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A senior UN official has warned that Sudan continues to face the world's largest hunger and displacement crisis, with 20 million people suffering from acute hunger and 14 million displaced, cautioning that funding shortages could force UN aid agencies to drastically scale back operations in the comi...

The two men -- who also met on the sidelines of the BRICS conference in Delhi last week -- will hold talks on Wednesday, the ministry said, as Beijing seeks to mediate in Iran's months-long war with the United States.

The Kroller-Muller museum in central Netherlands holds one of the world's largest private collection of paintings by the 19th century Dutch master, but they are rarely displayed together.

"Don't get distracted by the U.S. president's mixed signals -- from 'no negotiations' to 'we're ready to talk'," the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, posted on X.

Some Russians have grown weary of economic stagnation and intensifying Ukrainian retaliatory attacks and there is fear in some quarters that Putin could order a mass call-up of new soldiers after the election.

The European Vega-C rocket successfully launched the Sentinel-3C and Flex satellites after lifting off from the Kourou space center in French Guiana at 10:21 pm Monday (0121 GMT Tuesday), according to an AFP journalist on the scene.

The Houthis have been engaged in renewed fighting with Saudi-backed government forces since Yemen's civil war reignited in July, when the group declared a maritime blockade on Riyadh and began targeting its ships in the Red Sea.

NATO-member Poland said on Sunday that Russia had hit a railway locomotive inside Ukraine, about two kilometres (one mile) from their shared border, just days after Kyiv said it had hit a crossing at its border with Moldova.

The pledge has raised questions about its legality, its cost and where the money would come from.

The move follows French President Emmanuel Macron's announcement in March that France could extend its nuclear deterrent to European allies, as the continent reassesses its security in the wake of US President Donald Trump's shake-up of NATO.