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Climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained by Dutch police on Saturday after she and a group of marchers blocked a main road in The Hague to protest against fossil fuel subsidies.But on Saturday dozens of police officers, including some on horseback, blocked the group from entering the highway, warning that "violence could be used" should the marchers try to get onto the road.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg detained by Dutch police for protesting fossil fuel subsidies in The Hague
Israeli strikes hit Syria's capital, Damascus, targeting a building adjacent to the Iranian embassy, resulting in casualties
Israeli strikes killed seven people in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, emergency services and the army said, as violence in the territory sees no let-up.Israeli forces and attacks by settlers have killed at least 360 people in the territory, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
Fighting between the Sudanese army and paramilitaries engulfed the aid hub of Wad Madani Friday triggering an exodus of civilians already displaced by eight months of war, an AFP correspondent reported.An AFP correspondent reported that fighting had spread into the city from the northeast after the regular army pounded paramilitaries in its northern outskirts with air strikes earlier in the day.