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Hawa Hassan, founder of Photo: Courtesy of Anastasia Mikhanoshina “Even when I was a little girl, I was doing the cooking and the shopping while my mom was selling at the store. As a Somali girl, you grow up in the kitchen,” says Hawa Hassan, founder and CEO of Basbaas, the only line of Somali hot sauces […]

The secret American “black site” for interrogating suspected terrorists in Thailand was known to the CIA as “Detention Site Green” but for its first detainee, it was decidedly white. Four halogen lights blasted the white walls 24 hours a day, according to Steve Coll in his book Directorate S, about the Pakistani spy service and those […]

Dubai: Dubai Police arrested a Pakistani national suspected of killing a medical student in his home country, officials told Gulf News on Wednesday. Mujahid Afridi allegedly shot Asma Rani murder three times outside her home in Kohat in January.  Afridi, 25, killed the third-year medical student in Abbottabad and was arrested in Dubai on March 10 before […]

TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday slammed the United States for its hostile policies towards the Middle East, saying Washington is not entitled to intervene in Syria. Washington needs to carefully consider the implications of its policies before adopting any interventionist policies in the region, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi told a regular […]

© Reuters Long reviled in the Western media as a pariah state with devilish ambitions, Pyongyang is showing real savvy on the political stage in an attempt to lure Trump to the negotiating table. Can Kim and Trump agree to disagree? Last week, a South Korean envoy arrived at the White House bearing a surprise […]

As expected, Theresa May’s deadline passed on Wednesday and Russia did not respond — or did not respond with the details or explanations that Britain sought.   (FRANK AUGSTEIN / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Prime Minister Theresa May also announced a range of economic and diplomatic measures, including a decision to cancel all high-level bilateral contacts with Russia and to […]

Abdoul Kadir Abdi is facing deportation from Canada to Somalia. As migration scholars and detention experts, we will show that while perhaps lawful, this deportation is the accumulation of governmental historical, social and moral failures. Abdoul arrived in Canada as a six-year-old child, and is a product of this country. His deportation should be halted. Abdoul was […]

File photo of migrants arriving at Sicily’s Pozzallo port. Photo: Yara Nardi/Italian Red Cross/AFP An Eritrean rescued in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya has died of severe malnutrition hours after arriving in Italy, an NGO reported on Tuesday. The 22-year-old, named Segen, was one of 93 people taken onboard a rescue boat operated […]

© Vladimir Gerdo/TASS MOSCOW, March 14. /TASS/. Moscow is not linked to the incident with former Russian spy Sergey Skripal who was poisoned with a nerve agent in the United Kingdom, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday. “Moscow’s stance is well-known, London was told about Moscow’s position through diplomatic channels: Moscow has no connection […]

Hawking, one of the world’s greatest scientists, has died at his home in the British university city of Cambridge. Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, who helped unlock the mysteries of the universe, has died at the age of 76, the UK Press Association has reported citing a spokesman for the family. In a statement on […]