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A car filled with explosives has reportedly rocked a Qatif neighborhood in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia on Thursday just before Maghrib prayers, Al Arabiya News Channel reported. Two people have been confirmed dead so far, with initial reports indicating the bodies belong to two wanted fugitives from the al-Awamiya area. Authorities have identified […]

Baidoa, 1 June 2017 – Police from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and their counterparts from the Somali Police Force (SPF) have concluded a two-day awareness campaign on sexual and gender-based violence in the internally displaced people’s (IDP) camps in Baidoa, the administrative capital of the South West State. The officers drawn from […]

(BasNews) The Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) or known as Hashd al-Shaabi, which arrived at the Iraq-Syria border two days ago, have crossed the border into Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) and took control of two villages in Hasaka province in the region. PMF managed a few days ago to reach the Iraq-Syria border in western Nineveh […]

While visiting Berlin, the liberal Senator called Donald Trump’s comments attacking a long-standing ally “unacceptable”. Former US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke in defence of Chancellor Angela Merkel after Donald Trump volleyed criticism earlier in the week against Germany over trade relations and his belief that Germany needs to pay more for the Nato military […]

Dubai-based port operator DP World has announced plans to spend $442m on the expansion of its port at Berbera in Somaliland. The investment – which is about the same as the annual GDP of Somaliland – follows the official opening of its Doraleh Multipurpose port in Djibouti last week. The money will be spent on […]

Airbus Helicopters is moving forward with its strategic partnership with China, with construction now underway of its first helicopter assembly line in the country. Guillaume Faury, CEO of Airbus Helicopters, said the new final assembly line for its H135 chopper in Qingdao, Shandong province, is the first for the company in China. An employee works […]

A former Defence minister has condemned the shooting to death of 100 camels in Tana River and Kitui counties. The camels, some of which were pregnant, died in front of horrified villagers who described the attack as sickening. MBura MP Ali Wario points at a bullet wound on one of the few camels that survived […]

 Resident of Nizhny Tagil, Valentin Degterev, analyzed photo and video materials that NASA made on the Moon. The materials in question had been obtained during six successful landings of US astronauts on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. Starting from the ninth Apollo mission, one can see strange objects on the photos, the ufologist believes. […]