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2024-07-21T17:17:44Z

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Residents report fighting in several neighbourhoods * Army pounding targets to root out paramilitary forces * Negotiations in Jeddah started late last week (Adds progress reported in talks in paragraphs 1 and 7-8) By Khalid Abdelaziz and Aidan Lewis DUBAI, May 10 (Reuters) - Fighting in Sudan's capital escalated on Wednesday with fierce clashes and air strikes, [https://rajaodinamp.site/okegas/?kocok=PLANET88 bokep indonesia] but rival military factions were reported to be close to a ceasefire agreement in talks in Saudi Arabia. Residents reported ground battles in several neighbourhoods of Khartoum between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), as well as heavy gunfire in the north of Omdurman and the east of Bahri, two adjacent cities separated from [https://www.cbsnews.com/search/?q=Khartoum Khartoum] by the [https://www.google.com/search?q=River%20Nile&btnI=lucky River Nile]. The army has been pounding targets across the three cities since Tuesday as it tries to root out RSF forces that have taken control of large residential areas and strategic sites since early in the conflict that erupted on April 15. "There's been heavy air strikes and RPG fire since 6:30 a.m.", said Ahmed, a resident of the Bahri neighbourhood of Shambat. "We're lying on the ground and there are people living near us who ran to the Nile to protect themselves there under the embankment." Army and RSF delegations have been meeting since the end of last week in talks sponsored by the United States and Saudi Arabia in the Saudi city of Jeddah on the Red Sea. Negotiations aim to secure an effective truce and allow access for aid workers and supplies after repeated ceasefire announcements failed to stop the fighting. After days of no apparent movement, a mediation source told Reuters on Wednesday that the negotiations had made progress and a ceasefire agreement was expected soon. A second source familiar with the talks said a deal was close. Talks continued late into the night. U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland earlier said U.S. negotiators were "cautiously optimistic" about securing a commitment to humanitarian principles and a ceasefire but were also looking at appropriate targets for sanctions if the warring factions did not back this. The conflict has created a humanitarian crisis in Africa's third-largest nation by area, displacing more than 700,000 people inside the country and prompting 150,000 to flee to neighbouring states. It has also sparked unrest in Sudan's western Darfur region. The U.N. World Food Programme said that up to 2.5 million more Sudanese were expected to fall into hunger in the coming months because of the conflict, raising the number of people suffering acute food insecurity to 19 million. Since the battles began on April 15, the RSF have dug in across Khartoum neighbourhoods, set up checkpoints, occupied state buildings and placed snipers on rooftops. The army has been using air strikes and heavy artillery to try to dislodge them. The RSF on Tuesday said the historic presidential palace in central Khartoum, which has symbolic importance and is in a strategic area that the RSF says it controls, had been hit by an air strike and destroyed, a claim the army denied. Drone footage filmed on Wednesday and verified by Reuters appeared to show the building, known as the Old Republican Palace, intact, though smoke could be seen coming from the southeast edge of the palace compound. The fighting has left more than 600 people dead and 5,000 injured, according to the World Health Organization but the real figure is thought to be much higher. Witnesses have reported seeing bodies strewn in the streets. Most hospitals have been put out of service and a breakdown of law and order has led to widespread looting. Fuel and food supplies have been running low. "Our only hope is that the negotiations in Jeddah succeed to end this hell and return to normal life, and to stop the war, the looting, the robbery and the chaos," said Ahmed Ali, a 25-year-old resident of Khartoum. Aid agency Islamic Relief said many aid operations in Darfur and Khartoum remained suspended due to extreme insecurity. It plans to provide aid to thousands of people in Al Gezira state, southeast of Khartoum, where some 50,000 people have fled, as well as to people in parts of Khartoum State and North Kordofan, where fighting has raged. Conflicts are not new to Sudan, a country that sits at a strategic crossroad between Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and the volatile Sahel region, although most unrest in the past occurred in remote areas. The United Nations has projected that 5 million additional people will need emergency assistance inside Sudan while 860,000 are [https://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/search/?q=expected expected] to flee to neighbouring states. (Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz in Dubai, Mohamed Noureldin in Khartoum, Aidan Lewis and Nafisa Eltahir in Cairo, [https://www.britannica.com/search?query=George%20Sargent George Sargent] in London, Crispian Balmer in Rome, Daphne Psaledakis and Simon Lewis in Washington; Writing by Aidan Lewis, [https://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=Tom%20Perry Tom Perry] and Cynthia Osterman; Editing by Christina Fincher, Mark Porter and Lisa Shumaker)

US State Department apos;s Top China Policy Official To Step Down

2024-07-21T16:24:28Z

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By Michael Martina and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department's top China policy [https://www.b2bmarketing.net/en-gb/search/site/official official] Rick Waters is set to step down at a time of fraught relations between Washington and Beijing. Waters, deputy assistant [https://www.healthynewage.com/?s=secretary secretary] of State for China and Taiwan who leads the department's recently created China House policy division, will leave his role on June 23 and remain a member of the senior foreign service, according to a State Department spokesperson. Waters announced his intention to leave his post at a staff meeting earlier on Wednesday, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. "We thank him for his two years of skillful service on China and Taiwan issues, to include his standing up the Office of China Coordination and his leadership over the Office of Taiwan Coordination," the spokesperson said in a statement. Waters did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Reuters reported two weeks ago that the State Department delayed human rights-related sanctions, export controls and other sensitive action to try to limit damage to the U.S.-China relationship after an alleged [https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Chinese%20spy Chinese spy] balloon traversed the United States in February. The report referenced an email Waters sent to staff that relayed instructions to [https://www.answers.com/search?q=postpone postpone] some actions so the department could focus on a "symmetric and calibrated response" to the balloon. Relations between the world's two largest economies are at their worst in decades, according to many analysts, [https://link-sgacor11.web.app/?id=PLANET88 bokep indonesia] as the strategic rivals clash over issues ranging from Taiwan to trade. "China House is already strengthening the administration´s work to advance a free and open Indo-Pacific and out-compete China," said Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel J. Kritenbrink. "There are few people in the U.S. government who understand the PRC (People's Republic of China) better than Rick Waters, and standing up China House under his leadership will be a lasting legacy. Rick is a strategic thinker who has skillfully advanced U.S. policy on China," said Kritenbrink, adding that the State Department is in the process of choosing Waters' successor. President Joe Biden's administration has sought high-level meetings with China in an effort to keep ties from veering toward conflict, particularly since the diplomatic crisis over the balloon's flight past sensitive U.S. military sites. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed a planned February trip to China after the balloon incident, but the White House has said [https://www.paramuspost.com/search.php?query=efforts&type=all&mode=search&results=25 efforts] are continuing to facilitate visits by Blinken, as well as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. Waters has led China House - officially the Office of China Coordination - since it was launched in December as a reorganization of the department's China desk to sharpen policies. He has served as deputy assistant secretary for about two years. Some Biden administration critics have questioned U.S. overtures to China, arguing that past decades of engagement have failed to change its line on a range of trade, security and human rights issues. Congressman Mike McCaul, the Republican chair of the House of Representative's Foreign Affairs Committee, cited the Reuters report in a letter he sent to Blinken dated May 19, demanding information related to actions toward China. "For the U.S. to succeed in its strategic competition with the PRC, it is essential that it be willing to unflinchingly hold the PRC accountable for its aggression and malfeasance, and that it be well-organized and effective in doing so," McCaul wrote. The Biden administration has recently seen other changes among senior officials focused on China. U.S. [http://www.techandtrends.com/?s=Deputy%20Secretary Deputy Secretary] of State Wendy Sherman, who has driven much of the department's approach toward China, announced on May 12 that she is retiring. And a former top official for China on Biden's National Security Council, Laura Rosenberger, stepped down this year to head a U.S. government-run nonprofit that manages unofficial relations with Chinese-claimed Taiwan. (Reporting by Michael Martina and Humeyra Pamuk Editing by Don Durfee and Lisa Shumaker)

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2024-07-21T16:10:09Z

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