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Kabul (AFP) - The head of a leading NGO has flown to Afghanistan to urge the Taliban to reverse their ban on Afghan women aid workers, warning that "lives will be lost" if they fail to do so.

An aid agency chief has told The Associated Press that the Taliban's “internal debates and extreme decrees” are paralyzing humanitarian work in Afghanistan

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) says the world is paying too little attention to a profusion of mass displacements of people across Africa, who risk death by starvation and prolonged conflicts.

Russian military officials Colonel Maksin Vlasov and Colonel Vitaly Kovtun have slammed the failure to take the Ukraine capital in an alleged call infiltrated by Ukrainian intelligence services.

In DR Congo, the most-neglected country on list for 2nd year running, a third of the population went hungry last year.

The world is paying too little attention to a slew of mass displacements of people across Africa, risking starvation deaths and prolonging conflicts, the Norwegian Refugee Council warned in a report published Wednesday. "With the all-absorbing war in Europe's Ukraine, I fear African suffering will be pushed further into the…

DNIPRO, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces desperately tried to block a complete Russian takeover of one of the country’s two eastern provinces Tuesday, with Russian troops clawing out incremental gains even as European leaders agreed to a partial oil embargo aimed at starving Moscow’s mammoth war machine.

Two top Russian military officials Colonel Maksin Vlasov and Colonel Vitaly Kovtun both tore into Vladimir Putin over the invasion of Ukraine in a foul-mouth tirade that was reportedly secretly recorded

Russian forces fought their way into the centre of Ukraine's industrial city of Sievierodonetsk on Wednesday, edging closer to claiming a big prize in their offensive in the eastern Donbas region.