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Foreign Ministry  Russia said on Friday the new U.S. missile defense strategy would unleash a dangerous arms race in space and amounts to a relaunch of the Cold War-era “Star Wars” program. U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled a plan that envisages developing space-based sensors to detect incoming enemy missiles and exploring space-based weapons to […]

Haspel did not take part in last week’s briefing by Pompeo and Mattis [Reuters] CIA Director Gina Haspel will give a closed-door briefing to leaders of several US Senate committees this week on the killing of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, US media reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources. According to the Wall Street Journal, the briefing […]

A woman holds a lit candle next to a sign reading “I am Charlie” during a rally commemorating the anniversary of the deadly attack against Charlie Hebdo French anti-terror judges have recommended that 14 people be tried in connection with the January 2015 jihadist attacks in and around Paris, a judicial source told AFP Friday. […]

 Tana River Governor Dhadho Godhana has asked all Somali refugees in Kenya to return home. Godhana said Somali is now peaceful and refugees should go and build their country. Speaking on Friday in Hola during the handing over of cheques for students’ bursaries, the governor said the continuous stay of refugees in the country was […]

The summit this weekend is overshadowed by competing visions for Syria’s future and Iranian influence in the region [Hussein Malla/AP] Beirut, Lebanon – As Lebanon prepares to host a regional economic summit this weekend, the meeting has been overshadowed by divisions over Syria’s future and efforts to contain Iran. Having previously confirmed their attendance at the Arab Economic and Social Development summit […]

Juan Barreto, AFP | Security forces at the site of an apparent car bomb attack on a police cadet training school in Bogota on January 17. Colombia’s government declared three days of mourning Thursday after at least 21 people died in a car bomb at a Bogota police cadet training academy, and 68 were wounded—the […]

Ms Violet Kemunto. She is reported to be the wife of Ali Gichunge, one of the suspects behind the DusitD2 complex attack in Nairobi on January 15, 2019. PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP One of the terrorists in the attack on a Nairobi business complex was a son of a Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldier. […]

FILE PHOTO ©  Reuters / Jonathan Ernst ‘ A senior North Korean official, Kim Yong-chol, touched down in Washington DC where he was welcomed by a US envoy, Yonhap reported. He is reportedly in the US to thrash out the details of a new bilateral summit. Kim Yong-chol, vice chairman of the North Korean Workers’ Party Central […]

Social Democrat leader Stefan Lofven (front R) sits next to Green Party co-leader Isabella Lovin after being voted back as prime minister, in Stockholm, Sweden January 18, 2019. (TT News Agency/Jessica Gow/via Reuters) A center-left minority government led by the current caretaker prime minister, Stefan Lofven, was approved Friday by Swedish lawmakers, ending a four-month […]

Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to block the Trump administration from lifting sanctions on a Russian oligarch with deep ties to Vladimir Putin. The effort, a joint resolution of disapproval, would overturn the Treasury Department’s December decision to ease sanctions on companies tied to Oleg Deripaska, who was sanctioned […]