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Summary In the last round of voting, Ms Samatar garnered 137 votes, beating Mr Mohamed Ali Omar alias Ananug who attained 107. Soon after the election of Ms Samatar was announced, President Farmaajo, Prime Minister Roble and many political figures sent congratulatory messages. Ms Saadia Yasin Haji Samatar, who has been elected deputy speaker in the Lower […]

A technical problem at Sweden’s Swedbank on Thursday night gave customers a nasty surprise, with their account balances inexplicably going negative, payments impossible, and Swish payments no longer working. U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., April 28, 2022. (EPA Photo) President Joe Biden asked Thursday […]

Kyiv, Ukraine – Antonio Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, had just finished a longer-than-scheduled meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv when Russian cruise missiles struck a nearby residential area. The proximity of the attack stunned Guterres. Before meeting Zelenskyy, the UN chief visited towns north of the capital that have been devastated by the fighting […]

Canadian lawmakers voted unanimously Wednesday to label Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as “genocide (and) crimes against humanity.” The members of parliament agreed President Vladimir Putin’s military has committed atrocities in Ukraine against the general population, including the removal of children by force, and that such actions have resulted in “grave suffering.” Canada’s Prime Minister Justin […]

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visits Ukraine after meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to negotiate a ceasefire in the nine-week war and an agreement on the evacuation of civilians. A Ukrainian soldier sits on a Armoured personnel carrier (APC) driving on a road near Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine, on April 26, 2022, […]

The government has agreed to sign off the delivery of used Gepard anti-aircraft tanks, Lambrecht told an international meeting of defence ministers at the US Ramstein airbase, according to a draft of her speech seen by AFP. Forty countries are holding emergency talks at the airbase in southwestern Germany on bolstering the defence capabilities of […]

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Russian President Vladimir Putin met one-on-one Tuesday for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine, with the United Nations later saying that the pair had agreed in principle on the UN and Red Cross being involved in the evacuation of civilians from the besieged steel plant in Mariupol. A […]

Former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has warned that Lebanon will be deprived of promised regional and international aid if Hezbollah and its allies control the country by winning a parliamentary majority in the elections set for May 15. Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses supporters from a screen in Beirut, March 8, 2022. (File photo: […]

Israeli air strikes near Damascus on Wednesday killed nine combatants, among them five Syrian soldiers, in the deadliest such raid since the start of 2022, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an ammunition depot and several positions linked to Iran‘s military presence in Syria were among the targets. File photo of Syrian volunteers during […]

Russia’s temporary takeover of the Chernobyl site was “very, very dangerous” and has raised radiation levels but they have now returned to normal, the head of the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Tuesday. “The situation was absolutely abnormal and very, very dangerous,” Rafael Grossi told reporters as he arrived at the sarcophagus that covers the […]