Category: World News
Japan to evacuate citizens from Sudan as infighting escalates
Fox News Japan has begun the process to have its citizens evacuated from Sudan as fighting in the country continues to worsen, its defense ministry said Wednesday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said Japan’s foreign minister has requested to use the defense ministry’s Self-Defense Forces’ military plane for the mass evacuation, Reuters reported. “The government…
Read MoreSudan Live Updates: Airstrikes Hit Khartoum Airport as Civilians Reel From Clashes
New York Times Warplanes struck Sudan’s main international airport, and rival paramilitaries fired on them with antiaircraft guns. The fighting continued into a fifth day after an announced cease-fire unraveled. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/04/19/world/sudan-khartoum-fighting-news
Read MoreChinese panda on long-term loan to Thailand dies suddenly
Washington Post A giant panda on long-term loan from China has died in a zoo in northern Thailand, six months before she was due to return home https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/19/china-thailand-panda-zoo-chiang-mai/782d2b7a-de96-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreWarsaw Ghetto Uprising commemorated on 80th anniversary
Washington Post Presidents and Holocaust survivors and their descendants are marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/19/warsaw-ghetto-uprising-poland-anniversary-israel/0513dc3a-de85-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreSuspect at large in German gym stabbing that wounded 4
Washington Post Police are searching for a man suspected of carrying out a knife attack at a gym in the western German city of Duisburg that left four people seriously wounded https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/19/germany-duisburg-stabbing-attack-gym-wounded/e4f3e810-de83-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreIn grim drought, Tunisians ration water in state-ordered ban
Washington Post Tunisians are on the front lines of a battle against an increasingly severe drought, now in its fifth year in the north African country, with the government issuing a sudden order to its population to ration their water usage from April to September — or risk fines or jail https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/19/tunisia-water-rationing-drought-climate/280850ea-de7b-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreUkraine live briefing: Zelensky lobbies U.S. speaker on fighter jets, invites him to visit
Washington Post Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he raised the issue of F-16s in a call with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/19/russia-ukraine-war-news/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreA contest encouraged children to hunt feral cats — until the backlash
Washington Post The idea of enlisting children armed with air rifles in an effort to kill feral cats in New Zealand set off alarm bells among animal rights groups. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/19/new-zealand-feral-cat-hunting-children/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreUK may soon seize kitchen knives from suspected criminals’ homes amid dangerous weapons crackdown
Fox News Machetes and some serrated knives could be seized from the homes of suspected criminals under a new United Kingdom proposal amid a crackdown on dangerous weapons. Under the proposed law, criminals who buy or sell them could face up to two years in jail. The crackdown would ban the sale and possession of…
Read MoreDeath toll in Beijing hospital fire rises to 29
Washington Post Authorities in Beijing say the death toll in a fire that broke out Tuesday afternoon in a hospital has risen to 29, with 26 of them patients https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/19/deadly-beijing-hospital-fire/6f54febc-de71-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
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