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The International Criminal Court (ICC) believes war crimes and crimes against humanity continue to take place in Sudan’s vast Darfur region, where the Civil War has been raging for more than two years, a court deputy prosecutor said Thursday.

Nazhat Shamem Khan told the UN Security Council that the depth of Darfur’s suffering and the humanitarian crisis “has reached an unbearable state.”

“People are being deprived of water and food,” she said. “Rape and sexual violence have been weaponized. Ransom aid and strengthening the ranks of armed groups have become common practice.”

“Even so, we should not be under illusions,” Shamem Khan warned the most powerful UN organizations. “Things can still get worse.”

Sudan entered into conflict in mid-April 2023. This is when long and intense tensions between military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital Khartoum and spread to other regions, including Darfur. According to UN agencies, around 40,000 people have been killed, including other countries, and almost 13 million people have been displaced.

ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan told the Security Council in January that there is evidence to believe in both government forces and paramilitary swift support forces.

The Biden administration determined that RSF and its proxy were committed to genocide just before taking office in January.

Karim Khan temporarily resigned as ICC chief prosecutors have pending the findings of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.

Deputy prosecutor Shamem Khan, who is not involved, said the ICC had closely followed reports of the dire situation in North Darfur in recent weeks. The RSF, which manages the capitals of all other Darfur states, attacked Zamzam and other camps, which were stricken by starvation for the refugees in North Darfur.

“Based on our independent investigation, our office’s position is clear and there is a reasonable basis for believing that war crimes and crimes against humanity continue to be committed in Darfur,” Khan told the council.

The conclusion is based on documentaries, testimony and digital evidence collected by ICC investigators over the past six months, including a refugee camp in nearby Chad, she said. She said more than 7,000 evidence has been collected so far.

Khan emphasized to Congress and the victims that the ICC considers the situation in Darfur “the most important thing,” and that it will not be blocked until justice reaches the perpetrators.

Twenty years ago, Darfur became synonymous with genocide and war crimes, especially by the Janjaweed Arab militia, for groups identified as central or East Africans. Up to 300,000 people have been killed and 2.7 million people have been kicked out of their homes.

Khan said that the people of Darfur are now “inflicting unimaginable atrocities on the population.” They may feel a sense of immunity, but Janjaweed leader Ali Kusheeve is currently in trial and the ICC hopes it will become a lot of it.

“But we also have a confidentiality obligation to the court,” Khan said. “We cannot share details of the nature of our progress or the specific outcomes that are expected. We can only ensure that the progress we have made is concrete, positive and important.”

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German tourist Carolina Wilga was alive in a remote outback in Australia on Friday 12 days after she went missing, and was found the day after the abandoned van was found, police said.

The last known sighting of the 26-year-old backpacker, and the last day his family and friends heard from her, was June 29th. She was seen at a general store in Beacon, the wheat farming town, 320 kilometers (200 miles) northeast of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. Beacon’s population was 123 during the 2021 census.

Members of the nation discovered Wilga was roaming the forest path at Western Australia Police INSP late Friday. Martin Glynn said.

Although she was “fragile” she was seriously injured and flew to a Perth hospital for treatment, Glynn told reporters.

“Once you hear her, I think it would be a surprising story,” Glynn said.

“You know, she’s clearly dealt with some surprising conditions,” he said. “There’s a very hostile environment from both the flora and the fauna. It’s a really challenging environment to deal with.”

The sanctuary lost by Wilga covers 300,000 hectares (740,000 acres). Overnight temperatures from Thursday to Friday were 2.6 degrees Celsius (36.7 Fahrenheit) in rainless areas.

Police helicopter crews discovered the van Thursday in the wilderness of the Colomb Hill Nature Reserve, 36 kilometers (22 miles) north of Beacon. Glynn said.

“It’s a very difficult country. It’s a huge area. So it’s a miracle that they actually found the car. To be honest,” Glyn told reporters before she was discovered.

Ground searchers on Friday washed away a heavy wooded radius of 300 meters (1,000 feet) over the van. Police assume that the van of the Wilga, a 1995 Mitsubishi Delica Star wagon, was stuck in the mud the day it left Beacon, Glynn said.

The van has solar panels and drinking water reserves, and has a collection board under the rear wheels that are used to provide traction when the vehicle is clogged.

Police believed Wilga was lost and not a victim of the crime.

Ivan Millat, an Australian serial killer who died in prison in 2019, lured and killed seven backpackers between 1989 and 1992, including three Germans, two British and two Australians.

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Kiev was burning as Dr. Boriz Toddrov ran through the city in an ambulance, rocking the deep sound of an explosion and the horrifying sound of Russian drones flying overhead.

He decided to deliver valuable cargo: the human heart.

Todorov’s patient – the child – was seriously ill in the hospital. He had time to act.

The child has been living with heart disease for several years, but her condition worsened earlier this week, and Todorov knew that a new mind was her only chance.

So when it became available from a child donor on the other side of the city, he did not wait for the Russians to stop the attack.

Russia has stepped up its air attacks against Ukraine in recent weeks. It fired more than 400 drones and 18 missiles on Thursday, including eight ballistic missiles and six cruise missiles overnight.

When Ukrainian authorities called on people to hide in bomb shelters and basements, Todorov and his staff made a 10-mile drive from Okmatodito Children’s Hospital in western Kiev to the city’s Heart Institute on the eastern bank of the river.

The Ukrainian Air Force managed to fire or disable the majority of drones and missiles, but two people were killed and dozens more injured in the attack on Thursday.

The massive attack on Kiev on Thursday was the latest in the deadly attack of Russia. Just the day before, Moscow launched more than 700 drones (new records) against Ukraine in one night.

Todurov, director of the Heart Institute, and his team worked non-stop throughout the two-night attack.

He traveled around the city after undergoing cardiac surgery at the lab on Wednesday. He removes the heart from the donor’s body.

He then personally escorted the city’s organs.

Crossing the bridge over the bridge is extremely dangerous as the vehicle is exposed and the Ukrainian air defense targets Russian drones and missiles when it is above the river to minimize the impact of falling, as vehicles are exposed and Ukrainian air prevention is exposed.

Videos filmed during the desperate drive show a huge fire burning near the road as Todorov drives. “We have a heart,” he says calmly.

The Russian attack on the capital was still ongoing when Todorov entered the surgical theatre of the Heart Institute, headed for a large medical team and transplanted the heart into the patient’s body.

In a stunning moment captured by camera and shared with CNN, a new heart beating in the chest of a patient is seen hours after Russian drones and missiles have passed through Kiev as rain fell in the city.

“The heart is working and the pressure is stable. I hope (the patient) recovers and lives longer,” the doctor said.

The Ukrainian Transplant Cooperative Centre said in a statement that the donor was a four-year-old girl who was declared brain dead by the Medical Council after suffering serious injuries.

The girl’s mother herself is a medical worker and agreed to donate her daughter’s organs.

And, just as Todurov had implanted a girl’s heart into the body of a patient at the Heart Institute, her kidneys had been implanted into a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl into the liver, the center said. The other two patients were in Okhmatdyt Hospital, so no transport was required to deliver the organs.

The coordination center said two of the three recipients were in critical condition and would not have lived for days or weeks without undergoing a transplant.

“May the small donors have a peaceful rest. We appreciate the pathetic dol to our family and their difficult but important decisions,” the Centre said.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is scheduled to visit North Korea this weekend, as signs that North Korea will deepen relations between Moscow and Pyongyang as it is drawn into Russia’s war in Ukraine.

According to the Russian state media agency TASS, Maria Zakhalova, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said, “Lavrov will visit South Korea from July 11 to July 13th and July 11 to July 13th.”

North Korean provincial news agency KCNA reported on Wednesday that Lavrov will visit Pyongyang’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs “invitation”.

Lavrov’s trip is at a critical time for South Korea relations in northern Russia, and Pyongyang is expected to deploy another 25,000 to 30,000 soldiers to support the scaled attacks in Moscow, according to the Ukrainian intelligence news, which was added to the estimated 11,000 soldiers Payongin sent last year.

It also comes as the US is increasingly unhappy with Russia. US President Donald Trump has accused his counterpart Vladimir Putin of throwing “Bursh*t” in peace talks and vowed to more support for Ukraine.

The trip could further strengthen the alliance, which could reshape the security dynamics of Asia, as well as wars in Ukraine.

According to Tas, while in North Korea, Lavrov will be sitting with Cho’s son Hui. At the time, Lavrov praised what he called “very close contact” with North Korea’s military and intelligence agency. Lavrov could meet with North Korean leader Kim Jongun.

Despite maintaining significant losses on the battlefield, North Korea is increasingly integrated into the Russian war. An estimated 4,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or injured in Russia, Western officials said.

On the ground in the Russian border area of ​​Kursk, where North Korean soldiers repelled Ukraine’s invasion last year, the hidden state soldiers, alongside Russian troops, are reportedly living in dugouts, fighting and dying.

Satellite images obtained by CNN show cargo planes and military transports traveling between North Korea and Russia, suggesting major military logistics ongoing.

Although it faces shortages on the frontline, even if its own factories work 24 hours a day, Russia relies on North Korea for additional weapons.

The North Korean artillery training manual has been translated into Russian, in both the ubiquitous nature of weapons and the increased interoperability between the forces of Moscow and Pyongyang. A report from UN member states last month said Pyongyang had sent at least 100 ballistic missiles and nine million shells to Russia in 2024.

Russia has stepped up its air attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks, launching a record 728 drones and 13 missiles on Wednesday. On Thursday, Russian drones attacked the capital Kiev from all directions with an obvious new tactic to test Ukraine’s tense defense.

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With him being detained for free for over 100 days and the threat of deportation looming on him, Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil is convinced he will ultimately win.

In an interview with CNN’s Christian Amanpoor, Halil, who is now back with her young family, describes the pain of months at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Center and the pain of being denied permission to attend at the birth of her son.

“It was a very inhuman experience for anyone not accused of a crime,” said Khalil, a green cardholder who had no formal criminal or civil charges against him.

His detention sparked rage across the United States.

On Thursday, Halil’s lawyers filed a claim against the Trump administration for $20 million in damages, alleging that he was mistakenly imprisoned, charged, charged and portrayed as an anti-Semitic man as the government tried to expel his role in the campus protests against Israeli war in Gaza. A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security in a statement called Khalil’s allegation, “absurd.”

He was arrested outside his apartment on the Columbia University campus in New York City in March. He went home from dinner with his wife and felt like an “adult.”

Plaincross agents took him to the lobby of his building and he said he threatened his wife with an arrest if she didn’t leave him. CNN previously reported that ice agents had no warrants during Khalil’s arrest.

Halil was one of the first in a series of famous arrests of pro-Palestinian students when President Donald Trump’s administration moved to crack down on anti-Semitism on university campuses. Born in a Syrian refugee camp before graduating from Colombia, the 30-year-old played a key role in negotiating on behalf of the university’s pro-Palestinian protesters.

After being taken, he was first moved to New Jersey, then to Texas, and finally to an ice detention center in Louisiana. He was more than 1,000 miles away from his wife, a US citizen.

“I literally moved from one place to another, like an object,” he recalled, referring to the relocation to a different detention facility. “I was always tied up,” he said.

But he said his days at the detention center never ruined his spirit.

“From the moment I was taken into custody, I knew I would win in the end,” he said.

“What I simply did is protest the genocide.”

Israel repeatedly pushed back to claims that the war in Gaza was genocide.

He said the food at the Louisiana ice center was almost “inedible.” He said he switched to a vegetarian option after being served meat that caused him to vomit.

The center was extremely cold, but repeated requests for blankets were ignored, he said.

“The moment you enter such an ice facility, your rights literally remain outside,” he told Amanpur.

CNN previously contacted ICE to comment on the terms of the Louisiana facility. That policy indicates that detention is non-reconciliation. Geo Group, the company that runs the facility where Khalil was held, has denied allegations of abuse.

The Trump administration argued that Halil’s actions pose a threat to his foreign policy goals to combat anti-Semitism. His lawyers pushed back the allegations vigorously.

After accusing him of being a Hamas sympathizer, the Trump administration called for Khalil’s deportation, said it was justified because he did not reveal his relationship with the two organizations in his application. His lawyers say the argument is weak.

Halil told Amanpool that the Trump administration’s claims against him were “absurd.”

“They want to fuse Palestinian rights speeches with those that support terrorism. That’s completely wrong,” he said.

“It’s the message that even if you are a legal resident, they want to create an example from me.

Halil told The Associated Press that if his claims against the Trump administration are successful, he plans to share the settlement with others targeted in Trump’s “failed” efforts to curb Palestinian speech. Instead of reconciliation, he accepts an official apology and also accepts changes to the administration’s deportation policy.

In the inedible food, the cold, and the fear that he might be deported, one moment stood out as the most difficult to endure. The immigration officer has denied permission to attend at the birth of his firstborn.

In May, Halil’s lawyers said Louisiana Center officials cited “blanket contact visit policy” and unspecified security concerns as part of their reasons for rejecting the request.

“I missed the birth of my child. I think that was the most difficult moment in my life… We made so many requests to be present in that moment,” Halil said.

“I don’t think I can forgive them to take that moment from me.”

“The first time I saw my child was literally through thick glass, and he was literally in front of me.

“And when the moment came to hold him, it was a court order to spend an hour with him.”