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By Aidan Lewis and Tom Perry CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan’s warring factions are locked in a conflict that two weeks of fighting shows neither can easily win, raising the spectre of a drawn-out war between an agile paramilitary force and the better-equipped army that could destabilise a fragile region. Even with hundreds of people killed and the capital Khartoum turned into a war zone, there has been little sign of […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – Passenger travel on the first day of China’s five-day Labour Day holiday surged 151.8% from the same day last year, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Saturday. The number of air, road, waterway and railway trips rose to 56.99 million on the first day of the holiday that runs through Wednesday, CCTV said. Tickets to some popular tourism sites in China had almost sold out during the holiday. […]

By Aidan Lewis and Tom Perry CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan’s warring factions are locked in a conflict that two weeks of fighting shows neither can easily win, raising the spectre of a drawn-out war between an agile paramilitary force and the better-equipped army that could destabilise a fragile region. Even with hundreds of people killed and the capital Khartoum turned into a war zone, there has been little sign of […]

By Nafisa Eltahir CAIRO (Reuters) – Warring sides in Sudan are more open to negotiations and have accepted the conflict that erupted two weeks ago cannot continue, a U.N. official told Reuters on Saturday, a possible flicker of hope even as fighting continued. Volker Perthes, U.N. special representative in Sudan, said the sides had nominated representatives for talks which had been suggested for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, or Juba in South […]

(Reuters) – Five people were were killed in a shooting at a home in Cleveland, Texas, ABC News reported on Saturday, citing local police. The shooting took place late Friday and the police were still looking for the suspect, the report added. (Reporting by Gokul Pisharody in Bengaluru; Editing by Frances Kerry) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Nafisa Eltahir CAIRO (Reuters) – Warring sides in Sudan are more open to negotiations and have accepted the conflict that erupted two weeks ago cannot continue, a U.N. official told Reuters on Saturday, a possible flicker of hope even as fighting continued. Volker Perthes, U.N. special representative in Sudan, said the sides had nominated representatives for talks which had been suggested for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, or Juba in South […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will lodge an official diplomatic protest over what it says is the illegal seizure by the Polish authorities of its embassy school in Warsaw, Moscow’s ambassador to Poland told Russian state news agencies on Saturday. Sergei Andreyev, the ambassador, said the move was a violation of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, but Poland said it was within its rights to take back the building. “Today […]

(Reuters) -A fire at a fuel storage facility in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, caused by an apparent drone strike, has been extinguished, the Moscow-installed governor there said on Saturday. “Open fire was extinguished in an area of 1,000 square meters,” Mikhail Razvozhaev said on the Telegram messaging app. Earlier he said no one was injured and according to preliminary information the depot was hit by two drones. Sergei […]

(Reuters) – A fire at a fuel storage facility in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, caused by an apparent drone strike, has been extinguished, the Moscow-installed governor there said on Saturday. A spokesperson for Ukraine’s armed forces said he did not have any information to suggest Ukraine was responsible for the blaze. FIGHTING * Russia hurled missiles at cities across Ukraine early on Friday as people slept, killing at […]