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They overran the base and killed soldiers at close range Armed Al-Shabab militants stormed a military encampment in Somalia on Thursday, killing close to 70 people, including government-aligned soldiers and civilians, Al-Jazeera reported. The incident took place in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, hundreds of miles northwest of the capital, Mogadishu. A number of people […]

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani says Qatar has never experienced such hostility, even from an enemy country. Qatar is not prepared to change its foreign policy to resolve a dispute with fellow Arab Gulf states and will never compromise, Qatar’s foreign minister has told Al Jazeera. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani made the […]

As fired FBI Director James B. Comey was testifying against him, President Trump told a conservative audience in Washington Thursday, “We are under siege.” Mr. Trump didn’t refer directly to Mr. Comey in his comments to the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s conference, but his remarks made clear that he believes he’s in a fight for […]

  India will soon sign a pact with Somalia for exchange of sentenced prisoners as the Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave its nod for it. A meeting of the cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, gave its approval for signing and subsequent ratification of the agreement on transfer of sentenced persons between India and […]

Image copyrightEPA/PA Latest updates Guide: How to vote Find your constituency and candidates What CAN’T you do in a polling station? Manifesto guide on where the parties stand How to follow results night and what to watch for Some votes have already been cast, through postal voting, which accounted for 16.4% of the total electorate […]

Gulf crisis continues to escalate despite efforts by US and Kuwait to calm rising tensions among GCC member states. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) threatened to impose an economic embargo against Qatar while Bahrain said “any options” were on the table as the crisis in the Gulf showed no signs of abating on Thursday. The tough […]

North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles into the waters between Korea and Japan on Thursday morning, a day after Seoul said it would suspend any further deployment of a controversial missile-defense system to conduct an environmental review. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said they were likely antiship missiles fired from near the city […]

President Emmanuel Macron will set up a national counter-terrorism centre to coordinate France’s intelligence services, his office said. The announcement came a day after an attack on a policeman in Paris. The new task force, which will have around 20 staff answering directly to Macron, will be in charge of providing “strategic guidance to the intelligence services”, […]

  US Defense Secretary James Mattis said in a televised interview this week that an Iranian plot to kill the then Saudi ambassador to Washington Adel al-Jubeir was an “operation approved at the highest level.” Jubeir, who now serves as the Saudi foreign minister, had been a target of the failed assassination attempt in 2011. […]