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‘A crying need’: Goma hospitals plead for blood donors after M23 assault
Facilities overwhelmed by wounded people and unable to get supplies in or transport patients out Patients with gunshot and shrapnel wounds have crammed into overwhelmed hospitals in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, many with serious injuries and in need of blood, after M23 rebels backed by Rwanda marched into the city. At…
The ‘9/11 mastermind’ is set to plead guilty. Why is the US trying to stop him?
The accused mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks is scheduled to plead guilty on Friday, more than 23 years after the world was rocked by the killing of almost 3,000 people in the US. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, often referred to as KSM, is due to deliver his pleas at a war court on the Guantanamo…