Sudan Nashra: High-level security talks in Cairo between Sudan, Egypt, Libya over border triangle | PM names five ministers, armed groups retain ministerial portfolios | Ethiopian militias breach eastern border

Still trying to contain the fallout from the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) takeover of the border triangle between Egypt, Sudan and Libya, and amid what one Sudanese intelligence…

Israel strikes central Beirut, killing Hezbollah media relations head amid intensive raids on Beirut’s suburbs, south Lebanon

Shortly before 2 pm on Sunday, Israel launched an airstrike without warning on the headquarters of the Syrian Arab Socialist Baath Party in Ras al-Nabaa, a crowded area…

A brighter-than-expected alphabet of culture for 2014

Not as depressing as the year at large.