A severe sandstorm blanketed southern Iraq, causing airports to close down and hospitalising over 3,500 people.
Russian court sentences four journalists over alleged ties to former opposition leader’s banned anticorruption group.
Syria’s President Ahmad al-Sharaa met with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim al-Thani on his first official visit to Doha.
Two years into Sudan’s civil war, civilians in Darfur are under siege as peace talks stall and violence escalates.