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Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, the Saudi teen who locked herself in a Bangkok hotel room and used Twitter to plead for asylum, is welcomed in Toronto by Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland on Saturday.  (RICK MADONIK / TORONTO STAR)  Her whirlwind first day in Canada began in front of dozens of photographers and reporters at Pearson airport, as she […]

The FBI counterintelligence probe into President Donald Trump is separate from the previously known criminal investigation into whether the president obstructed justice. | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders slammed a New York Times report on Friday that said the FBI opened an inquiry into President Donald Trump shortly after he fired FBI […]

A missile attack reported at Mazzeh air base in Syria, September 2, 2018. (screen capture: Twitter) Syrian air defense batteries opened fire on “hostile Israel missiles” near Damascus Friday night, the official news agency SANA reported. A military source told the news agency that “at 11:15 p.m. Israeli warplanes coming from the direction of the […]

Nuruddin Farah Yinka Olatunbosun reflects on the substance in the words of the Somali novelist, playwright and scholar with 22 years of self-imposed exile, Nuruddin Farrah, during his last visit to Nigeria at the Ake Book and Arts Festival in Lagos Nuruddin Farah’s first novel,From A Crooked Rib, published in 1970 was considered a critique […]

Incumbent prime minister and Social Democrat leader Stefan Löfven is questioned by media on Thursday. Photo: Naina Helen Jåma/TT Sweden’s four-month political deadlock may be reaching a conclusion, as Swedish media reported that a deal had been made. Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet cited sources that the Social Democrats and Green Party had reached a deal with the Centre […]

A Somali soldier holds a machine gun at a military base in this 2018 file photo US forces have conducted a series of air strikes in Somalia in recent days, including one announced Wednesday that officials said killed six jihadists. The strikes come as part of an ongoing mission in which US forces are working […]

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chinese president, meets with Kim Jong-un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, at Beijing Hotel in Beijing, capital of China, Jan 9, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING – […]

Junior D. Kannah, AFP | Felix Tshisekedi attends a memorial service for his late father, DR Congo’s longtime opposition leader, in Kinshasa on February 1, 2018. The son of DR Congo’s veteran opposition leader, Felix Tshisekedi, has taken the prize that long eluded his father – the presidency of sub-Saharan Africa’s largest country – in […]

The speaker of parliament, Andreas Norlén. Photo: Magnus Hjalmarson Neideman/SvD/TT UPDATED: Sweden’s search for a new government – four months after the election – is approaching the finishing line. But does that mean a new prime minister or a snap election? Incumbent prime minister Stefan Löfven of the centre-left Social Democrats and Ulf Kristersson of […]

The shutdown – now in its 19th day — could also cost the U.S. government more than a billion dollars in lost productivity for 350,000 workers who are forced to stay home. | Alex Wong/Getty Images   As federal workers face the prospect of missed paychecks during the partial government shutdown, their financial reality is […]