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(Adds details, background) KHARTOUM, June 22 (Reuters) – Sudan asked the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to meet and discuss a dispute over a… Read More »UPDATE 1-Sudan asks U.N. Security Council to meet over Ethiopia’s Blue Nile dam

(Adds U.S. government source says some three dozen websites blocked) DUBAI, June 22 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday blocked some three dozen… Read More »UPDATE 2-U.S. blocks websites linked to Iranian disinformation – source

CAIRO (AP) — Aid group Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday it is suspending activities in two overcrowded Libyan detention centers in Tripoli due to increased… Read More »Aid group halts work in migrant detention centers in Libya

Ethiopia’s army took control of Tigray’s capital, Mekelle, in November last year Heavy fighting has broken out in several areas in Ethiopia’s northern region of… Read More »Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: Heavy fighting reported

By William James LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will begin negotiations on Tuesday to join a trans-Pacific trade deal that it sees as crucial to its… Read More »Britain begins negotiations to join trans-Pacific trade deal

The Biden administration announced Monday that it is extending for another year a more than decade old executive order declaring a national emergency over the… Read More »Biden extends sanctions against North Korea

Reuters Britain begins negotiations to join trans-Pacific trade deal Britain will begin negotiations on Tuesday to join a trans-Pacific trade deal that it sees as… Read More »Podcast: Iran’s future under a new president

Iran’s top cleric remains the country’s “decision-maker,” the White House said, tamping down speculation over whether the country’s newly elected president could influence talks about… Read More »White House: Khamenei still ‘decision-maker’ after presidential election in Iran

The South African government says that stones found in a village last month are not diamonds but quartz. A cattle herder first uncovered the stones… Read More »South Africa gems that sparked rush are quartz not diamonds

Iran’s only nuclear power plant is experiencing an “unexplained temporary emergency shutdown” that began Saturday and could last three to four days, according to an… Read More »Iran’s nuclear power plant experiencing emergency shutdown