Claire Parker

• Africa

Fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces has killed more than 400 people in Sudan. Some 16,000 U.S. citizens are in the country, according to a U.S. official.

• Middle East

Egypt and Saudi Arabia use threats, surveillance, hostage-taking and prosecutions to try to silence dissidents on U.S. soil, according to a new report.

• Middle East

The detention of Rachid Ghannouchi, head of the Ennahda party, is the latest and most dramatic in a wave of arrests of Tunisian President Kais Saied's critics.

• World

Gunfire erupted in Khartoum as residents reported clashes between the Sudanese armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

• Europe

The Constitutional Council cleared the way for the change to become law and gave a victory to French President Emmanuel Macron.

• War in Ukraine

A stalemate in Ukraine — with neither Kyiv nor Moscow inclined to negotiate — is the most likely scenario, according to the leaked intelligence documents.

• Middle East

One person was killed and five others injured in what Israeli authorities described as a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv on Friday evening.

• Middle East

The attack Friday, which Palestinian militant group Hamas celebrated, added to tensions as Israel and Palestinian militants exchanged rocket fire.

• Middle East

A nervous calm settled over Jerusalem Friday after a day of rocket fire and Israeli airstrikes, but a deadly shooting attack in the West Bank risked new escalation.