text:  There are signs that efforts to end the conflict in Sudan are failing. Important political groups have refused to take part in the talks in Addis Ababa. A widow of the late Islamic State leader has been sentenced to death in Iraq. She was found to have worked with the group and detained Yazidi women in her home. The German AFD party says it will form a new far-right group in the European Parliament. It will be the third such alliance.