1. The World Health Organization (WHO) says there's a "high risk of biological hazard" at a laboratory caught up in the ongoing conflict in Sudan. Officials said it was unclear who was behind the occupation of the National Public Health Laboratory in the capital Khartoum. The city has been ravaged by fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The WHO told the BBC on Tuesday that workers can no longer access the lab. And it warned that power cuts were making it impossible to properly manage material at the lab. Officials said that a broad range of biological and chemical materials are stored in the lab. The facility holds measles and cholera pathogens, as well as other hazardous materials. (Source: bbc.com)
2. There is no clear sign that either of the heavily armed groups engaged in a bloody power struggle over Sudan are ready to negotiate, the top U.N. official in the Horn of Africa nation said, with repeated cease-fires having failed to stop fighting that has killed more than 450 and injured some 3,700. Gunfire rang out throughout the day Tuesday across Khartoum, the capital, in violation of a truce that had been announced by Secretary of State Antony Blinken earlier in the week. Residential areas, hospitals and mosques have come under attack, and there were reports of shops and cars being looted. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres warned the conflagration could spark a broader regional conflict, “causing immense suffering for years, and setting development back by decades.”
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