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Authorities in the United States welcomed a two-week humanitarian truce in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the White House said on Thursday, amid fierce fighting between government troops and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels. The truce, beginning at midnight local time on Friday and to extend through July 19, covers areas …

A military tribunal in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced at least 25 soldiers to death, local media reported. They are accused of fleeing battles against M23 rebels and theft, their lawyer and an army spokesman said on Thursday. Congo’s army has been fighting the Rwanda-backed M23 insurgency for …

At least 21 people were killed during a wedding ceremony attacked by an armed group in central Mali. The attackers rode motorcycles into the village of Djiguibombo in the town of Bandiagara on Monday evening as residents were celebrating a wedding, according to Bakary Guindo, president of the local youth …

The UN denounced this Wednesday, July 3, reports of “unacceptable” abuses and even torture suffered by Palestinian detainees since the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7 and the war in Gaza, and demanded an investigation. Asked about a recent case where the Israeli army admitted that soldiers tied an …

To fight infection, the mundari tribe in Africa bathe in cow urine which they consider a natural antisptic to maintain their cleanliness. The men spray themselves with streams of cow urine and it gives their hair an orange tint. Meanwhile, the excrement is piled up for burning. The shepherds then …

A woman was found dead in the belly of a python which had swallowed her whole, police in the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi said on Wednesday (July 3). The 36-year-old woman went missing after leaving her home Tuesday morning to buy medicine for her sick child, police said. His …

Jennifer Lopez, in one of her publication, displays a nasty habit that is said to be the cause of her marital problems. Life as a couple is a schoo and sometimes, it can end in failure. Recently, CheatSheet made the discovery of an old interview Lopez did with Cosmopolitan in …

The Central African Republic’s three million children are the world’s most deprived, with widespread malnutrition, inadequate healthcare access and instability putting the country at high risk of a humanitarian crisis, UNICEF said on Tuesday. Half of the country’s children do not have access to health services, and almost 40% suffer …

More than 240,000 people were evacuated in eastern China after heavy rains fell across a large part of the country, causing the flow of the Yangtze River to swell, the official Xinhua news agency reported. This Tuesday, July 2 afternoon, the rains had ravaged “36 counties and districts of seven …

A woman convicted of adultery has been savagely punished under local Islamic law in Indonesia, according to reports. Two policewomen took possession of the weeping victim, each holding her by an arm, as she was dragged onto a platform. On this occasion, in front of a multitude of people capturing …