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Sudan made no promise to Israeli PM of normalizing ties – transitional cabinet Sudan’s cabinet said on Thursday that the country’s leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had made no promise to Israel’s prime minister of “normalizing ties” between the two states. Burhan heads Sudan’s ruling sovereign council. He met Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for previously unannounced talks in Entebbe, Uganda on Monday that appeared to signal an end to Sudan’s long-standing boycott of the Jewish state. After their meeting, Netanyahu announced that the two leaders had agreed to cooperate towards normalizing ties, AFP reported. However, the transitional cabinet in Sudan said on Thursday that meeting Netanyahu was Burhan’s “personal initiative” and he had made no promises to the Israeli premier...

3 foreigners stabbed in tourist hotspot Maldives, police investigating links to EXTREMISM Maldives police are investigating three “suspected extremists” in a stabbing of three men, an Australian and two Chinese nationals. The attackers may be sympathizers of Islamic State terrorist group. The incident occurred on Tuesday evening at Hulhumale, the fourth-largest island of the archipelago, according to a police report. The three victims are in stable condition. The investigation of the incident of stabbing that occurred at Hulhumale’ last night is ongoing. We are also checking the validity of a video that is being circulated on the social media claiming to be related to it.— Maldives Police (@PoliceMv) February 5, 2020 https://platform.tw...

IDF pounds Gaza for 2nd night in retaliation for rocket & mortar fire The Israeli Defense Forces have launched a counter-attack on Gaza after a pair of mortars were fired into Israel, the second night in a row of tit-for-tat strikes. Though the mortar attack late on Wednesday triggered no emergency sirens and reportedly landed in an unpopulated area, resulting in no damage or injuries, the IDF responded with air strikes on a number of targets near Rafah, according to Palestinian media. It is unclear whether there were any casualties in the reprisal. The strikes come on the heels of over a dozen similar rocket and mortar attacks from southern Gaza over the last week, which Tel Aviv has blamed on Hamas, the Islamist political and militant group that’s controlled the territor...