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Pilot Asli  Somalia is celebrating the return of Africa’s first female pilot, Africa News reported. Asli Hassan Abade, 59, returned to her country of birth Somalia after spending two decades away. Abade left Somalia in 1970 to learn to fly in Italy, then moved to the United States where she married an aeroplane engineer. Image of Somalia’s […]

The Nordic Resistance Movement march in Gothenburg has already been shortened. Photo: Janerik Henriksson/TT Police from across Sweden will be called to Gothenburg to help manage a planned neo-Nazi demonstration in the centre of the city. On September 30th the Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) will hold a demonstration in Sweden’s second city, following a previous […]

Eliot L. Enge  ERBIL — US Congressman Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said that he firmly believes in Kurd’s right to self-determination. In a statement on Kurdistan Region’s independence referendum, Engel said “it’s no wonder” that Kurds are seeking self-determination to protect themselves in the future, given the fact […]

File Photo Iraq will suspend all foreign flights to and from airports operated by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) starting Friday, the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority (IraqCAA) said Wednesday. The statement comes after the KRG refused to surrender authority of airports to the central government in Baghdad. In a statement, the civil aviation authority said […]

Photo: AFP There was anger and shock in France this week after it emerged that prosecuters had deemed an 11-year-old’s sexual relationship with a 28-year-old man was consensual. The case, which made national headlines and led to anger among children’s rights groups, centers around a sexual encounter that took place between a 28-year-old man and […]

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (file photo) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has given the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) three days to hand over control of its airports if it seeks to avoid an international air embargo, a retaliatory move the Iraqi government says will take against the independence-seeking region in the wake of a […]

Staff writer, Al Arabiya EnglishTuesday, 26 September 2017 Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has issued a historic royal decree granting driving licenses for women in the kingdom as of next June. The royal decree issued on Tuesday also ordered the establishment of a high-level committee of involving the ministries of internal affairs, finance, labor and social […]

FILE PHOTO A Topol ICBM ground-based mobile launcher © Alexei Danichev / Sputnik Russia has conducted a successful test launch of the RS-12M Topol intercontinental ballistic missile, the Defense Ministry said in a statement, adding that the test data would be used for the development of future missile penetration aids. The test launch was performed […]

Firefighters at the mosque in Vivalla, Örebro. Photo: Kicki Nilsson/TT An arrest has been made after a blaze raged through a mosque in central Sweden during the early hours of Tuesday. Firefighters were called to the mosque in the Vivalla area of Örebro shortly after 2am on Tuesday. Five hours later they were still battling […]

FILE PHOTO © Zha Chunming / Global Look Press Chinese servicemen have held their first military drills at China’s first overseas base in the Horn of Africa in Djibouti. Less than two months after officially inaugurating their first foreign naval military base abroad in Djibouti, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA) held live-fire drills for […]