The crew of the Russian Navy’s” Varyag” missile cruiser began a series of exercises today in the Mediterranean Sea, carrying out detection and destruction missions of small, high-speed targets.

A report issued by the Institute of International Finance revealed that Egypt has repaid $25 billion of its domestic and external public debt since last March.

The United Nations warned on Wednesday of the spread of three new types of drugs in Africa, under the names “Kush,” “Gaddafi,” and “monkey dust,” noting that they pose a health risk due to their unknown and diverse ingredients.

On Wednesday, the International Criminal Court convicted Al-Hassan Ag Abdel Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, affiliated with the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization, of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Mali.

Bolivian police arrested Army Commander General Juan José Zuniga, after President Luis Arce dismissed him and accused him of carrying out a “failed coup attempt.”

European traders reported that the Algerian Professional Grains Office bought between 130 and 150 thousand metric tons of wheat in an international tender that took place on Thursday.

The National Institution for Human Rights condemned the armed clashes that took place in the Libyan city of Zuwara and denounced the indiscriminate use of force in residential neighborhoods and endangering the lives of civilians.

The Sudanese community in Egypt faces strict measures from the Egyptian authorities, who decided to close several illegal Sudanese schools.

The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) announced on Wednesday that it awarded Niger victory and the full three points in its match with Congo in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, which was postponed this month.

The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs suddenly summoned its ambassador to Chad, Othman Muhammad Yunus, to the ministry’s headquarters in the temporary administrative capital of Port Sudan, according to what the “Sudanese” newspaper reported.

Since 2011, Libya has been facing a series of sanctions that constituted a political siege, without showing results related to stability. They constituted restrictions that prevented Libyans from creating a new future for their country.

The Tunisian Ministry of Defense announced in a statement, on Wednesday, that a Tunisian soldier was killed as a result of a military patrol on the Tunisian-Libyan border being subjected to “sudden and unidentified gunfire.”

The medical center in the city of Tobruk, eastern Libya, announced on Wednesday the death of a 6-year-old girl, Aseel Tariq Al-Mabrouk, after she was subjected to severe beatings and brutal torture.

The German expert and former United Nations special envoy to Sudan, Volker Peretz, warned of the worsening humanitarian situation in Sudan, noting that famine is looming on the horizon.

Ukrainian soldiers report that continued Russian attacks on the strategically important eastern city of Chasev Yar are hampering the rotation of Ukrainian forces and the delivery of supplies.

Somalia’s representative to the United Nations, Abu Bakr Dahir Osman, accused the Ethiopian forces of “carrying out illegal incursions across the common border between the two countries, which led to confrontations with the Somali security forces.”

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry expressed Egypt’s rejection of some elements’ seizure of humanitarian aid allocated to Palestinian Rafah.

The President of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Manfi, discussed at the Council’s headquarters, with the European Union ambassadors accredited to Libya, the latest developments in the political situation in the country.

Algeria’s representative to the UN Security Council, Ammar Ben Jama, said, “Whoever believes that he can uproot the Palestinians from their land by force is mistaken.”

A Tunisian soldier was killed today, Wednesday, when a military patrol operating in the Remada sector (south of the country near the border with Libya) was in the process of carrying out its normal duties in the buffer border zone at dawn on Wednesday, to sudden and unknown source of fire, according to a statement by the Ministry of National Defense.