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Sudan's ruling council reshuffles cabinet amid brutal conflict

Sudan's army leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, at war with paramilitaries, has announced a cabinet reshuffle that replaces four ministers including those for foreign affairs and the media.The late Sunday announcement comes with the northeast African country gripped by the world's worst displacement crisis, threatened by famine and desperate for aid, according to the UN.In a post on its official Facebook page, Sudan's ruling sovereignty council said Burhan had approved replacement of the ministers of foreign affairs, the media, religious affairs and trade.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Sudan's ruling council reshuffles cabinet amid brutal conflict

Family need 'proof' over fate of German Iran said executed: daughter

The family of Jamshid Sharmahd, a German citizen who the Iranian judiciary said was executed in Iran last week, need proof that he was indeed put to death and are open to all possibilities over his fate, his daughter said.Sharmahd, who was born in Iran but became a German citizen and was a permanent resident in the United States, was executed on October 28 on the charge of "corruption on earth", according to the Mizan Online news website of the Iranian judiciary.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Family need 'proof' over fate of German Iran said executed: daughter

Israeli settlers burn cars in West Bank attack: Palestinians

Israeli settlers torched nearly 20 cars early Monday in the occupied West Bank city of Al-Bireh near Ramallah, according to the Palestinian civil defence and an Israeli security source.An AFP journalist saw several cars completely charred, and the blackened facade of the five-storey building outside which they were parked.An alert rang "at 3:30am (0130 GMT) signalling that settlers entered the area and committed acts of vandalism", said Rami Omar, head of the local civil defence office.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Israeli settlers burn cars in West Bank attack: Palestinians

Video shows massive detonations in Lebanon border village

Footage verified by AFP on Monday showed massive detonations in a southern Lebanese border village, where a local official said hundreds of houses have been wiped out by Israel since last year.The video, shared widely online on Monday, showed more than a dozen simultaneous detonations that ripped through Mais al-Jabal and razed homes to dust.Similar aerial scenes have been captured from several border villages, including Mhaibib and Odaisseh, since Israel sent ground troops into southern Lebanon in late September.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Video shows massive detonations in Lebanon border village

Gaza health ministry says Israel bombarding last hospital in north

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Monday Israeli forces are bombarding the last partially functioning hospital in north Gaza, an area of intense military operations for the past month."At this moment, occupation forces are continuing to violently bombard and destroy Kamal Adwan Hospital, targeting all parts of the hospital," the ministry said of the facility in the northern city of Beit Lahia.Hospital director Hossam Abu Safieh said in a statement that the situation was "catastrophic", and that "the army did not contact the hospital before directly targeting it".
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Gaza health ministry says Israel bombarding last hospital in north