict in an isolated South Sudan village were denied lifesaving aid by the government even as deaths there mounted, eyewitnesses and aid groups said. The Associated Press spoke with people who fled to the swamp-encircled community of Nyatim in recent weeks. They described having little food and no clean water in a place so desolate that a Starlink connection […]

A series of deadly attacks in Colombia’s southwest raised security concerns ahead of the country’s presidential election in May. Rebel groups have staged over two dozen attacks against civilians and military bases since Friday. ____ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

BEKASI, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers recovered the last victims from a train crash in Bekasi, outside Indonesia’s capital Tuesday. The crash occurred Monday when a long-distance train crashed into the rear car of a stopped commuter train at the station outside Jakarta. ____ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

BEIJING (AP) — Heavy flooding from torrential rain left cars submerged and forced the evacuation of more than 200 residents in a southern Chinese city, state media reported Tuesday. Rescue crews deployed inflatable boats to help relocate some residents trapped in their homes in Qinzhou city in Guangxi region, official news agency Xinhua reported. Video footage from Xinhua showed rescuers wading through chest-high water and firefighters carrying elderly residents in […]

The Trump administration seemed unlikely Tuesday to accept Iran’s offer to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. lifts its blockade on the country. The proposal would postpone discussions on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, something that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to rule out in a Fox News interview Monday. “We have to ensure that any deal that is made, any agreement […]

FRANKFURT, April 28 (Reuters) – Germany’s armed forces do not plan to award contracts to U.S. data analytics and defence software company Palantir for now, a leading military officer told the Handelsblatt newspaper. “I don’t see that happening at all at the moment,”  Thomas Daum, in charge of the German military’s cyber defence, was quoted as saying in the paper’s Tuesday edition. “As much as we are interested in the […]

By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA, April 28 (Reuters) – The death toll from a train collision near the Indonesian capital Jakarta has risen to 14 with another 84 injured, the train operator said on Tuesday, as rescuers completed work to extract survivors still trapped in the wreckage. The collision between a commuter train and a long-distance train happened late on Monday in Bekasi, just outside Jakarta. Bobby Rasyidin, chief executive of […]

TOKYO, April 28 (Reuters) – Shares of Japanese logistics firm Nippon Express Holdings leapt as much as 15% after U.S. activist investor Elliott Investment Management disclosed a 5.04% stake in the company on Tuesday. The stake is the latest in a string of investments in Japanese firms by Elliott as it ramps up its activity in the country amid a broad wave of corporate reforms in Japan. Nippon Express’ shares later […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The sequence might as well have served as a metaphor of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ season. There was Sidney Crosby, his left knee throbbing after absorbing a blistering shot from the point by teammate Ryan Shea, limping off the ice and disappearing down the tunnel in the second period of Game 5 on Monday night against Philadelphia. A few minutes later, with the Penguins’ longtime captain still out […]