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First Vice President Riek Machar reportedly arrested after armed convoy led by government officials entered his residence in the capital, Juba.

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has called on all parties to exercise restraint amid reports of the arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar – the longtime rival of the country’s President Salva Kiir.

UMISS chief Nicholas Haysom said the country risked losing the “hard-won gains of the past seven years” if the world’s…

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,127

Here is the roundup of key events as of Thursday, March 27.

Fighting

• Russian forces launched a mass drone attack on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, injuring nine people and causing considerable damage, according to emergency services and Ukrainian officials.
• A Russian drone attack also triggered fires in the central city of Dnipro, according to regional governor Serhiy Lysak. No casualties were immediately reported.
• The mayor of…

By Taqwa Ahmed al-Wawi

While many have thrown their hands up in despair over the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a 19-year-old writer from Gaza tells us that despite what she and her family are enduring, ‘Gaza will not die,’ and that ‘victory is coming.’ But where does her faith come from?

Gaza, a city scarred deeply by years of ongoing Israeli siege and war, stands as a living testimony to the resilience…

United States immigration authorities have arrested and revoked the visa of a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University near Boston who had voiced support for Palestinians during Israel’s war in Gaza.

Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, had left her home in Somerville on Tuesday night to meet friends and break her Ramadan fast when she was arrested by Department of Homeland Security agents, lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai said in a petition filed in Boston federal court.

Ozturk’s supporters say her detention…

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israel has begun a pilot program to encourage the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza, which Israel referred to as “voluntary migration”. The program aims at expelling 100 Palestinians from Gaza to Indonesia, Israeli media reported on Tuesday.

According to The Times of Israel, the program will initially expel 100 Gazans to Indonesia, where most will work in construction. Israeli Major General Ghassan Alian, head of the Coordinator…