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Niger breaks off military cooperation with US (punchng.com)

Hunger soars and aid dwindles as gangs in Haiti suffocate the country (abcnews.go.com)

About 1.4 million Haitians are on the verge of famine and more than 4 million require food aid...

The Russian scam luring Nepalese men with the promise of a better life, only to drop them on the battlefield in Ukraine (www.abc.net.au)

Is loneliness a threat to democracy? – Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com)

Iceland volcanic eruption: barriers reinforced as lava flows towards town (www.theguardian.com)

Flows pose danger to infrastructure in Grindavik, and hundreds of people are evacuated from nearby Blue Lagoon...

Iran ready to help Syria boost its defense, deterrent power: Defense minister (www.presstv.co.uk)

New Welsh leader 'honored' to be Europe's first Black national leader (www.nbcnews.com)

Vaughan Gething won the Welsh Labour Party leadership contest on Saturday, and is set to become the first Black leader of Wales’ semi-autonomous government....

Russia says it killed large number of Ukrainian soldiers with ‘vacuum bomb’ in claim Kyiv calls nonsense (www.cnn.com)

Russia says it killed large numbers of Ukrainian soldiers with a destructive so-called “vacuum bomb” in a claim Ukraine swiftly called nonsense....

Russia will be asked for ceasefire during Olympics, Macron tells Ukraine interviewer (www.reuters.com)

Spain to recruit 26,000 Moroccan truckers, bus drivers (apanews.net)

‘Everything he is saying isn’t true’: Congolese governments denounce Trump’s baseless stories about emptied prisons (www.cnn.com)

There is no evidence for former President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that “the Congo” has emptied prisons to allow violent criminals to come to the US border as migrants – and the governments of both the Democratic Republic of Congo and the neighboring Republic of Congo say Trump’s assertions are entirely false....

A warming island's mice are breeding out of control and eating seabirds. An extermination is planned (apnews.com)

Haiti violence: US announces charter flight as clashes continue (www.bbc.com)

The US State Department has announced a charter flight for its citizens stranded in Haiti, as gang violence and hunger grip the impoverished country....

Leading adviser quits over Instagram’s failure to remove self-harm content (www.theguardian.com)

'Turn around immediately': Taiwan warns off Chinese coast guard boats again as tensions simmer (www.reuters.com)

War on Gaza: UK committee head calls out Israeli spokesperson over aid blocking claims (www.middleeasteye.net)

Medical professors to submit resignations from March 25 in support of trainee doctors (koreatimes.co.kr)

Ukraine appeals to citizens under Russian occupation to ignore Putin’s ‘pseudo elections’ (www.cnn.com)

Ukraine’s government has told citizens living in Russian-occupied territories to turn their backs on what they call Moscow’s pseudo-elections, which culminate on Sunday and are widely assumed to see Vladimir Putin returned as president for six more years....

SpaceX building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, insiders say (www.scmp.com)

UN overwhelmingly passes anti-Islamophobia resolution (www.dailysabah.com)

Latvia starts criminal proceedings against an EU Parliament lawmaker suspected of spying for Russia (apnews.com)

Latvia´s state security service has started criminal proceedings against an European Parliament lawmaker and a citizen of the Baltic country who is suspected of cooperating with Russian intelligence and security services, according to Latvian media reports Saturday....

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