Morning news brief: Sudan's warring factions agree to a 72-hour ceasefire, Russia’s Lavrov at UNSC & more
Morning news brief
The two warring sides in Sudan, the country's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), have agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire from Tuesday, 10:00 PM GMT (Wednesday, 3:30 AM, IST), according to the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. In other news, at the United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday (April 24), Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the 15-member body about the world reaching a threshold “possibly even more dangerous” than during the Cold War.
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Sudan's warring factions agree to a 72-hour ceasefire starting Tuesday
The two warring sides in Sudan, country's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), have agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire from Tuesday, 10:00 PM, Greenwich Mean Time (Wednesday, 3:30 AM, IST), according to the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Russia’s Lavrov warns about world being on ‘dangerous threshold’, gets criticised by the West at UN
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