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The United States says that Sudan's rival forces have both committed war crimes in their brutal conflict, accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. The two sides "must end this brutal conflict... must comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law, international human rights law," says State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. SOUNDBITE
Sharon Avigdori hugs her son and relatives after the Israeli mother and her 12-year-old daughter Noam were released on Saturday from Hamas captivity in Gaza upon their arrival at Israel's Sheba Hospital. IMAGES
Sudan's army chief warns at the United Nations that months of war could spill over in the region as he urged international pressure on the paramilitary unit he is fighting. SOUNDBITE
Images show Khartoum International Airport in a state of seeming calm as the fragile 72-hour ceasefire agreed by Sudan's warring parties holds. The halt in fighting was brokered by the United States, and has provided the opportunity for many countries to conduct the evacuation of nationals. Since April 15, deadly fighting has pitted the paramilitaries of General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo’s Rapid Support Forces (FSR) against the regular army of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, with UN agencies reporting that at least 459 people have been killed and more than 4,000 wounded so far. IMAGES
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir pledges he would not return the country to war, in a speech marking 10 troubled years of independence. The world's newest nation, South Sudan declared independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011. Just two years later it was plunged into a devastating civil war that claimed almost 400,000 lives and displaced four million people. SOUNDBITE
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