Health Ministers Confront Crisis Fatigue at Eastern Mediterranean Regional Summit

Health ministers and policy leaders from across the Eastern Mediterranean opened a three day regional summit in Cairo on Tuesday, facing what the World Health Organization describes as unprecedented strain on health systems amid sixteen concurrent...

African Finance Ministers laud Ghana’s GOLDBOD at AfDB meeting in Washington

Ghana’s approach to natural resource governance took centre stage at a high-level meeting in Washington on Tuesday, October 14, as Finance Ministers from five African countries hailed the country’s pioneering GOLDBOD model as a benchmark for...

Op-ed: ‘Food to burn’ – US govt destroys expired aid stocks amid Sudan famine

By Prof Eric Reeves Over a year ago the United Nations declared famine in Sudan, using internationally recognized benchmarks in making its determination. In the intervening year, most of Sudan has experienced further serious degradation of the...

Sudan’s humanitarian crisis threatens US regional interests

President Donald Trump called for a review of the United States’s investment in foreign aid to ensure it supports our interests. A periodic review of this kind is valuable and necessary. But crises such as Sudan‘s show that the U.S.’s role in...

Sunderland handed fresh injury scare as defender is substituted in international fixture

Sunderland will have to assess a new injury concern from their cohort of international players Sunderland have been handed a fresh injury scare after Omar Alderete was forced off in the latter stages of Paraguay's friendly against South Korea on...

Soldiers in Madagascar announce military takeover after president flees

Open this photo in gallery:Members of Madagascar's Army CAPSAT unit monitor the area in front of City Hall from an armoured vehicle as senior officers address the crowd during a rally Tuesday calling for President Andry Rajoelina's...

Sudan and Pakistan sign renewed military cooperation pact after canceled jet agreement

Following the suspension of an earlier agreement to purchase fighter jets and military equipment, the Defense Industries System sent a high-level delegation to Pakistan to sign a new contract for the supply of aircraft, drones, and armored...

Drone Warfare Over Sudan: The “Siege from the Air”

On 11 October 2025, a drone strike by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) tore through a displacement shelter at Dar al-Arqam, part of Omdurman Islamic University in El Fasher, North Darfur, killing at least 57 people, including 22 women and 17...

Peace in The Middle East & President Trump Is a Historic Uniter

Unprecedented Peace in The Middle East & President Trump Is a Historic Uniter Takeaway #1: Unprecedented Peace What we’re witnessing is truly unprecedented. What you’ve been witnessing is history. Yesterday was a day that I personally never...

Doha Film Festival Unveils International Competition Lineup For Inaugural Edition

Qatar’s Doha Film Festival has announced the International Feature Film Competition lineup for its inaugural edition in November. It is the main competition of the new event, spearheaded by the Doha Film Institute, which will mete out awards worth...

Fact-checking President Donald Trump’s claims about peace, war and Iran after his Israel address

President Donald Trump, speaking in Israel on the day that Hamas released all living Israeli hostages and Israel released Palestinian prisoners and detainees, framed the agreement he helped broker as a “historic dawn of a new Middle East.” He told...

Egypt, Sudan probe cooperation in human resources file

Labor Minister Mohamed Gobran on Sunday, October 12, 2025, discussed with Sudanese Minister of Human Resources and Social Welfare Mutasim Ahmed Saleh means of boosting cooperation in files of mutual concern. This came during a meeting between the...

Somaliland President Heads to Addis Ababa for Security and Economic Talks

Ethiopia responds to Egyptian President following remarks against the GERD dam CAIRO, Oct 14, 2025 – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said his country is taking all necessary measures to safeguard its national interests and water security...

Gen Z protesters, waving pirate flags, force Madagascar’s president to flee country

A popular uprising by anti-government protesters, boosted by support from an elite military unit, has forced the President of Madagascar to flee the country in a French military airplane. The youth-led street movement in the Indian Ocean country...

Benghazi hosts an important meeting to follow up on the voluntary return program for the Sudanese

Benghazi – The committee concerned with monitoring the voluntary return program for displaced Sudanese brothers held its third meeting in Benghazi yesterday, Monday, chaired by Foreign Minister Abdul Hadi Al-Hweij. The meeting was attended by the...

Mansour bin Zayed Holds Separate Meetings with Turkish President, Iraqi PM

His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and Chairman of the Presidential Court, met today — separately — with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Republic of Türkiye, and Mohammed Shia’ Al-Sudani,...

Health care, cost of living, education — here are the N.L. election issues new Canadians say are important

Some newcomers may not be able to tick a legal election ballot yet — but the Association for New Canadians is making sure students at its language school get experience preparing for the real thing. Last week, the ANC held its mock provincial...

International News Briefs for Monday, October 13, 2025

HAVANA TIMES – We bring you some of the top international news stories compiled by Democracy Now on Monday, October 13, 2025. Trump Addresses Knesset as Israel and Hamas Exchange Captives Oct 13, 2025 Hamas has released the remaining 20 living...

Trump-Gaza latest: Bodies of more Israeli hostages returned after Palestinians killed ‘for breaking ceasefire’

Red Cross receives four hostages' bodies – Israeli military The Israeli military says the Red Cross has received the bodies of four hostages from Gaza. Jane Dalton14 October 2025 20:44 Trump: Hamas must disarm or we will disarm them, perhaps...

Sudan, Pakistan agree on new defence partnership after stalled deal

Sudanese army soldiers celebrate as they patrol in Salha, south of Omdurman, two days after the Sudanese army recaptured it from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), on May 22, 2025. [AFP] A Sudanese military delegation has reportedly...