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By Khalid Abdelaziz JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – Sudan’s army suspended talks on Wednesday over a ceasefire and enabling humanitarian access, a Sudanese diplomatic source said, raising fears of fresh bloodshed and chaos. The talks with the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) began in early May and had produced a declaration of commitments to protecting civilians and two short-term ceasefire deals that had been repeatedly violated. The army and […]

By Trixie Yap and Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) – Oil prices extended losses early on Wednesday as worries of slowing demand from top oil importer China after the release of weaker-than-expected economic data outweighed some positive progress on the U.S. debt ceiling bill. Brent crude futures for August delivery slipped 15 cents to $73.56 a barrel by 0656 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) fell 14 cents to $69.32 […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s largest state by land area, resource-rich Western Australia, is set to elect deputy premier Roger Cook as its new leader after he secured the support of most legislators from his party. Mark McGowan resigned as the state’s leader on Monday in a surprise announcement citing exhaustion, after guiding the centre-left Labor Party to a landslide re-election in 2021. Cook has been endorsed by Labor as the […]

By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed his government on Wednesday to set aside around 3.5 trillion yen ($26 billion) in the annual budget for child care, Economy Minister Shigeyuki Goto said, which was slightly more than previously estimated. Kishida has vowed to double childcare spending over the next three years in a bid to help reverse the country’s dwindling birth rate. The […]

(Reuters) – German federal police are searching buildings and apartments across 12 federal states as part of an investigation into suspected Islamists, the Bild newspaper reported on Wednesday. Four of the locations are in Berlin, while searches are also being conducted in Cologne, Wuppertal and the areas surrounding Moenchengladbach and Aachen, the report said. Police did not immediately reply to an emailed request for comment. (Reporting by Linda Pasquini, Editing […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz DUBAI (Reuters) – Sudan’s army has suspended talks over a ceasefire and enabling humanitarian access, according to a Sudanese diplomatic source, raising fears of fresh bloodshed. The talks with the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) began in early May and had produced a declaration of commitments to protecting civilians and two short-term ceasefire deals that had been repeatedly violated. The army and the RSF had agreed […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz DUBAI (Reuters) – Sudan’s army has suspended talks over a ceasefire and enabling humanitarian access, according to a Sudanese diplomatic source, raising fears of fresh bloodshed. The talks with the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) began in early May and had produced a declaration of commitments to protecting civilians and two short-term ceasefire deals that had been repeatedly violated. The army and the RSF had agreed […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz DUBAI (Reuters) – Sudan’s army has suspended talks over a ceasefire and enabling humanitarian access, according to a Sudanese diplomatic source, raising fears of fresh bloodshed. The talks with the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) began in early May and had produced a declaration of commitments to protecting civilians and two short-term ceasefire deals that had been repeatedly violated. The army and the RSF had agreed […]

MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian shelling killed five people in a village in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine, Moscow-installed officials said on Wednesday, while a drone attack caused a fire at an oil refinery in southern Russia. Ukrainian artillery also hit a Russian town close to the border for the third time in a week, damaging buildings and vehicles and injuring four people, Russian officials said. A day after the […]