Representatives from Sudan's warring army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) agreed to a declaration of principles on Thursday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia promising the safety of civilians, aid workers and humanitarian aid.
The declaration said: "We affirm our commitment to ensuring the protection of civilians at all times, including by allowing safe passage for civilians to leave areas of active hostilities on a voluntary basis in the direction of their choice".
The declaration also ordered forces to leave public and private properties, including ho
On Saturday, Swedish singer Loreen, 39, won her second Eurovision Song Contest victory at Liverpool Arena in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Loreen's Tattoo won 583 points combined from the public and juries of specialists.
Finland and Israel finished second and third, respectively, with 526 and 362 points.
Of 37 countries participating, 26 countries, including last year's winner, Ukraine and the Big Five — France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom — participated in the final. Serbia, the UK and Germany finished last, sequentially, with
A study in the United States by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) concluded COVID-19 vaccines offer varying degrees of protection in the six months after patients receive them. The study was published in the journal Scientific Reports on Tuesday.
498 volunteers, ages 18 to 88 participated in the BOOST study (Building Optimal antibOdies STudy). Researchers measured levels of COVID-19 neutralizing antibodies to the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
One month after receiving their vaccinations the v
Saturday, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby crowned King Charles III as sovereign of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms; Charles' wife, Camilla, was crowned Queen Consort in the Westminster Abbey, London ceremony.
Charles became king on September 8, when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died, so the coronation was symbolic, though the government planned it for months.
The BBC estimated the ceremony, which Welby presided over, lasted two hours, shorter than Elizabeth II's 70 years ago, with 2300 people attending, including
On Saturday, authorities in Sloviansk, Ukraine said at least 11 people were dead and 21 injured after seven Russian S-300 missiles hit the city on Friday, ahead of Orthodox Easter this weekend.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the partially occupied region of Donetsk, claimed S-300 missiles, which were designed as surface-to-air missiles, were responsible for the strike.
The attack hit a residential area in the city, according to Ukrainian sources. One victim was reportedly a two-year-old boy pulled from the wreckage who died en route to hospital
The office of the attorney general of the US state of Maryland released a report Wednesday alleging clergy members and others in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore sexually abused more than 600 children from the 1940s through 2002.
The document, the result of an investigation begun in 2018, listed 156 abusers, naming all but ten, redacted upon the orders of a circuit court in Baltimore. The report stated: "Over 600 children are known to have been abused by the 156 people included in this Report, but the number is likely far higher." I
Yesterday, Russia charged anti-war activist Darya Trepova with terrorism over the Sunday bombing of a café in Saint Petersburg, which killed pro-war blogger Maxim Fomin, best known by his nom de plume, Vladlen Tatarsky.
The Investigative Committee of Russia charged Trepova with "a terrorist act by an organized group that caused intentional death". The committee also alleged Trepova was working at the behest of Ukraine, which was invaded by Russia in February 2022. Trepova is a Russian national.
According to Russian media, Fomin was hosting an
On Friday, Jackline Sabana Bona Musa, a Sydney, Australia woman who fatally crushed her adulterous boyfriend in 2020, received a 20-year prison sentence, including time served; she is set to be eligible for parole in 2034.
Sentencing Justice Richard Button described the murder as "spontaneous and not premeditated", but also a "grave example of an extremely grave offence".
He continued: "As I have said, the offence was spontaneous and not premeditated. The intention to inflict serious harm existed for only a matter of seconds. One cannot be sa
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On February 6, Russian Wikinews attended the opening day of Russian photographer Viktor Pinchuk's 12th exhibition, Afghanistan, 2008, hosted by the Crimean Ethnographic Museum in Simferopol.
The 40-item collection was produced during a two-month journey, including visits to seven Asian nations, with a focus on local life. It included landscape, portrait, street, ethnographic, and narrative photographs, mostly in the straight style.
The exhibition drew gymnasium students, members of a local teachers' club, and Soviet–Afghan War vete
Bulgarian officials Friday reported police had discovered eighteen dead migrants, including a child, in an abandoned truck in Lokorsko, northeast of the capital, Sofia.
Authorities made four arrests and transported 34 people to hospital, including five children, some in critical, but stable, condition. It is believed to be the country's deadliest incident involving migrants to date, with those alive "freezing, wet, [and] have not eaten for several days."
The truck was carrying timber with migrants in concealed compartments, according to the
Five former police officers accused of fatally beating 29-year-old Tyre Nichols last month in Memphis, Tennessee, US, all pleaded not guilty yesterday.
Demetrius Haley, Tadarrius Bean, Justin Smith, Emmitt Martin III, and Desmond Mills, Jr., all free on bail, were each charged with a count of second-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault, official misconduct, and official oppression.
Shelby County Criminal Court Judge James Jones scheduled the next hearing for May 1.
"We understand that there may be some high emotions in th
{{DISPLAYTITLE:"A commonsense proposal": Wikinews interviews Michelle Tilley, Campaign Director for Yes on 820}}
On March 7, voters in the US state of Oklahoma will decide on State Question 820, the Marijuana Legalization Initiative.
If the initiative passes, adults 21 and older could own up to an ounce (28.35 grams) of recreational marijuana and cultivate "not more than six (6) mature marijuana plants and six (6) seedlings" in their homes, and some convictions for marijuana possession could be expunged.
The state's profits earned by taxin
