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A convoy of fleeing civilians, including foreign nationals, was ambushed by suspected Islamist insurgents in a northern Mozambique town, officials have said. At least one person in the convoy was killed, according to security and diplomatic sources who spoke to Reuters, as an Islamist insurgency in the northern province of Cabo Delgado continues. Mozambique conflict:

At least 50 people have been killed across Myanmar after security forces opened fire on protesters, according to local media reports. The deadly tally is said to include 13 in the country’s second-biggest city, Mandalay, nine in the nearby region of Sagaingand seven in the commercial capital Yangon. The shootings came as a rebel leader

In the Ethiopian city of Adigrat, the general hospital may be the only thing that actually works in a community which now lacks all government-run services. The health facility’s front door is firmly open and the wards are full. In fact, there are far more patients than beds, and we watched the staff treat gunshot

EU leaders have told AstraZeneca that it must “catch up” on vaccine deliveries in Europe before it is allowed to export jabs to other countries. Frustration is growing in Brussels over a massive shortfall in the number of jabs that EU countries are receiving – with the continent’s vaccination programme lagging behind the UK. At

Efforts have resumed to free the container ship blocking the Suez Canal, as fears it could take “weeks” force trapped boats to consider turning around. Eight tug boats are currently working to drag the 400m (1,312ft) Ever Given to deeper water after it ran aground and blocked one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes on

North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile off the east coast into the sea, South Korea says. Earlier, Japan said Pyongyang might have fired a ballistic missile, with the coast guard warning ships against coming close to any fallen objects. The Japanese defence ministry said: “It may have been a ballistic missile. It has not

AstraZeneca has hit back after claims of a stockpile of 29 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine at a factory near Rome, saying the jabs are for the EU and developing countries. It follows an inspection of the Catalent plant in Anagni over the weekend by Italian authorities at the request of the European Commission.

Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to secure a majority in Israel’s elections, leaving his future as prime minister uncertain. Mr Netanyahu fell short of the 61 seats needed to maintain control of the country’s 120-seat parliament, exit polls suggest. Opposition parties managed to secure 60, but small right-wing party Yamina is forecast to win seven and

A seven year-old girl has died after being shot at her home in Myanmar by security forces, staff at a funeral service have said. The child, who has not been named, died of bullet wounds when security forces opened fire in a suburb of Mandalay, according to news agency Reuters. It would make her the

Four Kenyan policemen will stand trial for murder after a judge ruled they have a case to answer in the death of British aristocrat Alex Monson. The policemen – Naftali Chege, Charles Wangombe Munyiri, Baraka Bulima and John Pamba – are accused of killing the 28-year-old son of Nicholas, the 12th Baron Monson, in 2012.

Four Chinese officials will be sanctioned by the UK over “appalling violations” of human rights against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province, the foreign secretary has announced. Sanctions have also been placed on an official body – Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Public Security Bureau. Dominic Raab said that evidence points to a “highly disturbing programme

Hundreds of people have been rescued and around 18,000 evacuated as record rain brought more extreme flooding to Australia’s east coast. Emergency services fear up to 54,000 people could be displaced, with rain forecast to continue until Wednesday. Prime minister Scott Morrison told parliament that 35 communities in northern New South Wales had been isolated

We’d been asked into the clinic of a camp called Al Hol to meet a young woman. Seventeen years old, we were told, and here because she’d been shot. We are protecting her identity and we have changed her name. She asked us to call her Mona. If only we could show you her face.

She had just come to collect her things.   It was January 2020. Vera Pekhteleva, a 23-year-old university student, had told her boyfriend their relationship was over. She was living elsewhere and had found somebody new. When the grey metal door in a dingy corridor on Kemerovo’s Leningradsky Proskpekt shut behind her, she would not

A strong earthquake has hit areas of Japan devastated by the tsunami 10 years ago, that saw thousands lose their lives. The quake hit the coast about 220 miles (350km) north of Tokyo at 6.26pm local time (9.26am UK) and had a magnitude of 7, the USGS said. Japan’s Meterological Agency said the quake was

The Tsehaye Elementary School in Shire, Ethiopia, offers some sort of sanctuary, a place of refuge for people on the run. But there is not much here to keep them alive. A human tide of 300,000 Tigrayans are now camping in this beleaguered city at six schools, a local college and any number of half