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A U.S. strike on a suspected drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific killed four men, marking the latest escalation in President Donald Trump’s...
Hundreds of Rwandans who fled during the 1994 genocide have returned home from eastern Congo, the UN refugee agency said Saturday, as violence escalates in the region.
The UNHCR said 360 refugees — mostly women and children — were repatriated in buses provided by Rwandan authorities. Aid workers from Save the Children and local officials helped oversee the transfer. The group is part of a larger plan to return 2,000 Rwandan nationals.
“We are happy to welcome our compatriots. They are a valuable workforce for the country’s development,” said Prosper Mulindwa, the mayor of Rubavu, at a border ceremony.
The returnees are being taken to a transit center where they will receive support and reintegration assistance.
Many fled Rwanda in 1994 during the genocide, when extremist Hutu forces killed up to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Although most returned in the late 1990s, thousands remained in Congo. Some later joined armed groups that continue to destabilize eastern Congo.
Recent advances by the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group — reportedly supported by 4,000 Rwandan troops, according to UN experts — have intensified the conflict and deepened the humanitarian crisis.
The repatriation is part of a longstanding agreement between Rwanda, Congo and the UNHCR. Rwandan officials say more than 101,000 refugees have returned since the pact was signed, including over 1,500 so far this year.
A small, silent object from another star is cutting through the Solar System. It’s real, not a film, and one scientist thinks it might be sending a message.
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.
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.
A shooting in Nice, southeastern France, left two people dead and five injured on Friday, authorities said.
A U.S. strike on a suspected drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific killed four men, marking the latest escalation in President Donald Trump’s expanding campaign against narcotics networks across the Americas, according to international media.
Hurricane Melissa tore across the northern Caribbean on Wednesday, devastating Jamaica, battering Cuba’s east, and flooding parts of Haiti, where at least 25 people were killed.
New Zealand announced on Thursday that it would broaden sanctions against Russia’s oil sector and its so-called shadow fleet, during a meeting with the foreign ministers of the five Nordic countries in Stockholm.
Indonesian authorities are investigating food poisoning cases involving nearly 700 children in Yogyakarta province this week, after students ate meals prepared under President Prabowo Subianto's key free school meal programme, an official said.
Britain said on Wednesday it had agreed to a deal with Vietnam to curb illegal migration in what it described as the strongest Hanoi had ever agreed with another country.
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