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The Foreign Ministry expressed concern about a recent agreement signed by Ethiopia and Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland. Demonstrators gather in a stadium during a demonstration in support of Somalia’s government following the port deal signed between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland at Eng Yariisow Stadium in Mogadishu, Jan. 3, 2024. (AFP Photo) […]

Somalia has described an agreement that landlocked Ethiopia made with the self-declared republic of Somaliland over sea access as an act of “aggression”. Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud addressed MPs following Ethiopia’s agreement with Somaliland Somaliland seceded from Somalia more than 30 years ago, but is not recognised internationally. It said that Ethiopia agreed to […]

At least 103 people were killed and 173 others injured when two explosions ripped through a crowd commemorating slain Gen. Qassem Soleimani on the anniversary of his killing, state media confirmed. In this undated file photo, former Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani (C) attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo) The blasts, which state […]

A Japan Airlines jet burst into flames on a runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday after a collision on the ground with a Japan Coast Guard plane. A Japan Airlines plane burning at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday evening | KYODO A total of 367 passengers and 12 crew members were on board the plane, […]

Israelis and Palestinians end a dark year on Sunday, with no end in sight to the deadliest military offensive on Gaza, triggered by Hamas’ bloodiest attack on Israel. An Israeli soldier operates in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, in this handout picture released on December 29, 2023. […]

With no end in sight to Israel’s deadliest military offensive on Gaza, killing nearly 22,000 people, the Palestinians will leave behind a dark year on Sunday. A man mourns a loved one killed in Israeli bombardment in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, Dec. 27, 2023. (AFP Photo) There has been no respite from Israel’s air […]

All the latest developments from the Israel Hamas war. Two hundred and forty-one Palestinians have been killed in the last 24 hours in Israeli shelling of Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health. The ministry also reported that 20,915 people had been killed and more than 54,5918 injured since Israel began its bombing campaign […]

MA blast in a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island killed 13 workers and injured dozens on Sunday, according to police and a company official. It was the latest of a series of deadly incidents at nickel smelting plants in Indonesia that are part of China’s ambitious transnational development program known as the Belt and […]

President Erdoğan on Tuesday reminded the United States of its ‘historic’ responsibility as he appealed to Washington again to stop Israel’s atrocities targeting Palestinians President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks at a news conference in Budapest, Hungary, Dec. 18, 2023. (AA Photo) Speaking to journalists as he was returning from Hungary, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said […]