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February 22, 2019 (KHARTOUM) – Large protests have erupted in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum Friday night following a speech delivered by President Omer al-Bashir in which he dissolved the government and declared a one-year state of emergency. Following the end of the speech, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Khartoum, Khartoum North and […]

Relatives and neighbours at the house of Jagat Phukan in Jagibari village of Golaghat — one of the victims whose body lies packed in blue. At least 84 people have died after allegedly drinking spurious liquor in upper Assam districts of Golaghat and Jorhat, district officials confirmed. Of the deceased, 45 had been admitted to […]

President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that he instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to deny Hoda Muthana’s reentry. | Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images   The father of an Alabama woman who joined ISIS and is now seeking a return to the U.S. filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trump and other senior […]

Somali deputy Attorney-General Mohamed Mursal, who was assassinated on February 20, 2019. PHOTO | COURTESY A Somali deputy Attorney-General was shot dead by two armed men while driving a car in the capital Mogadishu, officials said late Wednesday. Mr Hassan Gelle, a police officer, said two men armed with pistols shot Mohamed Mursal, a deputy […]

Kim arrives at Singapore’s Changi International Airport before his summit with Trump [File: Ministry of Communications and Information of Singapore via AP] Beijing, China – All eyes were on Singapore in June last year as a jumbo jet carrying Kim Jong Unlanded on the tarmac of the city-state’s Changi airport, days before the North Korean leader’s landmark […]

A rickshaw is burnt to ashes in the fire that took place in Chawkbazar area of Old Dhaka on February 20, 2019. Photo: Palash Khan/ STAR  Two friends were returning to their homes from their workplaces by rickshaw last night just like any other day when an explosion changed their lives forever. One of them […]

Putin said the US abandoned a key arms control pact to free its hands to build new missiles and shift the blame on Russia [Sputnik/Kremlin via Reuters] Russia’s President Vladimir Putin warned the United States against deploying new missiles in Europe, threatening to retaliate in kind by targeting Western capitals with his own new weaponry. Delivering a state of the […]

Despite opposition to President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration, voters continue to be split over his proposed border wall. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo   Majority of voters oppose President Donald Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border for the purpose of letting his administration shift money to build the wall Congress refused […]

Abdirahman Abees.  (Nairobi, February 19, 2019) – Somaliland authorities should immediately and unconditionally release from arbitrary detention Abdirahman Ibrahim Adan, a poet known as “Abdirahman Abees,” Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. Abdirahman, a popular Somaliland poet and British dual citizen, has been held at the central prison in Hargeisa, the capital of […]

Begum ran way from the UK four years ago, aged 15, to live under the ISIL in Syria [Reuters] Shamima Begum, one of the three British schoolgirls who left the UK to live in ISIL’s so-called “caliphate”, has said she will try to seek Dutch citizenship after being told the Home Office had issued an order to […]