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 At least 75 inmates died Tuesday and several others were injured in riots said to be triggered by gang rivalries at three jails in Ecuador’s overcrowded prison system, authorities said. A man waits for information about a detained family member outside the Inca Center for Social Rehabilitation, in Quito, Ecuador, April 14, 2020. (AP Photo) […]

The call scheduled on Wednesday would be the first conversation between Biden, as US president, and King Salman [File: Fahad Shadeed/Reuters] President Joe Biden is expected to call Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud on Wednesday, ahead of the scheduled release of a US intelligence report detailing the disappearance and murder of prominent journalist […]

FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia speaks during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. , U.S. February 23, 2021. © Demetrius Freeman/Pool via REUTERS An FBI warning that a protest by Donald Trump’s supporters could turn violent reached the U.S. Capitol Police the day before the deadly assault, but top officials in charge of securing […]

Supporters of different opposition presidential candidates demonstrate in Mogadishu on February 19, 2021. [AFP] Somalia is, once again, in political turmoil. The Horn of Africa nation’s opposition leaders say they no longer recognise the authority of President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, popularly known by his nickname “Farmaajo”, after his term expired on February 8 without a […]

Protesters against the military’s seizure of power in Myanmar were back on the streets of the country’s biggest city on Tuesday, a day after a call for a general strike shuttered shops and brought huge numbers out to demonstrate. Protesters mass around vehicles as they block roads during a demonstration against the military coup in […]

     When Ethiopian leader Abiy Ahmed visited Berlin in 2018, all were smiles, but the Tigray conflict has changed things A call from German Chancellor Angela Merkel is bound to be about something important. When she called Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in early February this year, for example, she stressed how vital it was […]

The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the release of Donald Trump’s tax records to criminal prosecutors, rejecting a last-ditch bid by the former president’s lawyers to keep them secret. Trump, 74, has been waging a protracted legal battle to prevent his tax records from being handed over to New York prosecutors probing hush payments to women […]

Australia’s government announced on Tuesday that Facebook has agreed to lift its ban on Australians sharing news after a deal was struck on legislation that would make digital giants pay for journalism. In this Oct. 23, 2019, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in […]

 President Joe Biden on Monday called for national unity and healing, as the White House held a candlelight vigil to remember victims of the coronavirus after the U.S. death toll climbed past the half-million mark. President Joe Biden reads the number of Americans who have died from Covid-19 during a speech at the White House on […]

GAROWE, SOMALIA – Somalia’s president, whose four-year term expired this month, should not take part in talks aimed at resolving a dispute that has delayed the selection of a new head of state, two of Somalia’s five regional governments said Sunday. FILE – Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo. Parliament had been set to make a […]