Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Sudanese Cease-Fire Fails, Rivals Battle, Death Toll Climbs Past 250 As the conflict enters its fifth day, gunmen allegedly invaded the residences of persons who work for the United Nations and other international organizations. ADVERTISEMENT Fighting between forces loyal to rival generals raged in Sudan for a fifth day Wednesday after an internationally brokered truce quickly fell apart. The U.N. said the death toll had risen to at least 270 since the violence erupted over the weekend. ADVERTISEMENT Sustained gunfire, artillery attacks and airstrikes rocked the capital Khartoum and the city of Omdurman across the Nile River. Residents reported clashes around the military headquarters and near the international airport. ADVERTISEMENT “The battles intensified in the morning after sporadic gunfire over the night,” sa

Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM 'Mom, please just kill me': A world looks away from Myanmar's descent into horror Bhone Tayza had been impatient to start school. A broken arm had kept the 7-year-old home while the other kids began their lessons, but now that his cast was off, he couldn’t wait to join in. ADVERTISEMENT His mother, Thida Win, was still worried. “Just stay home for today,” she recalls telling her son on his third day back at school last September – but he went anyway. Hours later, the airstrike hit. Thida Win was home, in the central Sagaing region of Myanmar, when army helicopters began firing “heavy weapons” including machine guns near her house, she said. ADVERTISEMENT She took cover until the shooting stopped, then sprinted to the nearby school, frantic. She finally found Bhone in a classroom, barely alive in a pool of blood, ne