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ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn submitted a letter of resignation to relinquish power as FDRE Prime Minister. In his brief and televised speech yesterday, Premier Hailemariam said he is awaiting Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front and Parliament’s approvals to resign as FDRE Prime Minister and the Front’s Chairperson adding that he continues […]

The U.S. will work on the promises it gave to Turkey on northern Syria’s Manbij, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in his visit to Ankara in an attempt to soothe the highest tension between the two NATO allies in decades. AA Photo Speaking at a press conference with his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu […]

Qatar Charity-funded drinking water project in Somalia. DOHA: Qatar Charity has drilled and rehabilitated 316 artesian and surface wells last year to provide safe drinking water to as many as 350,000 people in Somalia, which made 2017 the most abundant year yet in the field of water and sanitation. Qatar Charity implemented these projects in […]

Sweden and Kuwait on Thursday presented a revised draft UN Security Council resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria that diplomats said could win backing from Russia. The draft calls for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria. ( (File photo: AFP) The new text, obtained by AFP, specifies that the 30-day humanitarian truce would not apply […]

From March onwards, EU citizens will be able to have recourse to courts in their respective countries in disputes with Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Despite the changes, more work is required on the part of social media giants The American social media giants have altered their conditions of use to enable this, in compliance with […]

A Japanese scientist says his team has hatched a way to improve production of carbon-free energy by using proteins taken from egg whites. Japanese scientist Yusuke Yamada has discovered a way to use the protein in egg whites to produce hydrogen. | ISTOCK Yusuke Yamada, a professor at Osaka City University, said his team found […]

Three “takfiris” were killed by the Egyptian armed forces in northern and central Sinai on Friday, the army said in a statement. Army vehicles and soldiers on the seventh day of opetration “Sinai 2018” (Photo: Egyptian army spokesperson Facebook page) Military spokesman Tamer El-Rifai said forces also arrested 224 “wanted criminal elements”, destroyed 10 4×4 […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday told Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim that hurdles remain on the path to restoring frayed ties while a German-Turkish journalist remains in jail. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim. Photo: DPA Speaking at a Berlin joint press conference with Yildirim, Merkel said that both sides “have an […]

A 19-year-old man has confessed to the shooting at a Florida high school that resulted in the deaths of at least 17 people, including students and adults, police say. Nikolas Cruz “stated that he was the gunman who entered the school campus armed with a AR-15 and began shooting students that he saw in the hallways and […]

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn Hailemariam Desalegn’s resignation today is from the chairmanship of the EPRDF, but will amount to his departure from the Prime Minister’s role in due times, according to people in the government. His request to resign, second to an earlier made during the EPRDF`s Executive Committee meeting held in December 2017, […]