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Sudan's army chief, General Abdel Fattah al Burhan, has declared Khartoum is "free" and his forces have retaken the capital after nearly two years of fighting.The Sudanese army has been battling to oust its rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from a last foothold in the capital, although the war looks far from over. In videos posted on social media, General Burhan is seen walking with his troops through the presidential […]

A man has been found dead after falling into a sinkhole in South Korea, officials have said.Measuring roughly 20m (66ft) deep and 20m wide, the sinkhole appeared on Monday afternoon at an intersection in the Myeongil-dong neighbourhood in eastern Seoul. Emergency officer Kim Chang Seob said it swallowed a man who was on a motorbike and injured a woman who was driving a van over the site as the ground […]

South Korea is facing "snowballing damage" from some of its worst ever wildfires that have killed at least 23 people and forced 27,000 to evacuate. The blazes have destroyed a 1,300-year-old Buddhist temple, houses, factories and vehicles, and burned more than 43,000 acres. Among the dead was the pilot of a helicopter fighting the wildfires who was killed in a crash, Yonhap news agency reported. Image: Pic: Yonhap/Reuters Image: Smoke and […]

Words. Lots of them.Two statements from the White House - one about negotiations with Ukraine, another about negotiations with Russia. A version from Ukraine's president and another from the Kremlin.Follow live: Black Sea ceasefire deal reached after Saudi talks Datawrapper This content is provided by Datawrapper, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the […]

The King and Queen's state visit to the Vatican has been postponed by mutual agreement as the Pope recovers from illness, Buckingham Palace said. The Pope, 88, arrived home to the Vatican on Sunday after spending five weeks in hospital battling a life-threatening bout of pneumonia. A statement said, "medical advice has now suggested that Pope Francis would benefit from an extended period of rest and recuperation". Please use Chrome […]

World Athletics will introduce mandatory testing for anyone entering female competitions to verify their biological sex, insisting it is necessary to protect women's sport.It is the latest move overseen by Sebastian Coe - as president of the governing body - to address the gender eligibility issue, two years after banning anyone assigned male at birth from female events. Lord Coe said after a World Athletics Council meeting today that they […]

Follow Trump 100 on your podcast app In an astonishing security breach, 18 senior officers, including the vice president and secretary for defence, discussed plans for US military airstrikes on the Houthi targets in Yemen using a group chat, and accidentally included The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg in the group. On Day 65, US correspondents James Matthews and Martha Kelner discuss this major blunder, how it happened, and […]

Russia has been accused of making "hollow statements about peace" after launching a missile strike that wounded dozens of people, including children, as it held talks with the US on a proposed ceasefire at sea in the war in Ukraine.Russian and US officials met in Saudi Arabia on Monday, with Ukrainian and American delegations due to gather in Riyadh on Tuesday. Both Russia and Ukraine have accused the other of […]

A surge in hacking attempts by criminals, fraudsters and spy agencies has reached a level of "unprecedented complexity" that only artificial intelligence will be able to combat, according to Microsoft."Last year we tracked 30 billion phishing emails," says Vasu Jakkal, vice president of security at the US-based tech giant. "There's no way any human can keep up with the volume."In response, the company is launching 11 AI cybersecurity "agents" tasked with […]