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Conservative MPs have called on Boris Johnson to resign over the Downing Street parties scandal – but Cabinet ministers hastily rallied to rustle up support tonight. The prime minister is under intense pressure after admitting he attended a ‘bring your own booze’ gathering at Number 10 while the country was in lockdown – but insisting he ‘thought it was a […]

 Russian-led forces have begun their gradual withdrawal from Kazakhstan after it was gripped by anti-government rallies that spilled into deadly violence this month, the Russian military announced Thursday. Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said the pullout of around 2,000 Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) troops would take no more than 10 days to complete. Russian peacekeepers guard the […]

MOGADISHU, Somalia At least 10 people including five security officers were killed when a suicide car blast targeted a security convoy in Somalia’s capital on Wednesday, officials said. The attack in Mogadishu has been claimed by al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group that often carries out deadly attacks in the Horn of Africa country. “We know […]

North Korea successfully conducted the second consecutive test-firing of a “hypersonic missile” in less than a week for “final verification” on Tuesday, while the country’s leader Kim Jong-un urged bolstering “strategic military muscle” according to state media reports the following day. This photo, released by North Korea`s official Korean Central News Agency on Jan. 12, […]

TAI’s Anka is seen in the air in this photo provided on Aug. 14, 2021. (IHA Photo) Turkey’s Anka medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) has set a new flight record on Tuesday by staying in the air for 30 hours and 30 minutes, according to Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), the manufacturing company. […]

A Ukrainian soldier adjusts his gun near the ruined house at a line of separation from pro-Russian rebels in Donbas   –   Copyright  AP Photo/Andriy Dubchak Talks between NATO and Russia take place in Brussels on Wednesday, amid pessimism over progress following uncompromising stands taken by Moscow and Washington over tensions in eastern Europe. Against the background of a […]

Vassily Nebenzia, Russian ambassador to the UN, backed the Malian authorities at the Security Council [File: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters]  Russia and China have blocked the United Nations Security Council from supporting a decision by the West African economic bloc ECOWAS to impose new sanctions on Mali, after its military leaders proposed staying in power for up to five […]

 MOGADISHU, Somalia Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed in a televised address to the nation late Monday welcomed a new election deal reached over the weekend by Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble and regional leaders in the capital Mogadishu and called for its urgent implementation. The country’s political leaders agreed to conclude long-delayed parliamentary elections by […]

People lay flowers in front of the Kazakhstan’s Embassy in Moscow on January 10, 2022. Nearly 8,000 people have been detained in Kazakhstan after days of unrest in the Central Asian country. The energy-rich nation of 19 million people has been rocked by a week of upheaval. Photo: VCG  Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister […]

    The remains of the car in which the journalists were traveling after it crashed Mwanza. Fourteen people including six journalists have died and several others injured after a car on tour with Mwanza Regional Commissioner, Robert Gabriel, crashed with a PSV at Nyamikola in Busega, Simiyu. Busega’s District Commissioner Garbriel Zakaria, has confirmed, saying that four […]