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The UN's refugee agency said the majority of those arriving were women and children, who were currently sheltering out in the open.

Museveni has faced widespread calls to reject what has been criticised as among the world's harshest anti-gay legislation.

Lavrov, who also met Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his predecessor Raul Castro on Thursday, blasted US sanctions against Cuba as "illegal and illegitimate."

Oumar Traore -- chief of staff of Colonel Assimi Goita, the Sahel country's transitional president -- was among four people who died in the attack on Tuesday near the Mauritanian border.

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan and Sudan also announced Eid al-Fitr will start on Friday.

The facility was set up in the South African city of Cape Town in 2021 on the back of the success of revolutionary anti-Covid vaccines introduced by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna.

Some of the fiercest battles have taken place in the capital Khartoum, a city home to five million people, most of whom have been cloistered in their homes without electricity, food and water.

She buried them both again on Wednesday, days after the barrage that killed her family, pulverised her home and forced her to confront the toll of Russia's brutal invasion.

Lin Hui was the last of three pandas in Thailand and had lived in an air-conditioned enclosure at Chiang Mai Zoo since 2003, but was due to return to China in October.

The assailants stormed Runji village in Zangon Kataf district at around 1900 GMT on Saturday, opening fire on residents and torching homes as people tried to flee, Francis Sani, administrative chairman for the Zangon Kataf area said.

Since then, international calls have mounted for an end to hostilities that have spawned increasing lawlessness, death and damage.

The reputation of the 81-year-old veteran politician, once seen as a kingmaker following the 2011 Arab Spring revolt that toppled dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, has been tarnished by the political intrigue roiling Tunisia.

Authorities in Mayotte are expected to launch Operation Wuambushu ("Take back") on April 20, after the end of Ramadan.

Ennahdha was the largest party in Tunisia's parliament before President Kais Saied dissolved the chamber in July 2021.

The Kremlin did not say when Putin visited the southern region of Kherson and the eastern region of Lugansk, which Putin claimed to have annexed last September without fully controlling them.

Lula is fresh off a trip to China and the United Arab Emirates, during which he raised eyebrows in the West by accusing the United States of "encouraging the war" in Ukraine.

Ghannouchi, 81, whose party was the largest in parliament before Saied dissolved the chamber in July 2021, was arrested by police at his home in Tunis, the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha said in a statement.

Magudumana appeared in court Monday after the runaway couple was arrested while trying to flee in Tanzania -- the culmination of a dragnet that has dominated the headlines.

"Europe and the US continue to give their way of contribution to continue the war. So they have to sit around the table and say, 'That's enough'."

Observers have long questioned the growing number of research journals that take fees from eager academics but often publish their work without rigorous review.

The West has imposed a slew of sanctions against Russia since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, including price caps on its oil exports and EU embargoes.

The appeals court in Rabat sentenced one man to 20 years in prison early Friday and the other two to 10.

San Francisco-based Discord was created in 2015 primarily as a platform for gamers to chat, but it has also become an alternative for users disenchanted with major players Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

Georgieva was born and raised in Bulgaria, a former Soviet satellite state.

The Darien jungle has become a corridor for migrants trying to reach the United States, despite being fraught with dangers such as raging rivers, wild animals and criminal gangs.

Russian troops have been battling since last summer to capture the town, which had a pre-war population of 70,000, and whose fall would now mostly present a symbolic victory for Russia.

The case has embarrassed authorities and sparked fresh outrage over the incompetence of South Africa's police and criminal justice system.

"North Korea appears to have fired a new type of ballistic missile, possibly using solid fuel," Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff told AFP.

At a time when the global cereals market has been disrupted by the Ukraine war, Tunisia's domestic grain production has also withered under a lack of rainfall that has killed off crops.