The United States insisted Monday it would press ahead with convening ceasefire talks this week on the devastating conflict in Sudan, even if the Sudanese government is a no-show. War has raged since April 2023 between the Sudanese army under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

War-wrecked Sudan ‘s humanitarian crisis is at “a catastrophic breaking point” amid fighting and devastating flooding, the U.N. migration agency said Monday, ahead of peace talks planned for later this week. The talks face uncertainty as Sudan’s military has yet to confirm its participation in the meeting in Switzerland brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia. The northeastern African nation plunged into chaos in April last year when tensions between the military and a...

Sudan has reached a "catastrophic breaking point" as ongoing conflict and devastating floods ravage the nation, according to the United Nations' migration agency on Monday. Over the past 16-months, Sudan's civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has had devastating humanitarian impacts. According to the U.N., nearly 10.7 million people have been internally displaced and upwards of 14,000 people have been killed. According to the...

A federal judge in Chicago handed anti-Israel protest groups a loss this week, rejecting their request for more space to protest the Gaza counteroffensive outside the Democratic National Convention next week. Four groups seeking to organize protests – the Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, the Anti-War Committee, Students for a Democratic Society at UIC, and the U.S. Palestinian Community Network – asked for parade permits giving them authorization to march over an expanded area...

Voters in battleground Pennsylvania aren't buying Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s promise to not ban fracking, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The last time Harris ran for president, in 2019, she was a vocal advocate of outlawing the practice, saying, "There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking" during a CNN town hall. As a senator, she also sponsored the Green New Deal, which includes a ban on fracking. Harris’s new campaign, without explaining the candidate’...

Only a ceasefire deal in Gaza stemming from hoped-for talks this week would hold Iran back from direct retaliation against Israel for the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on its soil, three senior Iranian officials said. Iran has vowed a severe response to Haniyeh's killing, which took place as he visited Tehran late last month and which it blamed on Israel. Israel has neither confirmed or denied its involvement. The U.S. Navy has deployed ...

Whether it translates into longer-lasting political and social solidarity remains to be seen. Although the protest movement fizzled after only a few days, observers say the solidarity it forged across religious, ethnic, and political fault lines in places like Jos has potential to outlive the demonstrations themselves. A shared distrust of the government – whether in Nigeria, Bangladesh , or Venezuela , where anti-government protests have also recently broken out among a wide range of citizens...

These days, journalist and former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum is a scathing critic of 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. But back in the early 2010s — even before he wrote his 2016 book "Hillbilly Elegy" — Trump's now-running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), was a blogger for Frum's FrumForum. And in those days, Vance championed a more traditional conservatism and had yet to become the MAGA firebrand he is today. In an article published by Politico on August 13, journalist...