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  Abdulahi Hasan Sharif SUPPLIED / POSTMEDIA You can ask (her) anything about me, and she will tell you.” Those handful of words are the first Abdulahi Hasan Sharif has spoken to media since Sept. 30, 2017 — the day a city police constable was run down by a car and stabbed outside an Edmonton Eskimos game and […]

Xi Jinping and other leaders pose for a group photo with cast members after a high-profile art performance, named “Stride Forward, the Nation,” at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Sept 29, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]     A grand gala was held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on […]

US President Donald Trump (L) shakes hands with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un following a meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel in Hanoi on February 27, 2019. (AFP Photo) North Korea and the United States have agreed to hold working-level talks on Oct. 5, North Korea’s state news agency KCNA said on Tuesday, […]

  Yemen‘s Houthi rebels on Sunday broadcast footage they said was of a major attack on Saudi Arabia in August that killed or wounded 500 soldiers with thousands of others surrendering. Yahya Saree, a Houthi military spokesman, described an ambush on the Saudi forces that then developed into an “all-out” cross-border offensive that trapped the troops inside […]

President Donald Trump. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images The U.S. economy has sailed through a presidential impeachment before. In 1998, as the GOP-controlled House moved to impeach President Bill Clinton, the stock market soared and the economy grew nearly 5 percent. But economists and Wall Street analysts note that conditions are very different now as Democrats […]

Yemen’s Houthi movement has said it carried out an attack near the border with the southwestern Saudi region of Najran and captured “thousands” of enemy troops including several Saudi army officers but there was no immediate confirmation from the authorities in Saudi Arabia.  A spokesman for the Yemen-based rebels said in a statement on Saturday that three “enemy military brigades […]

Cutting the ribbon for the new Somali-Bravanese community centre. A new London base for the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association was officially opened last night in the presence of local Jews who have supported the community since the arson attack on its former centre six years ago. Rabbis from across the religious spectrum were among the […]

0 KABUL: Afghans began voting process for landmark presidential election here on Saturday morning. President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah cast their votes after the Independent Election Commission officially inaugurated the voting process at 7 am. Citizens across the country have been waiting in long queues to practice their votes and select […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. (AP Photo) President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan drew attention to global injustice, as he highlighted a number of problems posing threat to global peace and security to people throughout different parts of the world in his address at […]

Boris Johnson reacts to Supreme Court ruling –Copyright AP  MPs are due to return to Westminster today after the Supreme Court ruled that his move in August to suspend — or prorogue — parliament was unlawful. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson cut his trip to the UN General Assembly in New York short in the wake […]