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The scene of the blast outside a district headquarters in Mogadishu (AP)Photo: AP/Press Association Images At least four people have died after a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the gate of a district headquarters in Mogadishu. Somali police said the large blast badly damaged the compound of the Hodan district’s headquarters. A reporter […]

Smoke shrouded the headquarters of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in Tripoli [Hani Amara/Reuters] Armed men have stormed the headquarters of Libya‘s National Oil Corporation (NOC) in Tripoli, where a blast and gunfire were heard, according to witnesses. The building in the Libyan capital’s centre caught fire on Monday, witnesses said, and security forces are smashing windows […]

© Zakaria Abdelkafi, AFP | French police attend the scene of a knife attack in the 19th arrondissement of Paris on September 9, 2018.  Seven people including two British tourists were wounded in Paris late on Sunday by a knife-wielding man in a terrifying attack that bystanders tried to stop by throwing petanque balls at […]

   Sweden went to the polls Sunday in a general election that, as expected, turned out to be one of the most controversial elections in the country’s history. As over 99 percent of the districts have been counted the ruling party Social Democrats has made a record low result – below 30 percent for the […]

  Swedes vote on Sunday in a tight election dominated by fears over asylum and welfare, with the populist, anti-immigration Sweden Democrats vying to become the biggest party in a country long seen as a bastion of liberal values. Far-right tipped to win big as Sweden heads to polls © Jonathan Nackstrand, AFP | Discontent […]

U.S. President Donald Trump with his former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon. (AFP Photo) U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a “coup”, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told Reuters, pointing to an anonymous column in the New York Times detailing resistance within the Trump administration. “What you saw the other day was as serious […]

Due to the ”reduced public confidence in the Academy”  they have chosen to declare a reserved prize. Instead the prize will be announced double next. Due to the last couple of months’ turbulence, and the ”currently diminished Academy” the  Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 will not be announced until next year, the Academy says in […]

Members of Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood are seen inside a glass dock during their trial in the capital Cairo on July 28, 2018 (Photo: AFP) An Egyptian criminal court issued on Saturday a death sentence to 75 members of the terrorist-designated Muslim Brotherhood group in the criminal case known as “the Rabaa Dispersal Case.” Those […]

Djibouti ready for reconciliation with Eritrea After attending the third summit of the Forum of China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held in Beijing from September 3-4, 2018, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) arrived in Asmara on Wednesday for a two day official visit and discussed both with the President of Eritrea and conferred at a tripartite meeting […]

The fallout from the anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times is reverberating through Washington, DC [Evan Vucci/AP] Washington, DC – It is becoming a near-daily occurrence. Leaks from inside US President Donald Trump’s White House have both riled and undermined its current occupant and his administration. But a Wednesday opinion piece in The New […]