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Major powers urge halt to Libya fighting

Key powers including backers of a rebel leader called Tuesday for a halt to fighting in Libya, warning that bloodshed was aggravating a crisis on multiple fronts. The United States, France, Britain and Italy joined Egypt and the United Arab Emirates - two supporters, along with Saudi...

Rights group says civilians pay human cost of Yemen's war

A Yemeni human rights group says civilians are paying the human cost of the country's five-year war. In a report Tuesday released in Paris, Mwatana for Human Rights says humanitarian aid has been blocked at a time of impending famine and civilians can no longer move around the country...

3 medics killed in airstrike by Haftar forces in Libya

Three medics were killed on Tuesday in an airstrike carried out by Eastern Libyan forces led by military  commander Khalifa Haftar, according to forces aligned with the Tripoli-based government.  The attack targeted a field hospital in southern Tripoli, the forces of the...

Sudan paramilitaries 'torture' civilian to death: doctors

Sudan's feared paramilitaries have beaten and tortured to death a civilian in a town in war-torn Darfur, a doctors committee linked to the protest movement said Tuesday. The civilian died on Monday in El-Daen, in East Darfur state, after members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) clashed...