Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

  Somali pirates who seized a Comoros-flagged oil tanker earlier this week after five years without a major hijacking in the region have released the ship and its crew without conditions, officials said late Thursday. Security official Ahmed Mohamed said the pirates disembarked the ship, which was heading to Bossaso port, the region’s commercial hub, […]

A protester with a portrait of US President Donald Trump. Chinese were kept out of the US for decades until 1943, so why the support for one of the US president’s most controversial policies? Opinions among Chinese-Americans about President Donald Trump’s effort to ban the citizens of several Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States […]

A multi-nation conference on trans-Asia connectivity opened in New Delhi to explore the possibility of a rail freight service linking India to Iran and Turkey. The two-day event brings together railway and custom officials from Afghanistan, Iran, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia and India along with government officials, policy-makers and experts, Press TV […]

GREENS SAY RULING WITH CONSERVATIVE PARTY WOULD BE “DIFFICULT”; GOV’T COALITION BUILDING BEGINS IN NETHERLANDS Jesse Klaver. Photo: BoelensLeon / Wikimedia Commons After a night of celebrations or condolences following the parliamentary election on Wednesday, the Dutch political party leaders are gathering in parliament to discuss the election results and start the massive task of […]

PUTRAJAYA: Police have obtained an Interpol red notice for the arrest of four North Koreans believed to be involved in the killing of Kim Jong-nam, said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar.  “We have obtained the red notice for the four North Korean men who were at the airport during the incident.  “We […]

Oil tanker pirated of the Somali coast. Pic EU Naval Force. Somali pirates have hijacked an oil tanker of the Somali coast near to Puntland. This is the first hijacking in five years. During the attack, the ship’s master issued a mayday alert saying two pirate skiffs were in the vicinity of the tanker. The […]

Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Işık said that Russia’s S-400 missile systems would not be integrated into the NATO system during a televised live interview Thursday. Işık said that Turkey’s preferred to purchase the long-range missiles from a NATO member, but added that Turkey had not seen desired cooperation. The defense minister stated that if the […]

Dutch PM Rutte sees off anti-Islam Wilders challenge Dutch PM Rutte sees off anti-Islam Wilders challenge With nearly all votes counted, Mark Rutte retains power in election seen as measure of populist support in Europe. Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, has easily defeated his far-right rival Geert Wilders, partial vote counts show, in elections […]

Scientists are preparing to measure the inertial rotation of Earth using an underground laser-based gyroscope. The goal is to reveal fluctuations in Earth’s rate of rotation and confirm a component of the theory of relativity known as the Lense-Thirring effect, UPI reported. Jacopo Belfi, researcher at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), said, […]