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A cautious calm has settled over the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) city of Uvira in South Kivu province, as residents begin emerging from their homes following its capture by M23 rebels. The capture earlier this week threatens to derail a United States-brokered peace agreement, signed with much fanfare and overseen by President Donald Trump a week ago, between Congolese and Rwandan leaders, with Washington accusing Rwanda on Friday of igniting the offensive.

At least three people have been killed and nine others wounded, when the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a drone attack on a central Sudanese city, as fighting intensifies across the vast strategic region of Kordofan that could determine the war's outcome. The strike hit a square near a police station in the Tayba neighbourhood of el-Obeid on Saturday afternoon, military sources told Al Jazeera. Several of the wounded are in critical condition, they said.

For more than a century, Warner Bros has been one of Hollywood's biggest players, a legacy studio that helped define the Golden Age of cinema with iconic blockbuster movies. Now, it's at the centre of a contentious, billion-dollar bidding war between Netflix, the world's leading streaming platform, and Paramount Skydance, owned by the powerful Ellison family, which has close ties to President Trump.

The program applies a method known as the Graduation Approach. Its basic logic: You need money to make money. Participants are typically given a grant of about $200 plus coaching to build a small business. It might be raising crops or animals, hairstyling, even selling secondhand clothes. Graduation programs have had notable success in some 20 countries. A U.N. report calls them a "promising ladder from poverty."

As the danger intensified, Ramos-Horta flew to the United Nations in New York to plead for international recognition and protection for East Timor's fragile independence. Despite unanimous support at the UN for Timorese self-determination, Indonesian troops launched their invasion on December 7, 1975. Ramos-Horta's colleagues, including Prime Minister Nicolau Lobato and other Fretilin leaders, either went into hiding or were killed in the ensuing attack.

Colombia's largest remaining rebel force has told civilians living under its authority to stay at home for three days while it stages military drills in response to burgeoning United States threats. The National Liberation Army (ELN), a left-wing rebel group, ordered the lockdown on Friday, instructing residents to keep off major routes and rivers from Sunday morning as fighters conduct what the group describes as preparations to defend the country against imperialist intervention.

Witnesses, aid workers, rebel groups and the United Nations have said the victims were civilians at the hospital. In a statement published by the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper on Saturday, the military's information office said armed groups, including the ethnic Arakan Army and the People's Defence Force, used the hospital as their base. It said the military carried out necessary security measures and launched a counterterrorism operation against the general hospital in Mrauk-U township on Wednesday.

The US seizure of the Skipper tanker off Venezuela's coast on Wednesday was the first US capture of Venezuelan oil cargo since sanctions were imposed in 2019 and marked a sharp escalation in rising tensions between the Trump administration and the government of Nicolas Maduro. Since the seizure, only tankers chartered by US oil company Chevron have sailed into international waters carrying Venezuelan crude, the data reviewed by the Reuters news agency showed.

"Three fishermen sustained physical injuries, including bruises and open wounds. Two [Filipino fishing boats] also suffered significant damage from high-pressure water cannon blasts," the spokesman, Commodore Jay Tarriela, said in the statement. "The PCG [Philippine Coast Guard] calls on the Chinese Coast Guard to adhere to internationally recognised standards of conduct, prioritizing the preservation of life at sea over pretensions of law enforcement that jeopardize the lives of innocent fishermen," Tarriela said.

As far as I was concerned, Australia's world-first social media law aimed at preventing children under 16 from accessing social media apps was already a success. But this week, as the ban took effect, my son wasn't so sure. Access to his accounts remained largely unchanged. Many of his friends were in the same position. Across the country, the rollout has been uneven, as social media companies try to work out how to verify kids' ages.

Friday's attacks by Russian forces targeted Chornomorsk and Odesa ports in Ukraine's southwestern Odesa region on the Black Sea. A Ukrainian navy spokesperson told the Reuters news agency that three Turkish-owned vessels were damaged in total, but did not provide additional details. list of 3 itemsend of list Posting video footage on social media of firefighters tackling a blaze on board what he described as a civilian vessel in Chornomorsk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Russian attacks had no military purpose whatsoever.

The death knell for the Palestinian village of Atouf, on the western slopes of the Jordan valley, arrived in the form of a trail of paper, a series of eviction notices taped to homes, greenhouses and wells, marking a straight line across the open fields. The notices, which appeared overnight, informed the local farmers that their land would be confiscated and that they had seven days from the date of their delivery, 4 December, to vacate their properties.

I am returning power to the people, Anutin said on social media late on Thursday. He is Thailand's third prime minister since August 2023, and political instability is taking a toll on south-east Asia's second-largest economy, which is grappling with US tariffs, high household debt and weak consumption. In September, Anutin said he planned to dissolve parliament by the end of January, with a general election to be held in March or early April, but this move would accelerate that timeline.

Loyalist troops aided by Nigeria's air force foiled Sunday's putsch, but confidence in the nation's democratic stability is shaken. Cotonou, Benin The Dantokpa market in Cotonou is once again a whirlwind of activity, just days after a failed bid to topple the Beninese government. Pedestrians and cart pushers jostle in the narrow streets, a sign that daily life is returning to normal following the brief but intense crisis.

Former Iraqi President Barham Salih is on course to become the next head of the United Nations refugee agency after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recommended him for the job. A signed letter from Guterres, dated Thursday and addressed to Atsuyuki Oike, Japan's top diplomat in Geneva and chair of UNHCR's executive committee, that was seen by news agencies, confirmed the appointment pending formal approval.

The 156-day trial, the most high-profile use of Beijing's draconian national security law, is set to come to a close. Hong Kong's High Court is set to hand down a verdict in the case of pro-democracy campaigner and media mogul Jimmy Lai next week, bringing an end to his lengthy national security trial. Lai's verdict will be delivered by a three-judge panel in a hearing that begins at 10am local time (02:00 GMT) on Monday, according to a court diary notice seen on Friday.

Dozens have been killed in a military strike on a hospital in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, according to an aid worker, a rebel group, a witness and local media reports, as the junta wages a withering offensive ahead of elections beginning this month. The situation is very terrible, said on-site aid worker Wai Hun Aung. As for now, we can confirm there are 31 deaths and we think there will be more deaths. Also there are 68 wounded and will be more and more.

On the lawns of the prime minister's Kirribilli residence in Sydney, overlooking the harbour, Anthony Albanese said he had never been prouder. This is a day in which my pride to be prime minister of Australia has never been greater. This is world-leading. This is Australia showing enough is enough, he said as the country's under-16s social media ban came into effect on Wednesday.

We look at the sectarianism that persists in Lebanon, undermining the country's unity.

United States forces raided a cargo ship travelling from China to Iran last month, according to the Wall Street Journal, in the latest reported instance of increasingly aggressive maritime tactics by the administration of US President Donald Trump. Unnamed officials told the newspaper that US military personnel boarded the ship several hundred miles from Sri Lanka, according to the report on Friday. It was the first time in several years US forces had intercepted cargo travelling from China to Iran, according to the newspaper.

I thought he got (dismissed by) a good ball today, which can happen when you are short on form, assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate said after Gill, who has an impressive record in the Indian Premier League (IPL), fell for a first-ball duck against South Africa on Thursday. But we also know the class. If you look at his IPL record, where he stacks up 700 runs, 600 runs, 800 runs, 600 runs. We believe in his class and we believe he will come good.

The US Department of the Treasury has lifted sanctions imposed on the Brazilian supreme court justice who oversaw the conviction of the former president Jair Bolsonaro. Justice Alexandre de Moraes had been under Global Magnitsky sanctions, which target individuals accused of human rights abuses, since July. His wife Viviane Barci de Moraes who was added the sanctions list in September was also removed from the register on Friday.

Mboko, a 19-year-old from Burlington, Ont., won four consecutive ITF World Tennis Tour titles early in the year and went on to win a WTA 1000 tournament in Montreal and reach the third round at the French Open. She posted a 62-14 record across all competitions this year and rocketed from No. 350 in the world rankings at the start of the season to her current No. 18 position.

According to Pakistan's finance ministry, the MoU with Binance will allow the government to assess tokenising sovereign bonds, treasury bills, and commodity reserves - including oil, gas, and metals - as it seeks new tools to boost liquidity and expand market reach. Tokenization would create digital representations of real-world assets on blockchain networks, potentially widening investor access and supporting secondary-market efficiency.