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Another federal government program to fight foreign disinformation falls flat.

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CAIRO: Sameh Makki’s soup kitchen is barely 100 meters from the market, but it can take two hours to make the journey through Sudan’s war-torn streets, often through hails of bullets. The 43-year-old, his family and local volunteers have risked everything to get supplies to feed around 150 families caught in the crossfire between the army and paramilitaries. “The only thing that matters is that people eat. If I had died while making that happen, so be it,” said Makki.

BEIRUT: An attack by the Daesh group killed at least 11 people hunting desert truffles in northern Syria on Sunday, a war monitor said, after the latest such incident. Between February and April each year, hundreds of impoverished Syrians risk their lives to forage for the delicacy in the vast Syrian desert — a known hideout for terrorists that is also littered with mines. Desert truffles can fetch high prices in a country battered by 13 years of war and a crushing economic crisis.

Five people, including a teenage girl, were injured in a Russian missile attack on Kyiv.

Boycotts over the Gaza war are hitting big brands in Southeast Asia despite local owners denying links to Israel.

Japan's central bank begins unwinding one of the world's most aggressive monetary easing programmes.