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Drone Strike on Besieged Sudan Mosque Kills Dozens Amid Escalating Darfur Siege

  At least 70 worshippers were killed and dozens more injured when a drone strike hit a mosque during Friday prayers in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur region, according to medical and aid sources. The attack, blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), reduced the mosque to rubble, with rescuers still pulling bodies from the debris. El Fasher — home to more than 260,000 civilians — has been under siege for over a year as the RSF battles Sudan’s army for control of the city, the military’s last stronghold in Darfur. Satellite imagery shows RSF advances into key military and humanitarian sites, including the nearby Abu Shouk displacement camp, which shelters hundreds of thousands. The United Nations condemned the strike as a grave violation of international humanitarian law, warning of the “increasing ethnicisation” of the conflict. Since fighting erupted in April 2023, Sudan’s civil war has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and pushed vast s...
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War of Words: Moscow Rebukes Macron Over ‘Ogre’ Remark

 

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Tensions between Paris and Moscow have sharpened after the Kremlin accused French President Emmanuel Macron of breaching diplomatic decorum with his recent description of Vladimir Putin as “an ogre at our gates.”

The comment, made during a televised interview last week, was among Macron’s strongest public criticisms of the Russian leader since the start of the war in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova responded on Friday, calling the remark “unworthy of a head of state” and accusing Macron of making “strange statements” that sometimes cross into “low-grade insults”.

Macron’s choice of words reflects his deep skepticism about Moscow’s willingness to pursue peace, even as international efforts — including U.S.-led talks — continue to seek an end to the conflict. France has been a vocal supporter of Ukraine, a stance that has repeatedly drawn sharp rebukes from Russian officials.

The latest exchange underscores the fragile state of Franco-Russian relations, where diplomatic language has given way to increasingly personal attacks, further complicating the already fraught path toward any negotiated settlement.

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