News Wire | Tuesday, April 18, 2023

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Sudanese Army, Rival Forces Agree to 24-Hour Cease-Fire

By Jack Jeffery & Samy Magdy | Associated Press (free)

The Sudanese army and a rival paramilitary force that have been battling the past four days for control of the country agreed Tuesday to a 24-hour cease-fire, Arab media reports said.

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Putin Visits Two Occupied Regions in Ukraine, Pushing Illegal Annexation

By Mary Ilyushina | The Washington Post

Russian President Vladimir Putin made a secretive visit to the headquarters of his troops in the partially occupied Kherson region of southern Ukraine where the Russian military in November was forced to retreat from the regional capital despite Putin’s audacious and illegal claim that the territory and its people had been annexed by Russia “forever.”

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