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President Uhuru Kenyatta with President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed at State House, Nairobi, on May 30, 2018. [File, Standard] The Kenyan delegation trooped to Rome like lambs to the slaughter. The charge sheet had been scripted by a belligerent neighbour and the delegates were not supposed to talk. Like martyrs, Cabinet ministers […]

PM Stefan Löfven said the banking scandal could “undermine confidence in the whole system”. Photo: Tomas Oneborg/SvD/TT Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said on Saturday that his government will take a hard look at the nation’s financial sector in the wake of allegations that one of Sweden’s largest banks may have been used for money […]

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 […]