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Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, during a meeting in the Oval Office.

Trump trapped as tensions between two powerful allies burst into the open

Growing animosity between a crown prince and a powerful sheikh reached a dramatic climax this week, in a development that could move markets and disrupt the world.

  • Vivian Nereim

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So long as Hamas – a terrorist organisation – holds the political baton among Palestinians, Australia should not support the UN resolution.

UN’s grim week: 6 peacekeepers and an interpreter killed, 10 more staffers detained in Yemen

The United Nations fears its peacekeepers, interpreters and other staff are increasingly coming under attack.

  • Edith M. Lederer
Smoke is seen in Khartoum, Sudan, on April 22, 2023.

It’s not just Sudan. The same destructive forces are coming for other countries too

The death toll in Sudan is now more than Gaza and Ukraine combined. With the new world order, civilisation is a lot more fragile than we like to think.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris
A Sudanese woman displaced from El Fasher collects food aid at El Afadh refugee camp.

After El Fasher horror, UN warns of new wave of atrocities

Only weeks after satellite images showed blood-stained earth, deaths are mounting in a nearby region and a kindergarten has also been reportedly struck.

  • Pranav Baskar
A satellite image taken on November 6 shows smoke from a fire lit at the Saudi Hospital in El-Fasher.

Thousands are dead and bodies are burning, but Trump says war ‘wasn’t on my charts’

Satellite images taken over the city of El Fasher have been documenting the growing horror of the civil war for weeks, but the president says it hasn’t been on his to-do list - until now.

  • Aamer Madhani
This satellite image from Vantor shows a trench experts suspect of being a mass grave in El Fasher.

In fallen city stained by blood, latest images reveal grim development

New satellite images taken over El Fasher suggest the next step of a large-scale massacre is under way, as international pressure grows.

  • Jon Gambrell and Fatma Khaled
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Trump leaves Washington DC on Friday to spend the weekend in Florida.

As the world’s greatest human crisis takes a hideous turn, Trump turns away

For a White House that loves a quick deal and a photo-op, a US-led answer to this crisis – which has rapidly deteriorated in the past week – seems unlikely.

  • Ishaan Tharoor
A satellite image taken on October 30 of the earthen berm, or wall, built to the north of El Fasher, Sudan, showing at least 20 destroyed vehicles and objects confirmed to be bodies measuring 1.2-2 metres in length.Credit: Vantor/Yale University

They built a wall to stop people escaping. Now bodies lie beside it

There are fears for the fate of tens of thousands of people in fallen city, after only a fraction make it to safety - and details emerge of massacres.

  • Sarah El Deeb and Jamey Keaten
This satellite image taken by Airbus DS shows two reddish stains on the ground near what are likely RSF vehicles in El-Fasher on Monday.

Visible from space, bloodied sands expose massacre of thousands after besieged city falls

Satellite images taken of El Fasher after the Sudanese city fell at the weekend show clusters of objects “consistent with the size of human bodies”.

  • Ben Farmer and Lilia Sebouai
Wall around El Fasher Sudan

Soldiers build giant wall of dirt around city to trap – and starve – 260,000 people

Satellite images taken over Sudan show the earthen berm being built around El Fasher. Now residents face a dire choice: stay – or try to run.

  • Declan Walsh