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Somalia launched COVID-19 vaccinations Tuesday with the inoculation of the health minister, who received the jab publicly to reassure the nation about its safety.The Horn of Africa nation, which has recently experienced a surge of cases, on Monday received its first shipment of 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine through the international COVAX intiative to ensure that low- and […]

 Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized influence operations to help Donald Trump in last November’s presidential election, according to a declassified intelligence assessment that found broad efforts by the Kremlin and Iran to shape the outcome of the race but ultimately no evidence that any foreign actor changed votes or otherwise disrupted the voting process. Former U.S. President […]

Brussels will present its proposal for an EU-wide vaccination certificate on Wednesday, in a bid to boost the continent’s battered tourism industry.The bloc’s so-called Green Pass will be designed to allow Europeans to travel again safely to other EU countries and is expected to show three things. As Euronews reported last week, the certificate will only […]

Authorities in the U.S. state of Georgia arrested a man late Tuesday after a series of shootings that left eight people dead, six of them Asian women. The first attack took place at a massage parlor in the town of Acworth, about 50 kilometers north of Atlanta. Authorities there said a shooter killed two Asian […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday shared that Saudi Arabia has requested to buy armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from Ankara. “It’s confusing while they’re conducting a military exercise with Greece,” he added. Turkish UAV Bayraktar TB2 is seen in this file photo released on Feb. 22, 2021 (DHA Photo)  Saudi Arabia recently attended a meeting […]

Armed men in southwestern Niger killed at least 58 people when they intercepted a convoy returning from a weekly market and attacked a nearby village, the government said. The attacks on Monday occurred in the Tillabery region, which is near the border with Mali and Burkina Faso and has seen increasingly deadly attacks by Islamist […]

Kenyan fishermen fear losing access to the bountiful waters their country and Somalia are at odds over “It is not only about oil and gas”: Kenyan fishermen on Monday protested the feared loss of their livelihoods as an international court pored over a sea border dispute with Somalia. Kenyan fishermen fear losing access to the […]

  AstraZeneca and global health authorities insist the company’s COVID-19 shot is safe [File: Miguel Medina/AFP] Germany, France, Italy and Spain have suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine after several reports of blood clots in people who received the shot in Europe. The flurry of suspensions on Monday came after a number of other […]

Somalia remains on course to join the East African Community, hopefully in the not too distant future. The Summit of EAC Heads of State direction last month to follow up on the verification process for the country’s admission speaks as much. Somalia’s application to join the Community has remained pending since 2012. A likely hitch explaining the […]

British Airways is planning a version of a coronavirus vaccine passport to help passengers travel abroad easily — amid growing optimism the UK will be back to normal by summer. The airline plans to allow customers who have had two injections to register their status by uploading vaccine details on its smartphone app. Chief executive […]