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The struggle to survive Sudan’s civil war has taken its toll on Taj-Alseer Ahamed. After holding out for two months in Darfur’s besieged city El Fasher,  Ahamed is on the verge of breaking down. “We don’t have money to buy food or water. We don’t know where our relatives are. We cannot sleep and have to hide from bullets or missiles day and night,” he told DW in El Fasher. During the first year of war, which broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), El Fasher had turned into a relatively safe place…

Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un have signed a comprehensive strategic partnership in a bid to unite against the US. The agreement includes a vow of mutual assistance if either country is attacked. The Russian leader is visiting North Korea for the first time in 24 years.Russian state media said Mr Putin spoke to Mr Kim face-to-face for about two hours and thanked him for his country’s support for the war in Ukraine.The Kremlin chief was treated to lavish ceremony when he arrived in the North Korean capital on Wednesday. Huge crowds lined streets to greet the motorcade, chanting “Welcome…

Jude Bellingham’s thumping header made it all worthwhile for the England fans. A win in their team’s opening Euro 2024 game against Serbia kept them happy, even when an unconvincing performance, along with rain and long travel delays, threatened to ruin their day. And one other thing was not quite as they would have liked it to be in Gelsenkirchen: the beer. Various special measures had been put in place for what authorities had designated a “very high-risk game,” with a focus on alcohol. The usual full strength Bitburger pilsner was not on sale at the stadium, only the brewery’s…

The European Union on Wednesday is expected to take nearly 10 member states to task over excessive spending. The assessments of the 27 EU states’ budgets and economies will be published by the European Commission on Wednesday. with France, Italy and Belgium among the member states that could be slapped with legal action over their accumulated excessive new debt. The EU suspended debt and deficit regulations to help countries cope with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The rules are now back in place and now any EU country going over debt and deficit limits run the…

The US State Department and Pentagon said on Tuesday that the government had approved the sale of various military goods, including drones and related equipment, worth an estimated $360 million (roughly €335 million) to Taiwan.  The sale “will help improve the security of the recipient and assist in maintaining political stability, military balance, and economic progress in the region,” the Pentagon said.  The sale includes Switchblade anti-personnel and anti-armor loitering munitions (pictured at the top of the story) and ALTIUS 600M-V drones and related equipment. Loitering munitions are so called because of their suitability to wait and circle near a…

Willie Mays, considered one of the best players in the history of baseball and called the ‘Say Hey Kid’, has died at the age of 93.His son Michael Mays confirmed the legendary centre fielder had passed away on Tuesday evening in a statement through the San Francisco Giants. “My father has passed away peacefully and among loved ones,” he said.”I want to thank you all from the bottom of my broken heart for the unwavering love you have shown him over the years. You have been his life’s blood.”Chairman of the Giants Greg Johnson also said: “He had a profound…

Willie Mays, the center fielder and home run and batting average king for the San Franciso Giants across more than two decades, died on Tuesday, the US baseball team announced.  “It is with great sadness that we announce that San Francisco Giants Legend and Hall of Famer Willie Mays passed away peacefully this afternoon at the age of 93,” the Giants said in a joint statement issued with the player’s son, Michael.  “My father has passed away peacefully and among loved ones,” Michael Mays said in the statement. “I want to thank you all from the bottom of my broken…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin to Pyongyang in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Putin and Kim met on the runway at the capital’s airport before sharing a limousine ride towards the city center with a large police escort.  As North Korean state media outlet KCNA described it in English, the two leaders were able to share their “pent-up inmost thoughts” during this conversation and agreed to deepen the two countries’ relations.  Though Putin’s rarely in North Korea, he entertained Kim as recently as last September at a Russian spaceportImage: Yonhap/picture alliance Putin thankful…

Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company by market capitalization — the combined value of all of its shares — on Tuesday.  The chipmaker’s shares climbed 3.5% to $135.58 (roughly €126.25) during the day’s trading, taking the company’s perceived value to $3.335 trillion. It overtakes Microsoft, completing a rapid rise towards the top of the charts in the last roughly five years. The market capitalization surge can be traced in part to the emergence of AI and machine-learning technologies, with Nvidia a core producer of the processors necessary for such products.  Back in July 2019, a single Nvidia share fetched…

A fire broke out overnight at a military ammunition depot in Chad’s capital causing a series of explosions, government spokesman and Foreign Affairs Minister Koulamallah Abderaman said.  “Fire in a military ammunition store in Goudji,” he wrote, referring to a district in the capital, N’Djamena. “A fire broke out in a military ammunition store located in Goudji, causing major explosions. The population is invited to remain calm.” The fire “caused human and material damage. Peace to the souls of the victims, sincere condolences to the grieving families and a speedy recovery to the wounded,” President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno wrote…