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Sudanese army says it has retaken presidential palace from RSF

Shendi (AFP) – Sudanese army spokesman Nabil Abdallah says “our forces completely destroyed the enemy’s fighters and equipment, and seized large quantities of equipment and weapons” in a statement broadcast on state television, as they recaptured the presidential palace in Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces after a fierce battle.

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Musician plays ‘Ave Maria’ for Pope Francis outside Gemelli hospital

Rom (AFP) – Musician Felice Carella plays Schubert’s ‘Ave Maria’ for Pope Francis outside Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where he remains after 35 days of treatment for pneumonia. The Vatican reported earlier in the week that the 88-year-old pontiff has suspended the use of an oxygen mask, adding that his clinical condition was “improving”.

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‘I want to pave the way’: IOC elects first woman leader

Costa Navarino (AFP) – Kirsty Coventry became the first woman and first African to be elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday. With Los Angeles hosting the 2028 Olympics, Trump will loom large in her agenda. “I have been dealing with, let’s say, difficult men in high positions since I was 20 years old,” she says, adding that “communication will be key.”

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Tuchel urges ‘afraid’ England to play without fear

London (AFP) – Thomas Tuchel urges England to play without fear after claiming they were “afraid” in a scathing assessment of their run to the Euro 2024 final under his predecessor Gareth Southgate. Tuchel will take charge of England for the first time when they face Albania at Wembley on Friday in their opening World Cup qualifier.

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Finland ranked world’s happiest country eight years in a row

Helsinki (AFP) – Finland ranks as the world’s happiest country for the eighth straight year in an annual UN-sponsored World Happiness Report, while the United States falls to its lowest ranking ever. “We have quite a well-functioning society,” explains Frank Martela, an academic specialised in wellbeing and happiness research. “We have free elections, free speech, low levels of corruption.”

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‘Death and destruction are back in Gaza’, says UN chief

Brüssel (AFP) – The head of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, attends the European Summit in Brussels. In an address, he expresses his concerns about the situations in Ukraine and Gaza, lamenting that “death and destruction are back in Gaza”.

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German flag waves over newly reopened embassy in Damascus

Damaskus (AFP) – The German flag waves once again over the newly reopened German embassy in Damascus. Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock officially reopened her country’s diplomatic mission, which closed in 2012 amid the Syrian civil war, on her second visit to the capital since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad more than three months ago.

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Guide fears Mt Kenya’s ‘beautiful’ glacier will ‘disappear completely’

Nationalpark Mount Kenya (AFP) – The “very, very beautiful” Lewis Glacier on Mount Kenya, Africa’s second highest peak, is now little more than “small patches of ice and snow”, says veteran guide Charles Kibaki Muchiri. It is one of the few mountains on the African continent with glaciers, and scientists fear it could become one of the first in modern times to turn entirely ice-free as soon as 2030.

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Tokyo subway attack: Two very different widows speak out 30 years on

Tokyo (AFP) – Three decades since Shizue Takahashi’s husband and a dozen others were killed with a nerve agent on Tokyo’s subway, she fears Japan could see a repeat of the doomsday cult attack. Another widow, Yuki Niimi, knows the group that carried out the attack only too well. Her husband was a follower of Aum Shinrikyo and was executed in 2018 for his role in the 1995 gas attack.

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