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Colombian leftist guerrilla group the National Liberation Army (ELN) is open to advancing peace talks with the incoming government of President-elect Gustavo Petro, it said on Monday, and called for reforms to tackle social exclusion and inequality.
Leftist Petro and his vice president-elect, Francia Marquez, won 50.4% of the vote in Sunday’s election
Six rebels belonging to the banned outfit Balochistan Liberation Front were killed in a clash with security forces in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province on Sunday, a military statement said.
The security forces launched an operation after receiving a tip-off regarding the presence of the rebels in a mountainous range of the province, the military’s media wing Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in the statement.
“A short while ago, in response to the rocket attack, (Israeli military) aircraft struck a number of Hamas terror targets in the Gaza Strip,” the army said in a statement.
The strikes came after Hamas “launched a rocket… toward Israeli civilians in southern Israel”, it said, adding the projectile was intercepted by Israel’s air defences.
At least 50 people have died in an attack by armed men on a village in northern Burkina Faso, a government spokesman said.
The attackers struck overnight between Saturday and Sunday in Seytenga commune, part of Seno province, which lies in borderlands where fighters linked to al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS) are embroiled in an armed uprising.
The latest clashes in Sudan’s Darfur region between Arab and non-Arab groups have left more than 100 people killed, a tribal leader said on Monday.
Repeated clashes in the region since late last year have now left several hundred people dead as Sudan grapples with the fallout from a coup in October led by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
More than 10,000 Ukrainian fighters have been killed since Russia launched its invasion, the country’s government said yesterday.
The grim milestone was announced by presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych, who said daily losses since February had averaged 100 soldiers.
The Turkish army has completed its preparations for a military operation against the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria, according to the Turkish daily Sabah.
The outlet added that the military are awaiting orders from the Turkish government to begin the operation.