New delay to signing of deal to restore the military-to-civilian transition prompted fresh protests.Pro-democracy activists in Sudan have marched against the army and paramilitaries as the civilian opposition marked a key anniversary in the decades-old struggle against military rule with new protests. April 6 is a symbolic date for Sudan’s civilian opposition. It marks the anniversary of uprisings in 1985 and 2019 that ended up ousting two leaders who had seized power in coups. In central Khartoum on Thursday, protesters could be heard chanting “no militia can rule a country”. Huge crowds blocked main roads and marched in several other…
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BREAKINGBREAKING, The military attack, announced on Twitter, was followed by reports of warplanes and explosions across the Gaza Strip.Israel’s army announced an attack on Gaza late Thursday night, shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a video statement promising that his country’s enemies would “pay a price for any aggression”. The Israeli military attack was followed by reports of explosions across Gaza as warplanes flew overhead. No casualties or injuries have been reported so far, but multiple sites were targeted in the missile strike, according to initial media reports. They include agricultural land in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza…
The United States Supreme Court on Thursday has allowed a 12-year-old transgender girl in West Virginia to continue competing on the girls’ sports teams at her middle school while a lawsuit over a state ban continues. A majority of the justices refused to disturb an appeals court order that made it possible for the girl, Becky Pepper-Jackson, to continue playing on her school’s track and cross-country teams, where she regularly finishes near the back of the pack. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas issued a dissent, indicating they would have allowed West Virginia to enforce its law against Pepper-Jackson. Pepper-Jackson…
Jeff Dowtin Jr. will not have his two-way contract converted into a full-time NBA deal by the Toronto Raptors, Sportsnet’s Michael Grange reports. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; The Raptors guard has appeared in 25 games with Toronto this season, including seven straight leading up to Thursday’s game against Boston, with his shortest stint being just over six minutes, his longest being 29, for an overall average of 14 minutes a game. Dowtin Jr. gained Nurse’s trust, increasingly so as the season has gone on. The seven consecutive appearances represent the longest stretch of steady minutes the third-year…
Its government cited deteriorating conditions in the camps as reason for bringing the four women and 10 children home.The Canadian government has said that it is in the process of repatriating more than a dozen citizens from detention camps in northeast Syria. In a press release on Thursday, the government agency Global Affairs Canada stated that 10 children and four women would be returned to the country, after being held in a Syrian camp for foreigners allegedly affiliated with ISIL (ISIS). “Amidst reports of deteriorating conditions in the camps in northeastern Syria, we have been particularly concerned about the health…
The app already faces growing pressure from Western governments over fears that user data could be used or abused by Chinese officials.Vietnam will probe TikTok for “toxic content” hosted by the hugely popular video-sharing app founded by Chinese entrepreneurs. The communist state has strict curbs on freedom of expression, often cracking down on government critics who find an audience on social media apps. TikTok has an estimated 50 million users in Vietnam, according to data from research firm DataReporter cited by the government. It removed 1.7 million videos at the Vietnamese government’s request in the fourth quarter of last year,…
OTTAWA — Canada’s Brad Gushue defeated Germany’s Sixten Totzek 9-4 on Thursday at the world men’s curling championship. Gushue and teammates Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden and Geoff Walker were in full control of the morning matchup at TD Place. Canada improved to 7-2 with five draws remaining. Gushue was scheduled to play Scotland’s Bruce Mouat in the evening draw. Switzerland’s Yannick Schwaller (8-1) started the day on top of the 13-team round-robin standings. Norway’s Magnus Ramsfjell and Sweden’s Niklas Edin were next at 7-1. The top six teams qualify for the weekend playoffs. The top two seeds earn direct berths in…
Ottawa Senators rookie goalie Leevi Merilainen will start against the Florida Panthers Thursday, according to Sportsnet’s Wayne Scanlan. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Merilainen, 20, had just one AHL game worth of North American pro hockey experience before his 34-save performance in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Hurricanes. The Finnish netminder finished his season with Kärpät in Finland’s top tier Liiga before joining Ottawa’s AHL affiliate Belleville. He posted a 41-save shutout against the Toronto Marlies in his sole game before being called up to Ottawa when Mads Søgaard contracted an illness on April 1. The Senators…
Zabihullah Mujahid asked to work from Kandahar in addition to Kabul in a move seen as an assertion of control by the Taliban chief.Zabihullah Mujahid, the main spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban administration, has been asked to work from the southern city of Kandahar in addition to the capital Kabul, a Taliban spokesperson has confirmed with Al Jazeera. Innamullah Samangani, another deputy spokesman in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, has been transferred to Kandahar in one of the first cases of officials being shifted under the Taliban administration since it returned to power in August 2021. Samangani will now be the…
Law enforcement agencies from multiple countries, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have seized a sprawling dark web marketplace popular with cybercriminals, arresting dozens, United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Wednesday, in an operation dubbed by the FBI “Operation Cookie Monster”. British authorities said 17 countries were involved in the operation, led by the FBI and Dutch police which resulted in about 120 arrests, more than 200 searches and almost 100 pieces of “preventative activity”. Genesis Market, an online forum, hosted about 80 million credentials and digital fingerprints stolen from more than two million people, NCA estimated. “We…