By Nazih Osseiran and Jihed Abidellaoui
BEIRUT April 15 - Brothers Ali and Wael Sabbagh stood facing the remains of the building that contained their family home for more than 50 years.
The site was pounded into rubble by Israeli strikes last week in an attack that killed their mother, brother, and the family's helper.
Sudanese pilot Mohamad Daafallah grins as he shakes hands with passengers after their landing at Khartoum Airport, exactly three years after it was bombed to shreds during the outbreak of war in Sudan.
The airport was one of the last footholds of the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), where battles raged as the army launched an offensive last year to retake Khartoum.
By Parisa Hafezi and Jonathan Saul
DUBAI, April 15 (Reuters) - Iran could consider allowing ships to sail freely through the Oman side of the Strait of Hormuz without risk of attack as part of proposals it has offered in negotiations with the United States if a deal is clinched to prevent renewed conflict, a source briefed by Tehran said.
The war has resulted in the largest-ever disruption of global oil and gas supplies due to Iran's interruption of traffic through the strait, which handles about 20% of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas flows.
April 15 (Reuters) - The Kremlin's spokesman was quoted as saying on Wednesday that the United States had rejected its proposal that Russia take all of Iran's enriched uranium out of the country as a way to help resolve the Middle East conflict.
Russia first proposed last Junethat it take control of Iran's uranium stock, but no action was taken. According to news reports, Russia issued the proposal again this week.
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warned Wednesday of difficult times ahead for the global economy if war in the Middle East is unresolved and oil prices stay high, adding that inflation risks could seep into food prices.
"We must brace for tough times ahead" if the conflict persists, she told reporters at a press briefing during the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's spring meetings in Washington.
The gathering brings government and financial leaders to the US capital this week, with policymakers looking to limit economic fallout from the war.
April 15 (Reuters) - The war in Sudan entered its fourth year on April 15 overshadowed by other regional and global turmoil, despite having created what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
WHO IS FIGHTING?
The war pits the Sudanese army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, against the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
April 15 (Reuters) - United Nations experts on Wednesday condemned Israel's bombing in Lebanon earlier this month as "illegal aggression and indiscriminate bombing campaign", the United Nations Human Rights Council said.
"This is not self-defence. It is a blatant violation of the UN Charter, a deliberate destruction of prospects for peace, and an affront to multilateralism and the UN-based international order," the experts were quoted as saying in a statement.
By Florence Tan and Mariko Katsumura
SINGAPORE, April 15 (Reuters) - The U.S.-sanctioned tanker Rich Starry made its way back to the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday after exiting the Gulf the day before, shipping data showed, failing to break through a U.S. blockade on vessels calling at Iranian ports.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced the blockade on Sunday after weekend peace talks in Islamabad between the U.S. and Iran failed to reach a deal.
Iran's speaker of parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has emerged as the key negotiator and most high-profile figure of the Islamic republic's leadership as it enters a new phase due to the US-Israeli war.
A pillar of the Iranian establishment for some three decades and one of its most prominent non-clerical figures, Ghalibaf, 64, has spearheaded the war effort and now leads the high-stakes negotiating process.
ANKARA, April 15 (Reuters) - A student shot at least four people dead including fellow pupils and wounded at least 20 others at a middle school in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, the local governor said, marking the country's second school attack in two days.
Three students and one teacher were left dead in the incident in the province of Kahramanmaras, Governor Mukerrem Unluer told reporters.
The shooter died in the attack.
The student was in the eighth-grade at the school and concealed their father's guns in a backpack to carry out the attack, the governor added.
