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18.05.2024 12:00 Senegal's prime minister has vehemently denounced the French military presence in his country and raised the possibility of closing its bases amid a growing move by the neighboring states to expel foreign occupation troops from the Sahel region.

18.05.2024 12:00 Israeli forces battled Hamas militants in both the north and south Gaza Strip on Friday as trucks began delivering aid shipments through a U.S.-built temporary pier off the embattled enclave.

18.05.2024 12:00 Trucks carrying desperately needed aid into Gaza have started moving ashore on the temporary floating dock built by the United States military, but this is not enough to meet the needs of civilians, UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Friday.

18.05.2024 12:00 The UN International Court of Justice , on Friday, heard the response from Israel on the case brought forward by South Africa requesting emergency provisional measures to immediately halt Israeli military operations under way in Rafah, in southern Gaza, where over one million Palestinians were sheltering after having been displaced from elsewhere in the enclave.

18.05.2024 12:00 The Philippines hit back Friday against what it called China's "illegal" new order authorizing its coast guard to detain foreign boats and people suspected of trespassing into Beijing-claimed waters in the disputed South China Sea.

18.05.2024 12:00 As U.N. agencies warn of a looming famine in Sudan, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights says U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk held separate phone calls with Sudan's rival generals this week to try to deescalate the conflict.

18.05.2024 12:00 The UN's top human rights official has personally intervened to try to stop spiralling violence in Sudan that's having a terrifying impact on millions of civilians, who humanitarians say are "staring famine in the face".

18.05.2024 12:00 Africa has long been known for its so-called "blood diamonds," a term for mineral wealth that fuels violent conflict. In the Southern Africa country of Mozambique, a report finds "blood timber" largely fueled by market demand from China is financing an insurgency in northern Mozambique. But security analysts disagree on how much the militants are profiting from the wood sales.

18.05.2024 12:00 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday signed legislation allowing certain convicts to join the country's armed forces, the parliament press service reported.

18.05.2024 12:00 The United Nations has agreed to support the handling of aid from the U.S.-built floating dock off Gaza, a spokesman said Friday.

18.05.2024 12:00 A temporary floating pier built by the United States in the Gaza Strip started receiving humanitarian aid items on Friday.

18.05.2024 12:00 The Democratic People's Republic of Korea conducted a test fire of tactical ballistic missile using a new autonomous navigation system in its eastern waters on Friday, the official Korean Central News Agency reported Saturday.

18.05.2024 12:00 Great achievements have been made even in carrying out the tasks for production for national defence assigned by the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea which attaches special importance to it in the crucial period when epochal results have been achieved in the field of defence industry of the DPRK and remarkable changes are being made one after another in

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18.05.2024 12:00 Today at approximately 9 a.m. , trucks carrying humanitarian assistance began moving ashore via a temporary pier in Gaza. No U.S. troops went ashore in Gaza. This is an ongoing, multinational effort to deliver additional aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza via a maritime corridor that is entirely humanitarian in nature, and will involve aid commodities donated by a number of countries and