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Mohamoud Ahmed Nur, the Somali ambassador to Kenya. PHOTO | FRED OLUOCH | NMG The Somali ambassador to Kenya Mohamoud Ahmed Nur spoke to Fred Oluoch about regional security, Somalia politics and bilateral relations. There have been concerns, especially among the federal states, that no new territories have been reclaimed from Al Shabaab since President […]

FILE PHOTO ©  Russian Defense Ministry / Sputnik14In response to the US suspending the INF treaty, Russia is boosting its land-based missile development. Moscow wants hypersonic missiles of 500km+ range and a land-based version of the Kalibr cruise missile, ready by 2020. After killing INF US has ‘free hand’ to reassert ‘supremacy in the world’ with ‘new […]

AA PhotoAA Photo President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Tuesday that Turkey has closed its chapter with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for good. “Turkey’s ledger with the IMF is closed and will not open again,” Erdoğan said while addressing the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) group meeting. He emphasized that Turkey cut its […]

Photo: AFP Nine people were killed in a fire that ripped through a residential building in an upmarket Paris neighbourhood early Tuesday, the fire service said. Described as a “scene of incredible violence”, the blaze in the capital’s 16th arrondissement also left one person seriously injured and another 30 — including six firefighters — with minor injuries. […]

  Reuters / STEPHANE MAHE Underwater video footage has appeared showing one occupant visible in the wreckage of the plane carrying missing striker Emiliano Sala from France to Cardiff ahead of his £15 million club record move, investigators say. Air Live report that the footage shows one occupant from the plane’s crew, which consisted of […]

   Pope Francis attends a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Abu Dhabi.Image Credit: Reuters  ABU DHABI: Religious leaders from the Indian subcontinent have said that the Global Conference of Human Fraternity is a big success in bringing all religions together at a single platform and that it will relay “a good message” to […]

  Scenes of hysteria swept Hong Kong Island on Sunday when a man impersonating the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte paid the city an unexpected visit. Dressed in a crisp, white traditional barong tagalog shirt with black trousers and sporting the Presidents’ trademark utilitarian haircut, the 57-year-old drew excited crowds as he greeted the public, which […]

AFP Photo Eight European nations joined the United States in recognising opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president on Monday, heightening the global showdown over Nicolas Maduro’s socialist rule. Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Austria and Germany’s coordinated move came after the expiry of an eight-day deadline set last weekend for Maduro to […]

(Reuters) – Tens of millions of Americans braved Arctic-like temperatures on Thursday as low as minus 56 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 49 Celsius) that paralyzed the U.S. Midwest and were blamed for at least 21 deaths. Warmer-than-normal weather was on the way, but that offered little comfort to vulnerable populations such as the homeless and elderly […]

Somali firemen try to extinguish burning cars at the scene of a car bomb in Mogadishu, Somalia Jan. 29, 2019. In Somalia’s northeastern mountains, al-Shabab and Islamic State are at war.  The al-Shabab militant group has scaled up its attacks against pro-Islamic State fighters in the northeastern mountainous Somali region of Bari, experts say. Intelligence […]