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Ukraine troops pull back in Kharkiv after Russia offensive

Police are evacuating villages and Kviv has sent reinforcements to the Kharkiv region following Russia's incursion

James Gregory and James Waterhouse, BBC News

Ukraine has pulled back its troops from several villages in the border region of Kharkiv following continued pressure from Russian forces.

Soldiers had come under heavy fire and moved to “more advantageous positions” in two areas of the north-eastern region, a military spokesman said.

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450,000 Gazans now uprooted from Rafah as Israeli bombardment continues

UNRWA Smoke rises over Rafah as bombardments continue. (file)

Large parts of the city of Rafah are now a “ghost town”, with UN humanitarians reporting on Tuesday that some 450,000 Gazans have been forcibly displaced from the southernmost city by Israeli evacuation orders in the last week.

“Empty streets in Rafah as families continue to flee in search of safety… UNRWA estimates that nearly 450,000 people have been forcibly displaced from Rafah since 6 May,” said the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in a post from western Rafah on X.

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No aid getting into Gaza, says UN aid agency

UN News / Ziad Taleb Thousands of people leave Rafah for central Gaza as hostilities escalate in and around the enclave's southernmost town.

Israeli military manoeuvres and shelling continued in and around eastern Rafah in southern Gaza on Wednesday morning as UN humanitarians stressed that “no fuel or aid” is getting into the enclave.

“We’re not receiving any aid, the crossing area has ongoing military operations and is an active war zone,” said Scott Anderson, from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, in a post on X.

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Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur

Refugees wait for a food distribution point to open at a camp in Adré, Chad, on 22 April. More than 8 million people have been displaced since fighting erupted between the RSF and Sudan’s military in April 2023. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

As El Fasher stands on the ‘precipice of a massacre’, rights groups call for sanctions after new testimony describes atrocities carried out by RSF paramilitaries in Sudan

Gruesome new testimony details one of the worst atrocities of the year-long Sudanese civil war – the large-scale massacre of civilians as they desperately tried to flee an ethnic rampage in Darfur last summer.

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