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Mayor for Mogadishu Abdirahman Omar Osman is receiving treatment for the injuries sustained in the blast, according to officials [FILE – Feisal Omar/Reuters] At least six people have been killed and the mayor of Mogadishu wounded in a suicide attack inside his office during a security meeting, officials said. “The mayor was wounded in the blast […]

German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, who has been nominated as European Commission President, briefs the media after the Conference of Presidents of European Parliament’s party blocs in Brussels, Belgium, July 10, 2019. [Photo/Agencies] Rising trade tensions, sharp differences on multilateralism await von der Leyen Ursula von der Leyen, the upcoming first female president […]

  Most voters say the chants of “send her back” at a Donald Trump rally in North Carolina last week were racist, as were the president’s tweets about four congresswomen of color that inspired the outburst, a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll found. Fifty-eight percent of voters labeled the chants, which were directed at Rep. Ilhan […]

Boris Johnson has built his appeal on an unconventional, affable, self-deprecating persona [File: Henry Nicholls/Reuters] London – There won’t be many who tuned into Have I Got News For You, BBC’s flagship news satire show, on the evening of April 24, 1998, that could possibly have predicted one bumbling upper-class panellist would one day be the […]

AA Photo  Assad regime and Russian air strikes killed Monday 50 people in the de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria, most of them in a crowded market, a war monitor said, in the latest violence to plague the region. At least 45 other people were wounded in the air raid that hit “a wholesale vegetable market […]

President Donald Trump on Monday touted a secret plan to win the war in Afghanistan “in a week” at a tremendous cost to life, but insisted he would rather work with regional partners to “extricate” U.S. troops and bring to a close the nearly two-decade-long military conflict. “If we wanted to fight a war in […]

Georges Gobet, AFP | Cows look for food on dry grassland as some parts of France experience extreme and exceptional drought conditions on July 20, 2019, near Lussat, Creuse region, central France. France will ask the European Commission to bring forward the payment of 1 billion euros ($1.12 billion) of subsidies to help farmers cope […]

Hong Kong-Mayhem in Hong Kong on Sunday as riot police fired multiple rounds of tear gas and rubber-coated bullets to disperse thousands of protesters who defied orders by occupying major roads and vandalising Beijing’s liaison office, and suspected gangsters attacked rally-goers at a station in an outlying district of the city. The demonstration began peacefully as […]

Stena Impero, a British-flagged vessel owned by Stena Bulk, is seen at Bander Abass port [Tasnim News Agency/Handout via Reuters] Iran has warned the United Kingdom against escalating tensions between the two countries in the wake of its seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker – an act the UK government has called “hostile”. Britain has rejected Tehran’s explanation […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that the U.S. has “shot itself in the foot” by withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the JCPOA. “The U.S. has basically in my view shot itself in the foot by withdrawing from this agreement,” he told Bloomberg in an interview aired […]