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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin speak during their meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Sept. 29, 2021. (AP Photo)  Turkey’s purchase of a Russian-made air defense system was worth the friction with the United States, according to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has also vowed there is […]

image source, EPA image caption, Inmates climbed onto the roof of the Litoral prison as a deadly fight unfolded More than 100 people are now known to have died in a fight between rival gangs in Ecuador’s jail, officials say, making it the worst prison violence in the country’s history. At least five inmates were decapitated in Tuesday’s […]

Emergency services on the scene on Tuesday morning. Photo: Björn Larsson Rosvall /TT UPDATED: Two people remained in intensive care on Wednesday after an apartment block explosion in Gothenburg the day before, which police said was likely not due to natural causes. Here’s what we know about the incident. What happened? The first reports of […]

China and Canada Photo: VCG Chinese Ambassador to Canada Cong Peiwu urged the Canadian side to seriously reflect on its mistakes, learn from its lessons, and work with the Chinese side to grasp the right direction for the development of China-Canada relations and bring the two countries’ relations back on the right track as soon […]

The three men were transported to the hospital where one later died. A fourth man later arrived at the hospital via private transport. MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Two people are dead after three separate shootings in Minneapolis overnight. 1 killed, 3 injured in Phillips neighborhood shooting The first shooting occurred in the Phillips neighborhood. According to police, […]

September 28, 2021 (KHARTOUM) – The General Intelligence Service (GIS) announced on Tuesday that 5 of its members were killed and another wounded, during a raid against a cell affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) residing in three locations in the capital, Khartoum. For nearly two decades, Sudan was a state sponsor of terrorism for […]

 U.S. President Joe Biden is caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to immigration. Biden embraced major progressive policy goals on the issue after he won the Democratic nomination, and he has begun enacting some. Haitian migrants use a dam to cross into the United States from Mexico in Del Rio, Texas, U.S., […]

North Korea tested a new “hypersonic missile” called the Hwasong-8, state media reported Wednesday morning, describing the launch conducted the previous day a success. Top military official and politburo presidium member Pak Jong Chon oversaw the test along with defense science industry officials, but DPRK leader Kim Jong Un was not mentioned in the Rodong Sinmun report. SImage: Rodong Sinmun, Sep. 29, 2021 […]

British Ambassador Kate Fosterto  and Puntland President Said  Abdillahi Deni The British Ambassador to Somalia, Kate Foster, today (Tuesday, 28 September 2021) visited Garowe ahead of the planned local elections in October, to underline the importance of the elections to the wider democratisation process in Puntland. In her first visit to Puntland since her appointment, Ambassador […]

They were the trailblazers of women’s rights in Afghanistan. They were the staunch defenders of the law, seeking justice for their country’s most marginalised. But now, more than 220 female Afghan judges are in hiding due to fear of retribution under Taliban rule. Six former female judges spoke to the BBC from secret locations across […]