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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced the decision on Friday. Photo: JENS SCHLUETER / POOL / AFP. France on Friday recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia for consultations in a ferocious row over the scrapping of a submarine contract. President Emmanuel Macron ordered the recalling of the envoys after Canberra ditched […]

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan asked the UN to help them in recognition of their government, removing names of the Taliban leaders from the black list, and lifting all other sanctions imposed by the international community. The acting interior minister of the IEA Sarajudin Haqqani met under the secretary-General of UN Gilles Michaud and secretary-General’s special […]

  Somalia’s Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble [File: Feisal Omar/Reuters] Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has suspended Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble’s power to hire and fire officials, the latest development in a destabilising feud that has plunged the country into fresh crisis. The dispute between the two leaders marks an escalation of months of […]

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and General Secretary of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Stanislav Zas attend a meeting of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Dushanbe, Tajikistan Sept. 16, 2021. (Russian […]

image captionThe US government has been facing a growing number of migrant arrivals at the border Some 10,000 migrants have gathered under a US-Mexico border bridge over recent days, leading to a growing humanitarian crisis. The bridge connects Del Rio in Texas to Mexico’s Ciudad Acuña and the temporary camp there has grown with staggering […]

     A square in the city of Liski.GennadyL An unknown assailant has opened fire and detonated a bomb outside a police station in southern Russia’s Voronezh region, seriously wounding at least one officer, authorities said early Thursday. “An unknown person entered the territory of the district police department in Liski, Voronezh region, today at 05:30 […]

The Australian flag flies. | Darrian Traynor/Getty Images  President Joe Biden just announced a new working group with Britain and Australia to share advanced technologies — including the acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines — in a thinly veiled bid to counter China. The trio, now known by the acronym AUKUS, will make it easier for the […]

A Taliban fighter walks past a U.S. national flag at the Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan, September 14, 2021. (AFP Photo)  Afghanistan’s Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport suffered damages worth millions of dollars during the withdrawal of U.S. forces on Aug. 31, said a Taliban administration official. Mawlavi Abdul Hadi Hamadan, acting head of Kabul airport, […]

A French soldier from the Barkhane operation stands in Timbuktu on September 9, 2021. © Maimouna Moro, AFP  The head of Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, who was wanted for deadly attacks on US soldiers and foreign aid workers, has been killed in an operation by French troops.  Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi was “neutralised by […]

At least nine people have died in a suspected suicide bombing in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, police and witnesses said. The attack on Tuesday has killed and wounded civilians and members of the security forces. Al-Shabab launches frequent attacks against government and civilian targets in Mogadishu and elsewhere [File: Feisal Omar/Reuters] “There are still investigations going […]