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At least 13 peacekeepers and foreign soldiers have been killed in ongoing clashes with M23 rebels in eastern Congo, as the group makes alarming territorial advances near the city of Goma.
Clashes with M23 rebels in eastern Congo have resulted in the deaths of at least 13 peacekeepers and foreign soldiers, according to United Nations and military officials, as reported by AP.
In recent weeks, M23 has made significant territorial gains, surrounding the eastern city of Goma, home to around 2 million people and a key regional hub for security and humanitarian operations.
In response to the escalating violence, the UN Security Council advanced its emergency meeting to Sunday morning (10 am EST), at Congo's request. The meeting had originally been scheduled for Monday.
On Saturday, the Congolese army reported successfully repelling an M23 offensive toward Goma with support from allied forces, including UN peacekeepers and soldiers from the Southern African Development Community Mission (SAMIDRC).
Kate Hixon, Advocacy Director for Africa at Amnesty International US, told the Associated Press, "The Rwandan-backed M23 is clearly taking advantage of the U.S. presidential transition to push towards Goma, putting thousands more civilians in danger.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A tsunami threat was issued in Chile after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage on Friday. The epicenter was located 135 miles south of Puerto Williams on the north coast of Navarino Island.
The war in Ukraine has reached a strategic impasse, and it seems that the conflict will not be solved by military means. This creates a path toward one of two alternatives: either a “frozen” phase that can last indefinitely or a quest for a durable political regulation.
Iran’s Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani and a senior advisor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei submitted his message to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Kremlin amid a flurry of momentous bilateral, regional and international developments.
Heads of security and intelligence agencies from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) convened in Samarkand on October 16 for the 57th meeting of the Council of Heads of Security and Special Service Agencies.
The brother of the man who carried out the 2017 Manchester Arena suicide bombing has denied trying to kill three prison officers in jail where he is serving a life sentence.
The United Nations (UN) World Food Programme said on Friday it has brought about 560 tonnes of food per day on average into Gaza since the Israel-Hamas ceasefire took effect, but that still fell short of the scale of need in the region.
A senior Kremlin envoy has proposed building an undersea “Putin–Trump Tunnel” connecting Russia’s Chukotka region with Alaska — a symbolic megaproject he says could unite the two nations and open new avenues for trade and resource exploration.
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